Originally posted by: milkcakejamun
Share the same sentiments. What I loved about pre-haveli PS was I felt that they tied every string when resolving conflicts. Since the haveli track, we've gotten charged episodes, followed by episodes that were buffers, followed by episodes that add nothing to the story. Today's episode (I watched again to see if I would see the magic the others were talking about), and I still couldn't find it. It was an okay episode for me.
With Suman, Gaumbi, and Dhara's conversation about the land, I'm feeling Dhara's apology to ShiSh will be non-existent (can't get that bitter pill out of my system). For the ShiVi scene, I couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to either (don't shoot me for saying this). I was surprised to see the scene transition immediately with Shiva waking up. Made me wonder what happened before. Did Raavi try to come into the room and find Shiva already sleeping? Did they try to initiate a conversation and they were both awkward? What were Raavi's thoughts when she laid down the pillows on the bed this night? Also, I wish there was an ointment scene (not of them rubbing it on each other, but maybe of one where Shiva or Raavi leave a tube of ointment for the other).
I enjoyed the dialogues Shiva said during the bed scene, but the song distracted me from properly feeling the emotions. I wish they muted the song for a few seconds, showed us a flashback of Shiva gently patting Raavi's face, and then began the song again as Shiva reached over to brush Raavi's hair. (I feel like I unnecessarily talk about the editing, but that's because I don't remember noticing all of this in the pre-haveli episodes. In every ShiVi scene, they covered everything they could from start to finish and I was never left wondering what was happening in the "in-between" scenes but today I asked a lot of those questions when it panned to Shiva waking up)
As for the following ShiVi scene (hair catching on his button)... I felt it was slightly repetitive and was more of a lollipop scene? I don't know, I didn't feel my heart beat race when I noticed Shiva's soft gaze and how he stole a gaze while trying to remove her hair. It's probably because he roughly grabbed her shoulders (guess he ignored how both of them were in a traumatic situation) and pushed her up against the pillar the scene immediately before that.
I remember watching the scene where something similar happens (Raavi comes in her wedding attire to the Pandya house to try and sneak a peak at Dev but encounters Shiva) and feeling much more excited. He didn't grab at her in that scene. She stumbled and he caught her, and I wish we had that instead of the shoulder grab.
All of these reasons are why I liked the GauRa and DevTa scenes more today. The scenes felt fresh and fully-fleshed out. I liked how GauRa's intro scene was filmed. I liked how Rishita looked at Dev concerned when he winced after she kissed him. I liked how in the morning, when she grabbed his arm, she teased him for faking his pain. It felt complete. But ShiVi did not feel complete for me, and that has caused me to like the overall episode a little bit less (less enough that I cannot rave about it or rant about it)
I know we're still at the initial days of their romance, but I do wish the CVs took time with each scene. I rather liked how Shiva carried Raavi to bed after the gunda scene. It felt complete that their next interaction was like that. But today was not like that for me... For those of you who think I hated the episode. Quite opposite. Would probably rate it a 7.5/10. I just sat here with my disgruntled thoughts, and I should stop because this is probably too long that no one has read it 😆