This forum is absurdly biased - Page 7

Originally posted by: Star_girl

But why exactly do we need to see Shravan as "aww worthy" or however you put it? Why is this intense desire to compartmentalize his seemingly contradictory attitude? It's the fact that Shravan is neither completely right nor entirely wrong that renders him fascinating in a way. My concern was about the more simplistic tendencies of zeroing in on parts of his characteristics in order to see them as whole. Shravan is this guy who is pretty wonderful with his family, with his friends but his one emotional area is in severe stagnation for years. He displays classic patterns of a teenage boy lashing out. It's unfair to ask him to get over it without him reaching any form of valid closure. We can argue circles around whether his behaviour today is more problematic than her behaviour yesterday but that's really not my point. He has grown up into a frustrated, rejected, traumatized, unhappy man because his frustrated infatuation coupled with her perpetration of casual verbal violence have informed and built his character as he is today. Band-aids don't fix bullet holes etc lol. Suman has matured into a more decidedly intelligent and aware young woman but Shravan's failure to do so is intricately linked with her and it's simplistic to pick an either/or scenario between them in this case.

I understand that the whole point of forums is to be a bit reactionary and it's what makes it fun. I am not policing that at all. I thought Shravan's character could do with some intelligent discourse related to me and look, it has already happened.

Originally posted by: .SankaDevi.

Also I don't think the trigger that led him to move to Londong was rejection, and more so, I think it would be SO grossly unfair to his character and their friendship if we made this attribution.

He'd been rejected by her in many ways before, he'd been denied the right of being a friend in public, she refused to be his date at prom, and so much more. He's dealt with it and he knew how to deal with it.

It wasn't rejection, it's something we aren't clearly sure of yet but it was probably something that made him lose faith in their friendship that caused him to leave. Something that probably made him feel that the entire friendship from Suman's side was fake.