I was at work when I saw this, but I wanted to properly respond. But I already subjected people to an essay today so i feel like I should chill 😂. I totally agree on it all. Especially the bolded.That boring gif is totally me, thinking about what we’ll have to endure coming up. 🙄
I’ve been thinking about this. I really don’t want to see a forced marriage for Imlie, (I mean I’m against the premise altogether). But if it does happen it’ll have to be different from and in contrast to what happened the last time.
Same bind, different man, how are they now going to have Imlie learn from what happened last year and the things that have happened since to achieve a different outcome? How is Aryan going to support her?
Like you said, Imlie is only moving on because Aditya keeps pushing her away but she’s not doing a great job of it. Part of me wonders if Imlie will ever allow herself to move on or feel anything for another person if she isn’t put into a situation where she has to marry, even if it without the absence of love, again. Aryan is so different from Adi, his whole family is different, this marriage would be totally different. But it would put Imlie in a place where she has to move on.
In the real world this would happen organically with time and space, in ITV land whenever they want to push a love story along - marriage! Because they don’t have the time and space to let this grow on its own.
So yeah, I wasn’t convinced of a marriage between Arylie during the Adini wedding track, but here I’m not so sure. The question is, how will it come about?
I also think that Imlie will have to be like "taken" again. She's experiencing that love right, where you grow up believing there will just be one, and you're so young so you have such a hard time letting go. Because you think that its "success" is dependent on it lasting forever. More than her love for Aditya, it's her beliefs being challenged.
It's going to take a lot. I do think though too that it's possible she's just feeling for Aditya as a human being in today's episode. I'll see, I've only caught updates and haven't seen it myself. There's going to be a lot of that,
On the second bold - I feel like the success of this show is also its curse. Because they have to maintain that plot driven drama. Who has time to allow two people to fall in love right? That's why I think they're hitting the symbolism so hard. Hopefully their love story is explored properly and doesn't just abruptly take a turn to marriage without proper build up. It should feel good right. I'm not interested in watching them be married either to be honest. I feel like this is much more angsty 😂. Plus as soon as couples get together itv must tear them apart. So let the journey rule instead right