Originally posted by: SurrealFantasy
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">On from my phone ATM, so things may not make sense. Warning.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">By pre-love days, I meant before their wedding. RKB was callous - the whole "you don't deserve to be a mother" days is what I meant.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">I mentioned the accident track because the lines were the same then as they were today - Raman, Adi, Shagun versus Ishita.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">@Bold: See, Drishti, I don't think they need to cultivate sympathy and heartache for Ishita - as most women on this forum, and the TRP aunties would (or at least I do) sympathize with her being saddled with a psychotic step son and in laws who are treating her like a second class citizen.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Clearly, the only relationship she has with Adi is through Raman - the rest of the people in that house have blood relations with that Green Lantern. And so what today's episode did was reinforce the idea that no matter what that woman does, she's gonna come second to the Oedipus kid.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">I love both Ishita and Raman with their flaws. I don't think anything she's done so far other than the earrings (read: erring) fiasco has been too JM, and now Raman's brains have gone for good.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">How I see this situation is simple - neither Shagun, nor Ishita have the right to decide who Raman is going to prioritize. Only Raman can do that. Ishita - as seen in today's episode - cannot send Shagun out of HER house. So it comes onto Raman that he makes a firm (AND SENSIBLE) decision.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Does that make sense?</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Your wife can only take so much before she breaks. She can only tolerate your ex wife to a certain extent. I can TRY to sympathize with Raman's fixation with Adi but the fact that he has been (from day one) blind to Shagun's inexcusable presence in his house is something I can't forgive him for.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">This is the same guy who shouted at Ishita for bringing a drunk Shagun home. Are the writers telling us that he's gotten over the whole ridiculousness of this arrangement with his wife and ex wife, all for his kid?</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">I always try to find excuses for the characters I love - the CVs made it so, sympathy for the other character, frustration, pent-up tension, the whole essence of the character, bleh bleh bleh. I do that every single time. But this time, only Raman is to be blamed. Not because they want more sympathy for Ishu or because Raman ka wicket girana hai or whatever it is, but because he clearly cannot prioritize or rationalize when it comes to his son.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">I have more to say but my sister is going to knee me if the light from my phone disturbs her one more time. So, I'll leave it for later.</font>
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