Originally posted by: stillhopeful
I FEEL HORRIBLE FOR THE CVS
I am sure when they started out this show they wanted to show a decent and reasonable mixture of realism, sensiibility and sensationalism - a winning formula
but they were defeated by their own EXCELLENCE
How could they have imagined that they had done such an excellent job casting Krishna, Pratigya and the Thakurs
Their excellence has made their fan base very protective and so the CVs for lack of choice had to DRASTICALLY DIM down ALL SHADES OF GREY in all teh lead characters
their EXCELLENCE AT CASTING killed their DESIRE FOR SHOWING REALISM - THEY NEED TO SURVIVE TOO YAAR - WITHOUT TRPS THIS SHOW WILL CRASH
TRPs will only come in with a STRONG AND FOREVER LUCKY female lead, a wonderfully predicatble and constant romance and ABSOLUTELY OBVIOUS (to the point that it now insults our intelligence) villians and supporting actors
poor CVs - this is for you 🤗 - I feel your pain and empathize with your predicament
Hope, this last post of yours has surprised me! If you understand that the CVs have been pushed into intensifying the shades in their characters, then you must also understand what has prompted them to do this?!
When the CVs depicted the evils of a certain social system with both wonderful detailing and colour, they hoped that we would appreciate their efforts while also comprehending their core objective of portraying the evils within this very specific, social system - a system which is very much in prevalence even in contemporary India. They gave their audiences credit for being able to do a simple sum of parts and see where their loyalties ought to lie. They gave their audiences credit to be able to distinguish basic right from wrong, because that is generally held to be a common human faculty.
But as you rightly say, they have in fact created a monster, at least with regard to a certain segment of the audience. I mean, of course, your ilk. The very empathy with which they have depicted all their characters has so profoundly influenced your minds that you had started to resist the very narrative which contains their story and their graph. In your love of one or two people you went so far as to forsake justice and common ideas of right and wrong.
Then, suspecting that perhaps they have been too subtle and nuanced for a generation that has been brought up on the black and blacker aesthetic of the Kekta tele-world, they introduced traits of universally recognizable evil. Murder and torture, they presumed, would be considered wrong across the board.
But a small section is so far gone as to adapt their basic values to accommodate even these inequities of their pet characters! So far gone in their fan-dom that any other character that helps the narrative along in exposing their wrong-doings is immediately the blackest of villains! Any old excuse will do – Boring, proud, shows signs of righteousness, wears powder, wears high heels, does not deign to discuss, manipulative with talk, uses sex, withhold sex, refuses money, takes money, refuses to talk, talks too much, hair too glossy, diction too polished, and OMG EDUCATED!
I don't write this because I wish to argue or even presume to convert you. I write this because I am baffled. I really need to understand. I have no doubt at all that you all are quite regular people in real life who would react with appropriate horror if your neighbor slapped or tortured or murdered their DIL; it makes it a curious case that the same natural understanding somehow refuses to be applied in this context, because even as it maybe a work of fiction, it is certainly not based in fiction; Somewhere the writer of the show has been quoted as saying that he does not write in a single graphic detail of violence which he has not personally witnessed. So what happens to all the natural sense of fairplay and the ability to tell right from wrong?
Somewhere else I have said that I am dying to know when Krishna is going to overcome his delusions that his Father's/Family's Thakurayee is based in any real values of Love, loyalty and Honour AND realize that lust and love, fear and loyalty, greed and honour, are not mutually compatible traits. That he who really values LOVE FAMILY and HONOUR needs to burn his own trail, chalk his own roadmap to secure these values and own them for himself. Krishna is deluded because of a lifetime of conditioning, being brought up in a closed deeply coloured society, a painful need to believe in those he loves and not being able to see an alternative. Fictional or not Krishna's delusions are easier to understand. But please help me understand what his fan's delusions are based upon?
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