Mission Missed - Page 2

I just LOVE this show. My favorite at the moment. The action sequences? Superb. Especially the Garud's fighting the Naga's. So slick as Arshics said! I loved it. The whole episode kept me riveted and glued from start to finish!

Very neat as usual, Arshi, but I feel you have been a tad indulgent towards both Rudra and the episode as a whole, right down to the utterly cliched, last minute clifftop rescue of Leela by our boy wonder.Where did they find this deadly cliff so near Prayag, I wonder. Balderdash!

Last night, Rudra, thanks to his humanism, ended up minus both the Books and his Baba, a situation that might perhaps have been predicted, and with a nag kanya on his hands as well. Seeing that he cannot fail in the end, I am sure it is precisely this that will work out in his favour down the line. But right now, the whole thing looked like a mess.

This is what comes of plans where the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. Charles, above all, will have to learn that he cannot go on his own way like fancyfree, unguided missile, keeping his leader in the dark and botching up the plan that he had already announced to them.

Nor could I understand why Rudra had to lose sight of the precious Books to cater to the enemy agent, which is exactly what Leela is. Not being able to shoot her in cold blood is one thing. Losing sight of his principal objective, and flapping over her while her leader calmly made off with both the Books and his Baba was really too much. And then he runs like mad, not after the shav vahan to rescue his Baba, but after Dansh and the Books.

Rudra needs to be shaken till his teeth rattle, and taught his priorities. But who is going to do that?

But I loved the way in which he did not offer any excuses to Dansh for the DM and the other garuds turning up unknown to him, but made it sound as if he had intended it all along. That makes for unpredictability, which is always useful with a Dansh convinced that Rudra the Garud Pramukh will never cheat.

There were a number of things I did not understand about Dansh last night.

Why he shot Leela - though perhaps he knows that she will not be hurt the way he aims his shots, and indeed she seems to be pretty much ok. Perhaps he felt that such a major shock was necessary in order to distract Rudra sufficiently for him to collar the books and drive off with Shivanand as well, and also that the garuds would never hurt Leela. (Incidentally, I am waiting to see MB deal with Leela's foolish attempt to hold her hostage with a knife at her throat. Leela is in for a surprise!😉)

Why he tells Leela that garuds do not do dhoka, after having told her exactly the opposite earlier. Shruthi said on my thread that it was a slip of the tongue, and perhaps that was so, for Know Alls can sometimes trip over themselves!

Why he is having himself flagellated, like the albino monk in The Da Vinci Code, after having pulled off a coup by collaring the Two Books without having given Shivanand back either. Maybe to punish himself for having abandoned Leela to the garuds?

This is going to prove to be a cardinal mistake on his part, for her sojourn among the garuds, on top of her natural gratitude to Rudra for having saved her life instead of chasing Dansh and the Two Books, will lead to Leela shifting her loyalties in due course.

Talking of decisions, on the surface and for now, Rudra's decision has backfired badly, and now the garuds have neither the Two Books nor Shivanand. Let us see how the others, especially Prof. Rao, react to this. Rudra can of course say that but for the interference of the others, they would have at least got Shivanand back.

It can easily become a tu tu main main, but I do not think it will, not so soon. Rudra has earned his leadership spurs in the bomb crisis, and they all know that there can be only one decision-maker. The thing is for them to stick to that in practice as well!

Lastly, I am tired of seeing Shivanand with his head lolling, like a piece of human flotsam. He was my favourite character till a couple of weeks back, and I strongly resent his being reduced to this. And his boasting that one garud had always been equal to 1000 nagas reminded me, in its foolish and unnecessary braggadocio, of similar statements by our neighbouring country generals. 😲

Shyamala

I thought it was one of the worst episodes of Mahakumbh. There was no logic, no reason behind any of the events that transpired today. A big comprise on the story just to give us some mindless explosions and forcibly make Dansh look good.

- They dumbed down Rudra to Dansh's level today, something I was afraid would happen and I hated it. Rudra post his metamorphosis is light-years ahead of Dansh in every-aspect. They don't look rivals at all, if Rudra is Aragorn/Gandalf then Dansh isn't even the mouth of Sauron, forget about Saruman or Sauron himself.

- Why would Rudra after being so close to Dansh and his father would rush back to help Leela of all people?? Leela who is the enemy, Leela who came to strike the deal with him?? When it was his dad who needed him the most and was in the gravest danger??

- How does he know that Dansh wont kill Shivanand now that he has got the books?? For all he knows, tomorrow Shivanand's head could arrive in a box for real. He could easily have gotten at least Shivanand back, yet he chose to abandon him and rush back for God knows what.

- The only thing I think of that might stop Dansh from doing away with Shivannad for good is Leela. Leela is with Rudra and her father wont ever let Dansh harm Shivanand in such a situation.

- So if Rudra thought along those lines and hence rushed back, full marks to him. But that still raises two questions;
a) How does Rudra know that Leela is Dansh's guru's daughter?? Because if not, it doesn't make any sense as he just saw Leela being shot at by Dansh.
b) Why would he still not try to rescue Shivannd who was in a van behind him, yes behind him. He had overtaken that van in pursuit of Dansh, he could easily have stopped it seeing how strong he is.

- It was the Rudra of old we saw today, possibly even a lower version than him (at-least that Rudra would have saved his father before all). He looked all over the place and just ran around like a fool.

- Dansh was an idiot and still continues to remain so. Rahil doesn't help either because his acting is so fake and OTT. Seriously the Rudra- Leela face off had way more intensity, tension and big feel to it than anything Dansh has done so far.

- The only way to make both of them stand face to face and not make Dansh look like a match for Rudra; was either to make Dansh a lot more stronger, wiser than he is now or to make Rudra come gown to his level. Sadly they chose the former which made the episode nosedive to the worst depths after a fantastic opening.

The things that were good;

- Dansh shooting Leela to gain an advantage was very well done. It took Rudra by total surprise( as would be the case with anyone) and that gave Dansh the opportunity to run away with the books. It showed Dansh's mind as how he is willing to go to any lengths to get what he wants. Only if he had some brains and didn't act like a cartoon character out of a C grade Bollywood movie, we would have been in for some extremely interesting times. *Sigh*

- Leela now knows that what a lying scoundrel Dansh is. She should have picked it up even earlier when Dansh was going on about how "Garud Dhokha nahi dete." This must have further registered with her when Rudra came back to save her.

- By saving Leela, Rudra has her in his debt. Even if she goes back, she will never forget what he did for her. It will haunt her and will challenge her thinking, what she has been forced to believe. Resulting in the now inevitable turn of the tides for her.
Mahakumbh is a show with huge expectations and so far it has delivered exceptionally. Seeing an episode such as this is very disappointing to say the least. I just hope that this was a one-off and doesn't happen again.

For the episode I would say 1/10. After the excellence of last episode this was the last thing I expected.

Rudra is still in a learning phase, his plans are still half baked, he still doesn't Cover all bases.

Originally posted by: Arshics

Rudra is still in a learning phase, his plans are still half baked, he still doesn't Cover all bases.

He also still acts instinctively and not logically.

This rudra will get better and better and more and more astute with every action with Dansh. Dansh on the other hand is too self absorbed and cocky to realise how fast rudra is learning his way of thinking and acting.

Why did he shoot Leela? Because he knew that rudras first instinct will be to save Leela and that will give Dansh a chance to escape.

If Rudra was not the hero, Arshi, he would never last out on this slowly rising learning curve of his! 😉By the time he has finished learning, the Mahakumbh, and the amrit, would be both gone.

And I do not understand this 'save Leela' bit. She has been shot 3 times, and Rudra is not capable of saving her if she were dying. Plus she is not his responsibility; his Baba and the Two Books are. He fails big time, as I have pointed out above, not only in his priorities but in his ability to achieve what he has decided to do. The running after Dansh, instead of the vehicle with his Baba, is a case in point.

Today, he also displays his inability to carry his troops with him. MB points this out to him, but I did not see him do anything concrete to allay their concerns, bar preaching at them.

He would have the luxury of doing that and playing the moral autocrat if his plans were always successful, but this latest one has been a total washout, and at least some of the garuds will attribute that to his mistakes. This is like a coalition govt. and you need a supple diplomat to keep the flock together and still get his own way. So far, Rudra has not shown that he has this talent, and the intra-garud situation resembles an incipient civil war.

No wonder Tiwari, who is no Rudra bhakt, and probably resents the way his guru, Prof .Rao, has been sidelined, wants to strike out on his own after the nagas, only to be opposed by Charles, who will follow Rudra whatever his personal reservations. But that would not be true of either Tiwari or Katharine, and unless Rudra exerts himself to get them too on board, garuda unity, and their eventual victory, will both end up as pipedreams. That will not happen, of course, but that does not mean that the denoument, and what leads up to it, will be credible.

Dansh, I was glad to see, is entirely consistent, and the reasons that I had questions about, concerning his shooting Leela and having himself whipped, were both answered tonight and highlighted his ruthlessness.

But the real shocker, which is going to hit many hard, is the attitude of her father, for whom the naga cause trumps his daughter's life. Not an unusual concept - remember Panna Dai? - and if it had appeared among the garudas, it would have come in for much praise. Now, of course, he will be flagellated for being an unfeeling monster of a father!

Shyamala

Originally posted by: Arshics

Rudra is still in a learning phase, his plans are still half baked, he still doesn't Cover all bases.

He also still acts instinctively and not logically.

This rudra will get better and better and more and more astute with every action with Dansh. Dansh on the other hand is too self absorbed and cocky to realise how fast rudra is learning his way of thinking and acting.

Why did he shoot Leela? Because he knew that rudras first instinct will be to save Leela and that will give Dansh a chance to escape.