Episode Discussion Thread #17 01/08/2016 - 31/08/2016

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: shyam09

I couldn't resist ... I had to add subtitles ... 😛😛

http://goo.gl/ThnDWN

I manually added the captions like on youtube, so if it isn't enabled by default, just click the CC button on the video player.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 This video is a classic shyam. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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sashashyam

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Sandhya dear,

I am sorry I got late with this, but as you know, I am like that only! My supplementary comments are in green.

Do also see my response to Shyam's thesis on Bindusara, on page 158. You might find it interesting.

Tonight, what would you bet that Devi will renew her pran to unite Ashoka and Kaurwaki, and confirm these glad tidings to the Barbie doll in person😉? Seeing the state of mind she is in, with a crashing inferiority complex and a guilt complex all rolled into one, that seems to be most likely line for her to take with Kaurwaki. Also supplementing it with a promise, in the time-honoured tradition of Hindi melodramas, that Ashoka will be her (ie Kaurwaki's) amaanat with Devi, and she will never try to assert any wifely rights over him (for all that he has already given her the whole jing bang lot in the precap).

I would be pleasantly surprised if she were to launch into a broadside about the miserable situation she has been placed in now, thanks to Ashoka and Kaurwaki, as suggested somewhere above, adding that after the way in which Kaurwaki had mucked up the whole scenario at the wedding, nothing else could have been expected. Something on the lines of the dressing down she gives Kaurwaki after the Brahmamuhurta fiasco. But the look on her face as she approaches Kaurwaki does not bode well for such a spirited approach, alas!

As for Ashoka, I did once with Jalal, I am seriously contemplating writing to him along the following lines, before he commits some even more egregious folly.😉

My poor Ashoka,

What a fate you have brought down on yourself! Did I not say, time and again, that you would have been much better off without either of these two dratted females? Now that saucer eyes is going to take herself off, you are going to have the other one making pathetic cow eyes at you from two feet away, when she is not clinging to your feet, that is. How on earth you are going to preserve your sanity in this set up is more than I can understand.

There is only one way out, and happily, it is entirely feasible.

Look around for a nice war, or cook one up if none is readily available, and go off to fight that. Once you have chopped off enough heads, as a sort of dress rehearsal for the great Kalinga war that lies in the future, you will feel much better.

What about your promise to Lassandra, for starters? That should be a very convenient war, against Antiochus, and as Greece is quite some distance away, you will be safe from these two benighted females for a good long while.

Even before that, there are the plans to get rid of the evil quartet. Your pater familias has only a tenuous grasp on reality, and is subject to retrograde amnesia as well. So it would be a good idea to remind him that after your marriage - and point out that he had not specified marriage to whom! - he would give you full powers to deal with the evil quartet as you liked. Now that he is labouring under a strong (though, given his temperament, temporary) feeling of guilt for not having ensured your prasannata, if you go to him with a doleful face, you should be able to swing the thing!😉

So you do not lack for work to do. Get started pronto, there is a good boy!

Shyamala Aunty

Do you think it would help? 😉

Shyamala Aunty

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Sandhya my pet,

Whatever would I do here, even on my occasional appearances, without you? This wonderfully perceptive set of comments - which supplement and round off my own take on Kaurwaki - makes me long more and more for the old days, with the endless arguments and counter-arguments, and the dissection of characters and motives. I hope we will get back to that happy state of affairs some time soon.

My fingers, despite the strong medication, which incidentally ends today, are beginning to tire - I have been catching up with Saraswathi Akka's posts - and I do not want to push things too much. But I will be back here tonight to put down my supplementary comments, as I always do, and this time they will be in green😉. So look in here tonight if you are up.

Lo and behold, thanks to you, this EDT has, for the first time ever, I am told, actually got to 150 pages by the 31st! Shyam will be opening the bubbly for sure!😉

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

Incidentally, every actor (with the exception of Saucer-eyes) was perfect in yesterday's episode and every character in sync with their portrayal so far.

esp Dharma, when she urged the panditji to begin the mantra that left Bhondu more confused than he usually is,

Jagannath, when he sees his daughter turn around with joy at Ashok's willingness to marry her, gets tensed that his plan failed and begins the fresh round of abuses, striking at Ashoka's most sensitive spot, his mother. Using the 'dasiputra' insult that had during his post-Takshila stay at Pataliputra, been used by Sushim and Co and driven Ashoka into uncontrolled rage. And he succeeded in what he came to Magadh for. He has not only broken the marriage but now has his daughter as a sworn revenge seeker.

Charu and Sushim who were confused, happy, sarcastic of the developments (Incidentally Sushim looked very handsome), when the people whom they wanted to hurt, were hurting each other, and that Ashoka finally landed with a commoner for a wife, while they had a princess for themselves with all her wealth and army,

Chanda who was worried and sad that KVK's love was unsuccessful,

Bindu, as usual, confused, not that you expect anything better from him. But his confusion at Dharma's joy was funny.

And Devi, still under the influence of the drug, dazed.

All in all a dhamakedhaar episode in terms of entertaintment.👍🏼

Edited by sashashyam - 8 years ago

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MuguetDScorpion

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Posted: 8 years ago

#1253

Bindusar's plan to handle Jaggu was his imagination. Ashok too has become a fool like his father. Why in the world does he need Jaggu's permission to marry KWK ? To make her happy ? He didn't care to take permission from Devi's father to marry her. Again is it to give importance to KWK ? There should be limit of nonsense and the writers have already crossed it.

Nindusar thinks by giving KWK to Ashok all he did before will be forgotten and forgiven. He is not doing all this for Ashok and his happiness but himself. He is guilty of mistreating Ashok without any reason. He is guilty of being a fool. Ashwaki has become an obsession to him. He doesn't care if KWK is good or bad. He wants her just because Ashok loves her.

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Posted: 8 years ago

#1254

I was just joking. 😆 It looked like she went to meet KWK dressed as the new princess to just tease her. She went to talk to her or show off ? She should have known that this will piss KWK off even more. How stupid of her.

As I already said Devi is looking like a Christmas tree. She should follow Dharma or even her husband. Just stay simple.

Originally posted by: sashashyam
Only she does not look like any princess - she can hardly be a queen, seeing that Ashoka is not even the yuvaraja. She looks like a badly dressed court dancer, plus that ridiculous mukut. What was that for anyway? Even Maharani Charumitra never wore any such contraption.

The whole get up made poor Devi look like an upstart wanting to outshine the rajvanshis. I liked her infinitely better as she was when she was Kaurwaki's sakhi.

In the precap, it was the Barbie doll who, having discarded all her jewellery, looked much better than Devi.

Finally, if I have to watch any more of Devi making cow eyes at Ashoka and falling at his feet, I shall start climbing the nearest wall.😡I would like nothing better than to consign both these females to a kaaragriha and get on with Ashoka's solo adventures.

Shyamala Aunty

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sashashyam

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Posted: 8 years ago

#1255

Oh, I knew that you were funning, MDS. It is just that I liked her a lot as she was before, and this stupid get up irritated me!

Did you see my paean in praise of your post about the Tuesday episode? Your insights into Kaurwaki's dysfunctional behaviour were spot on.

After that, Sandhya and I have been delving deeper into that subject. Do see my apprehensions about what Devi is likely to do tonight; it is somewhere a little above on this page.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: MuguetDScorpion
I was just joking. 😆 It looked like she went to meet KWK dressed as the new princess to just tease her. She went to talk to her or show off ? She should have known that this will piss KWK off even more. How stupid of her.

As I already said Devi is looking like a Christmas tree. She should follow Dharma or even her husband. Just stay simple.

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MuguetDScorpion

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Posted: 8 years ago

#1256

Yes and i replied you too. I guess you missed it.

Even I am not liking this Devi. She looked better before. Hopefully just like Dharma she will wear it just in a few episodes.

Originally posted by: sashashyam
Oh, I knew that you were funning, MDS. It is just that I liked her a lot as she was before, and this stupid get up irritated me!

Did you see my paean in praise of your post about the Tuesday episode? Your insights into Kaurwaki's dysfunctional behaviour were spot on.

After that, Sandhya and I have been delving deeper into that subject. Do see my apprehensions about what Devi is likely to do tonight; it is somewhere a little above on this page.

Shyamala Aunty

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