19/6 Dragon Club: The Judgement Day

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I really don't know what to write here today and that is a first. 😲😆

So I guess I will just pick out a few points that I found interesting in the episode:

Yash looked HOT! ☺️
I am loving this whole, I can't deal with my feeling so I am unkempt look! Though I like his new look, I missed his stubble too and it totally went with the tone of the story right now. Yash was supposed to be dishevelled and frantic through out the episode and he certainly looked the part!

Gayatri's decision! 😲
Even witches melt in fairyland! Gayatri's prime aim is to see Yash and Palak happy and if Aarti fulfills that wish, she will accept her as a real bahu of this house. While this sentiment indeed warmed the cockles of my heart, it also made me doubly sure that Aarti would not succeed because winning Gayatri cannot be that easy, no sir!

Arpita's Parents
I have a feeling they will have some part to play in the story but for now I just have to congratulate the CVs on the consistency of their story! It would have been weird for their grandparents not to be at Palak's birthday party and the fact that the CVs never make excuses for these things and maintain the integrity of the plot and characters is really amazing! Arpita's mother was so sweet and seemed so much more at peace than she had been at the wedding. I think the whole Aarti-Arpita resurrection was as painful for her as it was for Yash, only she channeled it in a different way.

It seems that they have dealt with their grief in a much healthier way than Yash, and therefore the girls, have because Arpita's mother was chatting happily about the fudge, feeling joy but no sting in Arpita's memories while Yash was seething on the side. That really puts Yash's grief into further perspective and makes it look even more unfair. If Yash lost a wife, Arpita's mother too lost a child, possibly her only one! She manages to find happiness in her memories and be happy for Yash moving on, why can't Yash feel the same for his children?

Yash Ate the Fudge!
When Aarti and Prateek were making the fudge, Prateek told Aarti that Yash ordered the fudge every year but never ate it himself. This year it may have been the fact that Palak was celebrating her birthday again, it may have been the fact that everyone said it tasted just like Arpita's fudge, or it could be both but he just had to get a taste and it sent him into a tizzy! I thought that was really symbolic. All these years, he refused to eat fudge that was not made by Arpita, as though he was somehow being disloyal to her. But today he just could not resist partaking of the fudge. It really heralds a new beginning for Yash, one where he realises he is eating fudge, and it tastes the same but Arpita didn't make it, Aarti did.

More Symbolism
I thought it was interesting that they contrasted Arpita making the fudge and Yash giving her the saree with Yash eating the fudge and Aarti taking and wearing the saree. It really is like a continuation of that day, as though the last four years did not happen, only with Aarti taking Arpita's place. But that is just what Yash did not want, so he is going to blow a fuse tomorrow!

Plan worked...on Yash...for a second.
i think it is interesting that they showed Yash's hallucination and then his realisation that it was indeed Aarti, whose hand he was holding and that it could not be Arpita. I think this foreshadow's Palak's reaction and also Aarti's realisation. She can become Arpita and fool people, even Yash, for a few seconds or moments, but in the end she is Aarti and she cannot hide that.

I don't think that Palak has accepted Aarti as her mother. She is going to be looking beyond her tomorrow, asking, where is my gift? Or at least I hope that is how it goes. I mean, her reaction would have been far more ecstatic if she thought that Aarti was her mother. She has probably been imagining her mother's entry at her party every since Aarti told her it would happen, and I am pretty sure she has a million things prepared to say. A polite "thank you" is probably not what she had in mind.

Well, I guess I wrote a fair bit after all, but I am still as confused as ever! 😕😆

it will be interesting to watch what happens today.

Aaj ki Raat hona hai kya

Agree with Sam. I think we will get mostly more light moments today, with the big showdowns left for Wed. and the aftermath for the rest of the week. Question is, what kind of aftermath?

Edited:

CVs, please hurry up and get this Arpita ka jagah, creepy birthday disguised as a fairy party over soon please, because I cringe watching Yash romance the Arpita in his mind, especially since I am now positive that all his "memories" are not even what really happened, but just his grief induced version. It's just getting yucky now, that way Yash is imaging Arpita when Aarti is in front of him. I don't mind him remembering her, but I don't like him getting the too mixed up in reality.🤢

As for Aarti's plan, I see only two real problems with it. 1) the lie to Palak. That was obviously wrong, and I think they made it quite clear by Palak's reaction to Aarti, that Aarti coming dressed as her mother made absolutely no impression. She is expecting to see the same mother that she sees in the pictures, not her new mother pretending to be the old mother. 2) Aarti should have left Arpita's stuff alone. She could have very easily got a new saree that looked like Arpita's, if she was intent on going with this stupid dress up plan, but those weren't her things to touch, period.

Other than these two problems, Aarti has really done nothing wrong. Trying to do things the way that Arpita did them is not really a bad thing, because it will show the entire family that they can continue to do these things and be happy, as well as dwell on the happy memories associated with them. The whole thing with the fudge, to me at least is a little weird. Did Arpita have a corner on her special fudge recipe? It is quite clear that Prateek knew how to make the fudge, else he would not have been able to direct Aarti how to do it. Also, Aarti was never told by Yash not to do things like Arpita to make Palak happy, so if he yells at her for any of those things, that is just his stupid thinking. I am sure that he will yell at her for the lie and the dressing up, which he should, but I do hope it isn't as painful to watch as I imagine it will end up being.

Because the episode had a sort of creepy, ghost story type feel to it (intentionally done by the CVs I believe) I don't really feel up to trying to analyze anything in particular, but since we have yet to see Palak give an outburst for not getting her promised present, I would like to talk a little bit about this. Yesterday a question occurred to me about Palak, and that is, why exactly does she want her mother back? What I mean is, what exactly makes getting her mother back the best gift? Before the party celebrations and her real bonding with Aarti, I would have said that she wants "her" mother back, because she thinks that only "her" mother can be her mother. However, now I am not so sure that is why she wants Arpita back, even if that would be what she articulated when asked.

Regardless of how old Palak was when Arpita died, she was only two or three max, which means at six or seven, six going by the CVs, she really could not have clear memories of Arpita, even if she does remember some things. Because she only had two or three years with her mother when she was a baby and toddler, all of her conscious relationship with Arpita has happened through the other family members, especially Yash. What kind of relationship with Arpita has Yash given the girls, particularly Palak? "Oh my poor betiyon, you've lost the best mother in the world. Oh, Arpita, come back and help me take care of the girls. I can't do it without you. Oh, Arpita, we lost you on this day, and our daughter is so unhappy. She's waiting for you to come back, won't you come back Arpita? No one can ever take your place, Arpita!"

I highly doubt that Palak has ever seen Yash remember or talk about Arpita in a way that doesn't clearly spell out his grief. What kind of loving daughter would she be, if she didn't want that grief to go away, and I am sure that in her mind, that grief will only go away if her mother returns. Yes, Palak missed her mother, or rather missed having a mother, but I have a feeling that that is a bit secondary to the pain she has felt over the years when she saw how much Yash was missing her mother. Once this whole scenario of Aarti's crazy plan is over, if someone where to ask Palak why she wanted her mother back as her gift (and I'm not saying they will ask, just if they did) I could imagine that her answer would be, "I wanted Papa to stop being sad and missing Mummy, so that we could all be happy again and celebrate my birthday together." This probably wouldn't happen, but I hope that something happens, so that Yash realizes that his girls can't be truly happy unless he lets go of his obsessive grief over Arpita, and I also hope that Yash is the one who explains to an angry Palak that her mother can't come back to them, but not to be mad at her new mother because she was only trying to give her the same love and care that Arpita would give if she was there. Also, I want him to explain that Arpita would be happy if Palak would accept the love from Aarti as if it is from Arpita.

Who knows what the CVs have planned, since they very cleverly gave no precap, I just hope what ever tamasha is going to go down, that is doesn't ruin Palak's fairy party, which looked pretty cool. Gosh, how will we get through this week?

So you guys are hopeful something will happen today, unlike last thunder tuesday where Yash woke up and didn't take Aarti and Ansh home as per promo😕

Veena, I think something will happen right at the end of the episode, to make us all crazy for tomorrow. The rest will be all the song sequences, fudge and smiles! 😊

ooh Cas is back 😳 😛 😆