Posting it here too cos Doc asked 😳
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Oh where do I start from? My complaints will probably hit rooftop with this show.
Honestly KY2 lured me in and I was deeply in love because not only was it daring to be different, it was subtle in its story telling and stuck to a main plot (used to). For all I can remember is, the story was about six different broken souls finding their identity and stand in this world.
Did I mention Nandini? Probably yes, because she was shown just as affected by her parents' accidental death, her hatred for stars, her love toward Rishab and her hatred for that one night. She was somebody. She wanted to accomplish her father's dreams, she had an aim in life, somewhat vague but it was there. She wanted to see Rishab normal at any cost. And she was an individual.
You promised us a very great plot with this story, plot, that is right, that is what stories are about. You promised the journey from bullies to normal people. You promised so much more of band of brothers, Harshad, the meteor shower night mystery, what happened, Manik's past, Nandini's past, Dhruv and Rishab's connection, Mukti's past with Harshad, aliya and Manik's observation, Cabir and Raghav's lovestory and backstory. That is what your original plot entailed.
And you showed us such mature tracks. A hero who's scared of darkness. You didn't exactly tell us a story, you showed it. You didn't tell us that manan will be now together because HOPE FTW, or because fusion fusion will be it all. You showed us their complications and intricacies, their introspections, their denials as they fought what they had.
You showed such inspiring teenagers who craved for normalcy and who touched us with SUBTLETY' nothing else but subtlety, being who they're. And what brilliant execution of issues you'd shown.
Cabir's gay track, Manik's acceptance of him. That was what true KY2 WAS. POWERFUL IN ITS STORY TELLING. A story about friends, and lovers, and teenagers, dysfunctional, but trying to cope with life.
And then you brought in the dragfest and unnecessary characters and pushed the ones whose story this was about back.
I still hold a grudge for how you treated Harshad's track. So typical and just to get done with it. His character had hell lot of potential and all of it ruined back then. What could've been a brilliant triangle btw him, Mukti and Navya was dumbed down to the point of irritation and stupidity.
You brought in Musicana and Manik and Dhruv's hint of a future conflict. YOU TOOK 100 EPISODES TO EVEN GET TO IT, and you'd thrown stupid unneeded hints that dhruv figured everything out in the episodes btw these 100 episodes when he figured out nothing. Lel. Then you finally show that conflict and what the hell do you do with it? It was about Manik taking Dhruv's choice from him about Nandini. It was about Manik not treating Dhruv like the equal he was and taking his right of decision making from him. Manik deserved a punch too. But lel what the hell did you make that whole track into? Let me guess, it was ONLY AND ONLY THERE, so you could replace Manik with dhruv to create some imaginary fusion concert complications. And then they came together.
Also don't put scenes in a story JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE GOOD SCENES. The fusion concert has dragged for 50 episodes, 50 FREAKING EPISODES, where once the show had started and finished atleast ten tracks and had had so much progress. Like I said don't show scenes JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE GOOD SCENES. Show scenes if they tell atleast some kind of story. The whole hate track was 95% scenes and 5% progression for all I remember. So repetitive. And unneeded and no conflict, ABSOLUTELY NONE. And you throw it in after Soha's track which had the whole audience fedup at its execution, lameness and drag? Just selling everything at the name of USP cos manan sell?
50 episodes of hope track and what exactly did we have in it? You denied us of every single great conflict that could have been there because you want to drag the show endlessly. You brought in Pandit, yay, and what did he exactly do? Did he bring Nandini back to her career or focus or introduce any individual arc in her story? Any kind of quest OR ANYTHING? Then to top it, like always, he's another lecher who's coming in btw the great manan. REALLY? That's the best tracks you ppl can come up with? Is the audience so dumb? The things Nandini has gone through, anybody going through that in real life, will have serious serious psychological problems! It is not funny and neither romantic. A girl has a breakdown after going through everything Nandini has gone through.
And thankyou so much for dumbing her character down so that now she resembles initial days Aliya with her extra ott chirpiness and overaching symbolism (again, it should have been subtle, SUBTLE IS THE KEY) and her never tiring hope quest, and wait, that is all to her character. There is nothing more left. Please let me know if there is. If she's not reduced to a mushy girlfriend who only thinks of all of this and plans all of this.
Miss kisses toh miss kisses, miss confessions, unneeded scene, a stupid and lame fusion concert, ruined conflicts, no individual character arcs, repetition over every single thing, thopdia ke confession is happening, built it up for like 70+ episodes, ruined Mukti's story, matlab who tha kya, dhruv dumbed down to the point of being unbearable, stagnancy everywhere, cabir and navya ka what the hell are you doing? Please leave Cabir and navya alone, I like their friendship, whatever it is, PLEASE KEEP IT PLATONIC DAMN YOU! and you dragged it so much, fatigued us so much, that personally the confession had no effect on me. And there again was no subtlety. And wow, kudos for throwing in Pandit again.
Nothing about this hate track is solved between. Every single good conflict Manik's character had and that could have been explored, you all dumbed it down to being true love turns all white (please use true love instead of washing powders, does much more effective work :') )
His turmoil with accepting love, his past making his present shabby and reluctant, all his trust issues, everything solved because true love's magical invisible power.
And does Nandini think, do something, anything apart from think bout manik and the hope tree 24*7?
So much for a brilliant heroine who'd punched him in the face.
Can we please please have normal ky2? With its old characters? You still have viewers, a lot, please retain them and give them good characters and great character arcs. Please don't let this show be all about commercial value. Story telling is an ART. The world is full of complex and brilliant brilliant characters and even with those, sometimes story falls flat because of a stupid plot. So don't ruin it anymore. It had a great plot in the beginning, give me one good reason or one great thing the pandit or soha did except dragging? Pandit had NO CONTRIBUTION to the story in terms of any kind of progress. People are dying to know what happened with the meteor shower, the pasts, the alien thing, dhruv rishab connection, Band of brothers, and you're busy feeding us so much crap. Please, don't. Avoid obtuse narrative devices and ambiguous POV transitions. Please get a grip on the story before it completely slips.
At the end of the day, if I can't enjoy a show and have to sit down and sort out its subjectivity all the time, the show's not worth it. The world is full of great creative works. Complexity is subtlety, you showed that brilliantly in your own show at one point, I've no idea why you cant do it now? PLEASE SHOW SOME NORMALCY, stop shoving in new characters. You've a brilliant cast, work with them damn you.
Manik and nandini can still partner to solve what happened that one night on meteor shower even if dhruv's attacks have disappeared and whatever was in rishab's brain and needed surgery has disappeared too.
And I've 101 things more to say, but I'd rather end it here. The great rant.
Now call me shallow, or obtuse, or not understanding, or whatever. A great show can be spotted from far, it enchants you not fatigues you.
Rida.
Arjun
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