too much going on, confused????

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jay_bpm

@jay_bpm

Stunner

Posted: 13 years ago

Boy last time I visited forum, it was sure negative and people talking about leaving; right now it's even more. So much discussions have taken place on where the show might be going, criticizing CVs, leaving the show, why so much negative, etc. I read almost everything. So many people have raised valid points, both in favor and opposing the show.

Some said after yesterday, they reached their tolerance level so no more Parichay. Some said not watching until show improves (I do remember Golden days), while some said every show goes form up and down so no need to worry. Everyone has their reasons to follow particular and no one has right to say anything about it. Enough people have pointed out mistakes so I am going to recite some of the defenses I heard. One episode is not enough to make a decision, pure logic is never there in any show (I agree - pure logic in not even present in real life, besides show based on pure logic may not last for long), we can find mistakes and nag about them in any episode (even golden days of Parichay), some may just like to complain even if factor they talked about improved, Some said there should be sensible court-room drama like Adalat or CID - well no offense even those show make mockery of justice system and at times just repeat nonsense they may have shown earlier so please. Again all valid points as well. Some said forum is more negative than show itself. Then again the negativity is also a way people are showing how much they care about the show, Again not saying shut your brain and keep watching, everyone has a tolerance point.

What do I think? Well I like to make my decision based on cumulative force. I usually do not go up and down with every episode. Do things upset me, sure it does. I am with those who want to continue their efforts to improve the show at any point, not just right now.

If we look at what is happening in the show: Witcha comeback, Rohit-Veera issue, Seerav issue, financial crisis, Kunal's career, Siddhi may be arrested for Rohit murder, court case coming, SINAL may be falling for Witcha tarp, etc. So in short too many things are happening. It is all ambiguous at this point. Quite frankly, things can go either way and so can my opinion. I can start bashing the show and I will receive good support here. Or I can defend the show and discuss cognitive psychology as why this ambiguity is seen as negative. I agree after confession, things have gone so down that people do not trust Cvs any more, any ambiguous information hints worsening situation for the show. Why - "Schema congruency, negativity bias, assimilation bias, loss aversion" Anyone interested Google them as it may take me so long to explain them.

Now as I was saying there are too many things are happening. I am not able to understand as what is going on right now and where things might lead upto. Let's say even is SINAL falls for Witcha crap, I'm not sure that's all stupid or bad. I sense we do not have the show picture yet. Is SINAL falls for Witcha crap again, why - because they are stupid, CVs don't know anything better, our efforts are going down the drain? I don't know. Well if I remember correctly, may of us did say we don't mid seeing Siddhi as accused and Kunal defending her, that would provide drama, short separation and court room scenes. So we may see what we wanted right? But there is just too much going on, its chaotic. Reminds me of chaos theory - there are few interpretation but I am going to describe one I've heard. At times there may be many things going around which may appear random. Also some small changes that we observe in initial stages may have wide effect on the overall process. So things may seem chaotic as nothing is connected at right now so things just don't make sense. But eventually everything does come to a point of integration and only after the end point we can see clearly why things took place the way they did. It is simalir to "yin-yan" and "hindu chakra of life" where things are interconnected but just because we don;t understand it, we criticize it.

To me Parichay is right now in same mode. Too may things are happening and I do not understand what exactly is going on. Until the show reaches to the integration point which may take few episodes (Rohit-Veera connected to Siddhi arrest, murder mystery and Kunal's career), I am refrain my self from making any major comments. Right now I do not know whether to bash CVs or give them benefit of the doubt. I do not like to jump into things I may not fully understand. While many of you may decide to provide feedback on each episode or minor details, I am planning to sit back, observe and wait for right time to decide if I should say something. Again my analysis are usually based on cumulative data. SO those who wish to leave for while or for ever, what can I say. When things do not make sense, even I go back and watch old episodes to feel better and understand why things may be happening the way they are.

So no offense to anyone about your views on the show, but it is what it is. For a while I may not write another post until I am confident or have some understating of things.

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Silambu

@Silambu

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Posted: 13 years ago

Nice post Jay.

For the most part, we can look at a situation and see the good or we can look at the same situation and choose to see the bad. Often times the lens we use to view what's happening is filtered by our thoughts.

Have a nice day!

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Fariyal

@Fariyal

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Posted: 13 years ago

Jay, those that are on the brink of giving up on the show or those that have already given up, have done so after having interpreted the show in an unbiased manner, giving it many chances over the months to go back to the promised story. I would certainly not call that assimilation bias...far from it!
Since you brought up the chaos theory... yes Parichay is chaotic, deliberately so, an effective & cheap method to prevent the audience from dwelling on more important aspects...like, the story for instance!! Beyond this, as the first authentic "paradigm" shift since quantum physics, it has little scope for discussion on a forum such as this.
As for schema congruency & negativity bias, from where I am standing, it is the cvs who suffer from these & are making the audience the victims of their short comings by bombarding them with one negative track after another.

Sociologist Biswaroop Dey in a recent article in TOI said, he thinks the younger generation is highly affected by what they watch on TV.
In the same article Kanica Maheshwari who plays Minakshi in Diya Aur Baati Hum said that serials automatically become a reflection of society. "The writers and producers live in the same society so whatever happens outside reflects in their work." she says.

One wonders about the sort of society the Parichay cvs live in, since the lives of their sad, constantly unhappy, unsuccessful, intellectually challenged characters are in no way a reflection of the middle class society that I so proudly belong to.

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jay_bpm

@jay_bpm

Stunner

Posted: 13 years ago

@ Fariyal - well about your view on people on the brinks of leaving or those left did it in unbiased way and not assimilation bias, well notcompletelyhow it goes. Assimilation bias kicks in after the schema.Schemais built on many other biases such as attention bias, negativity bias, just worldfallacyand often combination of manysuch.

I agree that CVs have a schema ofviewersand we viewers also have schema of CVs. I agree that late April and May can be called dark ages for the show. CVs certainly have disappointed us big time. based on their schema of viewers, they presented nonsensical tracks and expected us to nod and accept it with open arms. Well it didn't work and we made sure they know about it. From where I stand, I sawsomedamage control taking place during these times. Well it was enough for some time but like everyone else I too expected significant improvements.

but thing is, after confession, there have been so many factors that really brought our morale down.Pregnancy, Gaurva EMAtrackwere poorly introduced and executed. what made worse was news that Sameer sir is also upset with current affairs of the show and may consider leaving. Damage done by that news was significant and CVs had to work really hard for it. Again we saw some damage control after that and atmosphere was getting at neutral. But then again came article about how show may present usual crap to us. That again brought the morale down.suchnews only madenegativeschema stronger. Yes it was established right here in this forum that such news may be bad rumor, but given the downfall we saw post-confession, people, including me, became very anxious. See anxious state are tricky as you really don't know where things can go. Such anxiety can be very useful if maintained properly.

Now the way Witchaentered, it only brought the anxiety up. The pre-cap, unresolved issues, other things happeningcertainlyare chaotic and yes on purpose. Now if CVs have brought that at any other time, it may have worked, but given all the news, how many mistakes were made, given the schema of daily soaps and CVs; it brought more anxiety. Actually too much anxiety and then kicked in assimilation bias.

To me as I said it was too chaotic and ambiguous. ambiguity is alwaysinterpretedin light ofparticularschema as future is always ambiguous and ambiguity always brings anxiety. What i said was if we look at distant past of Parichay, we may get some relief, if we look at near past of Parichay, it is not a pretty picture.

Anyone who is either sticking with the show, has left the show, almost ready to leave the show or hoping for improvements soon, all have specific schema and manycognitivebiases such asassimilationbias apply to them, not just for those whohasleft it or considerlavingit.

as I said before, not me or anyone else has any right to tellanyonewhether to continue watching it or leave it. Everyone can sure express their views but I am not interested in getting into debates. I like to look at morecumulative force so I can go either way, criticize CVs orgivethem benefit of the doubt, based on my particular schema.

we allknowvery well that media certainly does have greatinfluenceon people, not just young people but even more mature audience. I believe Parichay is great example for that. No matter what everyone is righting here and no matter what their status is on watching the show, all those people are affected by the show. My reasons are Kunal, SINAL and overall concept. These three areinseparableand one for me.

About CVs reflecting the society into writing, sorry I disagree. We are pissed off about what is happening in Parichay, once in a while I have to suffer through other shows that my parents like to watch; boy when see that I love Parichay more and thank CVs for not torturing us to that level. If what we see in tv is how society is, it is better to abolish such society. I do agree some aspects are taken from society and real life, but often power of media may influence society based on what they present.

The main reason i talked about these biases are on how people interpreted 15 sec pre- cap. Episode on whole was neutral, but 15 sec pre- cap irritated people more. Why? Hence the biases.

Edited by jay_bpm - 13 years ago

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