Originally posted by: 13thwish
@TM: Objectively, I both like n agree with your post. However, I feel like someone needs to play devil's advocate here cuz there hasn't been sufficient sensible debating of all of your valid arguments amid all this name calling and finger pointing. Because I'm not emotionally invested in the characters, I guess am gonna volunteer myself to do the honors. 😳
Before I begin, a disclaimer: I have never watched this show, and I don't plan to either. But I'm drawn to stories, interesting characters, and controversial debates. So I guess that's another reason why this post was inevitable. All my knowledge of these characters comes from this thread alone, so please feel free to correct me if I've misunderstood something.
I want to focus on Sona because from what I understand, Dev n Ishwari have stayed pretty much consistent with their character graphs and hers is the one that seems contradictory.
At some point in your post, you asked why only the leads have to be portrayed as good and not the parallel leads? They can be good too. I would like to ask a similar question. Why do only Dev and Ishwari get to have weak n selfish moments? Why not Sona too? Why can't she display moments of obsession where she leaves her engagement incomplete to drop her drunk ex-lover home? To me, it is actually behavior like this that rounds out her character and justifies why she would ever fall for a man like Dev. Because she is as indulgent of him as he is of his mother.
The answer lies in the promos, Sonakshi was projected very differently then what is being displayed in the show. After the breakup what ever is show is actually going against the promos. I am completely ok with Sonakshi's reaction they are to some extent practical but at the same time not what was promised before the show began - I think that is where folks are annoyed.
It was a MUTUAL breakup in the promo but the show displayed one sided breakup from Dev. Infact even Dev was shown behaving very maturely in the promo in terms of break up - this stalking, breaking in to dates and engagement was never there.
Sonakshi and Dev have every right to have emotional turmoil but all our issues are with all the dramatics involved - slightly childish.
This doesn't make her stupid. Just not very objective in love. Pretty much exactly like Dev n Ishwari.
A different woman would've made different choices. Like having the courage to tell her parents she's not ready to move on even if it hurts them. Like telling her ex-lover she wants nothing to do with him and "NO" he cannot attend her engagement because that could ruin things for her. But you see, such a woman, she would never choose Dev either. Such a catch-22 for the writers.
Does this make her a hypocrite? Maybe, but then again, so is everyone. 😛
P.S.: Tag. You're it (you know who you are😉😛).