I think we got the news about Zahida as soon as it was news, so I am not sure the CVs were prepared for this when they were making Gayatri more and more negative; that seemed part of the natural story. Then again the boiling water promo does look a little more sinister than anyone expected. 😕
After reading some of your optimistic posts, I do see how the story can actually be renewed after the death of a pivotal character. In fact, I am most interested to see how Yash deals with loss differently than he did in the case of Arpita, now that he has that experience behind him and Aarti's unwavering support in the grieving process. In fact, Aarti and Yash can really be guiding lights to the whole family, who unlike them, are completely new to a loss of this magnitude. I would especially like to see a poignant relationship further develop between SP and AarYa.
Anyway, now that it's confirmed that Gayatri is dying, I do have a few hopes for closure for her character, since it has been such a pivotal one through out the show:
1. Please make her death meaningful rather than an unfortunate accident. I so wanted this for Prashant, where he would die and gain redemption through this death, by saving someone etc, but they had made him completely negative by then. With Prashant's death, Amit Thakur saved the day with Dubey's very believable and heart-wrenching grief, but with Gayatri I demand more because she was never and will never be a villain in the story by any means. Ideally I would like to see her die saving Aarti and the baby, which would be a redemption for wrongly accusing Aarti, in her blind favour of Akash.
2. I don't want her death to be immediate like Prashant's. I really want a Kal Ho Na Ho-type hospital scene where the doctor tells the family she doesn't have much time left and they all gather around her bed to say goodbye. This is a character for whom we need proper closure and I want an entire episode dedicated to her. I am confident that the CVs will do something like this but I am just mentioning it nonetheless. I want her to make peace with SP, tell him that she forgives him for what he did, and thank him for their life together; I want her to have little speeches with each of her sons and bahus, and if this is somehow caused by Akash, I want her to tell him not to be guilty. Basically in death at least, I want to see the strong, secure and at-peace Gayatri we were all waiting to see emerge through this track.
3. NO SP-RADHA! Please, no speech from Gayatri to Radha telling her to take care of SP now that she is gone. I want SP to be completely broken by Gayatri's death and it would be amazing if they could reference back to when he mocked Yash for his grief over Arpita, saying it wasn't manly to grieve so long and so intensely for a woman. Radha and SP can become platonic friends and make peace with their mistakes, accepting their mutual roles as parents to Yash and Akash but that is IT for now. SP doing anything outside of mourning Gayatri and trying to correct the mistakes that he left uncorrected, acting on the epiphany of how much she meant after losing her, would be unpalatable to be at this point... at least to me. Nobody expects the CVs to take the title of the show that literally!
I think the CVs owe the character of Gayatri this much at least, and given the fact that they love the character so much and couldn't bear to see anybody substandard play it, I have some confidence that they will give us good closure and that Gayatri's death will hopefully lay the foundations for a more deliberate and positive phase in the Scindia family, with everyone putting their egos aside in the face of the bigger picture.
I posted this in the MF as well:
Proper Closure for Gayatri's Character Edited by Samanalyse - 12 years ago