Originally posted by: cosine456
Alright, gear up for a long response because I really got carried away.
Long gone is an understatement. It's been literal decades. There were shows where relationships existed. Drama wasn't a requirement for them to exist. Now, they just want to get to the new track as soon as possible. Leads ki development jaaye bhaad mein.
With regard to Jeet and Saumya's characters. I do agree. It feels OOC or regression of good characters. But maybe try to look at these actions from a different lens.
Your point about Jeet eavesdropping does seem like a regression. But he wasn't inside the room when it happened. He was outside, looking in, like he's always done with the Mathurs. And we put Jeet to a pretty high standard when we need to realize he's pretty gray to begin with. He's a genuinely good man, but he has faults. And the eavesdropping isn't anything new. He's done it before. It just seems jarring right now because the camera really focused on him this time rather than keeping it in a wide shot. But he's always eavesdropped on the whole Mathur family drama when they lived downstairs and he was renting upstairs. That eavesdropping wouldn't suddenly cease because the Mathurs moved upstairs. In fact, it makes sense for it to remain or even increase unintentionally.
And yes, I know Saumya's Papa jaap is frustrating. I find it frustrating too (and have said so multiple times), but I just want to extend her some grace. I feel like we need to look at it in terms of what she's feeling that brings on the Papa jaap. As I've mentioned before, Anoop's actions just constantly make Saumya feel like she's done something wrong and that's why she keeps thinking of making her father happy. She's just acting the way a daughter who loves her father would if her father would suddenly stop meeting her eyes after knowing of a horrible thing he couldn't protect her from, a thing that, for a victim, might seem shameful because of what their perpetrator kept telling them.
And lastly, Jeet's lack of response to najayaz isn't really OOC when you realize his tough exterior is a facade. He likes to show people he's enough for himself, but because the Mathurs and him are literally living on the same floor now, sharing every room, he has an inkling of what it feels like to have a full family. To his inner child, who has only known his mother and nani as family, who has no one now and is all alone in the world, that many people and the close proximity are bound to feel familial. He even called Saumya's mother, "Ma" accidentally because the whole environment to him during that scene felt like he had a family. That's precisely why he's softened so much around Anoop despite Anoop's words toward him because he's seen Anoop love and be protective of his daughter (regardless of how misdirected his love is).
Anoop loving his daughter imperfectly is still a more paternal presence than Jeet has ever had in his life. He isn't naive, but he's also deprived of a family, and for his inner child this is an oasis, despite how grave the surrounding desert might be.
So when Anoop insults him or gets mad at him now, Jeet acquiesces because to him, that's the closest a father figure has ever cared enough to even talk to him, however malicious it might be. Think about how Jeet keeps provoking Sanjeev ever since the start of the show. That's a child wanting attention from a father, be it anger if not love. He just wants his father to acknowledge him. Sanjeev barely does it when Jeet provokes him, but Anoop does it without any provocation from Jeet. For Jeet, that's new, and simultaneously, the very thing he yearns for.
Now, none of these, or all of these, might have been the show's intentions, but that's how it comes across to me when you take these characters' psyche into account.
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