3/4 dec: big things, little things, wfp=36 days!

brrr... why do you tend to feel colder when you're coming off a high of a really fun party? the gang got together to celebrate life and luck - me having lived through a car crash when i could've died, the guys for having had their dinner at taj before the attack. got back in half an hour ago, and have been buzzing around the sleeping house trying not to wake anyone up. i caught up on two shows today beofre the festivities with the girls - what better thing to do to wind down than to write a big bt,lt, no? 😆 here goes!

3 dec bt,lt

* little thing: eeeks. even though preet looked relieved that he is finally able to please his father, i thought it was kinda miserable that lalit-juneja could hug his only 'cause he finally got some sacrifice from him. 😡 i dunno. lalit-juneja has{b]got[/B] to be the most selfish person on earth... 🤢

* little thing: um... i dunno 'bout everyone else, but i found the whole ashlesha desperately searching for meher to congratulate her a little overdone. imean, isn't this the girl who used to abuse meher? used to call her a downmarket servant? seeing her happily put bangles on meher was a "whaaa...??!" moment for me.

just like i was "whaaaa...??!" at seeing preet still sitting behind those weird golden threads?

* little thing: for a moment, when ashlesha caught sight of preet's face, i felt sorry for her. at her dazed look while kul-di was trying to explain what happened. i was even sympathetic when ashlesha asked why it was that it was only "bauji's izzat" was important even above her love. but ...

* big thing: she lost me from that point onwards. 'cause first of all, prem had not sat on the mandap "for love" and get up from the mandap "for family". no, no, no. it was just the opposite. so yeah! i think ashlesha got the shock of her life, when preet showed that she was not worthy of the same actions that prem did for heer. that preet loved his bauji more than he loved ash. poor ash. dumb ash. we all wondered for so long -- but she managed to convince herself that preet actually loved her. poor dumb ash...

second of all, she is twisted if she says that they would have to cry tears that she cried. i'd have said she's finally crying the tears she should've a long time ago, for all that she did to her cousins before. if ash is such a devotee of "pay-backs" and was smart, she should've been thinking "ooops, payback time is now, ash-baby".

my third, and biggest, problem with ash is that it never feels like she is acting on her own. when she "liberated" prem from their wedding, it felt like she was following her mother's principles and trying to make prem-lalit-juneja feel so guilty that she would have him hooked forever. when she betrayed her mother, it felt like she was following preet's principles. even now, while i do agree her hurt at preet's actions looked genuine, the only thing that she kept going on-and-on 'bout was how she was hurt, and she would get avenged! competiting for a selfishness prize with lalit-juneja, ashlesha? give up - he's gonna win it... and what a totally boring, been-there-done-it-a-million-times-before attitude. the prototypical vamp. great. like we needed yet another female prototype on this show - weren't veera and maya enough?

fourth, her entire drama felt like it'd been totally planned! from her putting heer off to the time that she saw preet. and so i felt zero surprise i saw dirtchachi land up - and after that, ratpal! i mean, how else do these rats appears "just at the right time"? so other than the shocked "preet??!" part, i felt totally disconnected from ash-misery.

last, the actress is nowhere as good as the one playing dirtchachi. when dirtchachi was spewing venom and need-revenge at the prem-ashlesha fiasco, i despised her from the bottom of my heart. but she always got me to unwillingly admire what she said and the genuine hatred with which she said it. this actress was .. uh .. obviously over-the-top dramatic and theatrical. it looked like she was aping the dirtchachi actress - and that it wasn't working too well... just mho...

* big thing: *sigh* i still despise dirtchachi. the moment her eyes came on screen, my head started throbbing madly.... i despise her. i would tolerate any amount of stomach-churning kooky to a second of dirtchachi... unlike with prem, absence hasn't made my heart any fonder of this person. darnit, where's the asprin..?

* big thing: oooh! dirtchachi and ratpal are in cahoots!! i think i'd actually written this as my very worst case scenario ina bt,lt a long time ago. but then, to counter it, i had thought prem-heer'd be together... hey! no fair. why have the bad-guys becoming a team first before the good guys can marshal resources! get prem-heer together too - now!!

* big thing: ooooooh!!!! ratpal taunts heer 'bout there not being the moon and the doves??!!!! we were all totally "wha......??!?!!" before we collapsed 🤣 here!! someone's been reading this forum! someone's been reading this forum! 🤣🤣 sid! where's sid?? sid, the bad guys are attacking the doves, sid! start an andolan to keep rats away from the doves -- siiiiiiiiiddddddd! 😆😆😆

* little thing: uh... why the heck was lalit-juneja giving that superior smirk while dirtchachi was threating to grind him into lalit-juneja-pulp between her .. teeth? fingers? 😆 .. or something?

* little thing: oooh, heer goes after the macho man! i was actually wondering here whether heer did this 'cause she is in her "prem-avatar" and it was a male ego after a male ego kind of a thing. 😆 or because heer is still dirt-scared of dirtchachi? hmm....

* little thing: heer's hysterical little "oooh...choddo mujhe. choddo mujhe!" had me in splits.🤣 it was like the fine-print in that dialogue was "i may catch some nasty disease, you rat, don't touch me!!!"

ratpal's reaction of dropping her? ho-hum. like "what else is new, ratty? why don't you do something unexpected for a change?" 🥱 prem-heer-are-one, you scumbag. and the ramayan has the death of ravan. man, am i going to sit back and watch in great happiness when that happens here!

highlight of the episode: strangely enough, the line that stuck out in my mind the most was "married men don't talk to strange girls, preet juneja!" that was a very good, very moving line delivered well. 👏

(4 dec bt,lt continues below.... 😆)

4 dec bt,lt

* little thing: oooh, attitude lalit-juneja! and for once, the attitude is directed at the bad-guys! was totally curious to find out what the heck he had planned for his motley crew as they were leaving. darned that gayatri-mom!

* little thing: 'kay, i dunno 'bout all of you - but i seriously wanted to bop gayatri-mom back to vegetable state when she came running down the stairs "nehi!"! what the heck! she had a son who when he thrown out of the house, said that he would take his house in his heart. and she thinks that when prem comes back, he will not know where they are?? prem would find them no matter where they are, damnit! what the heck!! oh well, i then dug up a reason most grudgingly that she was "not in her senses" normally. so - i'll let her off the "stooooopid!!!" hook for now... *gaaaah!*

(btw, one neat thing in that scene: the actress' voice sounded hoarse, like she hadn't used it in a while. was that deliberate??!! that was great acting then!)

* big thing: i love preet-meher. so there. in this episode, i loved the beginning when they're walking like strangers married, uncomfortable with the situation, awkward with each other. loved the end, when they sit on their own side of the bed, locked into their own personal hell, unable to help each other - oh, they were brilliant. i love preet-meher. *yeah, not liking ash probably has something to do with it - sue me! 😆*

* little thing: they used music from "kavyanjali" for that first preet-meher part! and i liked the music of the last sad part too -- but didn't recognise it. where was it from?

* big thing: i detest dirtchachi. 🤢😡 why the heck is this actress the only one who knows how to articulate her dialogues well? and in that clearly articulated way, she perpetuates one of those big social injustices that we have in our society today -- a social disease all over the world -- this perpetual idea that "attractive" with someone who is pencil thin. i feel kinda sick 'bout this 'cause we have another serial on the same channel which is all about showing prejudices people have about dark skin being unattractive. and here, we have a show that pokes fun at a girl who is not pencil thin, again. and again. and again. and no one seems to think that as pathetic. the character is not obese - which is a genuine problem! she's just not vamp-thin. the prejudice is as bad as the other show's prejuedice - but no-one sees it? no-one talks 'bout it. 'cause of course, it is true right? thin is the only admissable attractive.

funny though, no? the three moron females on the show -- veera, maya, ashlesha -- are also the only ones that are thin. everyone else is healthy. hmmm. is that another prejudice there? that girls who are thin are also stoooopid and evil???

i guess one must thank the powers that be for small mercies that heer is not pencil thin. man, i love heer. and i like meher. and kuldi. and even the look of dirtchachi! and i'm *fiercely* glad that preet is not married to that .. that ... jhaddooo!

* little thing: loved that preet said not a thing to ashlesha. she should take notes - when your heart's broken, there are more than one way to behave. another way to deal with it is not to screech like a banshee. that there is a gentlemanly way, a thoughtful way. i soooo want to see how preet-meher deal with their (miserable thanks to gayatri-mom! 😡) life going forward....

* little thing: the last preet-meher segment broke my heart. it did. both meher and preet looked young, vulnerable, defenceless. unlike earlier, when her face looked so badly caked with makeup that she couldn't speak, meher's face look like a hurt child's as she sat alone on the bed in her "servant quarters" room. and somehow, preet managed to look like a total hurt baby when he came in and sat on his end. and the way they cried silently, not letting the other know. i just wanted to grab both of them and hold them in a hug until they fell asleep. poor kids....

* little thing: oh, so heer's mental prem comes to laugh at her sorry state after dealing with ratpal. i soooo loved the idea that that is her image of what prem's reaction would be! heer.... 😆

* little thing: uh... just what was that look on lalit-juneja's face all about???? it being lalit-juneja, i really don't want to know. don't want to find out. can we please just rewind to the 2 dec moment when he's gonna pop the pills and hold kul-di/hubby from knocking on the door that fast....???? 😆

highlight of the episode: hmm... what to put, what to put? 'kay. preet-meher standing at the door of preet's room, and preet telling meher that they will find a way to make things work. preet..!!!!! 🤗


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estee i was expecting a long analysis of prem heer moment in the moonlight with the soap sud snow.... theres a one line mention.... :(

Originally posted by: fj08

estee i was expecting a long analysis of prem heer moment in the moonlight with the soap sud snow.... theres a one line mention.... :(

i know it wasnt prem but his 'ehsaas'... but i thought it was wonderfully done and was the highlight of yesterdays show....white shirt, sleeves rolled up, collar turned up, heer looking beautiful.... this was a big big thing

😆 hey... fatima? the bt,lt ain't done yet... it was just... i am just soooooo tired of being kicked out by if.com for writing posts that are too long! and i figured, if i get started on that last segment of 12/4, i'll never stop and i'll never get it posted! 🤣

that last row of unabted "😆" should've been a clue. hope (hope08) just wrote and asked me the same question -- except she was more verbal that you, i think. 😆

besides, nandini's always shouting at me for using caps in my bt,lts - i thought that i'd focus her irritation away from the bt,lt to ... just a 12/4 bt! or should i call it the 12/4 bbt? 😆

see you there in a short while? 😆 need to go dig out some .. uh... illustrative instruments! 🤣

*forgive me. it's 5am here, i've slept for just two hours and i have not yet written the 12/4 prem-heer-are-one-almost-all-the-way moment out of my system yet.... 😆*

hey estee.....

Originally posted by: khushix

relax guys...give E a lil' break...let her sleep..and maybe she'll give us sumthin longer 2mrow...ryt E?..😳😆

Originally posted by: nandini90

😆😆😆the reason i havnt posted here....its coz..even i expected...😆😆...but i was sure..and am stil sure...tht she is preparing a rather big one for tht.....and i think thts my place to reply....not this one liner...

well yaa...wil say sth abt it....heer is the normal person in tht house i guess..along with gaya3 maa....😆😆😆why??!!....hmm.....may b onli they rem prem 24/7..😆😆

luv nans

maybe she cud hav a separate thread for that..coz it sure will be long...it shud....😆😆😆

Originally posted by: khushix

maybe she cud hav a separate thread for that..coz it sure will be long...it shud....😆😆😆