I wanted to comment a bit first on some pretty astute observations made yesterday. For one, Satyabhama referring to Rukmini by name was once again a howler, and Krishna being disturbed by this woman who died while escaping Narakasura, but not by the previous 15,999 captives, seemed strange. In fact, Krishna didn't have any concerns about them until he killed Narakasura and found them captive in his palace.
On last night's episode, I liked the Krishna leela, and agree w/ aloochak that finally, they are showing parallel tracks of Krishna-Satyabhama's romance vs Narakasura's atrocities. I'll comment more about the wives in the Vaarali thread.
I'm glad the 5 headed Mura was brought in, and the way they demonstrated the fact that he has 5 heads was awesome. However, Mura was his guard - from what I recall, Narakasura never sent him to war, but did his wars himself. When Krishna went to kill Narakasura, he was confronted first by Mura, b4 he could get to Narakasura. But yeah, I was happy to see Mura.
One more thing I forgot to mention - after fouling up on the costumes of Jarasandha's allies - Rukmi, Sishupala, Shalva & Dantavatra, SP has finally gotten it more or less right w/ Narakasura. For starters, he has a real crown ๐ Then, the way he & his men were dressed were just like some peasants in Pragjyotisha, which would at least pass off as somewhat authentic, although the Rakshasha aspect of most of them is missing. That is important, since Narakasura was in the Dwapar Yuga what Ravana was in the Treta Yuga, and he was one of the most difficult enemies Krishna had to fight, aside from maybe Shalva. I do hope, like aloochak, that they show Narakasura's invasion of Devalok.
One thing I didn't get @ the end - when Krishna saw the storm and was concerned, he told Satyabhama that whenever these storm clouds roar, it's b'cos some persecution is happening of people somewhere or the other. Does this mean that whenever there is a storm anywhere, there is some atrocity in progress? ๐ I think the PH botched this one - they should have had Krishna say that
these storms tell him that some atrocity is going on.
On a related note, I posted a question about Narakasura in the
Doubts & Discussions thread. Anybody interested can address ๐
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