Today's episode was the height of rudeness, both on Karna's & Bhima's part. There is no way the original Karna would have been this hostile to the Pandavas, had Kunti spoken to him this early.
After Kunti told the Pandavas that Karna was like an elder brother to them, Nakul made a sarcastic remark about him being a brother like Duryodhan. This would have been unthinkable by the original Pandavas - to insult Kunti like that. If anything, it would have made them curious about why. Then again, Karna, who did get the satisfaction of fighting Arjun, would not be so hostile to them, as shown here. He would have been more willing to listen to Kunti.
Similarly, while Bhima was aggressive in his hatred of his enemies, there is no way he would have stamped w/ his feet the lotus that Karna offered his mother. That was absolutely crass. Here, not only did Bhima do it, but neither Kunti nor Yudisthir told him a word, which is completely uncharacterestic of both.
In the original story, it was the Pandavas who were hostile to Karna, not vice versa. Karna was embittered by those insults, but his hatred for the Pandavas grew over time due to events like Draupadi's swayamvara and so on. It only melted away when Krishna & Kunti told him who he really was. Here, they are trying to distort it to make Karna a pure villain, but in the process, they're also making him a lot ruder than he would have been had the circumstances in question taken place.
When Karna & Kunti met, one of the questions he asked her was why she had never spoken up b4 then. But now, w/ this track, there is no way he can ask that. I'm really curious of how they'd show this meeting b/w them just b4 the war.
Also, Karna insulting Subhadra - fictitious on so many levels, don't know where to start. 😡 Karna probably never even met Subhadra.
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