Hello everyone!So I just discovered the MM forum today😆. And found the oh so familiar MB discussion and couldn't help joining in for nostalgia's sake!
I follow a couple of Epic channel shows and incidentally this MB courtroom drama isn't one of them. I did watch the first episode and quite liked the actors and the script. But I had issues with the treatment. It hardly looked epic and was reduced to a family feud with just about everyone retaining their idiosyncrasies for eternity I guess. Not that it cannot be this commonplace-after all it was all about land and power. But I guess I would still like to hold on to the belief that it was about something higher and deeper because ...well, maybe I am all for Life of Pi's 'better story'.😊
Anyways, so what made me actually not remain the usual silent reader here was a statement by a fellow poster-Arjun on the other hand was more of an austere warrior he had duties which were beyond family life ..Its never that he ignored Draupadi he was more focussed on improving both spiritually and in the art of warfare.
I couldn't agree more! And this is why I find it so disturbing to see the entire evaluation of Arjun's character narrowing down to his patihood. Whatever little I have read of the epic, for me this seemed an irrelevant point. Not because it is insignificant but because there is just so much more to judge him on. And that is why I was disappointed with this Ecourt going on and on about how he failed Draupadi. That he did,surely. But my (perhaps flawed) perception of ArDi is that they were so intimately connected in an other worldly bond that they were ONE. Thus one could never fail the other without failing oneself. Hence I disregard the duality which leads to-you did this to me or you didn't do this for me. For me it was always like Drau saying-Yes your silence was painful but surely not just for me( I am sure you didn't enjoy the VH). Hell, we are together in this game (with maybe Krishna as the captain😆)! Yes you messed up big time on some occasions, I motivated you on others, your captain did so in the finals and look we are through with it!. There are no apologies or forgiveness needed because we are beyond it!
But EDrau was also right, she felt and said(her govind did most of the talking) exactly what any women would feel. Any women. Thats my issue I guess.
And the least said about EKeshav in the last two episodes the better. Krishna speaking like that to Arjun was just hard on the ears and heart. If SRJ ever spoke like that to SS, the latter would have a breakdown and never recover😆.
I don't know what I was supposed to feel about EArjun but I ended up feeling bad for him. He had this heartrending-Et tu, Brute? look!
Edited by Sadhana_pr - 10 years ago
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