Originally posted by: TeAmo_Messi
It is unfair if you compare the TRP system of early 2000s with the system they have today. In 2000s, the highest rated show used to clock around 22-25 whereas now the highest rated shows cannot even go past 3.5 TVR. So in today's aspect KZK2 has been successful. They can fight with the rest of the shows for TRPs but the show cannot literally clock a rating of 22 in this era when TV content and quality has been in dumps for years now.
If you look into the trend of Naagin shows, the rating decresed with each successive season, and it has been here only for 4 years.
On top of that KZK1 storyline was outright regressive, leads marrying anyone but still making babies with each other, male lead suffering till eternity, female lead marrying a father of 3 grown ups to sacrifice, everything was sadistic and regressive, it worked in 2000s because Ekta was on a mission to shove down regressive content and kill the standards, her best love stories has been sadistic where male leads suffer, be it KZK1, KYPH, and KTH, so if she thinks repeating the same story will work now then she is wrong, no one in 2020 wants to see Prerna marrying someone else while she carries Anurag in her heart, no one wants to see Anu being so helpless in Komo's hands that he cannot get united with his lady love and no one wants to see leads separated since the first episode, even IPKND 3 flopped with Sobti, it shows that audience does not want to see anything repeated, they have already seen original AnuPre remain separated forever and hate/love/kill each other and die , so unless makers really thought that they can fool audience, no way same story would be accepted, and it was not after a year when audience was sure that it indeed is a 80% reboot, when Prerna literally married her blackmailer just like previous prerna did and when Anu literally gifted her to bajaj just like previous Anurag did.