Originally posted by: milkcakejamun
Yes, exactly 💖!
The reason I loved the OG so much is because they devote screen space and time to each couple appropriately. Even for DevTa! The drunk scene was so powerful because Kathir, someone who is silent, had a ton of things to say that night. He poured out his feelings and it was the first time the audience knew how much the marriage affected him.
The CVs are relying a lot on half-baked scenes here. Every time we think Shiva or Raavi will speak, another character comes in between them. Meanwhile, other characters are so underdeveloped that you wonder why they exist... like Dev, Mausa-Pa, sometimes even Kaka. They have 1-2 scenes where they are important, and then they are gone. I'm not even going to talk about the many "friends" that appeared...
A good drunk confession scene would've had at minimum 80% of the episode devoted to Shiva and Raavi. No other characters allowed to intervene. It would've highlighted Shiva's expressions, we should've gotten Shiva reaching out to Raavi, wanting to touch her, but at the same time refusing to touch her because he's disappointed that he could never be her "soulmate." We should've had scenes where he is crying about how he thought it would be all right to marry a girl and give her "life" after she tried to kill herself on the mandap... but now that he's fallen for her, he realizes he's "killing" her as well... just in a different way.
We should've had a scene where he realizes that his Dhara bhabi was wrong (this is very critical as he needs to someday move on from Dhara and think more about Raavi). And then at the end of it all, we should've had a scene of blank defeat... where he "reassures" himself that he'll be fine. He let go of things in the past (this can be a hint for his upcoming education track), and he could let go of things now).