Originally posted by: krishy13
Ahh your post is wonderful!
I often wonder if they change out the CVs on a weekly basis because based on what I've seen as the collective forum reaction...
-the week leading up to Lohri was crap
-the week after Lohri was wonderful & old school YHM-like
-last week was crap
-this week has been great *touch wood*
I hated the anniversary drama n Drama leading to lohri track . I was ok with running race drama only thing I wished for was Shagun running as Adi's mom n Ishita as Ruhis n Ishita winning the race. 😳 This week episodes r truly awesome.
Literally - this show has been inconsistent in plot development with every week. 🤪 Not only would the focus of the "track" change weekly, but often the character sketches would be altered.
Because of this week-to-week chameleon act, I've learned to appreciate the episodes with the "old-YHM feel" SO much more! Forget Ishita-Raman scenes being given to us as a "lollypop", I'll personally take a logical, well-pieced together episode over all the "lollypop scenes" any day of the week!
Completely agree on this!
You can definitely tell that the writer of the story is more comfortable when it comes to piecing together stories that focus more on Raman's POV. It's unfortunate that as a female writer, she doesn't explore all the complexities of Ishita's character. It's not that Ishita's character isn't given importance in the story, I just personally feel there is so much more depth to tackle with her character that they not been able to accomplish since the time-slot change.
I really wish they would present a well balanced story that doesn't mess with character sketches & focuses on Ishita's insecurities or something, but this may be asking too. 😆
I know ever since Ishra got married it was majorly about Raman. In terms of screen presence I agree that Ishita gets good amount of screen presence but tracks r mainly about Raman - his weakness or his past or his professional achievements. We See Ishita solving Raman's family problems most of times not once have I seen her winning awards professionally or going for some medical conferences. Post time slot change I have rarely seen Ishita in clinic its more about Kitchen politics or solving life problems. We see Raman saying again n again I want u to b Adi's mother - Ishita never says what she wants or that Adi called her a witch so she is not sure if Adi wud accept her or not? We see Ishita getting affected by being called a Baanj, but I wud like in future to see Ishita telling Raman - lets try for a baby, lets go through some medical procedures etc. Most of my female friends r quite open about it they got married at 35 n now after 3 years they r opting for Alternate methods to concieve. There r so many medical miracle cases n Ishita being a doctor can easily try for it. I feel this will b truly a Nayi Soch. I think Ishra as a couple need to decide what their dreams or expectations r from this marriage n work towards it equally.
When you touched on how the overall feel of the episode is positive, I totally agree with you. Before the time slot change, no matter how high the drama escalated to - it was always well pieced together and never left you turned off of the show. There was an element of positivity to everything before, but since the Mani track there has not been as much constant positivity on the show. People turn to this show for a refreshing plotline that handles issues maturely but in the TRP race, the CVs went the super negative route and compromised their claim to fame.
i hated Tying Rakhi to molestor drama but at least most of the characters were not compromised n Ishita too gave a sensible reasoning behind all what she did. Besides we knew that Bhalla family is working together to expose Param n get Simmi out of his spell so it looked positive. Sanjana issue we knew that things will come around in the end - it was not overly regressive where characters were enduring torture (Raman during Mani track) or Bahu was asked to sacrifice her rights etc.
Mani track was going really great for me initially coz we could see Raman getting jealous n affected by another Man's presence in Ishu's life. But ever since they showed his hospital nonsense n calling Raman a Failure as a husband without considering Ishita's opinion about her own marriage was where the track started getting weird. From there on - CVs went overboard in trying to show Mani as a better option for Ishita which even Raman started feeling later on (hence the divorce track n Singapore drama). Mani track could have been an awesome track if they wud not have glorified Mani n made Raman (googling on commode) n Ishita (OTT Mani jaap) dumb to glorify him in that track 😆
Also #BringBackAshok&Param because RKB & Ishita need real rivals as Shagun isn't cutting for anyone!
Ya Ashok shud be used as rival than for comic purposes. Shagun is not a smart vamp, none of her poans have any sense in them. Shagun was quite a grey character initially n never the quintessential TV Vamp. I like Shagun when she is grey more than when she is all black.
Again - great post in reaction to a good week of episodes! 👏
thanks dear 😳