Originally posted by: Deltablues
I think the thing that one has to notice is how well they excuted the plot: from the moment Malini entered Rathore Mansion, it was an Abhimanyu in the Chakravhyu situation—die if you do, die if you don't. Both of them, especially Aryan, had an overwhelming sense of imminent doom. That things will fall apart.
And they did. Unlike other idiotic things that turn ITV MLs cray cray, loss of a child is truly devastating even irl. VK nickname #2 or VK nickname #n won't replace what Cheeku meant or could have been to either of them. Children cannot be replaced. Couples do drift apart irl too.
This wasn't even a natural miscarriage. So one is stuck in this cycle of could-have-been. It's easy to live when there is an explicable reason to why something so traumatic happens. The first instict is to apportion blame on something or someone so YOU, as an INDIVIDUAL, stop reliving the things you should have or could have done to prevent the uncontrollable situation.
They both accused each other at the same time even when they knew that neither was at fault. The pointless fight was just there to hurt each other. Aryan was honestly just the bigger asshòle; his dialogues were cruel but also contradictory. Imlie was very clear to hold him accountable.
He was just shadowboxing her with whatever shit came to his mind till he namedropped Nalla on her. He knew he had hit the point of no return without ever meaning it. He had a death wish right after that lol. What I really think this assh-le is doing is self-destruct in guilt. Him letting her walk away is also some twisted punishment on himself. No sympathy for his idiocy here.
But unlike the nàllas of ITV and Gulverse, Aryan has a mile-long survivor's guilt, 100 tonnes of shame, and an actual understanding of repentence.
I don't think anyone will bash Imlie for walking away apart from online Ammas because Aryan will hate himself 10-fold more than we do. That's just Aru. Comparing him to child-kidnappers and bigamists is a bit much because neither Aryan nor Imlie are spineless mofos
Also, they started the leap with a cold-open, we don't have Aryan's monologues yet so just ranting off rn doesn't give me as much satisfaction.