Fatma Naaip
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Analyzing Episode 54. Season 2 aka Disruption by Design
When you first watch episode 54, your focus immediately goes to how the bad guys keep winning. Be it Ecmel, Boran, Demir - all the aholes seem to be living it up.
But scratch the surface, and another concept appears entirely. Destino, Karma, Kader, Fate - call it whatever you want.
That's what I want you to remember as we don our Sherlock caps for yet another analysis. I've divided the whole thing into segments based on characters for easier navigation and understanding. So, here goes nothing.
* Sadakat
One of the characters to truly surprise me this episode was Sadakat. My vitriolic hatred for this woman is no hidden fact, but this one episode managed to make me see her side of things for once. And, maybe even understand her a little.
We were all shocked by the scene where Nare, Alya, and Sadakat are talking about Boran and Cihan. I was mostly surprised because, for once, in 54 freaking episodes, Sadakat accepts her fault and doesn't look for a scapegoat.
Her dialogues serve to impart extremely important points about herself, Boran, and Cihan, and how her upbringing helped shape the present circumstances.
She admits that she was always afraid of the shadow of Ecmel lurking within Boran, which causes her to hand leadership to Cihan and keep Boran away from everything.
But, in trying to protect her family and Albora, Sadakat inadvertently brings about the very thing she fears most - Boran becoming another Ecmel. Now, cast your mind back to the very first episode.
We're introduced to Sadakat as an evil witch who's evil to Alya from the get-go and absolutely mental about keeping Deniz with the family at all times.
I think I finally understand why. Guilt. Sadakat keeps pushing Boran away, until one day he takes it upon himself to go k-word Sulaiman to prove his worth, so to speak, which results in exile for him and supposedly death in a foreign country.
Everything she does from that point on is based on years' worth of accumulated guilt.
Alya is driving the car that results in the accident, so she wins the 'get the most shit from Sadakat' award immediately. But, again, that's just her guilt exacerbating things.
As for Deniz, was Sadakat trying to avoid the same mistake she made with Boran with Deniz by holding on to him by hook or crook? So that Ecmel's shadow would never shape another family member's life again? Yep.
That's probably also why she hates the idea of Cihan and Alya, because her guilt forces her to keep protecting Boran even in death. Because how could she allow Boran to lose yet another thing?
In short, Sadakat tries to control the future of her family by trying to shape the circumstances, to make Cihan Aga and keep Boran away, but fails spectacularly.
Why? Because fate has other plans. Boran was never meant to be kept away, and no matter how much Sadakat toiled as a mother, he was meant to take Ecmel's side over his own flesh and blood.
And maybe Sadakat binds everyone else with a promise except herself because she might be the one to end what she started all those years ago.
* Cihan
Cihan's struggle in this episode was to try to find a way to neutralize Boran's poison. Because he's the reason Cihan's life is unraveling, because he's the man who controls Alya via Deniz.
Throughout the episode, it seems like all is lost for him. Alya is forced to give in to Boran's condition, and Sadakat is framed for Vurgun's murder.
And while Vurgun keeps his promise to Boran and takes his secrets with him to the grave, his death helps him speak what he could not say in life.
It's no coincidence Cihan is the only one to find Vurgun's secret phone stashed in a hidey hole in the wall right after Cihan says he will bury Boran in regret.
In this instance, too, we're shown that circumstances are pressing in on Cihan from all sides, but one dusty footstep later, Cihan finally finds what will possibly be the key to defeating Boran.
As for Alya, she's Cihan's greatest strength and weakness - as it generally is in love. She comes into his life as an impossibility and ends up becoming his greatest truth. Cihan relents to Alya finding an apartment because he understands her duty to her son.
But just as fears things are all out of his control, fate intervenes and gives him the opening he kept ignoring. Why? Because, as Cihan says, a man low enough to kill someone who saved his life is capable of pretty much anything.
So, Cihan's course is redirected subtly, too, to a possibility that will help him achieve what he needs most at the time.
* Boran
Yeah, I don't really care much for the zombie, but this needs to be said. Throw your mind back to how Sadakat says all Boran's calculations turn out wrong.
Though he's a sneaky troll who's not entirely as stupid as I thought, karma has a mile-long shit-list on this ahole.
First, he records a will video to punish Cihan. He hopes that Cihan will fall for Alya but will forever suffer the pangs of conscience. In doing so, he'd never find completion in his love for Alya and would keep suffering.
But, an Amal Bakir turns up at his grave out of the blue, runs into Cihan, and bam - he finds Boran. Which ironically helps Cihan overcome all his guilt pretty quickly.
Next up, Alya. The video Boran records to control Alya's life ends up becoming the key to her freedom from him eventually. The one card we know he has now is Deniz, but there's Vurgun's phone to counteract this one now.
And, finally, I get the feeling that the zombie has a hand in Meryem turning up like a bad penny out of nowhere.
However, this ploy will fail too, because Meryem will have the same effect on Alya that Boran has on Cihan. In other words, destiny has all ends covered here, too.
* Alya
While there are those in the fandom who'd rather Alya be sick rather than expecting, I think that Alya truly might be pregnant. Here's why. And keep the overall theme of kader in mind as we go through this part.
In the scene right before Alya gets dizzy, Kaya tells her, 'I don't know what to say to you, yenge, may God help you.'
Then she walks into her office and just as she's about to continue her search for apartments, wham, a wave of dizziness. And right after the dizzy spell, lo and behold, Boran messages her saying, 'Your path can't cross with Cihan, or I take my son.'
See, there it is again. That push and pull between circumstance and fate. While mere mortals can shape circumstances, like Boran, there's no interfering with fate.
And, what's fate always tried to do in this story? Keep Alya with Cihan.
So, how does a pregnancy fit into this angle? Boran doesn't simply want to keep Alya and Cihan separated. He now wants to put an end to their relationship in every way.
Because if he can't have Alya, neither will Cihan. He's done everything in his power to try to cut all bonds between CihAl, but every time he tries, fate throws out another trump card.
And what's the best way to forge a bond between two people, no one, not even themselves, can break? A child. A link that will bind Alya to Cihan in the most elemental way there is.
The perfect personification of Boran's defeat.
Now, I may be wrong (wouldn't be the first time), but those are the vibes I keep getting from as early on as ep 47, where Sadakat is the one trying to convince Alya to leave.
Besides, maybe baby, fate also has another surprise up its sleeve for Alya *cue Jaws soundtrack*
I'm referring to Meryem, of course. Why do we need Meryem in the overall scheme of kader, anyway? Because Alya needs to learn what fate's already taught Cihan.
That love is not something you quietly step away from. Nor is it something you protect by distance, or preserve through sacrifice.
Cihan has already gone through that trial. He tried to bury his feelings under duty, under guilt, under everything Boran set in motion, but still ended up right back at Alya. Not just by choice alone, but by something stronger than it. Something that kept correcting his path every time he strayed too far from it.
And that’s where Meryem comes in.
The final piece of the puzzle to make Alya realize she's changed, even though she doesn't know it yet. While she may think she can distance herself from Cihan, her own actions prove her false. Meryem will help remove the illusion in Alya's head that distance is sustainable between herself and Cihan.
So you see, even though there are all kinds of mess in the episode, underneath it all is a disruption. Be it in the form of bitter clarity, a hidden phone, a possible new life, or an unexpected return.
When things look like chaos but are actually headed towards something much more deliberate - a resolution where the story corrects every path back to where it was always meant to lead.
Till later, happy reading, folks.
#CihAl #UzakŞehir
English
Bizim döngümüz Boran’ın çirkin düşünceleri ile kaydı aldığı vasiyet videosu ile başladı. Alya evladından kopmamak için hiç tanımadığı bir adamla hiç istemediği zorunlu bir evliliğe mahkum edildi.
Sonra çok sevdiği adamdan yine Boran yüzünden ayrılmak zorunda kaldı.
Şimdi o döngü Alya’nın videoyu ekarte etmesi ve yine kendi planları ile son bulacak.
Seçtiği yol kendi doğrusu ve bu Alya’yı haksız yapmaz.
Evet Cihan hep Alya’nın arkasında onu da, evlat bildiği Deniz’i de koşulsuz korur. Ama Cihan’ın koruma yöntemi yakmak, yıkmak, ortalığı ateşe vermek.
Cihan’ın korumak adına seçtiği yol Cihan’ı tehlikeye atar ve Alya her iki Cihan’ı da kaybetme korkusu yaşıyor. Ateşten kurtulmak için Alya ateşle oynuyor. Ve ben inanıyorum ki Anka kuşu gibi içinde yanıp kül olduğu bu ateşten küllerinden doğarak yeniden çıkacak.
Amacım kimseyi diri tutmak değil, kendimi diri tutmak. Şu an için bu aksın tolere edilebilmesi ben var, uzarsa bende pençelerimi çıkarırım.
Dinlediğiniz için teşekkürler, teşekkürler.❤️
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