I made a promise to myself that I will not log in here for at least a week and get some reading and writing done. But this show (and most people who are here) made me break it.
Your post at least justified it (a bit, no excuse for not reading the books I should be). :-D
Now let me move to some of the thoughts which you managed to say the way I would like to.
I have to confess I did not see all the initial episodes, the reason being the promos. They did not promise good stuff to be honest.
They seemed like one more show where one more girl needs to earn approval from 14 useless members (14 logo ki wakau family me eklauta kamau part) of a guy's family.
I am honestly tired of this female leads trying to earn approval of the male leads family business and avoid most shows for the same reason.
But the show was surprisingly different (again thanks to pre caps). The characters were realistic. character of Meera borrows heavily from the Manic Pixie trope, but still managed to hold it's own.
Now, back to your analysis of Episode, I liked how Babli fought for her child. She gets brushed aside due to her fault (?) of not contributing to family but Yograj is accepted back easily. The family dynamics are interesting things to watch.
Amma is one of the most realistic (and I hate her kinds) character. She disapproves of her son who chose his own life over carrying weight of the ones who chose not to do anything in life and are parasites.
So far from the conversations, the only thing I got about Yuvraj is that he fell in love and left to live his life instead of sacrificing his life for his good for nothing brothers and their wives and kids.
I really do not get it if those guys could not earn why should they marry, have kids and expect someone else to take that burden?
That Suraj dialogue is a backbone on which a lot of so called joint families sustain. (And most of our pop culture as well as social structure justifies it)
Meera on the other hand, may be oblivious to Abhi's love but is not oblivious to Aman's faults (when she gets to know him more)
However, Riya is not surprising either. She is currently bothered that Meera refusing this proposal might mean her own marriage in jeopardy. And siblings are not selfless in real world, at least not all of them.
And the climbing the balcony part, :-D Role reversal! If this Juliet is not afraid to climb the balcony, she will not be afraid to say she loves him (when she will realise this)
On this note, will stop this prolonged post. (Hope to go back to books abandoned)
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Originally posted by: AreYaar
I'm starting to get a little deja vu of those epis before the jungle scenes when there was this longgg stretch of Abhi ka latka hua face in like every epi...matlab arsaa ho gaya bechaare ko smile kare...wohi waali feeling aa rahi hai phir se😆...and doesn't seem like he's going to get a respite any time soon...current pace seems to indicate that the rest of the week will go in ceremonies and Aman discussions.
Anyways, coming to the actual episode...overall it was sort of somber despite the Abhi-Meera scene.
Babli ka sherni mode returned somewhat but as usual she couldn't really prevail much other than showing her displeasure to Amma.
The award for most W*F dialogue today goes to Amma..."Suraj ko dusro ko roshni dene ke liye jalna hi padta hai"...waah Amma, Waah👏👏...what a convenient justification for destroying the life of your "suraj" grandson😕...Immensely disappointed in this dialogue today...couldn't even feel any empathy for the blatant selfishness from Amma here.
Yograj ka b.s. continued for most of the episode...the kaamchor, nikamme brothers drinking together and Abhi just getting happy at the visual of his family all together...*sigh*...felt like a depressing turn of events overall somehow.
Glad to see that Meera's mom told her about Aman's sifaarish and Meera stated the obvious fact that this is like dahej...*slow claps* for Riya displaying her brainlessness as usual and trying to brush this under the carpet👏😆
Meera's oblivious yet determined nature made for the most noteworthy moments of the epi...her continuing to voice the fact that she feels like something bad is happening but she can't quite put a finger on it...
She sneaks over to Abhi's room without a thought...lol I'm wondering how she climbed over to his balcony...itna easy tha toh how did she not manage to do it before?😆...such a role reversal it was since Abhi was the one all frazzled about the MUs that can come out of people seeing her in his room this late at night and Meera didn't give two hoots😆...urging him to take a deep breath and just listen to her...
I just feel more and more sorry for Abhi...it's getting depressing now again...the way he pulls himself back from blatantly telling her that she shouldn't marry Aman to then having to excruciatingly force himself to justify Aman's bullshit behavior...I wish they wouldn't make him that pathetically majboor...I get that he is doing this cuz of what Meera's dad said to him but even then.
I liked how Meera directly stated that he is the only one she can trust right now...and then pauses at the "kyunki..."...unable to finish the thought, not really knowing herself just why she trusts him so implicitly...why she needed to seek out only him to talk.
My fav. part of this scene was the Delhi v/s Devpur debate😆...Abhi trying to dissuade her from wanting to stay in Devpur and Meera going on and on praising the positives of being in this place...lol in between she maaroed some line about neela aasmaan that she tells Abhi to remind her of later cuz "achhi line thi"😆.
Meera's faith in him to never give her the wrong guidance seemed to give Abhi some pause...and it seemed to like he was about to bluntly tell her that Aman isn't right for her if Amma hadn't interrupted them.
Seems like the show is on the track to play out these MUs of Amma and Meera's dad about Abhi-Meera being in each other's rooms😕
Precap and the sangeet BTS now make sense...Abhi's gonna constantly keep urging Meera's mom to tell her that Aman isn't right for Meera😆
Show waalon, aur kitne din Abhi ko itna depressed dikhaaoge?😕 Give the guy (and us) a break, man.
