Charmed! Like always with everything that you have written. And also with entire episodes on Thursday & Friday.
You my friend as I have said before are a Magician. And I agree with everything you have said.
Annika is one of the most realistic characters I have seen. Bcoz she is the truely a representation of everyday strong women out there like all of us. And she doesn't shove it in anyone's face. She just be.
Her insecurities are relatable so much so that I feel what is holding her back is what hold most women back. Her fear that if she really let herself indulge in this reality which feels like a dream & if it shatters bcoz from her previous experiences everything that feels too good to be true ends up too good to be true, she would be broken. And if that happens she wouldn't have anyone to blame, bcoz she knew better, didn't she? So she doesn't hope much but still lives what she has been provided with.
And I love her for that. She doesn't hold back or pushes him away fearing losing it all. She lives in the present but doesn't hope for the future.
I feel everyone who wanted to put her down,underestimates her, including Shivaay in the beginning & Pinky now. She feels separating her from Shivaay, will ruin Anika. But that is so not true. Shivaay may not ever get up again after losing her, but she will stand up again & carry on. And that is not bcoz she loves him less but bcoz she knows how to pick herself up & is far more practical about life than she leads us to think. Also she has loved him with everything she had & given the choice between anything & him she will choose him. And that is her strength, she has the perfect balance between her heart & her brain.
Shivaay on the other hand is someone who has never learn to lose. So when life( with Mahi's reality) or his mom ( trying to separate them)will try to make him lose, he will definitely need Anika to stand again. You are so right. He lets her be what she wants to be. He even being him with his big fat ego, doesn't pushed himself on her. I feel he must be ready to die just to have the moments where she opens up. Oh! The delight he must feel to love, care & even protect ( not that she needs protection) & know such a strong woman.
I feel she has been closest to him, Shivaay as a person other than his brothers. And she is special that way bcoz she was noone to him. And to be here after being noone in the beginning is a big feat to pull.
Secondly, she has made him hope, first that she can be his & secondly he too can be happy like any other person his age & have the simple pleasures of life, which is something he did not believe in the beginning. I certainly feel like her, he too was uncertain about them. The only difference being he knows if he wants something he has it. And he doesn't have her fears that whatever good happens to him will go away like it always does.
The only difference being in the beginning he needed her like he does now but he didn't want her bcoz of his NKK. But now he knows how it feels to have what he has always dreamt of & he wants it to stay with him & he will do whatever it takes to keep it that way.
Now Pinky sees Shivaay as someone who rectified her existence. She is for her noone more than his mother. That keeps her going. Her insecurities are real for her bcoz she feels that Shivaay will seize being her son & she his mother once he starts being Anika's husband. If she was someone who had a identify of herself, she probably won't fuss about this as much as she is doing. Example to that is Shakti. He has transitioned well bcoz unlike Pinky his world doesn't revolve around Shivaay. Being a Single child, I get her overprotectiveness but I was amazed by her insecurities bcoz my mom being a strong woman, she never had them or may be she slayed them like all strong women do.
She wants Anika to lose Shivaay but will end up being other way around. She will lose him, that means his respect for her, he contrary to her belief does know his mother & her flaws & still respects her for what she is. The next few steps she is going to take will make him lose his respect. The only fear I have is I hope he doesn't loses himself in this game she is playing. I hope they show him stronger than ' I drink myself to my death bcoz I can't forget her'. I do hope they show a third dimension to Pinky's insecurities. I hope they don't make her just another vampy MIL
Lastly now I know why they appeal me so much, more than any other pair I have seen on TV. They are both strong people who love each other endlessly but do know that living without each other would be possible but not worth it.
Can I nag you to please update 'The heart..', pretty please. One etsy bitsy update please! (Imagine me doing Shivaay's puppy face)
Edited by poemssyndrome - 8 years ago