Hi Swasthi.
I'm new to the forum. But I was an avid reader of your Ahem and Love posts, they were very beautifully written and always brought up points that I had never thought of about a particular scene.
My answers to your questions:
Why take the audience down this path?
To achieve high TRPs.
In fact yesterday I realised that the record for the highest rated episode so far is for Devon Ke Dev Mahadev where Maa Kali kills a particular demon (apologies, I don't remember exactly which one). I'm not sure, maybe DABH had beaten the record at one point, but the DKDM episode reached 8.2 TVR. Bearing this in mind, noticing that these episodes were going to be telecast in Mahashivratri week and realising that they needed to reach a high dramatic point before the leap, I think this is why they went with this sequence.
If you were asking why the show started focusing on Radha and her so-called 'revenge', then I blame that on TRPs as well. TRPs have remained constantly high, SNS is in top 3 shows, therefore the writers assume viewers love Radha and also do not feel creatively challenged to show something different. So they have been going along with this 'Radha saga' as I like to call it.
Why develop the lead character from a naive and innocent girl to a justice driven person?
Because that is the destiny of every Star Plus bahu. 😆
But here I would also like to say that although Gopi was naive and innocent before, she always had her own way of showing the difference between right and wrong. She was a person who had quiet strength and immense patience. Remember that time when Kinjal had asked Ahem and Kokila for a huge sum of money (or something along those line) and Gopi had employed a clever tactic to show Kinjal the error of her ways?
I'm trying to say that it's okay if she became driven for justice. But I wanted her to strive for it in her own way, the Gopi way, with Kanhaji as her guide, her smartness, quiet strength and patience that she possessed. Stabbing someone to death with a trishul...I can't come to terms with that. They should have used Maa Durga or Maa Kali defeating evil as a reference point, as in every woman has an inner strength that comes out to defeat evil in real life. And this does not necessary have to be shown as literally killing someone, especially in a show like SNS where things had never gone this extreme in the past.
What does the future hold for Gopi?
At this point, Gopi's future seems very predictable to me. I actually made a post about this:
I apologize for my cynicism. But I've been watching these shows for so long that I've started to notice a pattern and have picked up on the usual tricks of the trade. 😆
I also apologize for the long essay. 😳
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