ABOUT THE FEELING OF A LACK OF CREATIVITY ON MY THREADS
My dear Donjas (and all my other friends here),
This sense of there not being any 'creative" discussion on this thread seems to me a bit misplaced.
I wrote this post about 3 episodes of Jodha Akbar. A number of readers commented on all three and I have responded individually to
all of them. You commented on one episode only, the first one, and while I felt your defence of Jodha there was spirited, and said so in my response to it, I agreed with some of your points and did not agree with the rest, and said so. I have not yet seen your comments on the other two episodes, especially the third one, over which I took a lot of trouble, so I have not been able to respond to them.
That does it as far as the comments and my responses goes. I cannot respond to comments that are not sent in. So now, the discussions on this thread can be about anything else in the serial that interests me or the others. Whence the discussions on whether Jodha Akbar was an epic love story.
There have been such off-the-immediate-topic discussions always, on my threads and those of others, in 2013/4 and now. Why, I once got a 20% increase in my warning level for posting a long historical response to you on the siege of Chittor on a thread that had nothing to do with that track. The increase in the WL was for posting that on a thread other than the non-designated one. The funniest thing about that was that you never got around to reading that response for over 2 months, till I PMed you about it!😉
And as for the kitty party that upset you so much, I agree that those posts were meant for PMs, but it was only 5/6 messages in all and then it stopped. My threads in 2013 used to be reduced, overnight, to a cat's cradle of 12-15 pages of jokes about the show by the Chipmunk Gang, Alakh, Sandhya, Tripti, and many others. I could hardly locate the comments to which I had to respond! But I do not mind if young people have some harmless fun.
You also have to take into account that everything we are discussing is a rehashing of old stuff, and that there is not much new that I or anyone can find to say about it . I cannot do
natakiya rupantar the way the CVs do it.
Plus the sense of expectation is all gone, and that drastically reduces the level of interest. I used to get 80-90 likes for any post of mine, now I barely get 30 likes if I am lucky! 😉
That is why I was very reluctant to start this series at all. It takes quite some effort, and now my hands, after the stopping of the steroid pills, are beginning to ache again. So, any time the number of Likes falls to 20, or my hands get to be as bad as they were in mid-October, I shall quit. Then there will be nothing about my threads to upset anyone!😉
Shyamala
Originally posted by: Donjas
Lack of creativity over sustained periods of time is a common human problem and JA suffered because it it.
But then that is not surprising, the lack of creativity can be seen everywhere,even here on this thread, this was supposed to be an intelligent discussion of a couple of episodes, instead it has devolved to a kitty party meeting and ad nauseum talk of what went wrong with the serial. Nothing new there, not a single argument here that I have not already read a million times over the past one year.
But that is the thing about creativity. It's singularly lacking in everyone.
Edited by sashashyam - 9 years ago
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