I gave S2 a chance and watched a whole week of episodes. While initially it was intriguing, it became a drag later and it was clear the current lot of CVs have no clue how and where they would like to take the story. Reading some rave reviews of this week's episodes, I started rewatching this week and feel that there is more disconnect.
What is surprising is that the current creative director seems to have forgotten her own story. At the end of season 1 they showed Manik and Cabir involved in a car blast caused by oil spill. Nyo did plant a bomb in the car which was meant for Nandu. After she realised Manik's life is in danger, she got Harshad to arrange for its removal. Arya is aware that there was an oil spill when the security pointed it out to him.
So now how did Nandu suddenly conclude that the blast was caused by a bomb and someone deliberately tried to harm them? Why did Arya not say that there was an oil spill?
Coming to Maddy, this guy's introduction has just been too contrived. The guy comes in the second year. He is hardly there in the college for couple of weeks and he is so popular that he was only 2 votes short of Nandu, that too after Fab3 indulged in underhanded means to defeat him? What accounts for his huge popularity? Just him being a one man band?
His behaviour is even stranger. He kidnaps and locks up Nandu, making her listen to him singing Manik's song and making her break down all because he thinks that she deliberately got his grand dad to rile him up. Now suddenly he thinks that she is very honest and would step down if she knows she won by unfair means? How did he suddenly come to that conclusion?
Coming to Rishab, did they not have him treated by the same doctor who treated Dhruv? Dhruv returned to space within three days all fully cured. He has never been shown to have the attacks even once after that but Rishab is still having the attacks? And miraculously Maddy's song cures him of his speech disability, a fet which could not be achieved by medical science? There should be an iota of realism in all this but no, they couldn't care less explaining why and where forth in all this.
As to Navya's baby, they show the same repetitive shit (pun intended). I have never seen either Navya or Mukti ever feeding that poor baby. Feeding a baby for a working mother who is also a student is a real problem. When they can address so many sensitive issues why not this.
Dhrulya is a lot of bull shit. The two have one conversation about what happened the morning after they slept together and that was enough to sort out all their issues? Was that the only problem they had? Over simplification at its heights.
Since when Khurana is in the board of SPACE? What is Arya's relationship with him after the Soha's truth was out? Has Nyo told him about Soha being alive as she was planning to? What would she achieve if she did and what would she lose if she didn't? Since she seems to fear Khurana's presence in the board, couldn't she have used the threat to reveal the truth of Soha's being alive to Arya to keep Khurana in check?
They have completely ruined Mukti's character (not that it was very well developed to start with). All she does it use her body to entice guys and get her way.
All this is supposed to be freshness?
I am not saying that season 1 was flawless. There were several places where the sub plots for the supporting cast were sketchy, patchy and unrealistic but they had Manan and their magic to carry through the show. Their story had an arc which was by and large unblemished. Here they don't have that for obvious reasons. So all the more need to have a proper story with a believable plot which links up properly with season 1.
They should have started this season without any connect to the earlier one, They did not do that because they wanted to cash in on the popularity of season 1 but without the main lead, the creative director who was the main architect of the earlier season1, the brilliant directors of the previous season and the writers who gave life to the characters of that season, this season is like a headless chicken without a soul.
There I got it all out of my chest.
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