I'm just going to quote myself from this other topic:
Originally posted by: CZ..
I don't think anyone would want ridhima to continue with her marriage if she still loves armaan. one should always break away from a loveless marriage, because it doesn't make either of the partners happy. what really irks the SR fans is that ridhima kept making sid believe that she loved him. which wife would choose to get married to her husband twice? she's been dropping all the wrong hints all along, and sid isn't some sort of an antaryami that he'd simply ignore them and 'recognize' the AR love (as most AR fans claim) if ridhima is human, so is sid, which man wouldn't be happy if the woman he loves reciprocates his affection?
ridhima always had a choice, no matter what happened in her life, she always had a choice, and yet, she chose sid each time she arrived at a crossroads. is sid her personal boy-toy that she'd use him over and over again when she was supposedly 'confused' and then dump him when she arrived at her decision?
I don't support the institution of marriage at all, I feel it's too idealistic and concentrates the pace of life. but it's a relationship, and like every other relationship, it needs to be worked upon. did ridhima ever work upon her marriage? no, she was perpetually 'confused', and to a layman, she would come across as a woman who perennially has PMS. she was emotionally dependent on sid completely, and he, under the illusion that she loved him, supported her through each and every ordeal. infact I'd say she dumped her own emotional baggage on sid, and he took without any qualms. so the question still lingers - did she ever work towards making her marriage work? she didn't.
I'd have applauded the woman had she said 'no' to the marriage right in the beginning, or signed the divorce papers when she was given a chance. but she didn't, so yes, she did betray sid and I wish he wouldn't let her get away without a scratch so easily. she deserves all the hate and loathing that she's getting, and more. she has no right to play with a man's life like this.
^this is exactly why she is bashed so much, because she never gave her relationship with sid a chance. she was always too caught up in her own mess to contribute towards her marriage. had she even tried to transform her marriage into a 'relationship' from a 'compromise', SR fans might not have felt so badly hit.
I think I can safely say that she's a weak, spineless, confused and emotionally unstable woman, and armaan had alot to contribute to her already weak personality. he, being the stronger one, was always over protective of her. whenever she found herself stuck in some problem, she always had armaan to fall back on, and he let her. instead of encouraging her to face her own problems and have a mind of her own, he let her become and reduce to only a part of his own being.
infact, I had even posted a topic regarding the same issue during KaSu times. when that sanjeevani concert was going on and ridhima had to dance with abhimanyu, and he walked out at the last moment, ridhima ran to armaan with teary eyes to get her problem solved instead of dealing with it on her own. it was her problem, armaan had absolutely nothing to do with it, and yet she couldn't find her way out of a problem as small as this.
there are so many other examples - she didn't take a stand for her love for armaan (fasting and crying is not equivalent to taking a 'stand'), she didn't take a stand when she needed to before she got married to sid, she didn't take a stand when sid and armaan were fighting over her and just wallowed in self pity.
so it's inevitable now, that she simply cannot live without a man in her life. or just someone around her so she could depend on that person. living alone isn't everyone's piece of cake, and certainly not ridhima's. I think most of us would agree that any normal person, whether man or woman, would take time before diving right into another relationship (or rekindling an old one) after stepping out of one, but now that we know that AR is going to happen, she is simply going to waltz her way back into armaan's arms in another 5-6 days. so what if she's just been divorced? armaan hai na, baahein khole uska intezaar karne ke liye.
what I want to say is, that ridhima defenitely deserves all the bashing and I'd love all people who abuse her or mock her. she's the weakest TV protagonist I've even seen, even worse than ekta's women, and the only thing that's required to complete her 'personality' now is a heavy ekta-type saree and jewellery.
thanks for making it through the rant.
Edited by CZ.. - 14 years ago