Point of the leap

I think we can all agree that this leap has failed completely, but this post is about what point they were actually trying to go for in the first place and where they have ended it.

A leap is supposed to be about improving the leads or increasing understanding between them. The first leap definitely did this. Abhi overcame his insecurity about Ak's love for him, and Ak became more assertive that before and was shown to call out Arohi more freely. Overall, I think the leap had its flaws but was atleast a normal leap. They touched on a couple of points such as Abhi's anger or Ak not fitting into Birla house and stuff, but they never addressed them again and things were smooth sailing.

Abhi was actually shown much calmer during that reunion and they still had some disagreements but they were mostly able to resolve them. This itself created a bad condition for a new leap cause there really weren't any blaring red flags during that period that justified the leap. Ak's recklessness was highlighted way more than anything else, which ultimately led to wd. Wd was horrible and we have discussed it enough, so I would prefer no more discussion on that here.

This leap would have worked if it were used to address Abhi's anger or Ak's priorities. And in a lot of way at the beginning of the leap they did do that. Abhi was shown calmer and Ak was shown to care more about her family than strangers. Abhi was shown taking everyone's responsibility and becoming a true family man and Ak was shown cutting off all ties and focusing on herself and her son rather than the rest of the her family.

But then things completely went off the rails. Instead of just talking about Abhi's anger, Ak talked about his motivations and feelings for her, which have been crystal clear from the beginning. She said their entire relationship was wrong for her and she felt caged by it. Infact she has spouted a lot of nonsense that I don't feel like repeating. But all in all, it was used to degrade and insult Abhi's existence in every way possible. This could be a learning moment for her that she also said mean things in anger, but nope, it was adopted by everyone that that is how Abhi is. We as viewers can go back and watch previous episodes, but Abhi as a character can't and this is like gaslighting him. Everything he believed in is taken away, disfigured and returned with insults. Ak on the other hand has become such a big emotional manipulator that no one wants to oppose her decisions anymore. Goenkas are too scared that she will just run away again if they oppose her so they accept everything about her. Nav is too scared that she will leave and take Abhir with her that he is also too scared, atleast at the beginning. Slowly he gets his place in the relationship and is able to argue for himself. But where is the lesson?

The result is that Abhi has lost most of who he was and become a completely new person. This person is too scared to do pretty much anything and he has been shown confused about the right path to take many times. While Manjari influences him, Ak manipulates and gaslights him, and him caught in the middle doesn't take any real stand. Some places the OG Abhi shines through like going against Manjari for the custody case or when she stopped visitation rights. But overall, he seems more afraid than anything, for disappointing more people and unintentionally harming the people he loves. OG Abhi was very sure of himself, and yes, sometimes that can be a bad thing, but that was also one of his positives that they have reduced down.

Ak on the other hand has become a joke and I am not sure if she can ever learn any lessons. Yes, she learned to prioritize her family, but in the process lost all morality and justice.

In all the characters themselves have become the worst versions of themselves, rather than the best versions. How does one get back to a normal version, I am not too sure. But they can't change character arcs that soon and the damage is too great to repair in my view, especially with a lack of supporting characters who can do that. Abhi needs to be told he is good enough and he can still take decisions and be assertive as long as he doesn't give into anger. Ak needs to be brought down a lot of pegs and shown her own mistakes as well as reminded of the empathy and love she was capable of.

Point of leap : Never go to Kasauli and if you do, don’t accept the invitation for dinner from your driver. It can be traumatic and opens a can of worms sometimes.

This leap as per some interview I read was desperate attempt to save show from going off air due to notice from channel...they wanted to create complexity in story that can increase episode count and create novelty as song and dance se kuch ho nahi ra tha. As per makers that complexity was needed to carry show forward..I think it was just half baked idea ...they had to create need for new character..so they ruined Abhi on WD..in his comparison they wanted to create sunshine lead..they created false narratives but they didn't make sense to someone who has seen show from start of season 3..but yaha complexity kuch jyada hi ho gayi ki ab story ka kuch sar pair hi nahi hai. They got too much in love with their creation and due to giving him undue glorification.. sacrificed everyone else..Nav was just everywhere..hero heroine both..no character resembles preleap self..there isn't consistency in character arcs preleap and postleap..they have destroyed Akshara with capital D..I can't believe she is same person who was before leap..Akshu and mRs Sharma are entirely different people...for me nothing makes sense...I don't recognise these characters postleap..so this leap was fail as per me..royal fail..I don't know how will they restore story now..I don't know if this was your topic but I just wrote my thoughts on leap..

how initially it was going ,if they had continued ,it would had succeed,like initially they showed Abhira character s had interchanged,Abhimanyu be came calmer,family man like Akshara wanted,Akshara became short tempered,considering only on Abhir ,which Abhimanyu wanted,said to focus only on themselves and his mom,,they could had taken them both to learn to prefer themselves as family unit ,they could had shown love was there but understanding ,communication is important

Simply to increase episode count !!!!!!!!!

Honestly, the only main character that has some minor resemblance to pre-leap is Ab... they have kept his moral compass the same, his love for Ak the same, only his compassionate nature and ability to empathize have been heightened, and his anger reduced..... the anger reduction is very welcome and definitely a logical outcome to the destruction it had caused.....

Other than him everyone else keeps flipping per convenience..... keep changing narratives to suit Nav/Ak's latest quest/insecurity/problem/zidd/ wish ... whatever their hearts want that week, the narrative will change to match. Again only constant, making Ab the villain for things he did in good faith and things everyone thinks he will do reacting in anger, but never really did those, but Gk still got angry just thinking about his imaginary reaction! 😆

Basically, this is the gist of what it has been for the last 8 months!

It could have worked if the leap actually focused on the leads. Meaning their feelings, thoughts, and point of view. If we could see them struggling with their decisions, their guilt, their hesitations, etc we would have remain connected with them both on this journey. But alas that did not happen. It seriously was like a switch had been turned off after the mandir confrontation. We still saw things from Abhi's point of view but Akshara was conpletely shut.

This to me was the beginning of the end of Akshara as her character basically got stripped down only to accommodate the propping of a male cameo. The writers took it too far with the daily taunts at Abhi. We no longer saw if Akshara felt guilty, sad, angry at herself after she said such things to give the audience hope that the humanity in her was still there. Real humans have complex emotions and even after a fight they do reflect and take a moment to collect themselves, question if they may have gone too far. None of that was shown. The writers sacrificed the female lead took away the "motherhood" equation as if Abhir was brought up and raised only by the step father. The show already established that the female lead was always over looked by her family and to have her motherhood also be forgotten to praise a stranger (he was a stranger because the family had never officially met him before) for looking after Abhir? It just boggles the mind.

Now we have a male lead who has learned his lessons but the female lead seems to have regressed and learned nothing. As you stated in the process of thinking only about herself, her son, and her nuclear family she lost all morality. She committed a fraud with the birth certificate and there was no remorse on her side. No realization. Its fine if Abhir sees Abhinav as his father but you cannot ignore blood. Abhi is the biological father. Its the truth she tried to erase. She actively tried to block Abhi who just wanted to spend time with his son. Why? All because it would disturb her "happy family" and make her husband insecure. A mature individual would have found a way to resolve the situation and bring in co-parenting. But she was not interested in being mature and solving the matter the right way.

The only thing that happened to Akshara is that she was punished with Abhinav dying. But the lesson is lost on her. She has no idea what mistakes she made. Her actions cannot be absolved just because it was a reaction to what Abhi did that one day and phone call. There is still accountability that has to be taken in your own response as well. Just because someone did wrong to you does not mean you get a free ticket to do whatever because you are upset with them.

Waited for aksharas redemption and realization but we got sorry from abhimanyu and he thanked her for being her.

for what reason he thanked her ...is it for umarkaid dialogue or paraya or bina baap ki aulad or selfish or chair keechke baitke attitude diikhane liye...bullshit

Poori thara se bigadthiya her character ko...she looks paraya to me ...not our akshu once we loved

Point of leap to save the show. As per producer the show got notice from channel. leap along with separation of leads and kids, that too male lead didn't know kid was his was very old recepie to increase trp. It worked here also till abhimanyu knew the truth. After that trp dropped.

From the way this leap has been executed, the point seems like writing Nav puran and doing Nav jaap. The leads have been completely overshadowed by his presence and specially Akshara has been reduced to just being a plot device, whereas this is supposed to be her story!! As you rightly said she has been made into a joke.

As you mentioned, I too think the leap was good until Kasuali track, but they messed up after that. In my opinion by end of Udaipur track they should have shown Akshara’s realisation of pain & loss of Neil that Manjiri and Abhimanyu went through. Her realisation that when she was struggling with pregnancy alone, even MJ and AbhiM were dealing with their grief and loss. But she also understands that their worlds are far apart now. She has created another life with Abhinav and Abhir, which she can’t rock now for their sake. And she continues to hide Abhir so as to protect him from the disruption and thinks it is best that everyone remains oblivious to truth. Hence she behaves rude and indifferent to Abhimanyu but mends her ways with Manjiri giving him mixed signals again (as done initially). She should have acted as someone who wants to co-parent and wants everyone to work together rather than run away from situations again. That would have been her growth. Whereas Abhinav should have been the one chanting about perfect family with a child as that was his primary drive to get into marriage of convenience.

Abhimanyu realisation could have been done the same way as it has been. He has toned down his anger, realised his mistakes but they shouldn’t have turned him into a self loathing guilt ridden character. They should have retained OG Abhi with less aggression.

Abhinav - they could have still kept positive but added more layers to his character. He could have been shown to develop feelings for Akshara (as was shown in Kasuali first track) but before he could act on them, he sees AbhiM and Akshara’s interaction in Udaipur track. He gets to know about their past and realises he took away a chance for them to make amends. But is caught up in a dilemma between preserving his world and doing the right thing. Writers could be have played with his insecurities here (rather than his gareebi and his inferiority complex against Abhi - that angle didn’t serve any purpose), he could have been shown to be selfish initially but then eventually fakes his death and walks away.

Ak, Abhir could have mourned his loss with Ak realising eventually what he did and coming to terms with it. Abhir could have been depressed as he is now to have lost his father.

The story still would have been on same point as now, but it would have been more about Akshara’s and Abhimanyu’s realisation of where they went wrong and that life had taken them far apart to mend ways now, and their journey from having to resign to their fate to eventually getting back together due to Abhinav’s good will. That would have been angst that HC/PR could have portrayed beautifully and JS would have got to play a role with more depth.

That is why the initial story worked, where we saw both leads individually trying to do the right thing for others but not acting on their love for each other.

If they wanted to show Akshara moving on from Abhimanyu they should have done it before Akshara ran into Abhimanyu. And then show Abhimanyu’s re-entry rocks her world, her perception and her moving on efforts. And then story moving forward as mentioned above. That would have worked to keep initial story, characterisation intact but build up a layer on it.

But alas the story they wrote has failed to create any impact - TRP or otherwise and has done more damage!!

It just shows Mr Zama has no idea of complexity of human emotions, and how to portray bittersweet poignancy and relationship dynamics.

In simple terms, the point of the leap was to do complete destruction and then start reconstruction 😆

Nav was always a plot device to keep Abhira apart. His only purpose in the story was to be an effective roadblock that stops Abhira from getting back together. He was Ak's husband, Abhir considered him as his only father....all of these things prevented Abhira from reuniting as a family. His presence in the show was dragged out only for this purpose. He had no characterization of his own worth speaking about. He was only glorified so that characters wouldn't consider Abhira a possibility anymore.

But ultimately it was always a mind game....lol makers played with people's minds for so long about what was seemingly impossible for Abhira....and now they will make that supposed "impossible" very much possible 😆.

They will show that just as you think all doors are shut for good, life will give you another chance and make the impossible happen again. That was the whole point of Nav's last drunken rambling too.....lol destiny takes its own path and gives you things when you have lost all hope.

The point of any plot by the makers is to increase episode count😆....whatever gives them scope to complicate situations and create bigger hurdles for the leads to get together again......that is what they did here also even if they dragged it out longer with Nav....lol