Loved everyone's responses and agree with all.
I think this article might hold true for other serials but not in case of RR. For me whenever Parud came closer the TRP have increased and illogical plotting eg the Laddu track were never excepted even by the TRP audience. Even family- maala or maala- rudra union tracks were not eye grabbing as CVs didnt know how to tell it properly. In other serials suspense tracks have done well with TRP crowed but here Shantanu track also didn't work.
For me their real story was till the Tejavat track till the Mahashivratri one. Dont understand why they had to hurry with it.
Were worried with their opening TRPs and thought negativity, captive track or terrorist tracks are not liked by trp folks?
I have seen many serials which r now counted in top 10 trp shows which opened with even less trps than RR.
Their makers didn't get disheartened and changed their original story but they got determined to show the same story in a better way.
For me they should have extended tejavat track (which I suppose to be their real story for atleast 6 months ) and showed Paro to herself find out the truth about Tejavat not tejavat telling the whole truth so easily. I am sure slowly and steadily the show would have climbed the ladder of TRP chart.