Originally posted by: kashev
Long rant alert -
The major problem is not even that we hate Mahima. I mean, that we do, but what really hurts is that none of the characters that we have grown to love so much over the past months make sense anymore. I really don't get how Mahima's POV is shown but not Ru's or Pree's. Who are the leads of YHC again?
We are all here to watch RuSha's story, that means, Ru and Pree as individual characters plus them together. Ever since Ru got Akka home and left Pree alone in HM, Ru's character doesn't make sense to me. Ever since Pree stopped caring for Saransh sometime after Mahima's track started, she doesn't make sense either. Ru tells Pree he loves her and can't exist without her (terrace scene) then proceeds to put her down, humiliate and threaten her, even leave her and doesn't even want to talk to her if it isn't about Saransh. Ru fell for the mother that Pree was to S, but doesn't recognize her struggles during the custody track. Pree does Akka jaap the entire time, then doesn't show any reaction when she learns her sis is a shitty person and has always been so. Pree loves S but shows no heartbreak when S's custody does to Mahima. Both Ru and Pree are doing everything Saransh ke liye but don't care enough about him to wonder how safe their kid will be with a person who is a con of the highest order.And then, as if the suicide and custody tracks didn't happen, Ru and Pree are happily romancing without addressing any of the aforementioned issues. Yuvraj is supposed to be a brilliant criminal but doesn't realize marrying Mahima would be the safest way to get the trust fund that he so desires with her getting Saransh's custody. Like who even are these characters? Even the lollipop RuSha scenes don't take away from the absolute disaster that has been this track.
True, YHC got their best TRPs last week but that was in anticipation of RuSha's reunion, NOT because of Mahima. It's because their loyal audience has continued to watch and has given makers the time to get the story back on track. For comparison, when IPL ended, Anupama was 2.5+ and the other shows were all pretty much below 2. But immediately after that, Anupama went to 3.5+, both Imlie and Ghum Hai started on the leads' story and they went from being below 2 to now 2.5+.
YHC, on the other hand, didn't witness as much growth post IPL because they thought not focusing on the leads was a laudable idea. If that wasn't enough, they decided to desecrate the entire basis of RuSha's love story and give some random character maximum screen space. Like why would you do this to your own show and make your loyal audience want to stop watching? If it wasn't clear, even TRP audience likes to watch a good story. If you have any doubts, look at cooker 2.0 for god's sake.
Makers, high time you get the story and characters back on track dammit! This time, if TRP drops, it might not be that easy to get it back up again even with RuSha lollipops since patience does have its limits.
Disclaimer: This is not meant to offend any show or their fans, I am just speaking analytically about the numbers here.