IPKKND falling apart by the seams. LOST the MAGIC - Page 6

Originally posted by: showstruck

Rangmunch said they can convey the msg. You write well. Pls do.

who is the rangmuch contact, are they on IF?
and i wonder if non-TRP generating crowd like ours would matter. Although, there are advertisers overseas too who like to advertise around show , so i wonder if we are as powerless as we think we are.

Originally posted by: arisai

Yeah I literally cannot think of a single other reason for them dragging this track other than they don't want to get rid of Shyam.

The thing is, they don't even need to get rid of him for a while to give us a substantial story. Why not have ArShi team up and work TOGETHER to reveal Shyam's truth? If they are insistent on maintaining Arnav and Khushi's love-hate dynamic, they can have Khushi be furious at Arnav for marrying her without allowing her the chance to explain but agreeing to help him for the sake of Anjali. They can have Arnav repenting every second of every day for hurting Khushi in such a way and trying to win her forgiveness...

I honestly just... I can't even...

I don't read the OS or FFs in the forum but apparently they're impressive in the way they resolve all the character conflicts, Shaym as a villain is good (mortifying now!) and initially he was brilliant in the way he balance his Rani Sahibha with renting at the Gupta's but his character too is losing it's grey spark and is being reduced to this perpetually twitching, obsessive love/potential murderer who may or may not want the child his wife is carrying. But I love that we don't have a pining, obsessive vamp. show.

But for me bottom line is NO VILLAIN is worth destroying the beauty of Arnav and Khushi's relationships which the writers have built up for the past 8 months with so much depth .. and not just their relationship but it is becoming a hindrance to their characters too. I mean seriously ASR agreed to a 6 month contract marriage without even giving the woman he loves a second to explain herself no matter AND how much fear he has of rejection I thought he was man enough to WANT to know the truth.😵

But it isn't all doom and gloom, I still have hope and I've fallen in love with Barun and Sanaya as actors not watch the show for them but the moment it starts to resemble the other SP shows my Mum watches, I'm out.

I agree. I think they are struggling to fill in as much drama as they can within the 6 month marriage contract before the truth comes out. It's what I expect. That's why plot-wise they've gone the shyam-property, and arhi-marriage.moments route. I hope they do move beyond that and get the truth out much earlier than that coz that WOULD be interesting to see how Arhi copes with that and their marriage afterwards. But, I doubt it. Whatcha think?

I totally agree with you Mary! A well written post.

Originally posted by: serialjunkie

who is the rangmuch contact, are they on IF?
and i wonder if non-TRP generating crowd like ours would matter. Although, there are advertisers overseas too who like to advertise around show , so i wonder if we are as powerless as we think we are.

You know SJ, I don't think we are. Maybe trivial but one thing I've noticed about this forum is wrath against Khushi's dressing sense - the plaits and poms poms were the bane of most topics(though I don't mind it, I kind of liked it) but have you noticed Khushi doesn't have pom poms on any of her outfits any more - the spoiler pictures and the outfit SI is wearing had poms poms attached to the sleeves the first time it was worn and NOW it doesn't. I can only credit this to the forum complaints because it's really random for them to remove the poms poms suddenly and even the new hairstyle for KKG - no more plaits. KKG wearing saris didn't go down to well with us either. So THEY do listen!

So, when the marriage track started, I was under the impression that it was going to be something very different than what's happening. I have no clue how I deluded myself, maybe through a spoiler, maybe through a dream of my own, but I really thought it was going to be about a possessive, jealous Arnav who thinks that Shyam was Khushi's first love. Yes, he believes that she broke off her engagement when she found out he was married, but his mad, jealous self cannot trust that she wasn't in love with him before that. He remembers to what extent she was willing to go to get that engagement ring back, how she had compared her fiance to himself, that bracelet she wore that was a gift from her fiance, how upset she was when the relationship broke -she did say "hamara dil toota hai"

Originally posted by: sbk2

I totally agree with you Mary! A well written post.

I have been discussing this with my friends lately...and we all think the same, they are just dragging the story, because the MU seems to be the juiciest track they could come up with and are worried that if they show it resolved, they will not be able to keep the viewers interested in the serial, since the main premise of the story is love/hate and if there is nothing to keep the couple apart, the spark of the story will be lost!

They do not want to get out of their comfort zone...

Channel interference could also be a factor in this.

Now since they are somehow dragging the track and preventing the story from going ahead, they have to come up with something to fill in, hence these filler episodes of fashion show, Khuhsi's dabba service drama, the Bali in Delhi Honeymoon etc etc.

Many times we get the feeling that they do not have anything planned in terms of story, after the MU is cleared.

Arhi's past can be shown, but they probably want to mlik the current track as much as possible before letting it go.

Very frustrating...

yea i feel like CVs want to show something good in the Maha Episode, but since it keeps on getting delayed, prob cause of non-availability of time slot, they are just giving us random episodes to fill in.

Originally posted by: Marybarton

I feel in love with the story because of its tight hold on the story and progression. But as a writer, I cannot help feeling that things have been dragging lately, more so than acceptable. I don't feel the same excitement lately (last 3 weeks or so). Anyone else feel that way? I am not into non-tycoony theme parties, business decisions and participation in society parties when there is a forced marriage and a killer looming about. I don't think they need to drag it so far. Come one, Shyam's truth cannot be the whole scope of the story now can it. There are so many ways to go as the fan fic writers have shown us. Making progress won't kill you CVs!

I feel as a writer and a viewer that I am looking interest since the awards. Hope it is only a Sanaya vacation glitch. But I have a feeling that given the performance of IPKKND in March, that is not the sole reason. Where have all the good writers gone?

Before the sensitive little ones freak out on me and call me a "basher," please look up the definition. This is criticism and a well-meant one. It is not a happy post and I am not fawning over the show but that does not mean I like Sarun or Arhi any less. So please spare me that lecture. I am asking the mature (not age wise, just anyone who can take a criticism) for their take on this view. What do you think? Has there been a downward trend lately?

Mary.

All good things come to an end. IPKKND is very close to that end. What saddens me the most is that this show didnt have to turn out the way it did. I was for the marriage track because it had a lot of potential. Like we could have gotten to see a growing closeness between these two, them caring for each other, Arnav getting to see that Khushi is way too innocent to ever think bad of anyone let alone his sister, they both would get to know each other over time(they did not know each other before or else this MU would never have happened, and Khushi would have known Arnav enough to understand why this forced marriage happened. She would have been able to read between the lines, but clearly they both dont know each other), they would have slowly come to trust each other, perhaps we could have had a scene where Arnav defends his wife. And someone will surely say now that have patience, they will show all this...it takes time. Well its been over a month now and the story has not moved an INCH since the day the MU started...we have been at a stand still since Feb 10th, I dont know about you but that is a long time to go without showing any real story progression...one day is a filler but what do you call it when you have one a half month of fillers. It seemed like Khushi was using her good for nothing brain when she realized she had hurt Arnav, I thought detective Khushi might get to the bottom of this...but no, we do get to see a detective Khushi when she saves ASR's business (which really Arnav you go into a meeting without background check, how did ASR get this successful...I am doubt Arnav has the one thing he so claims to have, his brain). We havent seen any development in the trust department either, which if I recall we were told would happen after marriage. This past month has been bizarre comedy (extremely embarrassing, unfunny comedy), which makes Khushi look like a 2 year old, infused with awkward rabba ve romance, and drama. None of the things they have showed over a month has had any continuity or common sense. From this marriage I was also expecting to see some maturing of Khushi, but in fact she is losing her dignity, her self-respcect. I was expecting her to turn into the woman she was always meant to be, a woman who could stand beside ASR. I understand that her childish things actually make Arnav happy, but I feel its really unreal...as in any woman who has suffered through a betrayal (shyam), broken engagement, broken heart (1st time, diwali), again broken heart (2nd time with MU), a forced marriage would not be this chirpy. I would have thought after suffering through so much there would atleast be some maturation or will she forever be a child woman. Someone that this is the amazing thing about Khushi, the ability to get back up on her feet and move on, but the problem is that it is very unrealistic...I am not saying get rid of her positive outlook, I am saying get rid of some of the extremely childish things she does, has been doing since the past month and no the fact that she is 18 is not a good excuse because I am 20 and I never behaved the way she does when I was 12 let alone at 18.