Originally posted by: Minionite
Well, in my view, it's kind of 2 part.
First we've changed. We've grown, matured, changed, evolved (blah blah blah whatever term you want to use) as people. Our preferences, habits, thought process, worldview, etc. has changed since we were kids or teens.
Times have changed as well. What worked in the 90s or 2000s is not going to work today. Think about something like comedy. We went from situational humour from the 70s to cross dressing and double meaning dialogues in the 80s to Govinda-style humour which was a mix of stuff in the 90s to situational again in the 2000s to crass sexual innuendo in the 2010s. Things change.
Now what has happened is that CID2 started with the OG S1 style CID. Good choice. It pulled OG fans who wanted that nostalgia trip. Then they tried to tackle a storyline that didn't finish in S1 and bungled it up. After that they decided to continue the nostalgia trip. But the thing about a nostalgia trip is that it only works for a short period. Just because I saw a Govinda song on screen one day and watched a movie of his doesn't mean that I'm going to watch only his movies from now on. Or just because I heard a song from Jannat, it doesn't mean that my playlist is going to be exclusively dedicated to Emraan from now on.
But CID2 PH didn't think this through like we are. They stayed on the nostalgia trip. Yes they brought some current crimes and situations, but they tried to fit it into the CID season 1 style of writing, storytelling, etc.
And let's be honest. The way they dealt with the Eye Gang, ACP Pradyuman death, ACP Ayushmann coming in - that whole situation put a whole lot of OG fans off. I barely watched CID2 after that mess because it pissed me off so much. The channel and PH really messed that situation up when they didn't realize how big the OG fanbase really is and that Parth fans aren't just going to jump onto a new show because he's in it. They have to be pulled in with the story and his character as well. The PH didn't even know how to deal with ACP Ayushmann's character! First he was this rude, arrogant ACP and then suddenly he's showing so much care for the team.
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