This was the second of any two consecutive episode I've enjoyed in absolutely 'every moment of both successive whole episodes' entirety since January 2013.😆😃
There was sweet conjugal maturity and romance of a couple who didn't need to pepper the scene with grand proclamations of devotion and caring that their actions would contravene 😳, rather than the 'dating/affair' variety of constant fight-and-reconciliation routine seemingly for the perpetual heck of it, with bizarre uncharacteristic estrangements just for the sake of depressing negativity and bewildering conflict.
Hope the couple continues to show understanding and love for each other in actions and reactions, instead of the past many months of almost invariably consistent big talk from both that seemed to fall short when most steadfastly needed.
Loved the duplicate's scenes for humour flavour. VD did an outstanding job of the very different persona in speech and mannerisms.
So long as the duplicate gets sorted and helps get RK and Madhu together, and then sticks around until the end, the track should work quite well.
Duplicate's track so many variations have worked through the years except when they get the duplicate actually replacing the husband with the wife's knowing acceptance of the second husband. That variation ensures either the series closes, or the wife ends up being shown as a mother, and the same actors in the new pairing invariably fail to match in popularity their own previous pairing in the same serial.
On the very rare occasions when a serial's track was actually taken forward with the female lead accepting and moving forward in the story with another guy who is a lookalike or even a twin of the husband she loved deeply, either the serial went from high-TRP to mediocre-TRP and then gradually wrapped up after several months of painfully going from popularity success to barely passable popularity, or crashed so badly that the serial had to be wrapped in weeks.
The female lead shown loving another man who looks like her loved first husband raises qualms about lack of depth of her feelings for the first husband with the surface appearance similarity.
If the first pairing (and especially the husband) was extremely popular with the majority-audience, then showing her with anyone else is disastrous for viewership.
But showing her with the same actor as a different character is an equally failed gambit in every attempt it has ever been tried in.
The same actors in a different pairing - with one of them playing a different character - has been a bitter draught of success-termination in every track variation in every series.
To go from being a popular pairing to so passable that the serial needs to focus on supporting character's tracks for the enduring duration of its runtime is a consequence of embarrassing futility.
The concern is the CVs track record of taking a successful track or twist, and then adding their own alag che negativity "couple against each other just for the heck of idiotic conflict" change to it, and thereby drowning the entire track in depression and ensuring massive lapsed viewership.
Hopefully this time, they'll break their streak of 10 months of tracks that tried to forcefeed majority audience tracks contrary to their years of unwaveringly consistent tastes.
Trying to count on even a million people going against their own entertainment preferences simply to suit the CVs/channel's needs for a track-continuance is rather extremely hopeful.
And here it's not one million but several millions of viewers that are needed to ensure viewership-amount commensurate with the serial's financial value in budget and screentime.
Just hope that this time, the CVs have a look at the viewership-record of tracks in the past decade and more, and the track remains of the appealing nondiscomfiting and excellent sort of watch that the most recent two-three episodes have been.😊
Edited by leelaa9 - 11 years ago
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