Originally posted by: Actomyo
Agree with all your points except for the 5th one, I agree partially there. What Ishana countered today is 'not giving back' it's the wrong way to interpret it, what she did today was being combative which ended up holding the mirror to the reality. I have never been a fan of Ishaana and the way the character was excited, that's why agree with all your 4 points but 5th one I differ. Why should she be like Anika and not bring out Om's family? She is different person, actually today for the first time her character of being grey was justified. Anika is rigtheous, so she kept her fight only to Shivaay even though Shivaay went down to drag in her family but every other girl doesn't have to be Anika, if Ishana did the same then where is the grey shade in her?
What Ishana did today was in her character today for the first time, Om hurt her and she hurt him back, the right or wrong doesn't matter there, only the motive matters, she is supposed to be aggressive and combatant without setting certain limits unlike Anika, who is aggressive, combative at the same time sets some limits and doesn't cross them, example, she didn't encourage Sahil to disrespect bua, she let bua in despite what she has done to her, Ishana isn't supposed to be so. It's ironical that people expect Ishana to be not like Anika and have grey shades but when she shows exactly that then people complain 😕
Amidst all she did accept she is wrong and she is aware of it, doesn't this make her unapologetic? Which is what a grey woman supposed to be? Initially she said sorry because she respects Om and is aware that he is a clean soul, I didn't expect her to say sorry because it's out of the character but like the majboori, poverty, poor having no choice etc dramatics this sorry too was melo-dramatic to show she is rigtheous but trapped in the situations. But once she retorted back upon Om's family remark, she was absoulately in the character, the character which wasn't excuted well till now, she was combative and unapologetic, if I my family is wrong then yours is no good, in the process she ended up speaking the bitter truths to which Oberoi's are pretending to be blind, that's why as she went on Rudra and Shivaay both had glimpse of guilt on their faces. Ishana is no white like Om or Anika, she is grey and what she spoke was totally justifying the trait. If they continue to keep her like this then I may end up liking Ishana.
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I am typing this from my tab so, sorry for any typos, dear. I'll keep it short.
First of all, just because we want a grey character means we cannot complain when said character does something stupid? Even if she had been what is considered grey (because, as I mentioned in my post, Ishana is flawed but please, she is not grey, that is a joke) and had done what Ishana did in the last episode, I would have criticised her.
The comparison to Anika does not happen because I want her to be like Anika, as I again mentioned in my post, but because Ishana kept harping nonsense about how poor people don't have a choice and cannot be honest - we don't even have to go to real life to prove her wrong, the example is already in the show. That's the only reason why comparisons are bound to happen - her justification was lame.
As for the apologizing part - she didn't do that 'cause she necessarily accepted she was wrong otherwise, she wouldn't have immediately started to justify herself. Hadn't she brought up poor and rich and family name, Om wouldn't have retaliated, either. And as others mentioned, had she done her research properly, she would have known what to say and what not to say in this situation.
Also, as for the part where she "utters some truths" - what new thing did she exactly tell him? Those dialogues were all sorts of messed up which makes her lashing out like this look even less understandable. I mean, the Ashok incident - Om was the one unhappy with how that was handled, he and Shivaay even fought over it. Whatever she told him, Om is not "blind" to it - what does she think why the guy isn't involved in the family business? Why he doesn't want to be associated with the Oberoi name? It looked even lamer because Ishana and her family were in the wrong; had the Oberois done something to her personally or had Om been really blind to all of this and blindly loved and defended his family her dialogue might have been digestible. Heck, he didn't even say anything when she brought up Tej because unlike her, he can call out his father on his mistakes and knows that Tej is wrong, he only lost it when she said he would end up like him. (On this note, Shivaay didn't look guilty when she brought him up, unnecessarily, and even Rudra looked more uncomfortable/hurt than guilty, imo. They didn't have any real reason to be guilty, after all.)
The execution was just... bad, imo. Justifying her actions because she is poor and then, her "uttering of truthts" which was nothing new to Om made it look all kinds of messed up. To me, she didn't react like a grey character but a wounded cat who couldn't take it to be called out on her errors and thus, had to throw mud on others to feel better. Whether it was in character or not, I have no idea because as of now, I don't know what her character is like.
Thanks for your comment, though. Guess we will have to agree to disagree on this one 😳
Edited by .bintAli. - 9 years ago