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guenhwyvar

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Today's episode was nice in the beginning (full on Baby Krishna scenes) but it felt like it went downhill around the half-way mark, during the Name-Giving Ceremony.

Puranmasi basically realizes that Radha and Krishna's horoscopes are so unique and amazing that it's only possible in Lakshmi and Vishnu's horoscopes. So baby girl is named Radha, Ra = Moksha, Dha = Prapti - she will provide people with moksha-like happiness.

Krishna means divine like God.

Then Puranmasi has everyone chant "Radhe Krishna" -- which makes sense because she believes them to be Lakshmi-Narayan, but that felt cringey.

Recommendations for today's episode:

Watch all the beginning, skip the Vasudev-Akrur stuff, and then if you really want to see the name-giving stuff, watch it.

Score: 7.5/10 but that's heavily based on the baby Krishna scenes.

Bechara Dou still hasn't been named.

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Namita

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Is it just me or does it feel so wrong, seeing romance in Vishnu and Lakshmi. I think it's the actor's chemistry. Neha and Vishal are projecting!!! 😆

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Namita

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Posted: 8 years ago

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I have to admit. The Lakshmi/Vishnu scene was super cute. Not sure I should say cute but whatever!! I'll go with Neha and Vishal being cute!!! 😆

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MagadhSundari

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Posted: 8 years ago

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^^ I actually liked the Vasu Akrur scene today! Better than their previous one. Although they can calm down with the glycerin, his expressions are improving as is his characterization. The selflessness/tenderness of the real version is starting to come through. Although going by the precap, it seems like the more authentic he gets, the worse their Devaki gets It's not quite Colors JSK level insulting yet, but still, whyyy?!!!

I didn't enjoy the naming ceremony sequence. First of all, the lack of logic - there are child murderers roaming the streets, you just hid from them in a cave for God's sake, and now you're having this huge party calling attention to the baby out in the open? There's a reason the epic has Vasu request Garg to conduct the ceremony in secret. No sense in showing all this worry and added tension like the cave scene when you're totally going to contradict it and make the characters look like fools. Second of all, without Garg giving all the context and that bhakti in his interaction with his Lord, the scene is devoid of the divinity and the magnitude the occasion deserves. This is the same as my issue with the pre-Janmashtami sequence - Vishnu showing his parents his Chaturbhuj form in the prison along with that whole exchange is so essential to giving the event its gravity and elevating it from ordinary to extraordinary. Instead the showed him randomly take his Chaturbhuj form in heaven, to an audience who has already seen it plenty of times and needs no reassurance, and have the suffering parents be spoken to by a cloud?!! So yeah - lack of logic, lack of divinity, lack of accuracy in what the names actually mean - all of that made the naming ceremony no bueno for me 👎🏼

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MagadhSundari

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: -Namita-
I have to admit. The Lakshmi/Vishnu scene was super cute. Not sure I should say cute but whatever!! I'll go with Neha and Vishal being cute!!! 😆

They're definitely the most talented actors of the bunch, but the content of their scenes is getting repetitive. Wish they had Lakshmi maa ask harder questions instead of "what's happening Prabhu?!" It's like wait and watch 2 minutes, you'll find out 😆 That's how it was for the scene where Balram first met baby Krishna - she goes "what's he doing?" and Vishnu Bhagwan is like, "he's touching my feet" - and I'm like... you're supposed to be a goddess?!!

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Janaki

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Posted: 8 years ago

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I agree about today's episode, way better than yesterday's, but still could've been better. I liked the Akrur and Vasudev scene, felt Vasudev's expressions were sooo much better and you can actually read the emotions in them. 👏 The scene where he's recollecting Krishna had that divine touch that's been missing till now. But I'm still confused why Devaki's being kept in the dark? 😕 Why isn't Vasudev telling her that the eighth baby is alive? It would probably bring her out of her funk.

I too didn't enjoy the naamkaran very much. I don't mind that Radha was there, since Barsana and Gokul seem to be on super friendly terms now, but the way Radha and Krishna's names were joined together and everyone chanted their names together was so weird. It's like, can you be any less subtle? They might as well have done a cradle betrothal. I also didn't like the explanation behind the names, which was weak. Krishna has so many meaningful definitions, as does Radha. I'm guessing there will be no Garga Rishi in this show, and everything will be done by puranmaasi. But thank God Radha's mean bua wasn't there. The last thing we needed was more melodrama.

Also, baby Balram was excluded from the naamkaran. As far as I know, poor kid doesn't have a name yet and he's already one year old. When's his naamkaran? 😕

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Janaki

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: MagadhSundari

They're definitely the most talented actors of the bunch, but the content of their scenes is getting repetitive. Wish they had Lakshmi maa ask harder questions instead of "what's happening Prabhu?!" It's like wait and watch 2 minutes, you'll find out 😆 That's how it was for the scene where Balram first met baby Krishna - she goes "what's he doing?" and Vishnu Bhagwan is like, "he's touching my feet" - and I'm like... you're supposed to be a goddess?!!

Lakshmi Narayan scenes are starting to bore me actually. The content, like you said, is repetitive and Lakshmi's questions are too naive, not something a Goddess would discuss with her husband. Every time she asks "What're they doing?" or "Why are they doing that?" or "Omg, stop that from happening!" it makes me cringe. She's Mata Lakshmi, for crying out loud. Why portray her as so ignorant? It's kinda offensive.

I'd prefer her to point out interesting things about the leelas and expound on that, rather than asking 'questions' like she doesn't know what her Lord is up to. They're discussions could be so much more entertaining and educational.

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MagadhSundari

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: ..RamKiJanaki..
I agree about today's episode, way better than yesterday's, but still could've been better. I liked the Akrur and Vasudev scene, felt Vasudev's expressions were sooo much better and you can actually read the emotions in them. 👏 The scene where he's recollecting Krishna had that divine touch that's been missing till now. But I'm still confused why Devaki's being kept in the dark? 😕 Why isn't Vasudev telling her that the eighth baby is alive? It would probably bring her out of her funk.

Yeah, they gave him an inner monologue today with his rationale but I don't buy it. He said he's afraid she'll spill the beans if Kans tortures him for info again. Knowing about him was their only lifeline, both before and after he was born. Him hogging that info for himself comes off as selfish. I'm sure they're saving up for a big, dramatic reveal where all the pent-up emotion (and glycerin) come out at once, but it's really not needed and creates more scope for them to behave out of character.

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Janaki

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: MagadhSundari

Yeah, they gave him an inner monologue today with his rationale but I don't buy it. He said he's afraid she'll spill the beans if Kans tortures him for info again. Knowing about him was their only lifeline, both before and after he was born. Him hogging that info for himself comes off as selfish. I'm sure they're saving up for a big, dramatic reveal where all the pent-up emotion (and glycerin) come out at once, but it's really not needed and creates more scope for them to behave out of character.

Oh I don't buy it either. It portrays him as having such less faith and trust in her, which isn't true. One would think that a decade of being imprisoned together would bring them so close that they could read each other's thoughts, than to keep such petty secrets from each other. He's basically doubting her motherhood that she'd put her child in danger just to save him.

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guenhwyvar

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: ..RamKiJanaki..

Oh I don't buy it either. It portrays him as having such less faith and trust in her, which isn't true. One would think that a decade of being imprisoned together would bring them so close that they could read each other's thoughts, than to keep such petty secrets from each other. He's basically doubting her motherhood that she'd put her child in danger just to save him.

But she did already. That scene where Kamsa was going to kill Vasudev, Devaki blurts out emotionally that she will hand him her 8th son if he spares the life of Vasudev.

And then she tried to commit suicide by trying to set the floor on fire.

And then she is yelling at soldiers through closed doors (from what we've seen in the serial so far, there aren't any guards outside the prison doors. The corridors are mostly empty except in specific locations) for them to call Kamsa to have him kill her as well.

&Devaki is incredibly mentally unstable at this point for obvious reasons - her past justifies it, and given that point I don't see a reason why &Vasudev should tell her the secret. My prediction is that hee's going to tell her one day in an attempt to save her life when she does something completely wacky, and then when it's near the time for Krishna to come to Mathura, Kamsa will just start to beat Vasudev mercilessly and Devaki will break down and admit the truth of where her 8th son in. She will, once again, willingly hand over her child for her husband. That, or it will be a dramatic play on how she promised Kamsa something, so she must fulfill it (though I think the former is more likely).

I think Ramanand Sagar's Krishna did something similar to the end part.

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