As the Story Will Tell Itself: To Become the Mouth Which Holds the Universe

There Sita sat beneath the ashok tree in Ashok Vatika. Earlier Sita had witnessed her dear husband fighting the terrible Ravana. Now the sounds of war outside the garden walls began to grow faint. Oh, joyous day , thought Sita, has my beloved Rama defeated that monster? The garden gates creaked open. Sita held her breath. In strode Rama, unscathed and all the more glorious from battle. Her heart leapt from her chest. She began to cry tears of joy. "Oh, Rama!" she cried. Sita got up and approached him with as much dignity as her happiness would allow. However, as she came closer, she noticed his demeanor. He had a frown on his face, a cold look in his eyes. This stopped Sita in her tracks. "My lord and love, why do you appear this way? The day is won. You have achieved all that you had set out to do. There is no reason to be so... this." Rama looked at Sita. His eyes pierced her like icy arrows into her soul and freezing her heart. "You are correct. I have...

"Dumpsville": that is harsh, man... Once again, the introduction animation sequence is pretty amazing! It is actually super trippy and cool! Rama kicks her out while she is pregnant?? He is really lucky about all the unrealisticness and deus ex-machina about his story because what he puts her through would not be good for their future children And if she proved her purity already, then he has no reason to suspect if she is not pregnant with his children! How do his subjects not know about her trial by fire? Why does watching or hearing someone else beat his wife (no matter if she was with another man) make him feel he must banish Sita? (And why let that man keep beating his wife? I know it is a different time, but still...) Even though it may have been part of the times, but Rama is a cold-hearted husband when he chooses to be And oh, man, that song "praising" Rama makes him look all the more like a jerk A dark, dark story of Rama being an abusive, gas...

The introduction animation and style are amazing... Everyone and everything are so shiny... Why are there clips of an American couple? Are they in some way supposed to mirror Rama's and Sita's relationship? Dasaratha tells his son to go away in a far less elaborate and personal way in this version.... Goofy-looking and -acting rakshasa Happy-go-lucky section of Sita and Rama leaving and going into the forest [Insert cheesy pun about how Rama shot a love arrow straight through Sita's heart] Also why is Rama depicted blue in everything? Is that some mark of divinity or just a way to set him apart from everyone else in artwork? Ravana was apparently a good king for some time? intelligent, talented, and a war master explore writing a story about how he became corrupted lotus, Lotus, LOTUS!  With all of the depictions of gods and people having multiple heads... Do they all share the same mind, or do they each have their own personality? if writing ab...