Originally posted by: Prozium
You are so right..Whatever good was earlier..They butchered it in the name of character development(or degradation) ..And now is just a trp seeking show.mwith nothing new..Well 85-90 percent or even more audience do watch it because they don't have any other medium..So if they are catering to masses then so be it..When it first started..There was hope..Hope that this is the new show..This is a different show..Where we will see three very different brothers with three very different stories..And yet one thing or the other will always connect the brothers..And so..I was looking for bromance because it was refreshing rather than romance (which is a side dish..And usually happens in every serial)..Shivaay I'm and Rudy each are so different ..Yet so together..Shivaay tashan..om understanding..Rudy comedy is what made this show so good at the start..I though good that we will get a more lighter version of dil chshta hain/znmd with brothers instead of friends..Prinku was already out..Like neelam was out in hum Saath Saath hain..or anika/Shivaay nokjhok as kajol shahrukh of k3g but alas .Just there with nothing much to add type..
But then it started falling down like anything..After that marriage track..It was all negative and nothing else...And the less and less space for the other 2 brothers..And regarding brothers development the less say the better..om is now a cruder v ersion of early Shivaay and gauri is cruder version of early anika..They will make Rudy as Shivaay and Rudy lead as crudest version of anika in the future..Instead of Ishqbaaz..They could have named it as thoda sa pyaar his thoda baaki ya Kuch tum kaho Kuch hum kahein..With Shivaay and anika as lead and without showing brothers...Then it would have been better for everyone..Well if the continue to get trp from their bigger audience(the 90 one)..Then I think they will show more and more of regressive things..2 years back a small supernatural element and naagin huge success meant that 20+ normal sasural love based drama or similar concept..Turned everyone to use atleast one supernatural track (hell one sasural based serial used supernatural tracks for 14 straight months! And one serial whose name and tagline say it is against superstition show tantrik suoershakti shaitaan and all for 4 months..so much for being anti superstition..)..And I think even gul used it..Why they used it when all the serials are simple daily soaps..Because trp..Who cares about quality .So if people love regressive things..They will show it..Same thing with regression..The "ghisa pita" drama, bahu "mahaan" sacrifices..Lover being ohh so close yet so far..Implausible storyline..These are what get trp..(whatever gul proclaims that she is progressive director don't believe it)
And on top of that ..The connect between the brothers is all gone.No one knows about the other..and it's all secrets..They are now nothing but 3 guys living under 1 roof..I always dreaded this that once the female protagonist will enter..All those rbromance and other things will go to dustbin because trp pullers is romance..Not a bromance for them..But they completely eliminated them..
I have to say, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Somewhere in between all the fuss and chasing after TRPs, this drama has lost it's essence. If they had kept the villians to a minimum, then perhaps they would have had more time for character development and they wouldn't have needed a spin off show? The earlier episodes all balanced the three brothers and that's because they were not focussing too much on the villains.
I don't mind DBO, in fact I watch it. BUT IT IS NOT THE SAME BECAUSE THERE ARE NO BROTHERLY BONDING SESSIONS...which is what made me fall in love with this show in the first place. There aren't even any Dadi bonding sessions...which were always super cute.
Instead we get...
1) Shivaay being blackmailed
2) Prinku getting blackmailed 🤢
3) ACP (who could have been a good character) being ridiculous
4) Stupidity...where Swetlana has a damn chemistry lab in her room that no one has seen
5) At one point there were 4 female villians...Mrs Kapoor, Tia, Swet and Romi 🤢
6) Why the heck did Tia not tell the family about Swet being a bad one? I thought she said she wouldn't let her family cause the Oberoi's any further harm?
7) Romi was portrayed as the Kapoor sister, but they randomly changed it. Now Daksh is Kamini's brother...WT*F?? Would Shivaay not have known that if they were childhood friends?
See, I wouldn't even massively mind one villain after another, but they should at least wrap up the previous story properly...for all we know, Romi is still in an upstairs room in a comatose state 🤣
I REALLY really do not want to give up on this serial, but the day they start showing supernatural crap, I will be done.