Originally posted by: inlieu
+ infinity!
@bold actually the writers tried to do something different here by showing a flawed FL, which is refreshing. The problem is that the audience cannot always accept it when it actually comes to showing her faltering with or without a third party to blame. This is why they had to show a psycho Mandaar so that the audience can find a scapegoat and not point fingers solely at the FL, i.e. she's doing this because Mandaar is forcing her to etc. If Mandaar had been a good guy, she would have still done the same thing. So what? It's her character and she behaves in a specific way. That's part of the story and it's about her character's growth.
Raghav did some nasty and dangerous things and that wasn't acceptable. Yes, it was true to his character but it doesn't excuse his actions. Same thing here. When Pallavi was blasting Sanki, everyone was ok with it because she was doing the right thing, not being mahaan, even though he was elder to her and her FIL. Right now, even if Sai didn't perform so well (which won't happen, but let's just say for arguments' sake that he didn't), it won't justify Pallavi's words and actions.
If we can accept Raghav faltering and learning and trying to improve then we should give her the same leeway. If she was always right then people would complain she's too mahaan and never wrong. The writers are damned if they do, damned if they don't. 
I clearly agree with this.. why should pallavi not falter and learn? Why should she not take raghav for granted? Why should not she be flawed? I mean at some point in life, we take one realationship for granted and put the other realtionship above others just so that the particular relationship needs attention... this time she put her maayka above others. I dont see anything wrong.. yes, she is blind towards her d family, that her emotions overpower every reasoning ability which is again fine.. in reality, people tend to live in abusive relationship for so long just because the emotions overpower their reasoning ability.. nothing unrealistic about pallavi actually and they arent even that abusive kind..
Also, common place in tv land, the fl continuously lets go of her self respect and adjusts with her husbands mistakes, in laws mistakes.. why for once , is it not ok that raghav sets aside his ego or self respect for pallavi... i dont see any wrong.. infact i really liked his drunk dialogues, his emotions, feelings, him pleading her..
The only part where the writers faltered were pallavi’s dialogues about farz, kartavya, insaniyat.. in trying to give ammunition to her character, they used such heavy duty words that actually served as a double edged sword.. it would have been effective if they had stuck to a simple ayi-baba ki happiness..