Originally posted by: EtherealRati
Regarding religions...i dont feel anusuya wanted to insult any religion in anyway...it was olympia who started it alll...ad she just replied back...balki all anusuya reactions were as a response to olympia...she never attacked herself...she never loosed her control...agar olympia hoti uski jagah...aur anusuya kehti ki alexander ka sar kaatega mera beta...olympia would have just killed her...Anusuya showed so much coolll...i know she will get no respect for that here but i do respect her. Olympia is standing there safe...not because she is strong or fiercy...but because Anusuya isnt a monster like her.
It's not Anusuya herself who's insulting religions - as Aunty said, it was Chanakya who did that. The writers are pitting one against another and it's coming across that way. Just like the tula scene that was written with good intentions but came across wrong and offended some people.
No one is showing lack of respect for Anusuya here. She is not perfect and neither is Olympias, no one is. Olympias and she have different personalities, which is why things are where they are. If Anusuya had been like Olympias, Porus would have killed Alexander in cold blood a long time ago due to her teachings, but this is not the case. In fact, Olympias is taunting Anusuya for this very reason, that they are not ruthless enough in times of war.
The CVs are doing this to up the PR vs Alexander game and because both women play very important roles in their sons' lives, their exchange is important. Alexander was raised by his mother, with her philosophies and beliefs, whereas Porus respects and learns a lot from his mother as an adult but had a Dasyu upbringing so he does not always approach things the same way as Anusuya would have. In one scene he says gives Dasyurani the respect he would his mother.
It is really a battle of soch, and they are conveying that here too. The fire vs water debate is an old one. Here Olympias is hot as fire and Anusuya as cool as water. Each has her own perspective and will want to justify it, and each is proud of and protective towards her son.
I respect your point of view and your feelings towards your favorite characters. We all have our favorites, but just because I love Alexander or Olympias doesn't mean I hate everyone else on the show. I just focus more on them because I love the way the actors are performing but for sure there have been several questionable incidents in the Macedonian and Farsi tracks.
For example, I really like Praneet Bhat as an actor and he played Darius well. I hated Darius the character for all the bad things he did against PR but I still felt sorry for the way the Bactrians killed him. I have always hated Ambhiraj for his treachery and still do even if he's now Alexander's ally. I have always been fond of Bamni because I "accepted" him with his faults and his merits, as did Anusuya. He never claimed to be perfect and was able to accept his mistakes and learn from them. I also think Anusuya is a strong character as a queen, wife, sister, mother, and role model. Yes, she faltered sometimes and learned from her mistakes too but that's her nature and I accept her for who she is.
This is the reason I don't comment too often on PR events because people take it as lack of respect for the characters. It's not the case at all. If someone says or does something that I don't agree with, then I try to comment on it objectively, whether it's in the Macedonian, Farsi, Bactrian, PR or Dasyu tracks. You remember me disagreeing with the bull scene no matter how much I love Alexander and Olympias? Same goes for the illusion sequence when Alexander killed his loved ones as per the priestess' instructions. You remember me disagreeing with Roxanne's behavior towards Barsine, even though she's Bactrian, is Alexander's wife, and is being mean to a Farsi princess?
The list is endless, and I don't want to have to justify whether I respect someone or not.
Above all though, I am 😡 with the CVs for their lack of consistency with characters or tracks. They have destroyed Alexander and Chanakya's characters in a ridiculous way. The others are fictional so they may have some leeway, but these two are legends about whom we have tons of information from reliable historical sources! With Alexander, they are even going against all the good things they showed about him in the early episodes! Yeh CVs kabhi nahin sudhrenge.
Edited by inlieu - 7 years ago
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