Dear Vanilla-e-Mint,
The Question of the Day bit in your post today is the most relevant part for me re last night's episode. I caught up with it really late...I mean Really. Then again was in a tired state of mind...so that could have clouded my vision...
For to me, last night's episode had a hint of the drivel in it...an exercise in inanity.
Sorry, but though taken on its own the episode may be all that you have written and more, as has been discussed by many others in the forum...
To me, it was the CV's short cut to somehow extricate themselves from a situation that they have been complicating and messing up in the past few weeks. Their way of wiping the slate so that an equally confounding love Story's base can be laid...with a water dunking followed by Marauding Mohan... Had I been a Tiger. I would have by now taken out Morchas that would scare all that wit out of the CV's... Its a complete charachter assasination of Mohan thats being readied to be dished out on our plate...
From the total improbability of a sixteenth Century Rajput Queen travelling on her own to her daughter's Maika with the sole purpose of the visit being bringing her daughter back... to the Deewan-e-khas...That Durbar had its sanctity... it was neither a family court, nor the Shehenshah under any obligation to explain his personal matters to his cabinet...if these utterly predictable and preachy scenes were so necessary... He could have had the whole thing unfold within the confines of the Harem walls...at the most come out with a Public statement later.
so as you said it was the best Ekta's CV's could do in the absence of the quintessential Party scene...a staple of all products from her stable.
As for the ASK of the ASK
scene with multi mirrors and Jodha in triplet...
it was a pathetic bit trying to undo all the harm they had caused to the characterization of Jodha Bai.
The confusion created by the three Jodhas in three resplendent Jodas is basically the confusion clouding the combined grey cells of the CV's.
As you pointed out, all three very well dressed with matching sets of Jwellery and the works.
with the green joda...acting the voice of reason...well seems your Jodha bachao project has made its mark even in its embryo state 😃
But honestly...that scene was the total bringing down of the 9000 elo rating GM brain that we were promised at the outset.. or the sensibilities attached with it.
Jodha's inner turmoil develops as sudden as a tornado and brings/will bring destruction on many levels of story telling.
The pre cap...
Ussain Bolt/Ezekiel Kemboi...100m or the steeple chase...whichever way you look at it...
My primary Q remains how the hell did she get a horse and if she has slunked out of the Fort...
How this reflects on the security measures in place.
(An observation that Rana Pratap can find handy if planning an Agra ambush)
Whether Jalal finds out the existence of the object Nor-easterly to his solar plexus as a direct result of all this is something I'm not confident enough about. What I do know, his lungs are in for some serious decathalon preparations.
Love
Moontide
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