Originally posted by: crazygod
I am just wondering why there is so much buzz about people asking SB to end, or supporting Raghav/Siya to quit. I am just loving the show. All characters are intact, and now its more entertaining than ever.
I never had imagined that watching Raghav-Viraj together would be so much of fun. (Rana-Khana was just amazing)... Whatever abuses or criticisms the makers of the show has received, but if they read this Forum, I truly appreciate their efforts on always redefining this show and surprising us. atleast me.
I do not know about others, but I am loving the episodes, and I hope it only gets better from here... For whatever life the show is left with, I am sure its going to be satisfying and entertaining for me...
You're loving the show? Good for you.
First, all the characters aren't intact. V has been reduced to a seven year old kid and what more is that he doesn't sell it to me. I've seen his parts with Raghav on YT and he doesn't convince me. I still see a psychotic monster behind the pretense and that's all I'll ever see because that's what he is -- giving him shock therapy and using God to redeem him when he hasn't even repented won't erase his crimes nor will it change his nature. And honestly it's an insult of God as well as contradicting everything the show has shown so far.
Mind you, the creatives were the ones who established V's character as such. They were the ones who made him black from the start -- even when they showed him as a child, he was revealed as manipulative and cunning, abusing his foster sister. If he was supposed to, or meant to ever turn positive or turn grey -- then the creatives would've made sure to show V with remorse in the wake of every one of his crimes from the first episode and onward.
They never did. V never felt remorse. He never had a conscience. Now, all of a sudden, it seems that they've decided to turn him positive in order to retain him at all costs -- and the redemption track goes something like this; give him shock therapy, turn him into a child as the most innocent thing in the world is what? That's right. A child. That's how they want to feed people his redemption. Make us all forget what a monster he is because look at him, so innocent and kiddish. Except I'm not buying it.
This is a tactic used by creatives to make him likable. What I wonder is how the creatives can even consider attempting to make an abuser likable on a show that is supposedly the voice of victims against the men who abuse/have abused them.
In their euphoria of "reinventing" the show, they're screwing up the essence of the show -- in fact, in their obssession with retaining the abuser, they're compromising what made the show unique and worth watching; the social message and Jahnvi's journey.
I could dig into the past and pick the show apart, showing you where and when it went all wrong -- and why. But why bother? It's not like it's going to change anything, is it? Since it has been more than clear to us that the creatives could care less. Many of us have been mailing the creatives as well as the channel, asking them to cut out the crap, focus back on the social issue, get back on track, be fair to every character on the show -- but I have experienced nothing but disappointment.
When even the creatives are blind, then what's the point?
Someone once said: He who does not weep, does not see.
I wonder if the creatives ever wept when Jahnvi was abused. I wonder if they wept when they introduced this new ridiculous track of Sia tending to her abusive ex-husband.
Maybe they find the current track interesting. In my opinion, chemistry and humor just isn't enough to keep viewers attached to a show like this. I.e. viewers never got a real chance to relate with Raghav's character development. Suddenly he'd become a business man. Now, you tell me -- how does a man like Raghav go from promising his bhabhi that nothing will happen to her, from loving his garage, to a man who isn't struggling with the broken promise to her, who isn't shown struggling with Krish, and instead living the suite life as a business man, not even missing his garage -- except for a stray scene of his happiness over the return of his bike and his attempts at finding Rana.
Is that a character intact?
Tell me how a man who watched his family get abused by V, who watched the love of his life get stabbed by him -- how can he suddenly protect that very abuser from punishment? How can he even look at him without cutting him into shreds when he was seconds, and I repeat seconds, from stabbing him to death himself?
Is that a character intact?
Tell me how the unique bond between Raghav and Krish can be neglected, the very bond that told viewers Raghav saw Krish as his own redemption -- tell me how neglecting that, showing Krish wander around a normal boy when he should be traumatized from not just losing his mother, but keeping her secret as well, is a character intact.
Komal was literally butchered -- for no other reason but that her death had to accomodate the leap. Komal was loved by many, and her character wasn't given any amount of justice from the creatives. Taashu's character development was non-existent. The creatives took the easy path by marrying her to Sundar -- thus keeping Sundar in the house.
There was no logic and no connection between viewers and these characters or their very relationship. People were like WTH?!
Gayatri who lost more than a daughter-in-law, who lost a kindred spirit -- what about her? Where is her character depth and struggle, apart from stray split-seconds of grief?
Sia -- oh, don't get me started on her. Now here's a character the creatives screwed up to the extent that the actress was cheated as well as viewers. I could point out how she was neglected from her time as Jahnvi and all the way up till now, but I've repeated it so many times already in various posts. The creatives decided that they needed to fix their mistake now and since there was a leap, they magically transformed her into a social worker. Now we will never get to experience her journey toward that either -- something that would've been an inspiring journey to victims of abuse was skipped. Just like all other parts of her journey was skipped.
Characters intact...
Character development and character depth is what forges the connection b/w viewer and character. Following their journey, experiencing it, relating to it -- that matters the most to me as a viewer.
To answer your question...
I want SB? to end because I'd rather see the show shut down than watch the crap they're trying to feed the viewers and victims of abuse. Throwing in a leap, calling the show "new beginning", and erasing V's memory of his past deeds doesn't change the fact that this is a show that started out with a moral standing, a message, and a purpose. That this show was meant to be a voice for victims and against abusers -- but ended up losing its mission and becoming a show that promoted the abuser, focused on his journey, and eventually compromised everything [especially the social message] in order to redeem him.
Due to which the show is now being boycotted by some people.
Can you imagine how victims must be feeling about this show? I know a victim of abuse who watched this show up until now. She told me that the reason she watched was to 1) see Sia break free of her abuser and re-establish her life without him, and 2) see her abuser get punished by God for his entire life on Earth, because it would convince her that she wasn't wrong, that she was right -- not her abuser.
I just looked at her and all I could say was "I'm glad you stopped watching this show, then. It must've been messing with your emotions."
Fun... I don't have fun when I see Raghav interacting with V. I would have fun if I saw him dragging his as# back to the psychiatric ward and making sure that he never got out again.
Fun... I don't have fun knowing that V has been redeemed when he wasn't even punished in the first place. No, shock therapy is far from punishment for his crimes and the thing to make him worthy of redemption. Redemption means feeling remorse and spending every day of your life making amends. It's not a given through having your memory erased or becoming a child who doesn't know any better. Shock therapy was given to him in order to make people sympathize with him. Furthermore, the day that he becomes normal again, he'll still be a psychopath because there's no cure for psychopathy.
However, the creatives are now trying hard to re-arrange the facts about V and his nature as they want it to fit with the redemption -- how convenient, isn't it?
I agree. The show has surprised. To the extent that I wanted to dig my eyeballs out, toss them away if that could make me forget the disgusting image of V sitting on a bed, getting tended to by his victims like he's their adopted love child, or they his slaves.
Point is that the creatives never could let go of V. Which is why no character could have a track independent of him. Which is why the creatives overexposed him. They never really bothered giving other characters a chance -- and even now, when Raghav is supposedly in focus, it's fabricated. Note how Raghav's track is still dependent on V. Just like Sia's. Just like Gayatri's. Just like Saxena's. Just like everyone's. V is the sun and everyone revolves around him.
If this was any other random saas-bahu drama, I could've endured a leap that brought the changes that SB? did. But this show? December 2011, something unique was created. I'd been intrigued. We followed Jahnvi through her thought processes until the creatives had suddenly decided that they wanted to alter the entire story and characters. Focus shifted. Things changed. And nothing has been the same ever since.
I kept giving the creatives chances to correct their mistakes, but they cheated me every time. To the extent that my experience with them is one I wish I'd never had.
Edited by Elysia - 13 years ago
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