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Oh my stars! Anyone with even an iota of nerves should steel themselves for a meltdown, in all ways that matter! This time around, the previews all spoke the truth. :-) Today, we have FGPrithvi and KS preparing to leave for the concert, Josh pulling off a tactic to delay Prithvi, AK&KS returning alone from the concert in a car which runs out of petrol, Josh piously thanking the raingod on behalf of his country and countryman (and woman), where we are shown how sweetly AK&KS can be friends together, we are shown how searingly AK&KS can be lovers together, where we see KS getting terrified because she discovers that her feelings are NOT dead after all, and AK getting terrified because he discovers that he was lying to himself about KS reaching a happiness that he was not giving to her through his heart, his body, his soul! ROCK ON, KYPH!! On to the show, me hearties!
(Warning: DO NOT MISS THE SHOW FROM THE SECOND SET ONWARDS!)
The first set starts with Prithvi at his apartment shouting out like a calmly understanding married man for his wife to get moving: Kripa! We're going to miss our flight! While he is muttering good-naturedly, the phone rings. It's Josh's assistant (who's name is Tansy and is as like a Pixie as Prithvi is like a Gnome :-)). Honey Josh is on the sofa, coke in hand, listening anxiously and Alliyah, on the other end, listening in confusion. Pixie Tansy: Calling from the sponsors, some papers need to be signed urgently, oh don't worry sir, Ms.KS doesn't have to come, she can catch her flight but you have to come and sign it, else there'll be legal problems. Josh can't believe that he's got _such_ a gem of a devious secy! Alliyah isn't sure any of this is going to work. FGPrithvi can't believe his bad luck but urges KS to go ahead. KS is jumpy, but she is finally convinced to leave.
Cut to: An AirIndia flight taking off!
Cut to: several shots of the old AK/KS/AK-KS concerts. (Gee, they didn't want to spend money shooting any new footage, did they??!)
Cut to: A Vastly Irritated AK standing with KS in a parking lot, cursing the sponsors for not having had the brains to get tickets to them! An attendent, with a suspiciously bright eye, comes up and offers them the services of a car instead: AK is too irritated to take the services of a driver with the car and takes the keys himself. KS is again jumpy, but she is finally convinced to go along by a blithely confident AK.
As soon as they drive off towards home, litte Pixie Tansy pops out from behind another car, with a wide pixie grin, phones and says: Okay, Boss Josh, Plan Phase II in take off mode. Boss Josh on the other end is completely amazed at Pixie Tansy's efficiency! (As I was! I want a Pixie Tansy of my own!)
Cut to: AK&KS in the car, bright street light on their faces, both very carefully not looking at each other. AK looks like a deer that's caught in car headlights; his eyes are popping with the strain of not sneaking a peek at his lady! Don't worry, KS, he says with unnatural brightness, we'll get back on time. KS is just jumpy and shifty-eyed with the strain of not sneaking a peek at AK.
Cut to: A desolate part of the drive in the countryside and (as always seems to happen when you put AK&KS in a car alone) the car stalls! (This time, AK does _NOT_ say "Arrey, yeh gaadi ko kya hua?" :-) ) He notices in disbelief that the tank's empty when it had been full a while ago. They step out and in the headlights of a car that passes them by, they see a trail of fuel on the road -- the tank had spun a leak. AK&KS carefully avoid looking fully at each other, but they are both thinking "Bloody Hell! Err, now what??!" Another car passes them by and the two stand stumped at the rear of the car.
Cut to: the car that passed by. Pixie Tansy pops up again! in the passenger's seat. Her pixie grin is now bordering on gremlin glee! She calls up Boss Josh: Plan Phase III in motion. There is only one place they can head to for rest. Boss Josh looks like he has died and gone to Manipulation Heaven. :-)
The second set starts at AK&KS standing like a well-dressed yuppie pair with nothing much to do on a Friday evening, stuck in the middle of the road. Suddenly, the skies cry "Lights, camera, action!" and the rains pour down. AK&KS know exactly what to do -- NO! They do NOT dash into the car for shelter! They dash off into the countryside and guess what, find a cosy little Tabela!
(I know, I know, I'd read all the previews, but the Tabela had beautifully arranged stacks of hay and a couple of Lanterns Lit and Ready!!! I couldn't stop roaring with laughter!)
Cut to: Pixie Tansy who is probably beginning to believe that her Boss is in cahoots with the God of Manipulation. She calls him up and Josh becomes manic in his glee at his end: Raining??!! Raining?? Oh that's Perfect! Alliyah is dour: why is it perfect that it's raining? Josh is struggling to understand just _where_ his good luck is coming from! Oh, rain is good for the country. The country needs the rain! Alliyah thinks that he has finally lost his marbles: Since when have _you_ started caring that the country gets rain? Josh takes pains to explain: when the country gets rain, the people of the country get rain. Alliyah's face is a Duh! look. Think of it Alliyah, Josh urges, there is rain, falling everywhere, blowing rain, and there are two people, lost in the middle of it; imagine what can happen. While he talks, we are seeing what's in his mind's eye: the empty road with the empty car, rain drenched country side, warmly lit Tabela, two lovers, not so wretched, running into the hay to find shelter.
AK's dusting the raindrops off his hair when he suddenly takes a full look at what he has by his side: Pretty-in-rose-pink KS, more exposed to the rain, more drenched, struggling to use her dupatta to get the water off her face, her closed eyes, her hair; her closed eyes which means that he can suddenly, greedily drink his fill of the sight of her. And so AK does, without thought, without fear, until those dark KS eyes open. Before she can realise he has been staring so intently that the sight of her is branded in his heart, AK's face changes from intensely absorbed lover to casually smiling friendly person. KS is jumpy about what she saw in that fleeting instance before his features reorganises into smiling friend; but she is convinced by his smiling sincerity and relaxes. Truly relaxes for the first time.
(It was an obvious piece and by now, I expect nothing but excellence from him, but MIKhan did rock in that expression change.)
AK moves to one end of the Tabela while KS perches at the other end. She is trying not to be caught staring at him; he is trying not to be caught staring at her. She is cold, sitting on the ground, rubbing her arms in their sleeveless kurta, her lips slowly starting to shake in the wind and with the rain. He can't take it for very long. He walks across to her, remarking that she is cold. Well, there's a bottle of alcohol in the car, should he dash across and get it? KS gives him a small frown and says no. His face is clear of any guilt: no, think of it as medicine and it'll keep you warm. KS gets pert: no, I really can't. She flicks him a sudden cheeky look from under her eyelashes: besides, you remember what happened the last time I drank alcohol.
Flashbacks to scenes where she is drunk and singing and swaying on a bed, with AK trying to control her. And a Most Remarkable thing happens: both of them smile at each other, and then laugh fully, in perfect camraderie of old memories.
Oh My Stars! Is this what they would've been like all through if those horrible, horrible things hadn't happened??! They are beautiful and happy and laughing with each other at the memories, and suddenly you so badly wish that nothing had happened to this young couple, and that they had just continued on their track of true love without any disruptions. This AK&KS rocked my world, because even if it was just for a moment, they defined happiness in the best way possible. :-(
(Both MIKhan and NBamb came across as friends more than anything, and they rock, they rock, they rock.)
They are both smiling naturally at each other. KS smiles: I hated you for that, you know. AK smiles back: I know. Well, I started hating you too then, you know. KS looks quizzical: why did _you_ start hating me? Well, because I guess I realised that you were my true love and I resented that I was getting caught in the love trap and my life was changing. Everyone should find their true love, because everything changes, and for the better.
As he's saying this, AK's eyes are clear of any of the bad old past. There is no drama, and he says all this in a very matter-of-fact way: I love you, you know, I'll love you forever. Nothing can ever change that. And I know you are someone else's. But you know what? It really doesn't matter. I love you anyway. I really want nothing in return. I love you and wish only that you will be happy. AK can look KS straight in the eyes and says this with a sense of freedom of getting it off his chest. He smiles again: You know what? I know another way to get warm. And he dashes away.
(Oh My Stars! Sigh!)
The third set opens with a close shot on a neat piled up stack of wood (sigh, why are such things never around when I'm camping and wet in the wilds??! I need Pixie Tansy!) and a sensitive hand striking a match to the wood. The fire catches and KS is lured by the warmth to sit nearby. AK sits opposite her, trying like hell not to look at her, and failing miserably. She becomes uncomfortable under the heat of his stare and leaves despite needing the warmth of the fire. A precarious perch on a rickety bench, under AK's sideways glance, and she doesn't notice the bench swaying until it's too late.
Our hero dashes up "Kripa!" but he doesn't manage to catch her from rolling off the bench into the dirt. She comes up, spluttering, with muck on her hands, muck on her cheek, muck on the side of her neck. Our graceful pretty lady looks like a kid who's been playing in the mud, and AK's face breaks into a smile-for-KS, gentle and small. She notices his smile and stills her frantic activity to get muck off her face with her mucked up hands. AK is still very quiet and matter-of-fact: KS, you're beautiful. Wait! She is puzzled. He pulls out his phone and takes her picture, turns it around and shows it to her. Her face creases into a disbelieving laugh: "Angad, thum bhi na." (I couldn't find out an English way to say it!) Wait! Now it's her turn to command him.
She runs to the edge of the Tabela, catching rainwater runoff to splash her face and clean her hands, and he is standing watching, loving her helplessly. She returns to sit next to him near the fire, wiping her face and her hands. She still has muck on her neck and her dupatta's too soggy and dirty to wipe it clean. He is her helpless slave; stripping off his jacket and offering the inner sleeve to wipe her neck. The sleeve is snazzy with snaps and zips and one of them catches in her earring. She struggles to get it off, and he, caught in a web of longing and love, stills her hands, asks her permission to touch her -- all without speaking a word -- and untangles her earring. She turns her head back to thank him, and her face is suddenly too close to his. He can't move even if he catches fire, and she is caught by the same tug and spell.
(M E L T D O W N and today I can't be funny about it. The KYPH team got me: snagged, bound, helpless in the AK&KS spell. :-/ )
She looks away and he pulls away, gets up and goes to stand by the edge of the Tabela. Now she is the one who cannot look away from him. Her head is spinning: what's happening to her? She _has_ no feelings. She is the one who promised to get up, walk away and never look back. Why is she looking back at the old path now? Why is there a tug to go back, which gets stronger and stronger, the farther she wants to go? From whence these feelings?? She is beginning to look shattered, all over again. :-(
(NBamb did this well. As the old refrain goes, MIKhan rocked. And I felt drained.)
Morning breaks and brings with it bustling activity; a tow-truck carries the car and AK&KS (they've changed their clothes!) to a garage. Their car is slowly fixed; both stand around the car, careful to not look at each other. They drive away in a fixed car, careful to not look at each other. AK pulls up in front of Prithvi&KS' flat; KS steps out and they are still careful to not look at each other.
But KS' steps drag as she goes into the flat. The flat (which suddenly looks like it's a house, BTW) where Prithvi is pacing in the lobby. He is so relieved when she walks slowly in, unseeing, unhearing: Kripa! FGPrithvi has to snap his fingers in front of her face to get her attention. Hey! Where have you been!? I've been worried -- they said there was a snafu? KS? KS??! KS looks at him as if from far away. KS, what's wrong? And unbidden the memory of the smiles and the touch from the previous night flash into her mind. Without warning, she drops herself into FGPrithvi's arms.
A moment later, she draws back and asks (this is the previous week's preview) I don't ever want to go anywhere without you. Why can't we get married sooner? Prithvi's puzzled but delighted: Sure, but... A moment catches the corner of his eye and he breaks off what he is going to say. KS turns to look at what he can see. It's AK at the door, his eyes wide with shock and disbelief. For a guy who's only desire is to have his girl happy, no matter how that happiness is achieved, he looks as shattered as KS was a moment earlier!
End of show!!
Preview: My mind is blank -- what was the preview??!
(I don't know, I don't care. Today KYPH rocked! Let me tell you why: it's not because there was MELTDOWN -- okay, of course, that had something to do with it. But more than that, today KYPH got closer to what I thought decent serial making was all about: quiet music in the background, deep emotions without fanfare and eye-rolling, teeth-clenching, tight-fisted, muscle-clenching, lights out of the sky drama. This is what KYPH first promised, MIKhan does best in and oh, I'm back in love with KYPH!
Today's show was a well-synchronised, sweetly conducted mass of well-put-together emotions. The first set rushed through the setup of Josh' manipulative scheme. At first, I thought it jarred. But eventually, I was glad, because that meant more time spent on the heart of the story: AK&KS and their mixed up feelings and beliefs. Further, it took all of the firmly held beliefs that these two broken and torn young people had painfully constructed to protect themselves and their hearts, and shook it around, until whatever calm resolve and dead place our duo had slotted themselves into was turned upside down and inside out!
Last week had ended on such a hopeless note because AK was _so_ dead that he might as well as have committed suicide. At the end of today's episode, he has found out for himself that all his lofty intentions of remaining aloof while the love that his heart beats for marries another man is a Pile-of-POOP (POPOOP) He has just found out that he is NOT going to be happy when KS marries Fringed Gnome Prithvi!
Similarly, last week, KS said she had no feelings left. KS has found that all her absolute belief that her feelings completely died with their child is a POPOOP! Now, she is trying to fight by being extremely cowardly in forcing herself back to Calm Understanding mode with Prithvi. But now, she also has to fight with the memory of that stark face of misery that AK wore on hearing her plans to get married to FGPrithvi.
Well, I asked for a kick in the butt for both AK and KS, and BOY, did they get it!!! :-) I'm so happy. :-)
But darn it! Just when I am facing exile on the KYPH front, the team _had_ to put together a well-written episode which was ALSO well produced! With just the right amount of Josh, a Pixie Tansy who makes things magically work, an AK&KS who rock as old friends, scorch as lovers, and are now coming awake to questioning the truth/rightness of what they are doing with their life!
Poor KYPH team -- they just can't win with me. Either they are doing the wrong things at the right time for me, or they're doing the rights things at the wrong time for me.
C'est la vie. :-) Rock On, KYPH! :-)
)
(Warning: DO NOT MISS THE SHOW FROM THE SECOND SET ONWARDS!)
The first set starts with Prithvi at his apartment shouting out like a calmly understanding married man for his wife to get moving: Kripa! We're going to miss our flight! While he is muttering good-naturedly, the phone rings. It's Josh's assistant (who's name is Tansy and is as like a Pixie as Prithvi is like a Gnome :-)). Honey Josh is on the sofa, coke in hand, listening anxiously and Alliyah, on the other end, listening in confusion. Pixie Tansy: Calling from the sponsors, some papers need to be signed urgently, oh don't worry sir, Ms.KS doesn't have to come, she can catch her flight but you have to come and sign it, else there'll be legal problems. Josh can't believe that he's got _such_ a gem of a devious secy! Alliyah isn't sure any of this is going to work. FGPrithvi can't believe his bad luck but urges KS to go ahead. KS is jumpy, but she is finally convinced to leave.
Cut to: An AirIndia flight taking off!
Cut to: several shots of the old AK/KS/AK-KS concerts. (Gee, they didn't want to spend money shooting any new footage, did they??!)
Cut to: A Vastly Irritated AK standing with KS in a parking lot, cursing the sponsors for not having had the brains to get tickets to them! An attendent, with a suspiciously bright eye, comes up and offers them the services of a car instead: AK is too irritated to take the services of a driver with the car and takes the keys himself. KS is again jumpy, but she is finally convinced to go along by a blithely confident AK.
As soon as they drive off towards home, litte Pixie Tansy pops out from behind another car, with a wide pixie grin, phones and says: Okay, Boss Josh, Plan Phase II in take off mode. Boss Josh on the other end is completely amazed at Pixie Tansy's efficiency! (As I was! I want a Pixie Tansy of my own!)
Cut to: AK&KS in the car, bright street light on their faces, both very carefully not looking at each other. AK looks like a deer that's caught in car headlights; his eyes are popping with the strain of not sneaking a peek at his lady! Don't worry, KS, he says with unnatural brightness, we'll get back on time. KS is just jumpy and shifty-eyed with the strain of not sneaking a peek at AK.
Cut to: A desolate part of the drive in the countryside and (as always seems to happen when you put AK&KS in a car alone) the car stalls! (This time, AK does _NOT_ say "Arrey, yeh gaadi ko kya hua?" :-) ) He notices in disbelief that the tank's empty when it had been full a while ago. They step out and in the headlights of a car that passes them by, they see a trail of fuel on the road -- the tank had spun a leak. AK&KS carefully avoid looking fully at each other, but they are both thinking "Bloody Hell! Err, now what??!" Another car passes them by and the two stand stumped at the rear of the car.
Cut to: the car that passed by. Pixie Tansy pops up again! in the passenger's seat. Her pixie grin is now bordering on gremlin glee! She calls up Boss Josh: Plan Phase III in motion. There is only one place they can head to for rest. Boss Josh looks like he has died and gone to Manipulation Heaven. :-)
The second set starts at AK&KS standing like a well-dressed yuppie pair with nothing much to do on a Friday evening, stuck in the middle of the road. Suddenly, the skies cry "Lights, camera, action!" and the rains pour down. AK&KS know exactly what to do -- NO! They do NOT dash into the car for shelter! They dash off into the countryside and guess what, find a cosy little Tabela!
(I know, I know, I'd read all the previews, but the Tabela had beautifully arranged stacks of hay and a couple of Lanterns Lit and Ready!!! I couldn't stop roaring with laughter!)
Cut to: Pixie Tansy who is probably beginning to believe that her Boss is in cahoots with the God of Manipulation. She calls him up and Josh becomes manic in his glee at his end: Raining??!! Raining?? Oh that's Perfect! Alliyah is dour: why is it perfect that it's raining? Josh is struggling to understand just _where_ his good luck is coming from! Oh, rain is good for the country. The country needs the rain! Alliyah thinks that he has finally lost his marbles: Since when have _you_ started caring that the country gets rain? Josh takes pains to explain: when the country gets rain, the people of the country get rain. Alliyah's face is a Duh! look. Think of it Alliyah, Josh urges, there is rain, falling everywhere, blowing rain, and there are two people, lost in the middle of it; imagine what can happen. While he talks, we are seeing what's in his mind's eye: the empty road with the empty car, rain drenched country side, warmly lit Tabela, two lovers, not so wretched, running into the hay to find shelter.
AK's dusting the raindrops off his hair when he suddenly takes a full look at what he has by his side: Pretty-in-rose-pink KS, more exposed to the rain, more drenched, struggling to use her dupatta to get the water off her face, her closed eyes, her hair; her closed eyes which means that he can suddenly, greedily drink his fill of the sight of her. And so AK does, without thought, without fear, until those dark KS eyes open. Before she can realise he has been staring so intently that the sight of her is branded in his heart, AK's face changes from intensely absorbed lover to casually smiling friendly person. KS is jumpy about what she saw in that fleeting instance before his features reorganises into smiling friend; but she is convinced by his smiling sincerity and relaxes. Truly relaxes for the first time.
(It was an obvious piece and by now, I expect nothing but excellence from him, but MIKhan did rock in that expression change.)
AK moves to one end of the Tabela while KS perches at the other end. She is trying not to be caught staring at him; he is trying not to be caught staring at her. She is cold, sitting on the ground, rubbing her arms in their sleeveless kurta, her lips slowly starting to shake in the wind and with the rain. He can't take it for very long. He walks across to her, remarking that she is cold. Well, there's a bottle of alcohol in the car, should he dash across and get it? KS gives him a small frown and says no. His face is clear of any guilt: no, think of it as medicine and it'll keep you warm. KS gets pert: no, I really can't. She flicks him a sudden cheeky look from under her eyelashes: besides, you remember what happened the last time I drank alcohol.
Flashbacks to scenes where she is drunk and singing and swaying on a bed, with AK trying to control her. And a Most Remarkable thing happens: both of them smile at each other, and then laugh fully, in perfect camraderie of old memories.
Oh My Stars! Is this what they would've been like all through if those horrible, horrible things hadn't happened??! They are beautiful and happy and laughing with each other at the memories, and suddenly you so badly wish that nothing had happened to this young couple, and that they had just continued on their track of true love without any disruptions. This AK&KS rocked my world, because even if it was just for a moment, they defined happiness in the best way possible. :-(
(Both MIKhan and NBamb came across as friends more than anything, and they rock, they rock, they rock.)
They are both smiling naturally at each other. KS smiles: I hated you for that, you know. AK smiles back: I know. Well, I started hating you too then, you know. KS looks quizzical: why did _you_ start hating me? Well, because I guess I realised that you were my true love and I resented that I was getting caught in the love trap and my life was changing. Everyone should find their true love, because everything changes, and for the better.
As he's saying this, AK's eyes are clear of any of the bad old past. There is no drama, and he says all this in a very matter-of-fact way: I love you, you know, I'll love you forever. Nothing can ever change that. And I know you are someone else's. But you know what? It really doesn't matter. I love you anyway. I really want nothing in return. I love you and wish only that you will be happy. AK can look KS straight in the eyes and says this with a sense of freedom of getting it off his chest. He smiles again: You know what? I know another way to get warm. And he dashes away.
(Oh My Stars! Sigh!)
The third set opens with a close shot on a neat piled up stack of wood (sigh, why are such things never around when I'm camping and wet in the wilds??! I need Pixie Tansy!) and a sensitive hand striking a match to the wood. The fire catches and KS is lured by the warmth to sit nearby. AK sits opposite her, trying like hell not to look at her, and failing miserably. She becomes uncomfortable under the heat of his stare and leaves despite needing the warmth of the fire. A precarious perch on a rickety bench, under AK's sideways glance, and she doesn't notice the bench swaying until it's too late.
Our hero dashes up "Kripa!" but he doesn't manage to catch her from rolling off the bench into the dirt. She comes up, spluttering, with muck on her hands, muck on her cheek, muck on the side of her neck. Our graceful pretty lady looks like a kid who's been playing in the mud, and AK's face breaks into a smile-for-KS, gentle and small. She notices his smile and stills her frantic activity to get muck off her face with her mucked up hands. AK is still very quiet and matter-of-fact: KS, you're beautiful. Wait! She is puzzled. He pulls out his phone and takes her picture, turns it around and shows it to her. Her face creases into a disbelieving laugh: "Angad, thum bhi na." (I couldn't find out an English way to say it!) Wait! Now it's her turn to command him.
She runs to the edge of the Tabela, catching rainwater runoff to splash her face and clean her hands, and he is standing watching, loving her helplessly. She returns to sit next to him near the fire, wiping her face and her hands. She still has muck on her neck and her dupatta's too soggy and dirty to wipe it clean. He is her helpless slave; stripping off his jacket and offering the inner sleeve to wipe her neck. The sleeve is snazzy with snaps and zips and one of them catches in her earring. She struggles to get it off, and he, caught in a web of longing and love, stills her hands, asks her permission to touch her -- all without speaking a word -- and untangles her earring. She turns her head back to thank him, and her face is suddenly too close to his. He can't move even if he catches fire, and she is caught by the same tug and spell.
(M E L T D O W N and today I can't be funny about it. The KYPH team got me: snagged, bound, helpless in the AK&KS spell. :-/ )
She looks away and he pulls away, gets up and goes to stand by the edge of the Tabela. Now she is the one who cannot look away from him. Her head is spinning: what's happening to her? She _has_ no feelings. She is the one who promised to get up, walk away and never look back. Why is she looking back at the old path now? Why is there a tug to go back, which gets stronger and stronger, the farther she wants to go? From whence these feelings?? She is beginning to look shattered, all over again. :-(
(NBamb did this well. As the old refrain goes, MIKhan rocked. And I felt drained.)
Morning breaks and brings with it bustling activity; a tow-truck carries the car and AK&KS (they've changed their clothes!) to a garage. Their car is slowly fixed; both stand around the car, careful to not look at each other. They drive away in a fixed car, careful to not look at each other. AK pulls up in front of Prithvi&KS' flat; KS steps out and they are still careful to not look at each other.
But KS' steps drag as she goes into the flat. The flat (which suddenly looks like it's a house, BTW) where Prithvi is pacing in the lobby. He is so relieved when she walks slowly in, unseeing, unhearing: Kripa! FGPrithvi has to snap his fingers in front of her face to get her attention. Hey! Where have you been!? I've been worried -- they said there was a snafu? KS? KS??! KS looks at him as if from far away. KS, what's wrong? And unbidden the memory of the smiles and the touch from the previous night flash into her mind. Without warning, she drops herself into FGPrithvi's arms.
A moment later, she draws back and asks (this is the previous week's preview) I don't ever want to go anywhere without you. Why can't we get married sooner? Prithvi's puzzled but delighted: Sure, but... A moment catches the corner of his eye and he breaks off what he is going to say. KS turns to look at what he can see. It's AK at the door, his eyes wide with shock and disbelief. For a guy who's only desire is to have his girl happy, no matter how that happiness is achieved, he looks as shattered as KS was a moment earlier!
End of show!!
Preview: My mind is blank -- what was the preview??!
(I don't know, I don't care. Today KYPH rocked! Let me tell you why: it's not because there was MELTDOWN -- okay, of course, that had something to do with it. But more than that, today KYPH got closer to what I thought decent serial making was all about: quiet music in the background, deep emotions without fanfare and eye-rolling, teeth-clenching, tight-fisted, muscle-clenching, lights out of the sky drama. This is what KYPH first promised, MIKhan does best in and oh, I'm back in love with KYPH!
Today's show was a well-synchronised, sweetly conducted mass of well-put-together emotions. The first set rushed through the setup of Josh' manipulative scheme. At first, I thought it jarred. But eventually, I was glad, because that meant more time spent on the heart of the story: AK&KS and their mixed up feelings and beliefs. Further, it took all of the firmly held beliefs that these two broken and torn young people had painfully constructed to protect themselves and their hearts, and shook it around, until whatever calm resolve and dead place our duo had slotted themselves into was turned upside down and inside out!
Last week had ended on such a hopeless note because AK was _so_ dead that he might as well as have committed suicide. At the end of today's episode, he has found out for himself that all his lofty intentions of remaining aloof while the love that his heart beats for marries another man is a Pile-of-POOP (POPOOP) He has just found out that he is NOT going to be happy when KS marries Fringed Gnome Prithvi!
Similarly, last week, KS said she had no feelings left. KS has found that all her absolute belief that her feelings completely died with their child is a POPOOP! Now, she is trying to fight by being extremely cowardly in forcing herself back to Calm Understanding mode with Prithvi. But now, she also has to fight with the memory of that stark face of misery that AK wore on hearing her plans to get married to FGPrithvi.
Well, I asked for a kick in the butt for both AK and KS, and BOY, did they get it!!! :-) I'm so happy. :-)
But darn it! Just when I am facing exile on the KYPH front, the team _had_ to put together a well-written episode which was ALSO well produced! With just the right amount of Josh, a Pixie Tansy who makes things magically work, an AK&KS who rock as old friends, scorch as lovers, and are now coming awake to questioning the truth/rightness of what they are doing with their life!
Poor KYPH team -- they just can't win with me. Either they are doing the wrong things at the right time for me, or they're doing the rights things at the wrong time for me.
C'est la vie. :-) Rock On, KYPH! :-)
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