For all of you who missed this exciting, thrilling, gripping episode, allow me to give you the latest update…nothing happened. Absolutely nothing, it was a thoroughly depressing episode full of repetitive situations, dialogues which all of us have learnt by heart by now and scenes which we have have been watching for the past 3 maybe 4 weeks. Wohi naashtay Ki table, wohi gum-sum aansoo bahati misunderstood GER, wohi Psycho Adeel with his famous collection of shoes in which he has a pair for every color in the rainbow and the story revolved around, well not exactly revolved around but was dragged around these points…again.

So let’s start…Adeel the psycho has convinced his wise dad that GER is not proving to be a good wife, and as a result Taya Abbu feels that since these two newly weds are facing so many problems and are constantly fighting, so the best thing to do under the circumstances would be to … Let them continue fighting. Yes, folks, that was the solution Taya Abbu came up with. While in normal situations, the elders believe if the young newly weds are facing adjustments issues then it’s best for them to intervene, let these guys give eachother some space , in this case, take GER to Karachi for instance. So both of them could have some breathing space but no, Taya Abbu thought, it’s best if instead of meeting her mother and sister, getting some much needed time out, GER stays in solitary confinement and thinks about what she is doing wrong and how she can work on it to become a better wife. He himself behaved the same way with his wife Shahida over the brief conversation they had on the phone. He paid no attention to what she was saying, it was all about the wise old Taya Abbu.

Once again our achi bachhi, certified baychari heroine instead of calling her mother and asking for help just stayed silent. Well, to give her credit, she didn’t go down without a fight, she did make that cry baby face and those puppy eyes filled with tears…what more could we ask for from a grown woman ? Expecting her to actually talk to someone about her problems and asking for help would be too much to ask . She silently listened to her mother, her sister, her Taya Abbu and the list goes on, well I have to give her credit, she is a good listener if nothing else.

The writer has introduced two twists in this episode…as far as I am concerned neither of them is of any significance as far as the story’s progress is concerned. The first one was introducing Omer into the story, the guy who gave GER a ride home and the other twist was Ahsar Bhai’s diagnosis. He has blood cancer. Here is what I feel is wrong with these twists. GER by now is an expert at ” getting lost “, the first time she got lost, a young college student helped her find her way, so naturally after that, anyone would be cautious and wouldn’t wander too war away from home, but no, not our adventurous GER. Even  though she is afraid of wild animals and a terrible navigator, she still manages to conquer her fear of animals and get lost and as luck would have it, she always ends up finding a knight in shining armor who comes to her rescue. If this twist was introduced the first time GER got lost, it would have been better, considering the fact that this Omar guy might be appearing in the future episodes. As for Ashar Bhai’s diagnosis…I am thinking the writer is trying to justify why a grown man like him was crying like a baby on the phone when GER told him, she couldn’t make it. OK…so the guy knows he is dying that is why he wanted to meet GER one last time to say goodbye ? If yes, then he is dying and still is getting married ? Jis larki say shadi ho rahi hai, Kya ussay is baat ka ilm hai ? And if he didn’t know, then blood cancer is not something jo achanak hi ho jay, flu Ki Tarah.

Maria will be coming to join Adeel in Murree and finally GER will actually DO SOMETHING about her situation and move out , so she can go to Taya’s house. I don’t know how that will turn out, but something is better than nothing.

Now for some fun facts :) as this episode had nothing to offer, I decided to read the comments section and once again,  I got some very interesting views from the viewers. A girl said ,”  GER is always so shabbily dressed, she should get all dolled up to make Adeel jealous, that will teach him a lesson .” Another viewer said, ” she should earn his trust and then stab him in the back , that is what he deserves .” Judging from these comments, our young viewers have been watching too many Star Plus Soaps but unfortunately lately, this is the same stuff our dramas have also been showing, so I can’t blame them for thinking like this. I decided to use this opportunity to clear a few things. Here they are

Adeel is a psychopath…psychopaths donot feel any remorse or guilt, they lack empathy, they cannot form close attachments, they use cruelty to gain power, they are exploitative and they use destructive ways to gain excitement. Remember GER’s kidnap, forcing her into signing the nikkah naam at gun point, attacking Mona, suppressing GER and calling her ” my property “, leaving her out in the cold at night, these are not things that show love or possessiveness, they show his true colors. Psychopaths can get treatment but the rate of their recovery is not high. So, for all those people who are still clinging to the hope that some fine day, Adeel will wake up and realize what a moron he has been and then he will shed tears of remorse and will seek GER’s forgiveness and all will be well…GER will be known and celebrated for the Saint she has always been and she and Adeel will live happily ever after…sorry that is not how psychos are.

I am tired of abuse being glamorized and its high time, someone does something to teach our youth the difference between romance and violence. If a girl keeps on putting up with abuse, knowing fully well that her husband is deliberately isolating her, turning people against her, making her look bad, torturing her and he has no intention of ever letting her go…such girls should get help ASAP instead of staying in that situation and thinking of themselves as martyrs. Instead of focusing on getting higher TRPs, the media should teach young women ways to deal with such situations.