I just watched this week's episodes from start to end in one flow and looking at the events as a whole I actually don't think it's too bad. Pallavi is being delusional as usual and Raghav is behaving impulsively. Nothing new there. Ironically, I do think a lot of what Sunny was telling Esha about Raghav being forced to do things to pacify is spot on, though not as sinister as he made it out to be. I finally get that this track isn't so much about trust as it is about accepting one another in a marriage, and the detrimental effects of trying to change a person's nature or forcing them to go against it.
Raghav himself didn't seem convinced about the changes in him when arguing with Esha before the press conference, among dialogs, so what happened next didn't surprise me at all. Emotional manipulation will only work temporarily with him, whether it's done by Esha or Pallavi. It's not easy to tame this beast and the underlying message is that he can only be truly tame if he wants to be, never by force. With this, the writers have gone back to the core theme of Beauty and the Beast, and I'm applauding them for the layered writing again that I'd been missing for weeks. Also, props to them for learning from their experience with the Mandarin track and leaving Esha's intentions ambiguous for this long.
Agreed.
I too somewhere feel that Raghav and Pallavi didn't get that much of connecting time before their wedding. It was always about the D fam and some drama where they ended up hating each other in the beginning and then suddenly all fine at the end. So now as we look into their relationship we can see that the love is a bit forced. It's like arrange marriage hai toh pyaar toh hona hi tha baad main.
They haven't accepted each other yet specially not the flaws. It's more like i cannot live without the other person rather than saying that the other person is my life and i trust them. It's always mera Raghav and meri Pallavi between them and not "hum".
This track is more like them understanding the true dynamics of their relationship after a third person or their past walks in. They confessed during the Mandaar track because they had fear of loosing the other person and not because they wanted to.