Emergency

Overall, it was a great Netflix addition and I did enjoy it during quarantine! However, since I did watch the Ramanand Sagar edition of Ramayan, probably one of the oldest available, this was definitely not comparable to it. For the most part, they did a good job going through each detailed part of Ramayan that Ramanand Sagar did, but the ending of this 2012 Ramayan was a very huge disappointment. Frankly, after the army and Ram crossed the bridge to Lanka, that's when it felt like they rushed the rest of the serial. They basically summed up Hanuman getting the herbal medicine in about 5 minutes in the serial, something that was much more lengthy and hard to do, which took about 3-4 episodes on Ramanand Sagar's edition. The very ending was also a disappointment since there is no showing of the whole family reconciling with Kaikay in Ayodhya. One of the biggest things was the agni pariksha that Sita had to to take, this was not shown at the ending. The war should've been the bulk of this serial, but it seems like they decided to spend much, much more time on the pre-exile information and before Sita's kidnapping.