*walls of texts alert*
I couldn't watch yesterday's episode until much later, and truly felt what acute RaghVi withdrawal symptoms were like. Not even kidding. I was the only one so restless and completely preoccupied when all were busy with Turkey day celebrations. Is this how it's going to be like from next week? How am I going to handle not having to look forward to new episodes and our daily dose of Raghav-Pallavi?
I often felt like such a pendulum hypocrite since this track started lol. One day we be cribbing about how horrible the writing is and wondering what the writers are smoking, and then on other days I be ready to do their aarti because they've gone above and beyond our expectations in giving us THE PERFECT scenes with THE PERFECT dialogues on Raghav-Pallavi.
You know, I've always believed that only good acting/good leads can't make a show successful unless the story is equally good too, and I usually never followed any ITV show as madly solely because of the leads. This is the first show where I made such an exception.
Truth be told, when I saw the very first promos (thankful to my YT algorithm), I didn't think the story was going to be remarkable or anything. Based on what I've seen on ITV so far, I assumed it would be the traditional MCP ML meets abla and cute doormat FL story that's a done to death trope on ITV. I still don't know what drew me in enough to made me give the show a try. Looking back, I'm glad that I did. Despite its ups and downs, all the mess it's made, what I love the most is that it gave me Raghav and Pallavi.
I love how as individuals and as a couple, these two made me pause and think about the messiness and complications of relationships, about the actions and consequences of two flawed, broken, imperfect human beings who find each other under very imperfect circumstances and gradually become the pieces that fill each other's cracks. I've never been frustrated over or defended or fought for two fictional people (individually and as a couple) as passionately before Raghav-Pallavi. Desi shows hardly make me think or critique or defend the characters and their actions, it was such a refreshing and unique thing for me, and it was solely because of Raghav and Pallavi that I stuck to this show all these times despite all the cribbing.
It still feels surreal. The episode could've been better. Raghav-Pallavi deserved better. SaiShi definitely deserved better. WE definitely deserved better for sitting through all of it. And I'm still happy and proud and sad and emotional because I know the writers tried. All we have are speculations, we're not really aware of what happened behind the cameras and why the writing sucked BIG time for SO many episodes in this track (even after the off-air news). Even in today's very LAST episode for crying out loud, we had Sunny-Keerthi, D house resolution and RaghVi romance interrupted for the umpteenth time. This is not done. However, somewhere deep down, I feel the writers had their hands tied. It's those tiny moments like the RaghVi conversation from yday's episode or the ones we get today are where you can see how solid their vision and understanding of R and P's characters are. They failed several times, but they still did a way, WAY better job keeping the authenticity of R and P intact. I'll just learn to be happy with that.
Thank you Raghav-Pallavi.
Thank you Sickand for deciding to do this (putting all my complaints over your petty tricks aside for a millisecond).
Thank you writers for writing Raghav and Pallavi.
Thank you Sai and Shivangi for living them the way you two did.
Edited by rubys07 - 3 years ago
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