namaste!!
*that's how people greet foreigners in the high mountains in nepal, btw... supposed to be universal and neutral! imagine that -- cute, no?*
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ehm. for those of you who are new here, i'm estee. i watch this show, and instantly start picking it apart for things that struck me -- some big, some little. um. also some prem things and heer things. and - meet things, direction things, editing things, photography things... basically, things that struck me and i just have to write about. or it'll stay in my head going round and round till it explodes! 😆 so without further ado...
* heer thing: is she glowing with happiness in that first shot or what?? and hey! that's like the ... 8th? 9th? time that she has mouthed "prem" silently? but the first time she has done it with a smile? 😍
*sigh* why do i still find it endearing when she does that? even after all this time? 😆*
* prem thing: ooooh! prem with a dark brow. which he keeps there even when faced with all that heer-glowing happiness! kis mitti sey banney ... oh forget it! what earth is this prem made out of?! 🤣
* argh! thing: what?? vitchface veera is still in this show??!!! y'mean that special order extra-large blackhole i asked for never made it to the kdmhmd set??! damnit! 😡
* little thing: oooh! heer has been taking bhashan lessons from prem? what a long bhashan to nihaal bhaiyya from such a little girl! 😆
but what struck me most 'bout her bhashan was that even then, her primary concern was ... how prem would feel!!! heer!! 🤣i mean, not one word of sympathy for vitchface! or even nihaal! it was all about ''how could you hurt prem's feelings?'' 🤣 and then, it was all 'bout her feelings? oh well. i guess she could be forgiven -- she has been waiting to go home for a long time, i guess? 😆
* argh-argh! thing: what?? even maya is still in the show??!! what the..?! 🥱
* big thing: oooh, but gayatri mom has become hard! she sounded soo unforgiving -- ''i sent you away so that nihaal can understand what family means.'' eh? what??! use the sister to hurt the brother? gee. and that's the cool way for people treat each other these days???
and what was even worse was when she explained why she stopped! ''i realised that i was only hurting my son by keeping you away.'' oh! uh. hurt the girl to hurt her brother. and only stop 'cause your son is getting hurt too?
er... did everyone else start screaming ''heer! get away from this twisted reasoning and this twisted family! take prem and run! -- right now!'' at the screen too?
* big thing: btw, why is the focus of this revenge and teach-nihaal-a-lesson only heer? why were heer and meher not packed off together? is there some secret evidence that meher's not a maan kid? 😕
* little thing: prem's reaction to that mom speech was... um... totally cold and at a 180-degrees off, no? 😕
why did it feel like the only thing these two -- premheer, ie -- wanted was to get back together as soon as possible? 😆 not that i truly really minded. it was just .... that it all felt totally twisted. and kinda discordant. like there was something deeper going on. and everything we were seeing was just a tiny part of a larger story, no? *or have i just been away for too long? 😆*
* preet thing: man! is he excited about getting meher back home or what??! 😆 that's like my (god) preet! focussed and smiling -- no dark brow for this guy, thank goodness! i mean, why dark brow when you can smile like that? when you can hold your girl's hand like that? ☺️
* big thing: hmmm. what is gayatri mom up to? y'know? i think that gayatri-mom has taken lessons from beta prem and is seriously faking this whole thing!
no, no! listen before you take my head off! 😆 gayatri-mom has been through one sagi-sautela fight with vitchface before, right? and not just once! she cut vitchface off at maya-harman's wedding also on the same topic! and now, when it has come up again, i think that she has decided to teach vitchface a seriously big lesson. after all, what vitchface did by aborting her child must be considered an unspeakable sin for gayatri-mom!! 🤢 and i think she is seriously shaken by what a ... hydra vitchface has become, and wants to teach her only daughter a lesson.
and for such sins, it has to be a really big lesson -- with big drama, and big sacrifices. and of all the people around her, who are the ones that are the most fixed and constant in their togetherness? who can be used in a sacrifice drama, and still be together -- like they have been together forever? <drumroll> prem-heer! (just in case there are any prem-like duffers here who didn't get it! 🤣) gayatri-mom knows that nothing she will do or say will ever destroy them. so she uses them as the target of her ... drama. and 'cause at the end of it, prem-heer can be trusted to understand and forgive her always.
in fact, i think she got a little shaken at how desperate they had become when she saw how they were suffering without each other. and they were ''apparently lying to her'' to get together without her knowing. and this bringing heer back is 'cause she couldn't bear that they were so miserable without each other herself. and she needs to have vitchface bring the entire miserable truth out in the open herself as a sign of her being sorry for what she did. and what better way that giving heer the house keys and the family wealth? 'cause she knows that this would cause such a fire under maya-vitchface's scrawny bottoms, no?!
i really really think gayatri-mom's faking it! *of course -- i've never right about anything in show ... well, not much anyway... 😆😆😆*
* little thing: but in the grand speech as she handed over the goods, 'twas soooooo sweet was hearing the name ''heer juneja''. seriously. ☺️
* solution-for-prem-heer thing: i agree that heer couldn't have said no to gayatri-mom in the situation that these things were given to her. but she (and prem) could've actually suggested that all the bahus share the goods, no?
after all, gayatri-mom was talking about how ''bahus'' didn't get anything concrete, no? i mean, why give only to prem's wife? she does have two other bahus, no?
* little thing: which is also what troubled me in what lalit juneja said -- he is still so obsessed with heer as his connection to balraj maan? why does everyone ignore meher?? poor meher. *thinking* well, that was a stooopid statement -- what ''poor meher''?? meher has preet!! 'kay, i take back that ''poor meher'' comment. 😆
* little thing: oh, but i so loved it when prem stepped up and told gayatri-mom that ''heer kay liye, mein hoon.'' prem!!!! you are a duffer. but you are a sweet duffer... 😆
* little photography/prem-heer-beauty thing: oh, that side shot of prem's face against heer's face perfectly framed as they stand before gayatri-mom and the god-idols and heer takes the keys. sooooo beautiful... *sigh -- doesn't khushi put up screen caps for episodes anymore? two-two sighs. 😆* or even the way she looks up at him, helplessly, beseechingly before he bends down to touch his mother's feet. and she bends down with him.
y'know? i deeply dislike such ceremony. but prem-heer make it all look sooo good! despicable duo... 🤣 man! they're gorgeous! i'd forgotten just how gorgeous they are..!!
highlight of the episode: hmmm... not much today, no? prem-in-brown against heer in shimmery stuff. both beautiful, grave, slightly troubled faces in perfect profile against each other. how lovely they looked.. (god) preet's smiles as he ran off to ''prepare'' a welcome for his meher.
* precap thing: hmm... so i am guessing that vitchface and the shrimp (maya) go and demand an explanation from gayatri-mom in the middle of the night? and she feeds them some story 'bout how it is to test how well heer can maintain her relationship with prem? dunno... guess i'm back to w&w how this show is going to go forward showing how prem-heer-are-one forever and ever.
but i must admit: i started laughing loudly when the shrimp said that it was guaranteed that prem-heer-are-one will break. stooooopid shrimp! better and more vicious people with bigger brains than a pea have tried to kill prem-heer-are-one. and had to face defeat. shrimp brains are smaller than pea brains. why don't you just run to daddy and suck your thumb in his lap for the rest of your life? that would be a better life than anything that you can come up with.
er... gee. did that sound a little too harsh? well. in my defence, i don't deal with jet-lag too well. especially when i'm feeling horrendously hungry. one of the things that i seem to have brought back from nepal is an amazing ability to put away vast amounts of food. my gang who brought mom and me dinner tonight watched in disbelief as i ate my way through half a large, double cheese pizza... heh! actually, those looks were priceless. heh.
oh, and to those of you who used to be on this forum before i left a month (or so) ago -- i'm back!! 😃