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And where he will stop, nobody knows. I thought that the most miserable moment in KYPH was when KS agreed publicly to marry FringeGnome Prithvi. Wrong -- it's when AK decides to publicly fly out at Josh instead. Personally, I no longer give two hoots if Acidic AK never/ever gets together or not with Kaked-with-Makeup KS; today all I want is for AK to pay for the hurt on Josh's face when he first slaps him in front of all and sundry, and for the hurt in his heart when AK refuses to take his calls; Alliyah the Constant is back once again in her role of she-who-sets-things-right, but Kruddy KS is being as infinite a barrier between AK&Josh, as all the evil people were a barrier when she was left out in the cold earlier. Today's show doesn't even have an idiocy factor to marvel at; the only thing to walk away with is Hurt Josh Eyes and an intense desire to seek-and-destroy enemies of friendship and love. I don't know about all of you, but from today onwards, AK's not "our boy": he's just another hero in just another story.
Onto the show:
The HORRID first set has a bunch of TV journalists swarming around Honey Josh and Pixie Tansy, all buzzing about the shows that Josh gets to do after the Jallore success; (I must admit to contantly marvelling at the silliness with which KYPH writers depict the Indian music industry -- a string of offers comes to Josh after a charity show? In Jallore, Rajasthan?? Okey...)
Josh has his Aw-Shucks face on, Pixie-Tansy is sparkling in the background and all is good; until Acidic AK comes in with his I'm-A-Man two-feet-apart stance, giving Honey Josh his evil eye; our Honey doesn't know what hits him when his best buddy hits him _in the face_ _in public_. All he can do is watch silently as AK, being his most moronic self, vents in full force: how could you do this? For a few shows? You broke our childhood friendship just to get a few shows? I would've given away all my shows to you just for the asking! (Josh, an international popstar, would've broken your childhood friendship for a few shows??! Wake up, MORON!) AK continues ranting, to the point of threatening Josh and having to be hauled away by security. In an awful mirror of KS when AK was hating her, Josh can only watch in full and hurt bewilderment.
The next set is in AK's room begins with a frantic phone, repeatedly ringing with calls from Josh to AK. AK's still in his I'm-A-Man stance, standing firm against taking the calls. Kaked-with-makeup KS comes in, heavily breathing sympathy for the pained hero. She can't offer any relief for his pain at having lost faith in his friend, but she can give orders for him to be happy and smiling. I guess she's forgotten her feelings when Harshini had walked out on her. (Well, I guess that is relatively easy since the KYPH writers _have_ written Harshini completely out of the universe!)
In another corner of the show, we see Josh sitting still for the first time ever, looking despondent that his buddy is not even taking his calls. Josh doesn't even know what has gone wrong, because the people who could tell him aren't talking to him. In comes Alliyah the Constant, bringing in a breath of fresh hope and memories of relief that with her here, perhaps the truth will be brought to Acidic AK. Josh can't hide his gladness and surprise at seeing her: what are you doing here? Alliyah: I believe you are in the right, Josh, and I think that all will be well if you can just talk to AK. Honey Josh goes back to despondent: But he won't even take my calls. Alliyah gently tells him that he should try at the party this evening and that they will get everything cleared before the night is done. Honey Josh evidently believes her because there's a spark of something that comes back up in those eyes as he looks at her. Alliyah gets quizzical: what are you looking like that for? Josh shakes his head back at her gently: Now's not the right time - perhaps later tonight? Alliyah continues to look quizzically at him.
(Although Alliyah is this show's mascot of hope, I cannot help but remember that fateful line that Honey Josh delivered to AK sometime ago: I know what is going on; I just hope that by the time you realise it, it will not be too late.)
The last set is a party: with the likes of Fringe Gnome Prithvi and sister Mishty; Femme Fatale Simone -- all looking Fat-and-Complacent!; an Airhead Anitah who breezes in and is game for Mishty to play tricks on; even a Kunning Karthik, who is looking lean and complacent.
(Say, is Karthik the _only_ one of the crew who is still lean? All the rest are bursting at the seams of their clothes, honestly!)
The most Fat-and-Complacent of them all is KS who walks through the party with an air of queen-of-all-she-surveys. She walks up to AK-in-red with an order to enjoy himself. There's a bit of love-play here that might've been cute, but given the anticipation of an AK-Josh encounter, it instead has the effect of a fly buzzing incessantly in my ear -- I wanted to swat it away. Later on, she walks past AK who stands at the edge of the crowd, with a frown on his face, waiting for something. (Given her proprietary air, I'm astonished she didn't start haranguing him to tell her why he was frowning and not enjoying himself instantly!)
After she walks past him, AK's face clears as he catches sight of a small Troll-stuffed-into-a-suit: "Have you got it?", "Of course, sir, I'm here to deliver it to you" saying which, the little Troll hands over a ring box to AK. AK beams and opens it to find (what looks like) exactly the same ring that Fringe Gnome Prithvi had given KS for their engagement (!).
(Ugh. It was all quite nasty: Fat-cat proprietary KS, Silly AK, same old ring, no Josh joy at the party. Ugh. Or am I just a Josh-centric viewer these days?)
After doing her round of the party scanning for unseemly elements, KS continues her survey in the parking lot. (Gee, they should've hired her as security for the concert in the little town of Jallore, Rajasthan -- there'd have been no problems whatsover!) And here, who should she walk into but a silent and worried Josh. She is instantly hostile: What are _you_ doing here? Josh tries to be placatory: Look all I want to do is talk to him. KS: What is there left for you tell him? Go away from here! A strong and irritated voice from Alliyah the Constant breaks in: Would you please stop being such a road block? Why do you not let them sit and chat to clear things between friends??! Why are you so insecure and jealous of their friendship? You, who do not understand friendship at all? KS is stunned into silence, while Alliyah continues: Like you didn't understand Prithvi's friendship -- one person who stood by you, but you abused that frienship too! KS gets high-pitched and hysterical: How dare you? And lifts her hand to slap Alliyah, when from the back comes Acidic AK voice: What's going on here?!
(Hmm, that was a leap on Alliyah's part -- do we detect some feelings for the FringeGnome from her side??! And it is _so_ weird to keep seeing a Josh who is quiet and not chattering and sparkling constantly.)
End of show.
Preview! Josh is walking through the house and opens a door, saying softly: Angad? And is shocked to see AK naked in bed asleep, with a curly haired girl draped over him. Josh shakes his head - you can almost hear him sigh "Angad!" -- and walks out, closing the door behind him as softly as when he entered, and turns to find KS, standing in front of him, -- err, fully clothed, of course. Josh is completely shocked -- then who's the drapery on AK?!
(The preview was most strategic: the shock of nude AK asleep with nude RandomGirl was almost enough to make me forget the nasty turn that the KYPH writers have given to the story today, _almost_ but not quite. :-(
The KYPH writers might have just made a seriously bad mistake. In the previous Acidic AK situation, AK had first fought and fought against distrusting KS. There, he was an intelligent person who had his resistence slowly and surely battered away by those nearest to him. So much so that, by the time AK actually bought into the KS-is-a-money-grabbing-insect story, he had my sympathy. This time, they have had to resort to his being an idiot who accepts a ridiculous story with little evidence that hasn't got me convinced that he even tried. The writers have fractured the character in order to do this. And fundamentally fracturing the story through the main character like this, is not good. :
Unless they have a whole hidden track about how all this is actually just a plan by both Josh&AK to discover who the Foul Fiend is that is trying to destroy AK&KS. But given my past success with prediction, I don't think I can pin my hopes on this too much. :-(
But I must ask my painful question which is actually a comment on "the way things are" in the world: Why is it easier for people to feel and show sympathy for someone else's hurt rather than trying to fight to establish the truth so that the hurt might go away? Why do our stories _always_ show people accepting half-baked truths so readily? Why do people not fight, fight, FIGHT to establish _without_doubt_ that what they know is as _real_ as can be? Why does AK not fight? He's already been through one situation where he destroyed life by not trying harder -- why does he not fight harder this time?
The one story that I know where a friend fought for another was Portia disguising herself as the judge in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Why aren't there more Portias in the stories that we humans create?
Sigh. I hate stories that show us that Life Sucks at fundamental levels. I particularly hate stories that show us that Life Sucks when friendship betrayed, especially childhood-buddy-friendships that has cute hand-shakes and sweetest-smiles-reserved-for-each-other behind them. To think that I gave up a nice dinner offer to watch+write this episode up. Sigh.
Please, KYPH-writers, please make it all a Josh-plan, please? Please?
)
Onto the show:
The HORRID first set has a bunch of TV journalists swarming around Honey Josh and Pixie Tansy, all buzzing about the shows that Josh gets to do after the Jallore success; (I must admit to contantly marvelling at the silliness with which KYPH writers depict the Indian music industry -- a string of offers comes to Josh after a charity show? In Jallore, Rajasthan?? Okey...)
Josh has his Aw-Shucks face on, Pixie-Tansy is sparkling in the background and all is good; until Acidic AK comes in with his I'm-A-Man two-feet-apart stance, giving Honey Josh his evil eye; our Honey doesn't know what hits him when his best buddy hits him _in the face_ _in public_. All he can do is watch silently as AK, being his most moronic self, vents in full force: how could you do this? For a few shows? You broke our childhood friendship just to get a few shows? I would've given away all my shows to you just for the asking! (Josh, an international popstar, would've broken your childhood friendship for a few shows??! Wake up, MORON!) AK continues ranting, to the point of threatening Josh and having to be hauled away by security. In an awful mirror of KS when AK was hating her, Josh can only watch in full and hurt bewilderment.
The next set is in AK's room begins with a frantic phone, repeatedly ringing with calls from Josh to AK. AK's still in his I'm-A-Man stance, standing firm against taking the calls. Kaked-with-makeup KS comes in, heavily breathing sympathy for the pained hero. She can't offer any relief for his pain at having lost faith in his friend, but she can give orders for him to be happy and smiling. I guess she's forgotten her feelings when Harshini had walked out on her. (Well, I guess that is relatively easy since the KYPH writers _have_ written Harshini completely out of the universe!)
In another corner of the show, we see Josh sitting still for the first time ever, looking despondent that his buddy is not even taking his calls. Josh doesn't even know what has gone wrong, because the people who could tell him aren't talking to him. In comes Alliyah the Constant, bringing in a breath of fresh hope and memories of relief that with her here, perhaps the truth will be brought to Acidic AK. Josh can't hide his gladness and surprise at seeing her: what are you doing here? Alliyah: I believe you are in the right, Josh, and I think that all will be well if you can just talk to AK. Honey Josh goes back to despondent: But he won't even take my calls. Alliyah gently tells him that he should try at the party this evening and that they will get everything cleared before the night is done. Honey Josh evidently believes her because there's a spark of something that comes back up in those eyes as he looks at her. Alliyah gets quizzical: what are you looking like that for? Josh shakes his head back at her gently: Now's not the right time - perhaps later tonight? Alliyah continues to look quizzically at him.
(Although Alliyah is this show's mascot of hope, I cannot help but remember that fateful line that Honey Josh delivered to AK sometime ago: I know what is going on; I just hope that by the time you realise it, it will not be too late.)
The last set is a party: with the likes of Fringe Gnome Prithvi and sister Mishty; Femme Fatale Simone -- all looking Fat-and-Complacent!; an Airhead Anitah who breezes in and is game for Mishty to play tricks on; even a Kunning Karthik, who is looking lean and complacent.
(Say, is Karthik the _only_ one of the crew who is still lean? All the rest are bursting at the seams of their clothes, honestly!)
The most Fat-and-Complacent of them all is KS who walks through the party with an air of queen-of-all-she-surveys. She walks up to AK-in-red with an order to enjoy himself. There's a bit of love-play here that might've been cute, but given the anticipation of an AK-Josh encounter, it instead has the effect of a fly buzzing incessantly in my ear -- I wanted to swat it away. Later on, she walks past AK who stands at the edge of the crowd, with a frown on his face, waiting for something. (Given her proprietary air, I'm astonished she didn't start haranguing him to tell her why he was frowning and not enjoying himself instantly!)
After she walks past him, AK's face clears as he catches sight of a small Troll-stuffed-into-a-suit: "Have you got it?", "Of course, sir, I'm here to deliver it to you" saying which, the little Troll hands over a ring box to AK. AK beams and opens it to find (what looks like) exactly the same ring that Fringe Gnome Prithvi had given KS for their engagement (!).
(Ugh. It was all quite nasty: Fat-cat proprietary KS, Silly AK, same old ring, no Josh joy at the party. Ugh. Or am I just a Josh-centric viewer these days?)
After doing her round of the party scanning for unseemly elements, KS continues her survey in the parking lot. (Gee, they should've hired her as security for the concert in the little town of Jallore, Rajasthan -- there'd have been no problems whatsover!) And here, who should she walk into but a silent and worried Josh. She is instantly hostile: What are _you_ doing here? Josh tries to be placatory: Look all I want to do is talk to him. KS: What is there left for you tell him? Go away from here! A strong and irritated voice from Alliyah the Constant breaks in: Would you please stop being such a road block? Why do you not let them sit and chat to clear things between friends??! Why are you so insecure and jealous of their friendship? You, who do not understand friendship at all? KS is stunned into silence, while Alliyah continues: Like you didn't understand Prithvi's friendship -- one person who stood by you, but you abused that frienship too! KS gets high-pitched and hysterical: How dare you? And lifts her hand to slap Alliyah, when from the back comes Acidic AK voice: What's going on here?!
(Hmm, that was a leap on Alliyah's part -- do we detect some feelings for the FringeGnome from her side??! And it is _so_ weird to keep seeing a Josh who is quiet and not chattering and sparkling constantly.)
End of show.
Preview! Josh is walking through the house and opens a door, saying softly: Angad? And is shocked to see AK naked in bed asleep, with a curly haired girl draped over him. Josh shakes his head - you can almost hear him sigh "Angad!" -- and walks out, closing the door behind him as softly as when he entered, and turns to find KS, standing in front of him, -- err, fully clothed, of course. Josh is completely shocked -- then who's the drapery on AK?!
(The preview was most strategic: the shock of nude AK asleep with nude RandomGirl was almost enough to make me forget the nasty turn that the KYPH writers have given to the story today, _almost_ but not quite. :-(
The KYPH writers might have just made a seriously bad mistake. In the previous Acidic AK situation, AK had first fought and fought against distrusting KS. There, he was an intelligent person who had his resistence slowly and surely battered away by those nearest to him. So much so that, by the time AK actually bought into the KS-is-a-money-grabbing-insect story, he had my sympathy. This time, they have had to resort to his being an idiot who accepts a ridiculous story with little evidence that hasn't got me convinced that he even tried. The writers have fractured the character in order to do this. And fundamentally fracturing the story through the main character like this, is not good. :
Unless they have a whole hidden track about how all this is actually just a plan by both Josh&AK to discover who the Foul Fiend is that is trying to destroy AK&KS. But given my past success with prediction, I don't think I can pin my hopes on this too much. :-(
But I must ask my painful question which is actually a comment on "the way things are" in the world: Why is it easier for people to feel and show sympathy for someone else's hurt rather than trying to fight to establish the truth so that the hurt might go away? Why do our stories _always_ show people accepting half-baked truths so readily? Why do people not fight, fight, FIGHT to establish _without_doubt_ that what they know is as _real_ as can be? Why does AK not fight? He's already been through one situation where he destroyed life by not trying harder -- why does he not fight harder this time?
The one story that I know where a friend fought for another was Portia disguising herself as the judge in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Why aren't there more Portias in the stories that we humans create?
Sigh. I hate stories that show us that Life Sucks at fundamental levels. I particularly hate stories that show us that Life Sucks when friendship betrayed, especially childhood-buddy-friendships that has cute hand-shakes and sweetest-smiles-reserved-for-each-other behind them. To think that I gave up a nice dinner offer to watch+write this episode up. Sigh.
Please, KYPH-writers, please make it all a Josh-plan, please? Please?
)
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