Res. I'll be back :)
Edited:Great analysis by both of you. Balanced and well thought out.
I agree that Shivaay had begun to place Anika on a pedestal. There has been a softness and gentleness in him towards her lately, when he had begun to see her as a person and not merely an irritant to be tolerated because it is Dadi's wish. You could also see the burgeoning of something akin to almost admiration in him. That here was someone, who despite all that he perceived as drawbacks in life of not having khoon, khandaan etc, still lived her life with self respect and a certain joie de vivre which was beyond his comprehension.
Absolutely! And I think that respect for her self-respect, her joie de vivre is what almost endeared her to him so that he gave her liberties he's never allowed anyone before, especially to say things directly to his face, to let her have the period after the last word.
Where his family is concerned, he had begun to see her as someone who could be trusted to look out for them with a care that was nearly at par with his. And that is what took a hit today. That belief he had. As we have seen in his reaction many times before, he blames himself first when anything goes wrong with his family members. His sense of familial duty and above all his sense of sibling duty is almost what defines him to himself. More than her, he is berating himself for allowing himself to trust someone else where his family are concerned. That's why we see him not going ballistic, because most of the anger is inwardly directed. He had lowered his guard. He expected someone else to look out for his brother as he himself would. Ergo, it's first his own fault in his mind before it's Annika's. It was he who assumed she would understand the gravity of the situation without an explanation just because of that very pedestal he had put her on.
Absolutely! And somewhere, I think that is also one of the reasons she did try to get him to talk. To ease his guilt somehow. I may be stretching it a bit here, but I do think that scene with Prinku in the room, when Anika did look at Shivaay when he took on all the guilt, perhaps also played its own little role in drawing Shivaay out of that guilty shell.
Right now, for Annika, the thing uppermost in her mind is to expose Tia's truth. Her own sense of right and wrong is outraged by what she sees as Tia's duplicity. The fact that it is being perpetrated against someone she cares about makes it even more odious for her. So, you can see why she goes on and on about it.
As you have both said, she's human. She's fallible. Always being in sync with the mood and the situation around you is impossible. Sometimes the goings on in your own head overtakes everything else. She was not to know of Om's past, and just why Shivaay was so adamant that she make sure Om was not to be left on his own. I really liked the measured way she spoke her mind to Shivaay.
Absolutely! she did not lose her cool and was rational about it. They both were! it was admirable.
They are both different in their outlooks, but very similar in their values. It is that which would make Shivika work. By complementing each other. By enhancing the positives and softening the negatives in the other.
Yaar, huggy de tu mujhe! This is exactly what both of us have been talking about and tried to say, only you put it all so beautifully 🤗
