okay mili -- the previous 3 episodes -- no patience to watch this starefest and the rest. 😆 so here are some random thoughts:
-- smriti: you are totally right, that was a smashing grey net sari from teji. she looked elegant, beautiful and rich. she has moved up the well-dressed ladder and even beaten mamaG. super! true highlight of that dumb episode. 😂
-- viaan and katha are both bonkers in my mind. neeraja said something -- "say what is in your heart katha" -- I think that is precisely the problem. now, I haven't seen the drama in two weeks when viaan decided to offload his feelings but here is what viaan has drawn from those convos -- that katha isn't averse to him per se but rather she has responsibilities (namely her son) and till then has no time for a personal relationship.
that is very different from saying "I do not want a realtionship because I don't feel romantic" or something like that. so basically viaan sees it as a half-rejection and hence, the whole "I will wait" approach. basically he is being a businessman where he is trying to sweeten the deal by waiting to strike at the right time.
his staring is not only stupid but so boring that I turned off the video. again, it falls into him believing that she is not averse to him and therefore it is okay for him to have his heart full by looking.
katha is doing mixed messaging where she is oblivious one second to his staring and the next intensely aware of him and also doing a bit of staring herself. so on some level, he feels that she is interested in him but because of being a single mother, she is holding back. that is very different from a full on rejection. so viaan's actions from that angle makes kind of absurd sense.
-- HOWEVER, this whole love story and the writing is totally bakwas. I ranted away in DT when the trip to lonowala happened -- their entire conversations made zero sense to me and how he seemed magically cured. the starting point for the downhill for the drama started there. also DT stopped being as buzzing when that happened. why? because the drama made no sense and he wasn't the livewire he was in the beginning of the drama.
-- again, we are seeing the same philosophy and majorly bad writing. he is in love and therefore magically has no bitterness towards love and relationships. what a bunch of foul smelling manure!!! 🙄🙄🙄
it would have made more sense character wise if he had struggled with falling in love and what means -- his father was also in love and destroyed the family unit for love. where is he processing his past and how it impacts the present? magically, now he is all for love?? 🤦🤦
he should have struggled to accept his feelings and wondered what to do with them. he should have struggled with whether he feels okay with feeling a sense of powerlessness -- this is the same guy who wanted to be in control that he proposed one night stand as a test. now he is okay with not being in the driver's seat. right, because love magically makes you a doormat.
instead of a grand livewire struggle, we had nothing. where is the angst? the hesitation? the fear? that is why the drama has become a total borefest.
part of the magic of ITV is when the characters struggle with falling in love and the viewers feel the push and pull and we are rooting for them to overcome the mountain. the push and pull has to come from both ML and FL and the journey to falling in love and accepting that love has to be a long one. no sudden light bulb moments -- when that happens, drama is essentially over.
here we have ML and FL who seem to have anasthesia injection dripped into their heart and therefore, every scene and reaction is all so clinical. 🤦🤦
who watches for sane? I want full on masala and dhoom tana tana music. 😆 a cartoon episode has more action and emotional pull than this drama.
right now, am watching out of force of habit. am not surprised to see the rumours that the drama is winding up. it does feel like it is being written by a B team who don't know how to write a complex ML in a complex personal relationship web. instead, they write the teenager version -- love is the antidote for all problems. 🙄

Edited by mango.falooda - 2 years ago