Originally posted by: aryapdane
I hadn't replied to this earlier because you had specifically quoted someone's post but now that I gather this is addressed to all and sundry, I find that I have a few points to make myself.
The first thing you say is "people who like PraShiv needs to be given a reality check". I'm sorry but I don't understand why you'd have to phrase it in this manner. The choice of your words carry the connotation that people who are watching this show have no concept of reality. I don't appreciate being talked down to in this manner, especially when it comes to ITV shows or romance because this is just giving into the misogynistic ideas of our society that any woman who consumes romance content has no idea about the reality of how the world functions, that such a woman is gullible and unable to identify wrong behaviour from men because in her mind she has equated such behaviours as love. I hope that this was unintentional on your part.
Secondly, you said that Shivansh wouldn't have gone to save Prathana if not for Preeta telling him. That is a plot point. Shivansh didn't know where Prathana was so the writers would need a plot device to make the information available to him. And after he found out, he did go. Another point you made was that he wasn't ready to help Prathana the moment Preeta called. Now if we see that scene, Preeta didn't start the conversation with the information that Prathana had been kidnapped. She gave her introduction instead. And the moment Shivansh learnt that she was kidnapped, he asked for Preeta's location.
The third thing was when you said he gave some "scripted" dialogues about the duties or role of a husband. Well, all the dialogues are scripted. It isn't like Shivansh, the character whipped out his phone, asked gpt to give him the speech about 'the art of being a husband' that he later read out to those goons. And about him practicing what he preaches, you yourself said that he has saved her from getting trafficked, right? The idea that he didn't defend Prathana in front of Bua Maa has nothing to do with this speech. We can't retrofit this speech to criticize every scene that happened before it, can we? What he did in his conversations with Bua Maa was wrong and I'm sure the members on this thread pointed that out when those scenes were being discussed.
Look, I don't want to counter everything you said here but my broad point is that you should give us some credit. Upto this point in the story, Shivansh isn't toxic. Yes, he has deceived Prathana by marrying her the way he did. Yes, he didn't consider her feelings in all this. But his actions don't come from a place of misogyny. He doesn't inherently think that women are inferior and therefore, their feelings and choices don't matter. He has made mistakes. His logic is flawed. But he is very much capable of being redeemed. That is the journey we're here to see. So far, the writers are crafting the story accordingly. When that is no longer the case and you still see me defending Shivansh, please feel free to give me a reality check then.
Regards,
Arya
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