Originally posted by: optimist
BC, I was just about to make a post on this. Glad you did. I had earlier said this elsewhere. Ayesha and Milind are just not meant to be because both are alike in temperament (pretty hot headed and stubborn) but poles apart in character. Any union between them would have spelt doom. While for Milsi, family ties matter, for Ayesha they dont, because she never had a real family and when she did have a chance to make a family, she blew it. Milsi gives a lot of respect to elders (even if he may not always agree with what they say). We saw that in his interactions with his father and PL. Ayesha does not know the first thing about respect. Milsi will always put the interests of the ones he loves over his own. Ayesha is too self centered to look beyond herself. If she did, she would not have instigated Suki to elope or kidnap Ritwik to let his baba know the'truth' or deliberately drive a wedge between Milsi and Prachi knowing how much he loves her. So if they had gotten together their lives would have been sure hell.
Milsi and Prachi are opposites in temperaments but very much alike in character. That is why their union is blessed and they would make a successful pair.
Oooh I know there's a post of yours I wanted to reply to, when I wanted to I had to go and then after days when I returned I couldn't find/forgot which post. Now I remember the post but I'll just reply here.
I disagree. Ayesha and Milind were not only similar in temperament, and definitely not poles apart in character. We talked about the old Ayesha, prior her revenge act. She was definitely not self-centered (why would she bother about Prachi and Sukreti if she was), she had strong feeling of justice and she didn't hold excessive prejudice (the good trait I noticed Milind didn't have), and it's really not that she didn't appreciate family relationship. Actually that can't be more wrong. Her only family was her mother, and even when her mother had somewhat failed her as a mother more or less since she was born, for her mother's sake she was willing to do basically everything. She did show appropriate respect for the elders she met, even more than what Milind ever showed during those times. Even before the revenge oath she had problem to regard the Shah as her family, but seeing how Dadi and Alaap and the rest of the family besides Prachi and PL treated her, no surprise there.
Ayesha's journey to nothingness regarding characterization might seem natural just like a real person change from good to bad. But it's not really natural, and it's evident seeing how from July her mother just disappeared while staying in Shah Mansion.