- Fans weren't patient, some asked for Juhi becoming negative, the actor eventually didn't help either
- Cvs had to change their track and went down the cliched way, consistency was lost somewhere
- Channel (they are the ones who decide for promos) showed these cliched promos which riled fans!
And look at the result!
But I would still say cut AvNeil some slack
Avni's state is understandable, in her own words you can understand but you can't feel what she feels unless you are in her shoes! I agree actually, unless u live urself the pain u won't be able to really feel it no matter how much u say u understand. We are highly empathetic to the people who lived the same pain as ours, so her compassion towards Mishti isn't mahanta in my opinion, she is kind of reliving her childhood pain with every incident happening in Mishti's life!
Neil has a lot on his plate, he is being cornered from all sides, yes for me he is toned down because the Neil I know would have started asking logical questions and having doubts, for example how come Vidyut always gets to know about his moves beforehand, that means there is definitely someone close to him who informs him and with the way Juhi behaved in the police station that should have alerted him, Neil has always been good with connecting the dots, in his normal state he should have done that. Yet if you see the amount of things going in his mind, you would still understand, it's normal when ur brain is under so much pressure to miss on many obvious things that u wouldn't have missed on in ur normal state, when things are personal and ur emotions are involved, then definitely your capacity of judgement isn't the same. A daughter u need to be fair with, a wife you love immensly and u don't want to lose, an ex who keeps playing the victim card and brings her sob story whenever someone tries to make her see sense, dangerous enemies who not only use ur wife's past but also have a spy in ur house, a spy you wouldn't even doubt, honestly how many of u would have doubted Juhi being in cahoots with RP/VR when u saved her from their hell!! I mean no one even in their wild imagination would believe that a person who suffered a lot at the hands of such people would help the same people! and here is where I find the change in Juhi's character abrupt and illogical!!
Anyways it's easy to play the judge when u are not living the situation urself and it's easy to judge when u know a lot of things while characters don't actually know these things...