Did you read my post on pre-page? The line taken, to which my post was a response, was a non sequitur. My post is relevant to your present argument, because it is the CVs who have built up the Alexander factor and brought him to be a fully developed counterpoint to Porus. They treat the two almost like Siamese twins separated at birth!
So now how can they suddenly pull him down, and make him the kind of man who can be outwitted by a chit of a girl? I can't see how he is to be retrieved from this pit and restored to his former, elevated status. They will try to do it, but it will be tough to make it convincing.
As for Puru, he always was preachy and hammy, so nothing need change there.
The earlier instances where Puru came back after serious injuries were nothing like this one. The bear hug need not be deadly, and there was not too much blood. The cyclone bit was pure physical strength, of which he has plenty. The clobbering looked bad, but he was not bloodied all over, and the rods used need not have hurt a vital spot. Nothing penetrated his body and tore at his internal organs.
Being pierced by eight arrows with steel.tips is quite different. The internal damage must have been considerable and very likely fatal. That is why what happened afterwards was so ludicrous, and no one here, not even the stoutest Puruphile, has been able to defend what was shown.
Ashoka had all his earlier sins forgiven at one fell swoop, and then he was canonised, in effect. But the stories that he killed all his 99 step brothers to get to the throne are false. But he and Chanakya's favourite shishya Radhagupt, who became Asoka's prime minister, did kill.Ashoka's elder brother Sushim. Chandragupta was not cruel, but of course he would have killed a lot of people in his battles, and Chanakya bumped off all.his potential enemies. There was no room.there for the faint of heart!
So it is not as though the blood letting by Alexander was in some way peculiar to him. I had cited, in one of my earlier posts, the point about the High Priestess having happily egged Alexander on to have Philip assassinated, a point that was neatly suppressed by her disciple when she was squeaking at Puru. It was total hypocrisy, plain and simple.
Morever, Alexander is shown as having a strong code of personal morality, as in the case of Arridaeus. So the idea that he would have had an unarmed man shot down in cold blood runs counter to what the CVs themselves have shown earlier, besides being beyond the pale and repugnant.
See, the way things were shown on Friday, it was clear that Alexander had no notion of sparing Puru, and was intending him to be killed because he could not be controlled any other way. This effectively demolished all our logical theses based on the CVs' image of Alexander. And then there was the incredible slip up with the sword. It was unbearable.
Still, he was the only one worth watching on Friday
Let us see how they move on from here.
Shyamala Aunty
Originally posted by: inlieu
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I just happened to come across two previous episodes featuring Puru that I had not watched in the past because I was only interested in the Alexander bits. One was where he fights off the bear and the other is when he is holding on to Ambhi raj and preventing him from flying off in the cyclone.😕
There was also the scene where he comes back from near-death after being mercilessly clobbered by Darisu and Ambhiraj. Let's not forget the crocodile scene, which ok, I could overlook because as we know Puru was a water baby jo paani mein reh kar magar mach se bhi bair kar sakta hai. 😆
After watching these scene. him coming back from near-death and taking the arrows out of his body like toothpicks or flying in Friday's episodes seemed a little less ridiculous, in the sense that it's not the first time they've shown this kind of thing for Puru. There seems to be a pattern here.
What I just cannot take is the dumbing down of Alexander, as some people have commented. If the makers really have to show him as a villain, fine but this way they shot themselves in the foot and basically undermined all the glorious scenes of Alexander's growth and battle that they themselves have put in so much effort and expense to show so far. The background music they've used for Alexander has always been about his valor and reputation as a great warrior, not a killing machine. As for his cruelty, Oracle's intern never talked about how she incited Alexander to destroy his competition or become a shaitaan.
We all know the story of emperor Ashoka and his cruelty, which were well documented. He reformed himself later, but the original driver for his grandfather and him was also the desire to conquer and unite. Chandragupt started to work on this while Alexander was still alive and also killed lots of people.
Whether it was self-defence in the family as some of the forum said or due to the thirst for power, as well as survival in the battlefield. If Alexander hadn't killed his competition his mother, Hephaestion, and he would have been dead pretty soon. Ashoka is also known to have killed all his siblings in order to become king and did not always attack from the front in those cases.
The fact is, in order to come into and hold on to power as a ruler it was a policy of kill or be killed.
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