So, episode 19 is here. Let’s finish it quickly.
For a refresher course, check old episodes. Since I barely recall anything except for a few character names, here is a recap:
Maala Episode 21 Recap & Review Thought Dump
I knew IT!!!
Okay, I adit, that one line doesn’t count for a recap, or review or thought dump. I didn’t want to add anything more but a few things came up when I was discussing this on the second day of Eid. So, here goes:
This finale episode was reiterating many things that we already knew.
- Mahir stuck to his words: him qatil nahin hain.
- Aliyan remained who he was: a talented young wizard who loved chaos in the world.
- Ziyad is the epitome of once a murderer always a murderer.
- Maala remains the most unlikable person of this story, and perhaps most unrelatable heroine of Nemrah’s.
!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!
Now, we’re starting with spoilers so stop reading of you haven’t finished the novel.
The Badr angle was kinda predictable and Nemrah kinda hammered it into our heads who the real kidnapper was.
Now, to the ultimate twist: it wasn’t. We all knew it’s not going to be a happy ending. The more people demanded it, the more Nemrah planned against it. She writes to shock the readers, remember? Ever since Ziyad’s threat around Mahir’s cabin: tumhari maut mere hathon hogi. I knew we will see one more murder towards the end. I guess we all were ready for that, so Nemrah killer Maala instead.
Maala kept saying that she had no intention of keeping the bakery. She was about to die in it. A twist well done, not gonna lie but that’s not the point I want to discuss here.
Why didn’t it hurt when she died?
Why didn’t I cry?
I cried buckets when
Maala’s mother hoor e jahan died,
heck I even cried jab mahir ko dua maangte bataya thha back when he was Kaif, in Lahore.
I cried when sabreena took mahir to the center where her brother was weeping silently and uncontrollably.
I stopped reading harry potter for days when Sirius Black died.
All this to prove that:
Things make me cry.
Maala’s death didn’t.
Was it intentional. Did Nemrah wrote it so it doesn’t hurt the readers? Or was Maala just an annoying character whose death doesn’t matter to us. I guess I’ll never know. I don’t go out of my way to seek such answers.
Here are few screenshots I have.
How did others feel about this episode. You can comment, or email me.
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Shabana Mukhtar