Originally posted by: Transference
Folks, I am tired of making separate posts as it takes a lot of time , and I miss out on EDT, which is my favourite place for discussions. 🤗
Today’s episode: Shiva and the Three Women
To understand Shiva today behind the HIDEOUS patriarchial lens, we need to see him from the perspective of the three women in his life-Suman, Dhara and Raavi. I am barring Rishita as she is his newfound coexisting family member and hasn't touched a raw nerve apart from her Rishimendra act!
I shall start with Shiva-Dhara as no one can touch what these two share. Dhara is the same woman who is said to have unbeatable control over Shiva. Her words are generally enough to stop him and give in. She exercises such authority over him from day 1. But, today, like I already pointed out in the morning, Shiva was vibrating with a spine chilling particulate energy-a black depth where everything around him had ceased to exist, even Dhara.
If you see the scene again, he isn't even looking at her how she seeks back his attention. At that moment, he ceases to exist as Dhara’s Shiva anymore! He probably expresses himself for the first time, saying that he may stop today at her behest, but he would never be happy in his entire life with this arrow piercing his heart forever.

Look at how she's holding on to him, trying to bring him back to Raavi and Rasam.

With her smile and warmth, she tries to revive hope and love within him. It's striking to note that Shiva’s world used to stop at Dhara, but he can't even look at her anymore.

He is fixated on hatred. Unresolved scars, faulty determination and at this exact moment, Shiva has ceased to exist in the PS plane anymore. It's like touching the rawest wound of your heart, which you've festered and fulminated over the years.
He isn't Dhara’s Shiva anymore.

This isn't about Raavi! He clears, and the Frame is fantastic here. Shiva’s dark eyes, Raavi’s crumbling sandcastle again and Dhara not even in the picture anymore. He is on a different place.

The angst, pinching pain, and the pent up emotional abuse of a lifetime just resurfaced all over his face again.