Rocking epi so far!! You guys.. RK was brilliant!!
So, to start with a post first...MT... I will take the part I liked the most from your post ... that he dosen't understand that what he felt for Pia was a crush, and what he feels for Bani is more. Ok.. fine... as long as preface that we, as the audience know its more... and it is.. thats fine. I'll leave it saying that Jai is a pee-brain as you say.. and hasn't figured it out! DUMBO!?
Yes, Bani did discover love first. Rather she accepted it first. Jai.. he's still learning? I just will not accept that its some sainted love!
I watched the portion of their conversation, and I thought the scene was amazing! RK's delivery was Rocking! The body language, self-depracting smirk.. all of it...I got from it, that the character accepts Bani in his life..& has some how compartmentalized her presence in his life (Bubble I think said this earlier). Its easier for him to accept his feelings that way. He dosen't have to challenge anything else. Not that the way he felt about Pia was a crush, or that this is more encompassing.. or as you say MT, that maybe earlier, he disdained having to marry Bani...or the atraction he later felt for someone who was never to have been his to begin with.
I do think that deep down he does love her, deeply, and unequivocally. Why does the man have so many shades of grey!? Its quite irritating in such instances! And yet, we do get to see the layers peeled back.
My response is neither here nor there is it!?
I have to say though,.. that whomsoever came up with the scene, was bloody genius. It was so well done, to see THE JW.. sozzled, cofessing the secrets of his heart, and his twisted mind to his friend. And his friend just nods, thinking... you stupid oaf!
We know that Bani loves Jai... does she love him more...? Post the C scene MT, you asked a bunch of questions that had one asking if Bani loved Jai more.. and if their love would reveal an equal partnership. What you say suggest no...? IF she loves him more...
I think that it would. He has yet to understand that she loves him as a man.. and that her love for him is as strong because of that... as his is for her.. based on his faith in her (his version of love!) don't know if that makes sense (crap its late!).
If a miscarraige is a possibility, then this question does come into play no? Would he love her still? And if so, did he love her at all, enough to want her as a woman... as the woman he now chooses as his wife?!
I say yes.. course.. we shall have to see....
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BTW, I have to say again.. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED RK in this scene! HE WAS AMAZING!!!
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