Great post!!! I like Kokila in that she is an incredibly flawed character and in so imitates real life more than the others. She never really learns from past mistakes, she always accuses first and repents later. Ahem is also very much like her, for the most part they only see their point of view and only ever consider their opinion to be valid. I feel the reason we had not seen both of them look for gopi is that they had never had to correct their behaviour in the past and therefore won't do it now. Others have always shown them when they were wrong and they could fix the situation thereafter but this time Gopi did not stay and bare there wrath till they saw sense, she left.Wonderful topic! And great replies!
I feel that most of us are under this misconception that Koki has always trusted Gopi unconditionally. But the serial has shown us otherwise many, many times.
Education track...first she was against it...I remember how she stuffed food into Gopi's mouth while she kept crying...how she complained to Ahem when he came home early...it was later on that she supported it.
Gopi's accident...she was very concerned but the moment Ahem gave extra attention to Gopi, she was angry.
Remember all the dhoklas Gopi had to make. How angry she was when Gopi lost dance competition, lost the sandook competition etc.
Achaar track...again she was against it first...family had to make her agree. Then she donated the business..no asking Gopi needed.
Gopi's pregnancy...blaming a nine month pregnant Gopi for Ahem's kidnapping...Hetal had to make her understand.
Of course the putting mask on episodes...furious with Ahem for supporting his wife.
Falling prey to Rashi's kks and believing that Gopi did not care about Meera and getting Meera's earpiercing done...therefore believing Rashi over Gopi...all this led to ACP track and she understood her mistake...oh yes I forgot...the mad woman thing...where again she disbelieved Gopi.
Recently..Ahem's birthday when she asked Gopi to remake the salad (Rashi's kk), again not believing Gopi when she said she had done right..this is when Madhu objected
What I'm trying to say is that Koki has always had conditions for loving Gopi...any mistakes knowingly or unknowingly by her and Koki goes over the deep end. She has to be shown that she is not right and then she corrects herself...a lot like real human beings! And that is why she is a fascinating character.
So this Meera thing is a huge mistake by Gopi in Koki's eyes and it will be shown to her that once again she made a mistake and she will learn and reunite with her Gopibahu...the difference being that this time Gopi did not stay around and ask for forgiveness.
Sorry for this extremely long post!!
I'm looking forward to Gopi returning to them and not being the same walk over that the assume her to be. I do hope CVs don't decide to do a 360 on her character and make her the docile doormat that she was before.