OK, for what they're worth, here are my two cents:
I am a premika, as most of you know, but some people here seem to have the idea that all premikas blindly follow Prem wherever he leads us and "support" him in everything he does. Not so. I HATED Prem/UD during the rape track and it took me a long time to get past that.
I think its the whole "One death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic" syndrome. We all KNOW everything that Prem has done is wrong, but sometimes we tend to gloss over that (right or wrong, that's what we do). But when I remember individual instances of his nastiness (the scene where he humiliates Mukti at his party during the rape track, the scene where he insinuates that she is lying about her rape, the scene where he fights against Prerna bringing her back home), then, even now, my blood boils and the feminist in me wants to kick him to high heaven! So, its not that we don't KNOW of his mistakes, its just that, as time goes on, we group all his crimes together and gloss over them.
Let's just get one thing straight: premika or no premika, I can clearly see that Prerna is NOT being SELFISH. She has NO reason to trust Prem, esp. after everything that he has done during the five years that she was not there. She could have forgiven him everything - she DID forgive him everything, but the fact that he broke her family (and HIS) apart, the fact that he mistreated his FATHER, is something that she may never be able to forgive. She knows that a lot of it is the fault of others: Aparna, Komo, even to some extent, herself. In the beginning eps of this leap, she acknowledged that KOMOLIKA used her son to destroy her family, she KNOWS that he is easily influencable (is that even a word?! 😉 ) and she called Komo up on that. She blamed KOMO for sending "this nautanki" (Debo) to her house, she blamed KOMO for using Prerna's own son against her.
But, at the end of the day, can we really say that ALL of it is Komo's fault? When Prem was a child, he was kidnapped - not his fault. He grew up with Aparna for a mother, learning about revenge and materialism and disrespect - not his fault. When he first came to Bajaj House, he made a lot of mistakes, Prerna and Anu and Bajaj all misunderstood him and that hurt him and turned him - not his fault.
But this? Can we really assume that Prem is so naive, so malleable that he didn't know what he was doing? Prerna doesn't know that Prem had found the proof against Debo and could have stopped her from going to jail, but WE know, and we know that he did NOTHING. So, can you blame Prerna for being just a little selfish for the first time in her life and wanting her husband, the father of her children back? For ONE son, should she forgoe ALL her other kids - Sneha, Tushar, Doris, Mukti, Kuki, Vishaka and Kasak (where are they, btw?). If she doesn't support Prem, she is selfish? What would happen if she supported Prem NOW over everybody else?
Secondly, Prerna HAS NOT ACCEPTED Komo's offer of making Prem marry Debo. Where, in that confrontation with Prem, did you ONCE hear the word "Debo"? Prerna merely told him to stay away from her family and Mukti - if she doesn't want Mukti-Kul's relationship to break, it is because she DOES NOT TRUST Prem - she cannot know whether he is telling the truth or lying to get something; she doesn't know whether, if he truly DOES love Mukti, he will ever be able to keep her happy: after all, his character is such that he can change his mind and do anything at the last minute. She is looking out for her daughter, because she believes that Mukti will remain happy with Kul. How is that being selfish? If she were selfish, she would tell Mukti to break it off with Kul and marry her son, but she wants what is best for her "adopted" daughter, not her biological son.
Just because Prem is in love, it doesn't mean that he DESERVES that love - if I am "with" Prem today, it is only in the sense that I want him to PROVE to Mukti and Prerna that he HAS changed. I am on Prem's side only for him to pay for his mistakes and to resolve them. Prerna is right in her place, and if I were her, I would do the same. We have only seen Friday's eppy where Prem confesses his love for Mukti. Now, we have to see him rectify his mistakes against his mother, his family, because even for Mukti, that family is more important that her love. She would do anything for her Choti Maa, and if Prem cannot or will not make it up to his mother, then I can guarantee that he and Mukti will NOT be getting together any time soon.
As a premika, of course I want to see PM together - but not at the cost of Prerna and her family.
I am with Prem if he wants to pay for his mistakes and make it up to his family, and I want Prerna to give him another chance, but that will only happen when he gives her reason to trust him again. So what he needs, with the help of his Dad Basu, is to find a way to show Prerna that he is changing (I wouldn't say that he HAS changed completely) and if after all his efforts to make it up to her, Prerna does NOT forgive him, only then, will I even remotely begin to disagree with her.
Sorry for the bhashan, as usual! 😉