@Arshics nice take and agree with you. I loved the episode. I was thinking where is Sakthi or Power. Because the whole funda happening is to ensure that Shakthi goes from Dansh's hand before he can come face to face with Rudra. I was thinking what special Sakthi Dansh had. Yesterday epi gave answer. He possess a divine Mani.
Rudra dead, I don't think so. There was a dialogue from MB telling " Jab tak teri saas chalengi iski saas chalengi"
I had felt then itself that there is a point going to come where Rudra's breathing is gonna stop. That seems like death. At that point Maya or illusion should also die. Shakthi has to emerge symbolically and that has to be the reason which will take Mani from Dansh.
If Rudra has come this far it is because of his love for Maya. Not the illusion, but the girl, his wife. Really interested to see how they both are gonna live. Or how illusion is gonna shift.
Coming to Shiva and Kat. It was a really scary scene. But it also showed symbolically when fear fills one's brain how it affects the actions of the body. The voice that shouts you cant do it, the voice that shouts you will not live the voice that ensures action is freezed. That's what fear does to a human being. And only if fear is conquered you will win. " Dar ke aage jeeth hai" and the best way to conquer fear is to face it.
Shiva will have to face Rudra's death, not the illusion fed by Nagas, but in real terms, which he should refuse to believe.