*Season 2, Week 24* Analysis Thread - Page 4

Oh yeah DQ. Just when I had decided to start taking an after dinner stroll with husband at 9.30 PM before retiring to bed, here comes KRPKAB, all lovable and easy and fun and 21st century ready...

I loved Nikki in her interactions with Sona. Lakshya is cool and totally not the type to be intimidated by Dev Bhai😛😆 I am pleased as punch and rubbing hands in glee.

However, Sona being disturbed by Nikki's live-in status and Dev being bossy and judgemental(his character trait) is not what I looked forward too.

If it is just the initial shock, I will be fine. But after having a few affairs himself isn't it very hypocritical of him to judge Nikki. Well it's good that Nikki didn't take any of his words lying down...

Waiting to watch the growing up of Dev and Sonakshi. I have a feeling Ishwari with her limited exposure will come around quicker.

the kids being taken to school is such a sweet scene.

Ishwari so deserves a career. And I know she'll rock better than (my absolutely not favorite🤢😆) Asha JIII.

Devakshi are slowly becoming my fav with them meeting the initial 100 episodes standards👏

RR and Vicki are into domestic politics and not into something more dangerous... I hope😲

It is difficult to see Dev being continuously on the receiving end of all the blame. He is just a very sensitive guy who worked very hard to give his family everything and the only goal of his life was to see his family happy . But alas everyone was using him to fulfil their own needs. He was emotionalky weak

This is where he needs to understand that he can love his family or his wife but love should not paralyze him so much that he is unable to stand. People will live for themselves and while still taking care of them one should not forget to take personal happiness too into account.

Only a person who is happy can give others happiness. So it's something one should learn from children. Just being joyful spreads joy around

I like to see the Dev who is in control of things and who can fire people if they go wrong not a helpless guy who waits for Sonakshi to set things right in his life

I hope the makers bring out the real positive traits of this guy and also make people around him realize all relationship talks are useless to a person trying hard to get the next meal

And without a meal one wouldn't be alive to be judging relationships... and how one should behave .

Ishwari fought so hard to maintain control that she herself didn't have the energy to handle. She, Dev, and Neha worked themselves to the bone during their survival years, and by the time we met them, each was burnt out in their own way, not entirely satisfied with the way things were, but too tired to try and make significant changes. Ishwari was acutely aware that she had alienated Neha and created this bitterness inside her, but she never took positive steps to fix that. Instead, she jumped on the first chance to outsource that struggle in her over-optimistic support of Neha and Ranveer's marriage. Neha wanted validation as an adult, and to be something other than Dev's sister, but she was also exhausted from raising her sisters and at the same time, just wanted to enjoy their newfound wealth and luxury. Dev was probably the least self-aware, but his entire life had become quite mechanical. Ishwari was aware of this as well, but it was necessary to keep Dev in the dark in order to maintain the status quo.

All this changed when Sona came into Dev's life. In retrospect, that is the difference between her and Ranveer. The latter helped to maintain the status quo, which sapped Neha's already low levels of energy, while the former infused Dev's life with a new positive energy and impulse to be better and do better. Sona gave Dev sukoon which translated to fresh junoon, if we are to be poetic about it. 😆 With her gentle guiding hand, Dev felt a new drive to fill the gaps that were missing in his life, his relationship with his sisters being one of the many. But with this new energy in Dev came the threat of change, and Ishwari simply would not have it. She was so scared of losing the control she had painstakingly built in the framework of the old system, that she effectively threw their only salvation out in order to retain it. With Sona, out went Dev's new energy and purpose to continue thier family's progress, and with Dev, out went the energy that was quietly holding the entire family together.

That, I think, is the bigger picture the sisters are missing right now. Dev went into depression after Sona left, fine, that makes sense, but the fact that Ishwari, instead of staying strong and pulling the family up by its bootstraps, collapsed along with him is what hurts them the most. Why weren't they enough to give Ishwari that sense of purpose? It's because Ishwari had no independent drive of her own. She had concentrated all of her energy into Dev so much that she thought of him as an extension of her own self. To an outsider (including the sisters, unfortunately), it looked like Ishwari was in full control of the family. In reality, Dev did the heavy lifting that allowed this facade, and mainlined purpose and energy to Ishwari, and only he knew it. A lot of Dev 1.0's less desirable behaviour came from the fact that he had trapped himself in this secret, with the belief that it would be a betrayal to Ishwari if he revealed it to anyone, even Sona. As a result, he didn't let anyone help him with the burden, and when it became too heavy, he collapsed under it, taking his marriage and the family down with him. Without Dev supplying it, Ishwari had no energy to exercise the control she fought so hard to maintain, and with Sona, Ishwari lost a reliable source of that new energy.

Eventually, Dev's resilience did win out because he found ways to generate small bouts of energy, enough to live from day-to-day, and he guarded that energy selfishly. Any little surplus he had, he shared with Golu and by living his lost childhood through him, healed much of his personal bitterness, but the moment he felt his family demanding some of his hard-earned will to live, he immediately left the house and stayed away until he was recharged. In many ways, the sisters are doing the same. They cut off ties from an environment that was greedy for their life-force while offering little in return by way of support or honesty, and they found new ecosystems that validated their contributions and gave significant returns on happiness. Right now, Nikki sees that positive energy in a relationship as pitted against the the "burden" of family under which Devakshi 1.0's love collapsed (marriage being part of this burden); in her eyes, family is enemy #1 of love.

Devakshi 2.0, in the way they have come together, carry the key to how love and family can work together, creating more fruitful results for all parties. Instead of simply abandoning the traditional family in the name of new-age relationships based on honesty and open communication, they have always taken on the uphill task of bringing that communication and honesty into their traditional families, and dragging them into the new age. It's not always a gratifying task, but if you do persevere and you do succeed, the returns are immense. Thanks to Devakshi, Ishwari is now prepared to accept that relationships are more than the labels society give them, and as a result will be in a much better position to accept Nikki's reality (though it will still be hard for her). Ishwari, seeing Asha, is now inspired to find her own purpose as an individual and this will hopefully lead her to understand how much she wronged her daughters, seeing them as responsibilities rather than people, just as she saw Sona as a threat rather than the individual she once loved. As Nikki demonstrates in the precap, the days of unquestioned authority and embedded power structures has come to a close. Society/birth/Dev don't get to decide who Nikki's family is... only she does. So if the Dixit family is to come together again, it will have to be because of the mutual desire that will come when they rediscover each other as adults and as equals.

@All: For me it was love at first sight with Lakshya. ❤️ He gave me such strong Sona 1.0 vibes, and he and Nikki must have the most adorable story. The way he reacted to Dev, not one bit intimidated by his simmering rage showed that he expected such a reaction, probably because Nikki was one angry young woman against the world herself three years ago, and he patiently wore her down with his humour and sensitivity until he made her feel like she belonged somewhere... with him. 😳 Moreover, he seems perfect for the new and improved Dixit family. He's sanskaari in all the right ways -- calling Dev 'sir,' and invoking the laws of hospitality passed on to him by his elders -- but also liberated enough to embrace this unvconventional arrangement with Nikki.

Also, she called him "Momo"

I ship it with my whole heart, and I hope we get to see more of their relationship! ⭐️⭐️