1. 400 episodes on, I have been fed the same "mad Malini," "good Imlie," and slappy Aparna for so long that I don't get what everyone is crying about. Like nothing new happened other than Malini's truth coming out. Everyone knew the marriage was over, including Imlie. So why are they all crying fountains again over old news? I could not feel Imlie's sadness not matter how much sad music the CVs played. I didn't get Aryan's mom lauding her like the second coming. I didn't get Aparna crying over Imlie again. Did Imlie expect a different outcome from the big reveal? Did she think she will just swing on back because Malini would leave? No, she was done. So why is she crying over and over? She has known the marriage was over and even burned Aryan's nice hanky over it. The tears were promised to have been over a long time ago! I get her righteousness but what's with the stopped dead and falling over like she just found out her marriage is over? Really CVs, please say away from the overdramatic, you don't know how to do epic, I keep telling you. Stay with the soapy melodrama and that's enough. Unless you have new tragedies, nothing that happened was sad. Malini's reveal was good news.
2. Imlie could have spared tears for her innocent Daddah still being in jail and made her way to him, but she casually forgot. Just like Imlie always remembers her Ma over her Amma, Aditya now remembered Daddah needed to be released. How interesting...(not). It's like neither of them can give up the in-laws not matter how many marriages and divorces they go through. Parivaar parivaar hota hai, to hell with one's actual parents.
3. Speaking of actual parents, Aditya is quite unmoved by his Ma's heart attack, so why did Mummy think her threat of perching on the doorstep and leaving him would work? He let go of Malini because she became Rapini, not because "Ma" wanted it. Also, I was afraid for a second that they whole Tripathi family would join Aryan's mother on her way out to make a statement about leaving Aryan's bought house where Aditya was apparently the decision-maker (huh, that's another mystery how he gets to decide whether the family stays on not based on Malini's presence).
4. Aditya says he will be a good dad and fulfill his duties by the child. Also Aditya, "see you never, Malini." Does the dialogue writer know what happened five minutes before his said dialogue? You can't coparent without seeing the other person's face. It kinda doesn't work like that when rearing an underage child in particular.
5. Imlie gets that Aryan is invested in her a bit (he's so cute in these episodes, the only one with human reactions and not overreactions). She wants to friendzone hard and he is fighting back. So now she tells him that she doesn't feel like she will fall in love again. All natural, happens when you have a bad breakup. But the girl's a teenager. Do the maker's know how long a teenager's attention span is? She has known the marriage is over a while. At 19, in a forced marriage, she can't really fall in love to the degree they are showing her for a 35 year old man who remarried right in front of her! It's supposed to work like an infatuation at best. I hope they show her snapping out of it soon with the remarriage track because this pati-vrata-nari-off she is having with her older sister is really getting to be exhausting. 400 episodes of loyalty to a double-timing hubby was long enough. Her level of commitment was cute for a while, but that time has passed as an audience member, for me. Imlie lay on the sword way to much for an undeserving jijaji and his family. His, not hers. Like she said, time to lead her own life - for real. And maybe even recall that she has parents, esp. her Daddah.
6. Aditya didn't get proof that Imlie wasn't with Aryan in Malini's big reveal and the cheating accusation was the main reason he pushed Imlie out. So why didn't they have a dialogue about that? Imlie only said she was accused by him wrongly, but Aditya didn't actually get any proof, not even Malini's admission that she made up the Aryan-Imlie angle. CVs tut tut, remember your story! There are hundreds of you, just delegate the threads of the stories to multiple people who you all remember. This is getting a bit silly. Silly CVs, as Malini would say.
