Originally posted by: jia.astk
Angie,Misti ..loved your detailed analysis. Jia, thanks.
Well there is lot to rant on today's epi ...not to much of my liking ..lot of Aditi hogging the screen space and dumbing down the shrewd characters like Shlok, Anjali. Yes, that's how it seemed to me.I loved 2 points in the episode Astha spunky attitude and Jyothi-Barney's blooming relationship. Yes, these were positives.What I liked about Astha today is the never dying spirit and spunky attitude; her way of dealing with the situation might be wrong ..her impulsiveness and feisty nature comes into picture here ..well that is Aastha for us!! They kept her character sketch intact..nothing changed in that front. She didn't care even when NA or Shlok warned her to stop..loved her attitude. 😊. She might have looked foolish in her attempts but what would she do when nobody in the house of paranoids (who care only about NA's image) doesn't support her; when time & again she had proved that she is trustworthy and wont blabber such things out in open unless there is solid proof.And such a ostrich family does need an honest, expressive person like Astha.The loyalty of Anjali, Shlok to NA is also not changed ..but whatever happened to their shrewdness!! Both of them were always shown as intelligent and wary of Adithi then whatever happened to that! So is Anjali trying to protect Astha by talking about the divorce? what is the need to talk about such a sensitive matter in front of your pest ..oops guest?😡It would not make sense that wary Anjali or concerned Shlok about a murder attempt on Astha's life are suddenly not shown concerned at all. For now, I will go with the assumption that Anjali is protecting Astha in her own way, and that Shlok is not ready to face the truth. If it is not shown that way, then Shlok's and Anjali's character have been dumbed down. Same with Niranjan. If he is not involved with Aditi in any way, then his character is coming down too. Especially when they used so much of his manipulative music when Aditi was around.Looks like Ajinkya also wanted to show to Agni family the picture or at least hoping that somebody will see the picture in his wallet when he dropped it. It did seem that way because he saw Astha looking at the picture and did not say anything. Looked to me that Aditi is blackmailing Ajinkya to get her work done!! To prove her point of innocence ..the pest swallows the pesticide!! 😕...As if pesticide would do anything to her. NA didn't want this matter to go outside the Agni house ? why? is he also involved with Aditi? Seems like that to me. I don't see the necessity to add this Aditi mystery out of all the mysteries we already have. And if Aastha decides to stay back to resolve this Aditi mystery at the cost of her self-respect what will she earn back!?Aditi's mystery is the least interesting to me. I am more interested in learning about Kalindi's past, Niranjan/Anjali's past, and Varad's mystery or why Anjali and Shlok are estranged.