Was innocence lost?? - Page 3

since everyone's being gracious about permitting different views on innocence, here's mine.

i don't think that an act created by society ought to define what innocence is. i think innocence is something more fundamental than a rule like marriage which is created by human society. innocence is in the heart and soul of a person. i believe innocence is violated when a person compromises on her (or his) own beliefs and values.

kripa remained innocent despite sleeping with angad the first time because that did not violate any of her beliefs in true love. kripa was actually a super character then because she believed deeply in love, and all her actions were justified by that belief. i think her innocence was violated when angad jilted her - that was a deep cut. but she herself lost her innocence (for me) when she married prithvi - she violated her own beliefs and value systems then.

i still think of angad as "innocent". he is still living by his own (very strange, but individualistic) ideals and i can't help feel for his innocence. it's not an innocence that anyone else has ever shown before. but i think that it satisfies me in my understanding of innocence.

the post started with talking about the "show's innocence" though. unlike someone else here, i think the show had a consistency and innocence when it started. i think that innocence died when prithvi murdered josh with his bare hands. that was a such a mindless violation of prithvi's character that my sense of innocence of the show exploded to nothingness. even that moronic subplot of hiring a kidnapper-cum-killer or that stupid out-of-town show was okay. stupid, of course, but okay. josh's death by prithvi was a pure rape of this show's integrity. the show died then. it has never returned to it's balance since. 🤢

all mho, of course. -esther 😕