this week was quite a choppy ride, wasn't it? but despite the slap and the fact that prem never apologised to heer for it! (analysed to death in: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1045538)
i thought it was a really nice week. why? 'cause it really centered 'round prem-heer. it was a slice of their life. together and getting down to business of actually knowing who the other person is. finally!
1. y'know? the thing that had always struck me as weird 'bout prem-and-heer is they're traditional, not conventional. i thought conventional is love born out of boy-girl smiling at each other. finding out they like each other after they start knowing each other. then finding out they love each other, when they know each other. but for our two-some?
our twosome were "made-for-each-other" by the "stars". knew each other the moment they caught sight of each other. when their hands touched and felt sparks fly. all by speaking through their eyes. when words came, they sounded like something carved in stone, rather than typed on a thinkpad t43. as if they had gone through their normal-courtship centuries ago and are so settled that they don't need the "niceties" of a conventional love.
so it was nice to get demonstrations of prem-heer-are-one. the last time it was heer trying to find a way to tell prem 'bout something she had to. this time it was prem trying to find a way to tell heer 'bout something he had to. the last time, it was something in the present that could affect their future. this time it was something in the past that could affect their future.
as i thought 'bout it, i wondered: why can't the story just keep on going like this? it's all kinda .. normal. it doesn't have anyone get shot. or put into jail. or get murdered. the story itself is 'bout the love. it's not like the long lived, tired saas-bahu serials where the drama is hysterical as are the people and the situations. for sure, there are hysterical people in this serial. but here? the drama is in how prem-heer find each other, learn each other's past, get comfortable in each other's present, work together to make sure that "we never hurt each other again". why can't this be the story that continues? can't i just keep having more prem-heer-demonstrations, please? ๐
2. another thing that i'm enjoying is the pace at which the story is going. while it feels a little too slow sometimes ๐ฅฑ and a little too fast sometimes ๐ฒ but, at the end of the week, i think it's just right. ๐
3. the interesting satellite parts of their story to look forward to? preet angles! there's preet-laluchacha angle -- i've never seen preet actually ever asking his father anything about the business. for the first time, he actually comes to ask. he can't let go of the kidder in him, of course. but he did ask. and (as usual) laluchacha can't see the real intention in a son's eyes.
there's the preet-meher-harman angle -- since the first time that he accused meher of being a thief, there's been some sort of acceptance between preet-meher. their interaction during the jogging episode. their little skirmish at harman's "office". it's never been overt -- 'cause meher's not preet's type? but i'm suddenly enjoying the idea that we might get to see a preet-meher-harman thread spin out now...
4. bizarre parts of the story? how unconnected gayatri-mom is to her other children. seriously! she noticed the laluchacha-preet interaction and said nothing? not to mention, how she tends to stay faaaar away from vitchface? (although that's totally understandable...๐)another bizarreness is ratpal ratpal's the other bizarre-ness. er.. do we have to consider (with unspeakable distress) a kooky-ratpal relationship? ๐คข
6. the boring parts of the story? how alike veera and maya are. totally boring! caricatures who have not deviated a teeny weeny bit from the their expected versions. these are two whose stories i am not looking forward to seeing...
7. but the real question is: for all that we keep hearing 'bout prem as ram, heer as sita, preet as lakshman, ratpal as ravan -- is that all just a lie??? er... from what i remember of the ramayan, ram's the guy who actually lives till the very end..? does anyone remember their ramayan? was there a part where ram vanishes, leaving lakshman and sita desolate?? hmmm.
cute memory to end with: while prem's tying his necklace around heer's neck, she has her hand resting on his chest, above his heart, as if she can see his vows in his eyes, but also feel it in his heartbeat? ๐