Okay, the one thing every person agrees on this thread today is they are disappointed by Imlie. That she failed a truly fantastic opportunity and that she ran back to the Tripathi’s.
But here’s the thing, women like Imlie exist in the real world. I remember being 19 years old and running back to my first love again and again. I have seen many of my friends do this too. And sometimes, when I get angry at them, they remind me that I’ve done the same too. In fact, my mother told me that it was helluva common for a husband to not trust his wife over his family, and while I love my father, I can agree with my mother on this one too.
I am not taking anyone’s side (though if I was forced I would take Aryan’s), but I understand Imlie’s actions.
The thing is, I watch this show with my mom, who began watching it with me on the day they danced on Shiddat, and my mom said something, she said, Imlie is gonna break Aryan’s heart, but he was not going to back down.
So, if my mom, who started watching so late could see that Imlie was not moved on from her ex-husband yet, well she is a bloody perceptive woman, who sees far much than I can ever imagine.
But then we started bingeing from the day of Aryan’s entry, and she said, “Oh she will break his heart, but he will break hers more. He is the one pushing her right now, he is the one who is making her see the truth, he is the one who is mentoring her, he is the one who is giving her strength, but when Imlie falls for him, and she will, he will be the one who will not be ready, because she is always disappointing him.”
And after the episode today, which was a blunder, she tells me that Imlie needs to see the extremes before she moves on from the Tripathi Clan.
The best part in the episode today (besides Aryan in that Green Hoodie), was no doubt Imlie not trying to make Aditya take back his resignation, rather her accepting that for him his work is now second to his ego. That now, the work which was his pride is no longer important than his ego.
And so what if she failed the test, seriously, so what? She is 19 years old. She has the rest of her life and many more opportunities to come. It is hypocrisy if we think about it, how Aparna had placed such a big responsibility on Imlie, of saving her son, and we blamed her for that, but when it is Aryan who is asking her, giving her a chance to be responsible for his office, and we do not blame Aryan.
Yes Imlie is capable, but the way we are reacting is the way Aparna had reacted if Aditya had really died, ensuring Imlie’s failure. And that, my dear friends, is how she would’ve broke Imlie.
I remember the day I was asked to manage my father’s office for the first time, I was bloody 18, and I got into a fued with my father’s employee, my friend over how he couldn’t do a single thing I told him to do.
What did you expect, that just because she looks like Boss Lady, she is one.
Aryan probably expected her to fail, not in the way she did, but in her own way, the way in which she thinks with her heart and not her head.
So we should probably be empathetic towards her.
And her going to Tripathi Clan, that is a classic case of conditioning I’ve ever seen. Imlie grew up in a village (and I am assuming this because I’ve only seen the show when Aryan entered it), where her only support system was her mother, and her Dadda, and then she comes here, she sees a family, a joint family, and she falls over herself for their approval. She wants people to like her, to love her. And that my dear friends, is more common than you think.
It’s like this, when you move, after years of staying in the same place, and then you enter the elevator of your new apartment building and you still press the digit for the floor that you used to live in.
Imlie is used to Tripathi’s, give her time to adjust, and when she does, she has a new place to live in.
Tripathi's not loving her is not her fault, Aditya being a jerk is not her fault, Aditya not trusting her is not her fault.
Yes, today I was disappointed with her, she let go of an amazing chance, but she would get another.
As for Aryan, and how he would react, well I don’t know, and I can’t really think of something, or anything that I’ll like.
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