and then i thought: why am i thinking wtf!??! 'cause we all know that wtf stands for "weekend thought feature", right? hmmm, yet another puzzle 'bout my brain that i need to figure out.... 😆
'kay. got back late last night from a trip hopping to yellowstone n.p. to a gangfriend's cowranch in montana (which is a seriously surreal place deep in winter!) to we-party-in-freezing-cold-blasts-from-the-north sf for new year's and then being allowed to drive back home for the first time in three months. other than being frozen all the time, which gave me a cold that wakes me up at 3am... it was a blast of a winter trip. my pcp who had better luck with holiday temperatures in hawaii (no, she didn't run into barak.. 😆) didn't let me tell her 'bout wolves. she wanted to get my opinion on hip-hop prem. prem? uh...hip-hop??... uh... my.. er ... heer's prem?? huh??? didn't we end with pirate-without-a-black-eyepatch prem when i left? huh?? so thought i'd do a person-wtf this time... 😆
(warning: i found out there was a lot to wtf. yeah, y'know what that means - this is gonna be long! hey! it's been .. weeks since i posted. i figure i earned the length of this one! 🤣)
* heer wtf: i loved that heer didn't figure it was prem who'd covered for her in her attempt to flee getting mehendi-ed by ratty.. (ew! gross!) i totally loved that heer didn't accept that she'd seen prem in front of her at the dargah. but i must say the script-writers managed to pull a fast-one on me in the entire painter episode!! there must've been at least 10 good ways that heer could've discovered the painter -- giving her super-powers in that episode was totally pathetic! (super-powers: x-ray vision to see the signature, travelling back to the mahal at the speed of light to retrieve the old painting, managing to put her little paw-print on prem's painting and still failing to see it was prem's painting..) so my wtf on heer is: she is so much in prem-denial -- how is she going to actually accept he is there right in front of her when he does come right in front of her??! (btw, i have an ag-wtf: why, oh why!? is ag standing around with her mouth open like women in brain-dead serials now??? why, why, why?? so wanted to reach out and lift her jaw to close her mouth shut!)
* prem wtf: 'kay. pirate-prem was cool. but after that prem..? that guy in the sleazy faux-leather jacket and egg-yolk yellow t-shirt made me want to grab him by the shoulders and scrub his head under the tap that heer was drinking water from! eeeeewwwwwww, hair gel!! but must admit: totally like the sneakers, dude! 😆(btw, i have an hc-wtf too: does anyyone else think that hc's a lot more obsessed with his appearance now than with being prem? or is it just me? 😕)
seriously, am now very curious to see what they've planned for prem. other than the startling change in appearance (propah-prem in capris??! 🤣 um... so why not shorts??? 😆), there is absolutely nothing i have found out 'bout who this guy is. oh, wait, there is one thing! he apparently commissioned a painting of himself! i thought that was really weird... he comes back, a wanderer who answers that he doesn't know where he's going. but he commissions a painting of himself??? ... and that too of him in prem's white shirt?? and that too from ratpal's family portrait artist? uh.. in how many ways can i say i'm confused?
* preet wtf: ooh, preet's sweet and gallant with meher, polite to ash, controlled with dirtchachi, prem-style-worshipful of his father, better-than-prem-careful of his mother, adored by his heer bhabhi, respectfully and regretfully unaccepting of his harman-bhai, preet-style-worshipful of his pb's coin ... uh.. are we sure prem's still ram in this story??
* meher wtf: oooooh! meher's dressing up to be worthy of preet's wife, clucking over him, smiling and caring of him, defending him in front of lalit juneja.. and all while being his best friend. are they .. uh .. sleeping together? for some strange reason, i really want to know!
* harman wtf: *sigh* he is trying, he really is! no, not to act. but to help his family out. but only in the way that he knows. that he respects. unfortunately, it ain't the "prem-way". and so no-one's gonna understand, let alone accept it. poor harman. he's still ram's bharat. but he's gonna have to find better ways of helping out his family... (btw, i thought both preet&harman looked totally cool in their outfits at that silly felicitation... seriously... 😍)
* lalit juneja wtf: *sigh* nothing new here... he still has harman-mania, prem-mania, swinging violently between preet-appreciation and preet-unappreciation, treating kuldi's husband as his secy, talking enthusiastically to gayatri-mom and heer... the only seriously interesting twist on lalit-juneja was what the harman interaction showed. lalit juneja who absolutely refused to forgive prem until he discovered that it wasn't prem but himself who was as wrong as hell? is this new attitude of forgiving harman trying to tell us that lalit-juneja has changed? and is more forgiving of beloved son's sins? hmm... then where does that leave his attitude with preet? don't know 'bout you, but it left me more resigned 'bout lalit juneja's inability to change more than confused. still the same old lalit juneja, even in the new year. *double sigh*
* gayatri-mom wtf!: 'kay! so what's with g-mom?? all i can remember clearly is her when heer returns home... didja see the way she casually strolls over to the sofa and sits in it?.. i dunno - that truly turned me off! 😕 and that scene at the "felicitation" made me frown. that was not a well-written scene. no way, g-mom would've subsided after that! the only way to have resolved that would've been for someone to take her home. heer should've taken her home... dunno. somehow i violently disliked how they ended her part in that scene... 🤢
* kul-di, husband wtf: uh.. exactly why are these two hanging around here to be treated like dirt by dirtchachi? couldn't they play the loving supporting family from some where else?
* veera wtf!!!: why oh why haven't they changed the script to have a blackhole suddenly turn up in her path through which she steps into another universe where there are no tv-serials through which we can see her? why?? if propah-prem can turn up in gel and capris 🤣 why can't vitchface fall through a blackhole???
* nihaal wtf: no real wtf except... he looks cuter in his longer hair setup. and nihaal's got a seriously cute smile... can you hit (i mean, physically hit!) someone with a smile? guess not. 'cause then shouldn't veera have been yelping in pain? seriously want to see vitchface in pain. the dirtchachi kind of a mother-feels-pain-of-her-children and worse kinda pain...😡
* "two funny boys" wtf: hey! they are still there!! as quiet as always! seriously, who exactly are they supposed to be? don't their parents miss 'em? don't they have school to get back to? a job? no? they show up soooo consistently -- they have to have a real role, no? not just "two funny boys" in the show?
* ashlesh-dirtchachi wtf: so, i finally figured out what was interesting 'bout these villains in the piece. not so much ash, but the dirty-kooky sisters. these characters actually make fun of the entire balaji-telefilms style of "good guys"! that was a kinda startling discovery for me. i just can't stand dirtchachi. however, i do have to admit to grinning at some (very few!) of her lines. and those are lines which deprecate typical characters in a saas-bahu serial. and i think that's uber cool of the dialogue writer to have done - seriously! if a serial can mock other shows by the same production house -- it's seriously cool 'ccording to me... 👏👏👏.. they still give me a headache though. wanted to seriously hurt dirtchachi at her entire "they must pay for my daughter's misery.." lines. horrible how she blatantly admitted to preet how she was torturing meher to get back at him! ghastly twisted pervert. 🤢😡🤢
* ratpal wtf: gee, do i have to do every character? the only thing that moved me to wtf 'bout the ratpal connections was actually something that kodiyon-pal said: "i remember tying both your shoelaces when you were 17/18". no, not 'cause ratty wasn't tying his own shoelaces all the way till he was 18! *retard! i could tie mine from age 5!* but 'cause suddenly, all my old wtf-s about prem's childhood came roaring back!
remember an old wtf where i wondered why they always showed young-prem in glasses? but now-prem does not? *btw, did anyone else giggle when prem-in-monkey-cap told his assistant that he should shift out of glasses into lenses? so reminded me of my what-happened-to-old-prem's-specs question!* or how young-prem was a rotund, weak-left-handed near-retard who couldn't pass exams? but now-prem is strong, with great strength in hands, feet, legs, eyes, you name it, he's got it... *damnit! focus estee! focus on the wtf! 😆*
so who is this person who kodiyonpal used to tie shoelaces for same as ratty? did ratty have a fraternal twin? did that twin die 'cause of some accident and .. uh .. contributed to making now-prem as perfect as now-prem is? hmmm...! big wtf... big.. 😃 of course, considering i get nothing right 'bout this show, this is probably another one for the dust-heap of failed predictions too..... *sigh*
well. 'cause this is the team that gave us prem-heer-are-one and 6/19-prem-heer and 9/11-prem-heer, i'm gonna keep the faith and w&w. even after they gelled prem and repeated that station-dupatta scene in a rather silly way.... i'm gonna keep w&w-ing. looks like it could be a very interesting new year. now if only barak will trash that open-season-on-gray-wolves bill...
*w&w: wait and watch, copyright smitha (sshekar)*