Why do I feel cheated?

I start watching a serial and somehow after an average of some 100 odd episodes, I am left feeling cheated.I am talking about just EDT, I am talking about so many other TV series that I had great hopes on: even Vikram's JNDSD and Namik's EDKV.

EDT, when announced as a finite series, made me feel finally I am going to get a serial with tighly knot storytelling but alas! Ladt night's episode left me with the feeling of being cheated. While Vikram was brilliant and just awed me with his acting, the episode itself left me with a feeling like 'all this build up for this?really?' Dude, from the very first episode the audience had been told that Vyom was not what he seems and also it was repeatedly inferred that Shiv and Sharanya had been a couple. I think the writers only knew whose character was what and these two facts of their plot. The script was probably left to waking up every morning and writing down whatever came to mind and now, whether those disjoined factors/issues/incidents come together or not,it doesn't matter because they have taken on Vikram and Namik on board and people just watch the show anyway,right? By the way, did I mention that I didn't think JNDSD was a story worth my time and yet got hooked to it because of Vikram's acting? And I told my sister one day that I would love to see him in Damon's role in the Vampire Diaries. Now Damon,Elena, Stephen, they had shades, they had depth and they felt human ( although some of them were not) because they fought, made up, had flaws and accepted them.

I feel cheated because there is no depth in any character to make me feel like I understand or care for them. Shiv is an orphan left to the mercy of God who doesn't believe in God but considers the Goddess as his mother. All this time he was near Vyom, he didn't try to see if he had the black mark on his leg although he remembers seeing Vyom's car (or at least thinks he did) and is suspicious that someone from the house killed him. He just stood by watching Sharanya get married to at worst, his potential murderer and at best, into the family where his murderer resided. He seems to have no urge to find out why he was murdered so ruthlessly. I don't even want to go into how Shiv's murder and Sharanya's accidents were supposed to leave an impact and instead I was like 'huh?' Which psycho makes up a team and kills someone? Psychos are like Maya: Maya's initial murders in Behadh and her justifications, wow...that is what a dark character is. Why belittle a ghost by making him nothing more than a shadow and why belittle someone with mental disorder by making them some roadside romeo coming to beat up the girl's brother/boyfriend with sticks and swords? And what was the possession drama all about? What was the need? Sharanya was anyways dressing up and decking up to get married to Vyom anyways. And what exactly was Shiv going then? Eating popcorns? He could come by himself to freeze her hand in bathrub and take her ring, he could come by himself to bring snow in the hospital in Vyom's room but he was in no mood to save her when she was being molested?

It is Sadhvi's death that's going to leave a mark o the viewers mind more than Shiv's murder did. Both Vyom and Shiv were so much more mysterious and so much more empowered in my eyes before the Kapali Hills drama.

And despite staying in the same house and same room with Vyom, it will now take Sharanya 50+ episodes to see the mole/mark in his leg?From Sharanya's performance thus far, it is possible though.

I am this close to quitting but till now it was Namik playing a ghost that kept me going, now it's Vikram's acting that keeps me want to watch it. So I guess the CVs success lies there: they chose the actors correctly, storytelling can go to hell.

Expecting anything from an indian show will only make us fools. Uts better to watch wrb dramas than hindi serials. They are lost course.

To some it was clear from the beginning that SS was the couple and Vyom the stalker but had you been a regular in this forum you would have known to a significant number of viewers Vyom and Sharanya were in love and they were supposed to fight a ghost who died somehow and even after death stalking Sharanya. Many are predicting that was the story that the producer just changed to gain trp. So, you don't really know if the makers actually got what they wanted or not. I hear the fight is even stronger in other social platform because suddenly whole script has been changed and Vyom has been turned negative.

Originally posted by: showstruck

To some it was clear from the beginning that SS was the couple and Vyom the stalker but had you been a regular in this forum you would have known to a significant number of viewers Vyom and Sharanya were in love and they were supposed to fight a ghost who died somehow and even after death stalking Sharanya. Many are predicting that was the story that the producer just changed to gain trp. So, you don't really know if the makers actually got what they wanted or not. I hear the fight is even stronger in other social platform because suddenly whole script has been changed and Vyom has been turned negative.

Originally posted by: spnfan

i was also pretty sure shiv and sharanya were ghe real couple and vyom manipulated the circumstances but what is with this psycho lover thing?😕

It would have been better if vyom was grey and had no hand in shiv's murder. He just used the circumstances to get sharanya.

Sony tv on karu tho psychos ki mahasamelan lagti hai😆

True...it's surprising that even after knowing the storyline of both hassil and EDT it gave a go to both shows

Originally posted by: .Lilith.

I may end up sounding like some Little Miss Sunshine right now, especially after last night's episode, but I honestly feel there's more than what meets the eye.

So, I'm just gonna copy-paste my lecture from the VaNya AT here...

1. The way Vyom was happily confessing his crimes in front of Sadhavi made zero sense. What was worse was him onfessing about "acting" possessed- I can understand everything else. please explain the flying bit to me. 😆

2. If the twist was this straightforward, why reveal it in bits and pieces like this? The show is 130 episodes long and you're telling me that the rest of the episodes will be good boy Shiv, good girl Sharanya vs bad boy Vyom? Erm...nope. I beg to differ. 😆

3. There are still too many loopholes to be addressed. For eg- Shiv shouting "Sharanya meri hain" with a bloodied knife in hand, while wearing the same clothes he wore when he died. Vyom getting stabbed. Ram Bisht's reaction to that letter- how is loving another man in the past a "khatra"?? How can an innocent ring make him react like he has seen Gwyneth Paltrow's severed head? 🤣

4. The editors conveniently forgot about the legit questions Sharanya was asking Shiv about not saving her Father and seeing the killer.

5. Word on not being able to sympathize with Shiv's death. The only person whose death saddened me was that of Mr Bisht. Unless you can connect to a character emotionally, it's indeed difficult to feel sad for him/her.

6. Lastly, I do hope that Shiv, for the rest of the show won't be as bland as he is looking right now after the AKK track. I am watching this show for the greyness it promised and I shall continue to do so, unless proven otherwise...else I'll just watch it for DoVik and their sizzling chemistry. 😆

Originally posted by: spnfan

Expecting anything from an indian show will only make us fools. Uts better to watch wrb dramas than hindi serials. They are lost course.

The stories that are worth watching will end abrupt by the channels. Recently started watching a show on star plus. It had the kind of confused selfish bold female lead but after 3 months the show is going off air due to low trp. They havent even started the main storyline and its ending. The acting was great and shot really well but couldnt entertain the masses.

For indian shows to run the female lead has to be holier than thou and she will take revenge only after being dumb for more than half way through the story. Grey character has to be black. The 3rd lead should be a pyscho villian. These are the only way to run the show. Both edt and haasil kind of has the same storyline and seems to be highly inspired from behad. Why the hell is sony airing 2 similar shows at thebsame time and that too back to back.

I still didn't understand why Sony running these two shows on same time, didn't they know the storyline. I heard 1 writer from haasil and and one writer from edt also wrote beyhadh , to story same hona to baanta ha

Originally posted by: spnfan

Expecting anything from an indian show will only make us fools. Uts better to watch wrb dramas than hindi serials. They are lost course.

The stories that are worth watching will end abrupt by the channels. Recently started watching a show on star plus. It had the kind of confused selfish bold female lead but after 3 months the show is going off air due to low trp. They havent even started the main storyline and its ending. The acting was great and shot really well but couldnt entertain the masses.

For indian shows to run the female lead has to be holier than thou and she will take revenge only after being dumb for more than half way through the story. Grey character has to be black. The 3rd lead should be a pyscho villian. These are the only way to run the show. Both edt and haasil kind of has the same storyline and seems to be highly inspired from behad. Why the hell is sony airing 2 similar shows at thebsame time and that too back to back.

I know...DSJZ would have been an epic show but they have decided to draw it's curtains.The turkish version is ony of all time favourite drama and the indian version had the potential to be way better because I didn't like Rehaan's male version,Rehaan is more nicer and less selfish...I am almost giving up on hindi serials unfortunately..