'The Parent Trap' - Page 2

Wonderful post! Loved your perspectives on everything -from how the show that was promised died to how it would go forward and most importantly how Shaheer and Erica will carry the show forward by retaining their fans.

Originally posted by: SandyAquarius

And then I grew up.
I learnt that life is rarely simple and straight forward and marriage even less so. Marriage needs love that is stronger than the hurdles one faces, respect for one another, compassion for each other's families, comprehension of the smaller and bigger picture of an issue and compromise when necessary, for winning every argument is not more important than your marraige itself. So when KRPKAB ended the way it did and the new promo began...it instantly reminded me of [B]The Parent Trap, the theme that has been done to death be it on celluloid and more so on Indian television I am told (I say, I am told coz the sum total of my experience with desi serials is a grand number of 3 including KRPKAB).Now, the question is...can the happenings in movies like the parent trap be mirrored/emulatedin real life? Unfortunately for KRPKAB which proudly and repeatedly claims that is replicates reality...scientific research proves that lost and found ex-partners/spouses do not have a happily ever after when they remarry. According to one particular study, in the real world out there...only 6% of couples remarried their exes and most of them not successfully.

First of all allow me to congratulate u on a beautifully written post. One of the best I have seen in this forum in ages.I loved the part that u wrote about marriage. So true. It takes time to understand what a marriage requires and I was hoping( stupidly,I now realise) that this show would be a good and realistic take on post marriage issues, especially with an obsessive mother

The serial had so much potential and could have been carried along so well. Alas!
The show was purported to be close to reality and that was one of the reasons I started watching it. The promos looked fresh and interesting.But now the makers have again decided to serve old wine in a new bottle.. the new bottle's brand name , of course, is Devakshi.. and we have people lapping up the wine for this sole reason.The show lost its claim to be close to reality ages back but over the last few episodes it became fiction in its most twisted form.

I agree that couples who divorce/ separate can rarely live happily together later. They can, at most be friends.The issues that separate them become so strong, fester so long and leave scars so deep that it becomes impossible to heal.And of course, such experiences transform the inherent nature and personality of the people concerned creating in them a general distrust towards married life. So things can mostly never be the same.

The final nail in the coffin for KRPKAB will of course be when Devakshi forget their differences ,reunite and live happily ever after( does that happen even in fairy tales??)

PS: I might still continue watching the show on and off coz just like u I have watched a grand total of 3 soaps on Indian Telly to date.. so I guess I might as well finish what I started ;)

Originally posted by: gmgi

Lovely post Sandy. Your one line explains the whole post " Then I grew up". It is true for all of us. Falling out of love and getting separated hating each other but still in love with each other is different. They still have some unfinished business. Once they deal with it I will be in peace😆

Very nice write up sandy. Yes we do grow up.

Life is so simple & straightforward when we are young no complications. Just like suhana tells sona today papa ke pass kuch nahin!

But most of us are romantics at heart. I like to see a happy ending even if it defies logic because real life is too complicated already! Call me an escapist!

I don't know a couple such as devakshi with so much bitterness between them could come together in real life! But this is fiction & any day I would like a nice happy ending any day!

Originally posted by: Jade0001

Fantastic Post

I really looking forward to Season 2

Originally posted by: Tacker_Holic

I am very excited for Season 2! It is going to be a fresh start with rekindled romance and of course lots of drama!

Originally posted by: SugunaN

Well said. Parent Trap has indeed become the hackneyed theme on Indian television. And like you I am here for Shaheer and Erica.

We won't get what we were promised...a couple's love winning over a possessive mother's resistance. We were cheated of it. From the initial promos to all the interviewers they gave us spoke about that theme and now it was burnt alive.

They had to embrace a tried and tested theme so that they could reinvent themselves and also extend the story so that they could make the required 400 episodes in order to meet the required number of episodes for this show to air in countries in Indonesia.

But we will get to see Shaheer and Erica romancing in new avatars that are closer to their real life styles and I am here for that. Devakshi's love story failed spectacularly but this extension will give ShaRica to hang together 😆

Originally posted by: keershri

Nice post!!

I am really looking forward to the new season... hoping that we will get see more of Devakshi in their new avatars and less of the saas-bahi/RR/Vicky drama for sometime atleast...

Originally posted by: Kaustuv

Yes I have watched that movie. It's really nice but their breakup condition was not as bad as Dev and Sonakshi and post breakup change was not drastic. So u could imagine patchup and happily ever after.

Here breakup was brutal, scared and aftermath is worst. Feel looking at Dev is They r ur Ex for a reason. Patchup of hard working Sonakshi with full blown Casanova Dev after accusation and abuses he threw at Sonakshi will leave a bitter after taste. It's like Dev is the victim whereas it's the other way round. So yes parent trap was nice but hope they don't use it here, cause Dev is not worthy.

Originally posted by: sandyaramesh

Have been on a longish break from the jhoola episode ---- the promo gave me a bad premonition and I knew things would go downhill rather quickly unless Dev changed. But of course, the story tellers had no intention of letting Dev evolve, mature and grasp the bigger picture..address issues that need to be addressed. so...

yeh toh hona hi tha. But of course I did not expect everything to end the way it did last week and honestly, I do feel the decision to revamp the show wasn't planned. It had to be done for fear of shutting shop coz the writers were going in circles...retelling the same story they told with the first break up...just the incidents were different and more infuriating coz Dev never acknowledges and learns from problems and Sona was willing to overlook, forgive, forget everything including her self-respect. Looks like Sonakshi Bose and her mother remembered the great meaning for self-respect in the last episode😆 That swabhimaan dialogue was a joke coz Sonakshi behaved as if she didn't know the word for the most part of her marraige and Asha encouraged her to do so. And then it is Asha who is reminding Sona of self-respect.

Whats done is done. no point crying over spilt milk. I doubt if the show's TRP's will receive much of a boost a couple of weeks in and they will be under pressure to wind up the show and hopefully...this extension has given the makers enough time to showcase Dev's proper understanding of the extent of Ishwari's insecurities, Sona's terrible status in his house whilst she was his wife and his own redemption and Ishwari's redemption.

I am probably expecting too much but hey! umeed pe duniya khayam hai na? Hope is eternal indeed.