Thanks Suta for the update.
The moment I read that Imlie fell at Malini’s feet, I decided not to watch the episode. I understand character consistency and storytelling, but me as audience is just totally bored watching Imlie’s constant sacrificial nature, giving more importance to sindhoor and SM’s blessing than the actual relationship. Imlie will always have an excuse ready to not accept her marriage publicly. It seems her love for Aditya just comes out when he is dying rather than supporting him when it actually matters. Writers are spending way too much time in starting Imlie’s realization of what a marital relationship actually entails, which is not only wearing sindhoor.
Besides imlie’s OTT sacrificial nature, I am so damn bored seeing Malini’s token mahaanta. Imlie does not need Malini’s blessings to move on. Imlie is like she does not want to build her relationship on anyone’s tears but did she stop to think that Malini-Aditya marriage happened on Imlie’s tears?
All this mess is happening because writers did not bother to spend even 1 second in Aditya trying to make Imlie understand why his relationship with Malini would not have worked irrespective of Imlie.
Everytime writers show Malini’s mahaanta, instead of sympathizing with her, I just feel disgust. Malini’s mahaanta will never work for me, specially not after she tried to kill herself in dulhan clothes. That character needs to move on by herself. And everytime Imlie talks about not wanting to hurt Malini, I just want to give up on Imlie’s character too. For her, Aditya’s pain, hurt, desire has zero value in comparison to Malini’s pain. I think I am done watching a female lead on Indian show who cannot balance the importance of Marital relationship, her husband along with the other characters and family members. Imlie will never prioritize Aditya’s feelings over Malini and T family. I can understand that this is her character but I am bored watching lack of growth in Imlie’s character since PD trip.