*sigh* and i thought about it and figured i shouldn't be that upset. i mean, unlike some shows that tend to follow and copy what other stories have done in the past, this one is actually following and copying itself!!! 🤣
* heer-prem thing: so! heer dreams a better prem than prem dreams a heer. 😆 which only goes to prove something i'd always suspected -- girls have nicer and more romantic imaginations than guys. 😆 go us! *high-fiving all the relevant hands...😆*
* prem thing: but i must say i loved prem laughing at himself at being so hopelessly hopeful about heer being in his room. if only 'cause it proved that prem is a member of the the motley crew called the hopelessly hopeful club! 😳
'cause i dearly loved that even though he was laughing at himself, he still had hope enough to believe that heer was there in the very next moment itself. prem! 🤗
that prem laughing at himself was sooooo much lovelier than the mopey prem that meher got to meet. ''i wish your sister had taken her memories with her when she left.'' indeed! your memories are your own, prem. you can let go of them and they fade.
reminded me of a terrific line in a strangely compelling but creepy movie called ''strange days''. where the girl tells the guy:
''memories are meant to fade. they are made that way for a reason.''
which is why i've always hated the amount of time they've give the tls**. in six years, memories blur for real people. but i guess prem-heer are not your average real people? besides, what prem has been doing is to deliberately keep alive the fires of his memory in his mind.
which brings me back to my scoffing at what he said. that he is seeing heer everywhere is his doing, his love. there was no need to make meher miserable by saying that to her!
* little thing: uh. 'kay. so. now meher brings prem his briefcase? that was kinda ewww for me. i mean, does this mean that prem no longer works at home? that his briefcase -- with the all important lappy??! -- sits somewhere outside and is packed by meher?? whacked out, dude! 😛
* prem-heer thing: totally loved his walking past her when she comes in. totally. i didn't much care for that little head shake -- that was like some hackneyed actor in some drama. 🤣
but the way he walked past her? totally cool. and so, i liked how heer blinked and demanded an answer from prem for doing it! 😆 heer! make up your mind -- want the guy, or not? 🤣
* prem thing: that smile with the light that sparked in his eyes when he found that he could actually touch heer was sooooooooo sweet! prem!
and the ''tumhey choonay kay koi bhi bahana chalega''. ooooh! prem!😍 go, go, go!
*and while you're getting there, can you please just go ahead and kiphph her too?? i mean, she is mad at you anyway. make it big -- go the whole hog. after all, how much more angry can heer get with you, na? and it might actually go the other way too, y'know?? what say? a kiphph ho jaye? 😍😆 *
* creepy thing: o.m.g. has there been anything that made your flesh crawl on this show more than the sight of gaali-maa's prem-still-loves-wants-needs-heer antenna switch on??
the first time she comes in to interrupt smiling prem touching his wife's cheek was bad enough. but the second time? she is not even there, when he circles her like a lion walking possessively around his lioness. and yet, she seems to sense that there is some prem-heer ''action'' going on. 😆 shouts to alert them to stop immediately. 😛
y'know? the thing about gaali-maa is that -- just like prem has not allowed himself to forget heer -- gaali-maa has not allowed herself to forget hating heer. every thing she has done since before the tls** has been to destroy heer's happiness.
is funny, no? this show started with one woman's (dirtchachi) inexplicable, unquenchable hatred for heer and meher, and making their lives miserable. after that woman was written out of the story, the real development in the story was
- prem's apparent death and therefore, heer's continuing misery
- after he returns, gaali-maa taking the role of dirtchachi in hating heer (and meher) and making her life miserable.
* little thing: hmm. so heer comes in with that wedding announcement thali, and bends to touch gaali-maa's feet -- and she refuses to bless her.
did anyone else remember heer taking her wedding card with prem to the mandir, asking for pbauji's blessings and getting similarly rebuffed?
and just like the last time, prem stands in the background, marvelling that his parent could be so hard-hearted as to refuse to bless heer...
* prem thing: but oh. my. gosh. once she is in the house, and he has ''touched'' her to make sure she is not just his imagination, prem's eyes never leave heer, no?😍 prem...!😍
which brings me to one thing different between the last time prem-heer were doing their silent love fight vs. now. last time, dirtchachi and the rest of the jzoo failed to see that love unfurl-and-blossom right under their noses. this time, unfortunately, the enemy is watching. and doing it's very best to stop anything happening.
and that brings me to the one thing that is same between last time and this time: no matter what the evil wants to do to break up prem-heer, it's soooo gonna fall on it's face! 'cause watching this reminded me of a song (by Jewel):
to part is to break
to depart is to leave
the angels have done neither
so i have no reason to grieve
substitute prem-heer-are-one for angels there and i'm all set! 😆😆
* big thing: it was actually interesting watching the interaction between the jzoo ''kids'' and heer, no?
first, right in front of gaali-maa's eyes, all three girls come to welcome heer. it is heer who breaks up everyone's joys in front of gaali-maa's eyes.
next, right in front of gaali-maa's eyes, prem asks heer if she has missed him also. again, it is heer who fights to answer that question -- not to prem (who obviously knows better 😆) but to gaali-maa that she has brought her the ultimate proof that she does not miss prem.
lastly, as soon as gaali-maa goes away, both kuldi and meher demand that heer fix her brains! woah! there's no way in heck that heer can possibly be nurturing any idea that anyone in the jzoo want prem-heer-are-one to break -- other than gaali-maa! (kinda like the last time, when no-one wanted anything other than prem-heer-are-one other than pbauji..)
so. heer is doing this for none other than for gaali-maa. and she knows it. thing is - why??!! 😕
* prem thing: lion prem circling lioness heer. ya, ya, i know i mentioned this before. so? that little prem-what-is-love-heer? bashan was worth giving two-two things for... 😍😆
'cause y'know one way that male animals announce their ownership of their mates? they touch them as they circle them. then their pheromones get all smeared over their mates -- and when some other male comes along, they can smell that this girl is taken and they walk away. i've seen ordinary house cats do this. (actually, cats do this to lots of things -- including furniture and the legs of people they are around with. ya, after that butt-scratch, i know a lot 'bout cats now... 😆)
that prem-circling-heer was sooo... animal. ☺️ masked, just about barely, under a thin veneer of civilisation. juuuuuuust about. and y'know what made it go incindery for me? the fact that heer just stood there, proud, defiant and taking everything he was dishing out at her! i mean, she could've acted agitated, and antsy? but heer? prem-heer-are-one's heer? no way, dude! no way she's backing down. her whole attitude was ''bring it on!'' and i loved it. ☺️
seriously. these two burn the screen. every. single. time. 😃
😃
* estee-wonders thing: the thing i wonder about prem in such instances is -- is he a bear? or is he a lion? *thinking thinking growing dizzy thinking* lion. no. bear. hmm. no lion. hmm..
or should we just acknowledge a new species of creatures on earth -- namely prem and heer? 'cause they are certainly not human. and they are not quite animal.... well, most of the time anyway! 😆
hey! maybe i should poll this??! and why do i get the feeling that on this poll, there will be no indecision or phrebelling?? 🤣🤣🤣
* creepy thing: ewwww... gaali-maa actually touched heer! ewww! well, it was more like she grabbed her to pull her away from prem, and increase the distance between them.
seriously. today, gaali-maa was creepy all through. she was creepy in the way she refused to bless heer. when she grabbed heer to take her away from circling-prem. her smarmy act in front of jasmeet aunty. and her even more smary act in front of gi-it. her unacceptable hypocrasy in front of heer -- telling her that she should look out for prem's happiness 'cause heer has her happiness in phukda; the little one who evil-gaali-maa is planning to take away from heer. 😒 oh, she was just unspeakably creepy all of today.
i really much find a much better name for her than gaali-maa. seriously, seriously creepy cadaver of a mother. 🤢
* little thing: y'know? my appreciation for the gi-it grows. i mean, heer likes her a lot and that counts. but today, what i liked was that gi-it was very .. preet like in being real! 😲😆
first, she is creeped out that gaali-maa is prem's mother -- which is as real as the feeling i had. and then, she is real-world smart enough to hide it from gaali-maa! ooh! now that is seriously cool.
but what i liked best about gi-it was in how we see that she is really close to heer -- loved her openness in badmouthing gaali-maa as soon as she got heer away from her. (and btw, thank you for that, gi-it! gaali-maa's proximity to heer was making me feel seriously ill! 🤢)
seriously. gi-it is a cool character. sooooo much better than that ig-idiot who claimed to be heer's so very good friend.
* old prem thing: btw, one of the things that i didn't mention about prem in my last bt,lt for 12-14 aug.
when gi-it told prem that she was heer's ''old friend who knew her for many years'', i totally loved the reaction on prem's face. the sceptical surprise with which that wicked left eyebrow shot up as he stared at heer and said ''oh, really? for many years??'' 😆😍
and i remembered thinking: poor prem. the last time one of heer's ''really close old friends'' came into their lives, everything had gone wrong. he must be feeling some trepidation just now hearing the same description for gi-it. 😆
was he wondering what new chaos would come into their lives with this new ''really close old friend''? 'cause she is someone who has a serious chance of disrupting their lives forever. 🤔
* big thing: heer thinking that she would've told gi-it about prem and her life just didn't make sense right then.
heer had never wanted prem in gi-it's life. if she had wanted to tell gi-it about prem-heer-are-one, how come she just didn't tell her about prem being her husband when she went to talk to jasmeet aunty about gi-it being in love? that they weren't even divorced? that they'd be breaking the law of the land if gi-it got married to prem -- without getting a divorce from her first??!
and even if she had made a promise to gaali-maa, why is she willing to keep gi-it in the dark about something so important about her future husband-to-never-be?? i mean, i got why she kept her promise to gaali-maa to not tell prem about that idiotic-samir-in-leather character. but here? why would she not tell gi-it 'cause of a promise to gaali-maa??
why the heck is heer still owing allegiance to gaali-maa??? i think this is totally insanely stoooopid! so stoopid that i can only rationalise it as heer using it as a stoopid darned excuse to distance herself from prem and this stooopid situation she has found herself in! duffer heer! just turn to prem and tell him that they need to run away if they have to live any kind of a life, why don't you??? *hard sigh! why are these two so well matched in dufferness??*
only thing, i could think was that it was rather fitting with the way heer had not told prem about her father being balraj maan while they were living in the chawl? so is this just yet-another-one-of-the-creative (not!) ways in which the script is being written to mimic what happened with prem and heer in the past?
have i mentioned how much i dislike this effort on their part to reguritate the past stooopidly?? 😡
* big thing: oooh! gi-it blurting out that she loves him to prem! ooooh!
now that could be ... interesting.
no, no! not interesting that she was gauche enough to tell him, of course. but interesting in how it (once again!) brings up things that happened in prem-heer's past.
'cause there had been an earlier gauche, hyper girl who had told prem this -- and prem and heer both suffered immensely for that girl falling in love with him. he had thought she had killed herself 'cause of that love and that had become a potential barrier to prem-heer-are-one. and then too, 'cause of gaali-maa's instructing prem on hiding things from heer!
now too, prem is faced with a gauche, hyper girl ''falling in love with him''. what's different is that this time, she is heer's friend. heer, who is trying to push him away. when gi-it said this, i liked that second reaction of his, after the startled look at gi-it. he tossed an even more astonished look at heer!
and i figured the troubled look on both prem and heer's faces as the episode closed. when it was rano who was agreeing to marrying prem, life was simpler. she was a divorcee. she had gone through the pain of rejection. prem would've decided to go with it 'cause at the very least, it would've been a ''relationship of convenience''.
here, she claimed to be ''in love with him''. oh-oh! was that a tinge of fear in his eyes that this could be sanjana#2 standing in front of him?? and surprise 'cause she is a friend of heer's! 'cause in that last look at heer, i thought he was surprised that this girl was saying so even after knowing that prem had been heer's husband, the one heer thinks cheated on her! how could such a girl claim to love him??
and that could also be the reason that heer turned away in misery from prem at that point? she can see that question in his eyes, and doesn't know how to answer it?
i must admit: i am intrigued to see what is going to happen in the next episode. just to see where this sweeping, gauche declaration of gi-it's is going to land prem-heer-are-one.
highlight of the episode: hmmm. the light in prem's eyes as he smiles and reaches out to touch heer, 😍 never once refuting her hot statement that it's just an excuse! 😍 yes, heer, his eyes smiled at her. yes, heer, his voice said with that lovely, lovely laugh in it, any excuse to touch you is a good thing. prem! ai hai, mar jawan! 😍 er... i must also admit to being partial for the body language that both prem and heer projected in that prem-circling-heer moment.... 😍
** tls: time line shift