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Rudra Rudra, Maha Rudra, Shiva Shankara Pralayamkar...
Yeah, I sing it too. It makes washing dishes seem more epic. :D (I think that's what they're saying, anyway.) The sons of Tarkasur even had awesome tilaks - like exploding chaos wheels on their foreheads. If I were more adept with turmeric and sindoor I'd totally draw one of those.
Speaking of! Am I the only one that couldn't identify the individual Devatas for about half the show, except for the forehead markers? I kept having to go, "Wait, who is that? Okay, Surya's got the sun tilak, so that's not him....maybe Agni or Varuna? Oh, he's got the fiery marking, must be Agni! Okay!" I felt like such an idiot.
After reading your last post, I had to go and watch the parts with Kama again (obviously, haha)! You're really right about Yashodhan - I was trying to pinpoint just what about him as Shiva annoyed me, and that's exactly it: EGO! With Samar, it's like, "Look at Shiva, how cool and serene and steady," and with Yashodhan, it's, "Look at me being Shiva, isn't it awesome?"
I think he did pretty well as Kama for that exact reason - because Kama kind of has to be all, "Looky, looky, flowers and music and ME! isn't it great?" His hair was absurd, though; those tight curls don't look good on anybody, and early in the show they had most of the men wearing them.
So after watching Shiva kill Kama earlier, and watching the bit where he almost killed Indra, and then watching a bit of Shree Ganesh today where the demoness Viraja tries to poison Ganesh, I started to wonder - aren't all of them immortal? Even Kama was going to live on, in people's hearts, until being reborn....so isn't it kind of anti-climactic to make the main threat in an episode, "death"?
Lakshmi in ONS was pretty whiny, too, as I recall. It seemed all she did was complain about Vishnu not telling her about things that were going on, or complain about Devas not thinking Vishnu was best, or complain about Narada not chanting her name along with Vishnu's, or complain about Narada not coming to Vaikuntha enough...it was like, oh goodness, STOP THAT, because first of all, it's annoying, and secondly, DON'T give Narada another name to chant, because he won't have any lines anymore. :P
But at least she and Vishnu seemed to like each other. Saraswati always seemed very restless, like, "Oh, goodness, can I do SOMETHING besides sit on this lotus and stare at Brahma??" and Sachi spent the whole show glaring balefully at Indra and inwardly rolling her eyes, like "I cannot believe I married him. Can someone please kill him? Or can I??!"
Speaking of 'couples,' what happened to Nandi's wife? Remember, he got a wife in one episode? She was lovely, a delicate sweet-faced actress with green eyes, but she was only in Kailash for about five minutes and then was never seen on the show again! (Though she comes back in Shree Ganesh as Varangi and spends several episodes laughing evilly. :D )
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