* big thing: is lalit juneja finally gonna change??!
c'mon! he doesn't scream and bashan at heer during the felicitation ceremony. he doesn't scream and bashan afterwards at home -- or was that 'cause it's not his home anymore? he doesn't scream and bashan when heer comes with (disgusting, filthy, pathetic, not-worthy-of-being-majestic-ravan 😡) ratpal. he doesn't scream and bashan in public at all! he does it in private 👏 and he admits he has been wrong, wrong, wrong! 👏👏
* big thing: gayatri-mom reacted to heer's action!!!! gayatri-mom reacted! she stood up in shock! um... wasn't that something? isn't that unusual? uh... um.. why am i the only one who is freaking out at this?
* little thing: heer crying in front of prem's picture at the ceremony. lakshman shielding his father and taking his father and his family away. both with their backs to each other, both in opposite directions that they've chosen. for some reason, that scene touched my heart.. made me sniffle..
* little thing: um... never seen that tie on prem before. photoshop, anyone? 😆
* big thing: i still detest dirtchachi.
*sigh* didn't someone say the actress was pregnant? when does she go on maternity leave? oh please, please, please let it be soon! puh-leaaaase! i can't stand the hypocrisy, the hysteria, the teeth-grinding anymore... i can't. ts - puh-lease grow too large and need to take bedrest for the remainder of the pregnancy. please, please, please. *i can't believe i'm pining all my hopes for a better story on a pregnancy! 🤣*
* little thing: but y'know? didn't anyone else find it odd that everyone came home and just parked in the living room in silence?
i mean. you go through a very traumatic function. there is a ill person who was traumatised - and yet everyone's sitting around? waiting for what? such things never make sense to me - even though i know it happens on these shows all the time!
* little thing: so did anyone else think there was some deep link to the ratpal secret in the pointed way he told preet not to call heer "bhabhi" 'cause he's not his half-brother?
back to lalit-juneja had many affairs and many illicit children theory anyone? 😆
* preet thing: yes, yes, yes! *fiercely yes* preet needs a thing. maybe preet has needed a thing for the longest time now. he was the hero of the show today. preet is lakshman. and now i realise: lakshman is the real hero of the ramayan. not ram. it wasn't ram at all. it was lakshman. and it was sita. preet, you rock.
i've adored prem. i've admired heer. but i see that i should have worshipped preet a lot more a long time ago. he tells dirtchachi to shut her filthy, rotten mouth. (politely - those adjectives are mine *i'll do situps as punishment later, preet, i promise*) that heer "bhabhi" wouldn't do anything like that. he tells meher firmly but kindly that it's not heer bhabhi's fault. note - here, he explicitly ignores ratpal's directive not to call heer bhabhi. he calls ratpal "tu" - no respect for sewer poop from mr. preet juneja, no siree! he tells ratpal that there will be no relationship between ratpal and heer bhabhi. *omg, i was whistling and applauding and causing enough noise for mom to call out an admonishing "esther" from downstairs* and after all that controlled fire from preet, he will shut up when his heer bhabhi tells him to.
'kay. i found my religion - i worship preet. *um... wiping the sweat off my brow... that's not too much, is't?* 😃
* heer thing: wow! i mean, wow! heer turns dirtchachi. i knew she wasn't just listening obediently to that pile of poop -- she was observing and learning so that she could return the attitude one day. but with 10x the class and grace! seriously, i was sitting back and admiring the way heer "played dirtchachi". the same flashing taunting eyes. the same grinding teeth. but she didn't raise her voice - the voice was firm. she didn't spit venom - the taunts were totally upper-class. and the taunts were most cruel. it's as if she had identified the real weakness in everyone she targetted. the most graceful part was when she managed to silence lalit juneja's voice. the taunt .. flowed! from one target to the next - perfectly.
and that's the performance that made it crystal-clear for me: heer is royalty. and dirtchachi is ... scum. it's always been that way. and i think that dirtchachi has always known it! she probably saw the young heer -- and known that there was no way she could ever ever gain that kind of purity, that grace, that inborn blue-bloodedness. and that's the reason why dirtchachi has always hated heer. 'cause heer was always better than her and hers.
wow. heer - you are amazing.
separately, i must add this: i thought this was one of the best performances of ag-as-heer that i've ever seen. what was the best part? the way that she made heer shift from bright-eyed royal taunts at the junejas (even darling preet -- ram's lakshman, who had saved her once before when some scum wanted to fool around with her in prem's hotel. and will do it again soon) - to that totally natural smile at ratpal! did you see that smile? it was perfect - nothing fake or forced 'bout it. and then! when she has turned away from her family and is walking ratpal out, you can see that heer is beginning to cry again... 'kay, said this before, need to say it again -- ag is brilliant!
* little thing: i detest vitchface - "how can you marry the person who insulted me?" -- *yawn* nothing new today. *where is that damned blackhole?? 😡*
* little thing: meher - i felt sorry for her today.
'cause y'know what today reminded me of? of the day that heer gave herself up to be jailed just so that prem's wealth and reputation will be preserved. so that his family will remain safe and secure. that day, heer gave herself up - without thought for herself and her own - for prem. she's doing that again today. and meher is in exactly the same spot as she was in that day too. abandoned by her sister.
except that this time, heer is leaving meher in safer hands - preet's. heer actually doesn't have to worry 'bout meher at all. and i think meher will not understand her sister this time either. but she may accept her actions a little better. after all, this time she knows how much prem-heer-are-one. here's to hoping that meher has grown up too...
* little thing: um... was anyone else totally 🤣 at the prem-and-his-assistants characters today?
these are supposed to be ... uh .. grown men? boys? with jobs? living at home, rented or otherwise? worried 'bout what home-people will say when they get back? uh... exactly what kind of grown guys are these?? my gang do not behave like that! the contrast between the assistants and prem made my head hurt actually.. the difference is so exaggerated, i know there's something fake going on here...
* little thing: 'kay, someone please go hc lessons on how to be a cool dude?
i don't care 'bout the current prem-facade. the late nights. the parties. the drinking. 'cause apparently that's what the character is supposed to do. but what comes across clear, as clear as the water under the ice in a lake in montana in winter 😆 is that mr hc has had little experience being the cool dude in real life. and apparently his directors are too carried away with the entire hc is a genius actor aura to tell him how to play the role! i mean, did he have to shout "pack-up" or "let's party" that loudly???!
and i'm right about hc obsessing with his new look! while he was taking the tape to it's case, he was actually flicking up his hair!! argh!! someone shave that guy's head! *um... 'kay, i take that back... 😆.. he looks chabboo enough with hair this short. i'll probably want to stuff him into a pram and stick a bottle of milk into his mouth before taking him out on a stroll, if he cuts it any shorter. what? why're you looking at me like that?? never made money baby-sitting before? 🤣*
* w&w thing: i can hardly wait to see today's episode! i do hope we get to see what prem's real after-job life is like! and i guess i'm also curious to see whether gayatri-mom'sgonna say something to heer when heer cries in her lap... if prem-heer-are-one and gayatri-mom's treated heer like prem a couple of times already, will gayatri-mom do one of her prem-treatments to heer? so badly wanting to see tomorrow's episode soon! 😍
highlight of the episode: no questions asked: preet, preet, preet. preet saying "there will never be any relationship between heer bhabhi and you" to ratpal. *go preet!*