#but ffs the hashtag’s been trending at no. for an hour now and… nothing

[dreamings-free]

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[tellywoodtrash]

Okay, I stopped watching after Laal Ishq track, but I've kept following updates on IB. I don't understand one thing: most of the ppl complained about groupbaazi, then the Rosie Rani track, then Chutki track (they didn't want Gauri, I think), then the social message tracks, then they whined during redux, so...if they are upset about tracks since the last 11 months, then why are they unhappy that IB, as they know it or Shivika, is ending? What did they want for Shivika??

Agreed. Like, I truly don’t get what people want out of this show anymore? They legit just wanna see this one fictional couple live their boringass everyday life????????????? (That’s what yesterday’s ep was and lord, I couldn’t even get through it.) Coz that’s all that’s left to these two. In either universe. If there’s anyyyyyyyyyything to be explored in this show, it’s the “groupbaazi” (So many interesting dynamics.) Par they’d rather have the show as they know it end than watch THAT, so lol, ab bhugto.

First off, this narrow-minded tunnel vision people have had towards the OU since this redux started has always puzzled me. It’s been very obvious from the start of this whole thing that the OU is OVER, and this is the new reality. They took this step because all plots in that universe for those characters have been completely exhausted. I’ve never understood all these ~~fantastical~~ sci-fi/psychological “theories” people have cooked up and bent over backwards to explain the redux as some kinda temporary thing. Go back to the OU and show what exactly? There’s nothing left there. There’s no plot left even HERE after the remarriage/exposure of Bua’s fuckery track ffs.

Then they wanted a goddamn pregnancy/kids track to show that Shivika are living happily ever after (as if procreating is the only endgame to happiness in life; its 2018, get with the program pls; a childless couple can lead perfectly fulfilling lives too) and Surbhi (rightfully, at the age of 29) didn’t want to do that; so the only alternative left for the show now is this. (Tbh if you ask me, this “Shivika ka pregnancy/bachcha chahiye!!!!!!!!!!!” garbage is to blame for all of this. Yeah, I said it.) They cannot have Surbhi playing a love interest to Shivaansh, whether it’s played by Nakuul or not. WHY AND HOW THE FUCK WOULD HE FALL IN ROMANTIC/SEXUAL LOVE WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS THE FACE OF HIS MOTHER? Narbhi simply CANNOT portray romantic interests against each other in the next generation without making it weirdly incestuous. One of them will have to go (QH S2 style.) The one way they could have made it work was a reincarnation track; but now they cannot do that either because that’s effectively what the redux is. They wrote themselves into a corner and this is the end-result. It’s time to let these characters end now. They’ve served their purpose, and it’s time for them to go.

Also, Gul makes some veryyyy pertinent points in her IV; for allllll this naatak, where’s the ultimate tangible result? She stated concrete numbers of TRPs and Time Spent Viewing, and Hotstar’s internal ratings, which are clearly unsatisfactory. These are the actual indisputable facts of the show. 4Lions khairaat baatne ke liye nahi banaate yeh show. This is a business. And if the business isn’t getting the returns, it will evolve/shut shop. The audience of this show are like those fakeass instagram food bloggers. Who go to places and take pics of stuff in the display cases/the bhaiyya talofying the jalebis on the street, and what not, NOT ACTUALLY BUYING ANYTHING, and in the end getting mad that the place shut saying “How daaare they close, I went there everyday!!!! I GAVE THEM SO MUCH LOVE AND ONLINE PRESENCE! HOW CAN THEY NOT RESPECT THEIR CLIENTELE LIKE THIS?!!?!??” Lol, get fucking real. Tweetstorm machaane ke alaava kuch karte nahi, aur chahiye Shivika ka hour-by-hour Bigg Boss-style reality show, which they themselves will tire of and complain about in 2 weeks. For once, I am on Gul’s side, coz she’s making decisions as a rational businessperson. Twitter trends aur instagram hashtags se chulha nahi chalta. Dena hai toh TRP/TSV do. In the immortal and oh-so-poetic words of Chetan Bhagat, “Deti hai toh de, warna katle.”