Как резко и в карьер эпизод сегодня начался! Чьяван-риши на Раму наезжает, на чём свет стоит, Лавана победно разгоняет ягьи и мочит мудрецов, а для нашего славного Шатругхны настал час славы! Сита, узнав о том, что деверь собирается навестить (!!) ашрам Вальмики (неее - это хорошо хорошо, ей богу хорошо!! Только поезд уже ушёл!!!) почему-то пугается....???
читать дальшеToday's episode was reminiscent of the Bal-kand and Aranya-kand episodes, when first Mareech/Subahu and later Khar/Dushan's rakshashas would disrupt rishi yagnas. Today's shot of Lavanasura personally assaulting the rishis was a pre-cap that they had shown when Lavanasura, at the behest of Karkatiti, decided to start persecuting rishis. Flashbacks of the older days, except that this time, Rama and Lakshman don't have to do anything - it's Shatrughan's moment of glory.
But one thing I didn't get was the rishis being hostile to Rama and attacking him for these assaults happening within his kingdom. They weren't - Lavanasura was doing all that within his own territory, and Rishi Chyavan went to Rama to ask him to intervene, which Rama had no problems doing. I agree w/ what Rama did, but it's inaccurate to imply that what Lavanasura was doing was persecuting rishis in Ayodhya, when he was only doing that to rishis in Madhupura.
Also, in the pre-cap, they show Rama asking Shatrughan to stop at Valmiki's ashram, and Sita freezing on hearing that Shatrughan was on his way there. As far as the original goes, this was accurate, since Shatrughan was the one who played the father's role in the naming ceremony of K-L, but I wonder what the purpose is of showing him stopping at Valmiki's now, given that that role is no longer there. Also, why would Sita be shocked - is it the expectation that nobody from her family should have any idea as to where she was? Besides, in the original, she did meet Shatrughan at the ashram when he visited.
This part of the story - I don't like the twist.
Exit question: once Shatrughan became the ruler of Mathura, who would have been the guru to his sons? Rishi Chyavan?
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Agree with your analysis, but still, today's epi was far better than what was thrown at us for the past few weeks. I think it will be quite awhile before I can get over what they showed. As long as they show something resembling 'Ramayan', I'm satisfied.
And we can hardly expect the Sagars to stick with the original, or be able to stick with the original, given how they twisted the story. So unless Sita wakes up and realizes everything shown was a dream (God forbid) and she is yet to give birth to Luv Kush , I do not think we can expect too much authenticity. However, I too am curious how they're going to show Shatrughan's visit to Valmiki's ashram.
Answer to Exit Question: Rishi Chyavan probably was the guru. So that would mean that only Lakshman and Bharats' kids were disciples of Vasishta. Luv Kush's gurudev was Valmiki was we all know, and it's likely that Chyavan was the guru for S&S.