Placements in E.30, The Yalı Çapkını plot pacing introduction

Borrowed darkness staging light - A look into Yali Capkini Bolum 30:

‘The captives sacrifice each other for the sake of Pride and Prejudice’

Episode 30 was a refreshing recovery from 29, where scene sequences were broken off and misplaced in terms of Seyran and Ferit. While plots like Tariq Ihsanli, Pelin Yilmaz and her mother, and the mansion’s corruptions played good sport; a direct focus on Seyran and Ferit’s relationship benefited the viewing experience majorly. To title, a rightly paced sequence.

We continue from ‘Odalarda Işıksızım’, a cinematic treat. Mehmet Baris Gunger and Burcu Alptekin terrifyingly juggle between Ferit and Seyran’s memories of each other while they sacrifice their feelings on the leash of their captivity. To the least, a #SeyFer duet down the memory lane:

The bridge shakes as he hears her say ‘Your name has brought me nothing but pain’ “Seyran.” He begs in terror. Save us. Don’t do it. Don’t push me off. Save us. Shivers in his eyes, as music tunes to their hearts. Throwing him back to the moment she walked down to him. Watching her become his that easily when now it’s even harder to keep her from leaving. “Not this time Ferit” her lifeless eyes that day transitioning into her lifeless eyes today. ‘I’ll sacrifice my love for my pride. I will make my pride win’ it is not your love that makes me leave but this cage. It kills my pride and suffocates my love. I will not let it anymore. ‘Don’t do this. Don’t do this to me. You told me you trusted me. You loved me. Why did you hug me so tightly that day? Seyran Don’t push me away now. Didn’t you consume me? Didn’t you make me feel I could protect you? Don’t do this The bridge shivers again, this time she breaks it by signing the paper. A bash to his heart. She’s broken the bridge. He remembers her holding his hand. Sign on the paper, as if she throws his hand away. A stagger to his heart as she holds it in his memory. ‘What have you done Seyran’? Walking towards the papers, he remembers the time she stopped him from running away. Stopped him from throwing it all away. Looks at her; ‘Stop me. Please. Hold my hand. Don’t let me sign you away. Don’t let me go. Stop me. As he starts to walk towards the window, she now remembers the time he stopped her from running away. Came and took her away into his world. Stopped her from throwing it all away. Looks away;

‘Stop walking. I can’t say it. But I don’t want you to let go of me. Don’t let me go Ferit. Stop. Hold my hand and take me away. Run away. Let’s walk that road. Don’t let us go.’ ‘If one of us doesn’t stop, it will be the end of it’ ‘Do you think Ferit will stop if I don’t?’ Nobody stopped. Nobody dared.

‘You let us go Seyran’ ‘And you let us go Ferit’

He walks as if forced to jump off the window. She didn’t stop him. He fell again. Looks at her the last time. You were in my arms just yesterday. What happened to you? Come to me again. Sleep in my arms again. Don’t pull away. Let me smell you close to me again. Transitioning to her perspective again. ‘I could smell you just yesterday. I could breathe you just yesterday. Why do I have to push you away? Why do I need to sacrifice what I had found just now? Hold me again. I don’t want to go away. Hide me in your heart. Hide me from this world that makes me push you away.’ Seyran again: I was afraid to hold you, but I did. I don’t want to let you go. Why is this happening to us? Why does this have to? Transitioning into Ferit’s perspective now,

‘You held me, despite all that I’d done. You stood beside me. You heard my apology. You heard my heart. You forgave me. Why can’t you hear it now? Why won’t you hold me now Seyran? Why did you push me off the bridge? Why did you do this?’ He takes the final step towards the window. Doesn’t look at him, while he jumps off. But remembers when he told her he loves her.

‘You told me you love me. You don’t me you’d change for me. You apologized to me but did all those things again. You kissed my cheek despite me not wanting you to. Why don’t you force me now? Why are you letting me push you Ferit? I know you won’t do it. I know you’re afraid of him more than you love me. You won’t stop until I’m not the one to stop first. You will not take the first step. You’re afraid’ –

She turns to him. Watches him shivering to sign it. He Remembers when he made her his, despite having hurt her.

‘You held my hand that day. You didn’t pull it away. You were happy. We were happy to be each other’s. You were proud to sit beside me. You were proud of who I was. But who are you now. You’re afraid. You will sacrifice us for your pride and fear of him. You will not fight for us anymore. You destroyed us. I have nowhere to turn to. You broke my bridge, you threw me off the cliff.’

Looks to her after signing the papers: ‘Are you happy now? Do you feel your heart beating after you killed mine?’ ‘I didn’t want it, but you did’ ‘I didn’t want it, but you decided’ You are the reason I was brought to this state. You did this. I will not let anyone control me. I will escape this cage with or without you. I will leave. He turns to her, betrayed. She folds her arms, and closes her heart to him. Turns away. The captives jumped off the ship. To drown or to swim?

The mansion’s captives and their contagious fates:

The episode keeps a blur focus on the Korhans in the background while Ferit struggles with his hopelessness.

Orhan, Gulgun, Fuat, and even so, Ifakat mask their inability to stand for themselves with decorative pride. Orhan’s absence in Ferit’s life, Gulgun’s blindness and gullibility to the injustice, Fuat’s intentional ignorance/invisibility, and Ifakat’s poisonous self-fulfilling prophecies. All because they could not face themselves when faced with a mirror.

While their youngest overdoses on the discovery of love, the Korhans stay hidden in the shadow of their cells, scared that love will burn them. Absence in each other’s lives has made them stone to the possibility of happiness in their kin’s.

Ferit, whenever confronted by either of the family members was shown to hold a mirror to them. A mirror that shut them up with the ugly realities it reflected.

‘Where is my father, where are you in my life’ ‘Are you my father or grandfather?’

‘Go run to your Agh’m, tell him why all of this happened’

‘You often hurt me because it hurt you’

Each of the secondary officers to Halis put on their kin’s shoulders what they can no longer carry alone. Having no one to lean on but their pride and prejudices, the Korhans give all their pain to Ferit. Orhan, who has been deprived of presence by Halis, so he does the same to his young. Gulgun, who was used to blindness from Orhan, so she does the same herself. Ifakat, who was deprived of independence, so she wouldn’t let anybody else have it. In Seyran’s words: ‘if you’re not happy, you make sure that nobody else around you is’ or Gulgun’s ironic words: ‘if you’re hurting, stop hurting others’

Once captives too, as if these captives have adapted to their scripted fates and turned themselves into the crew that works for the sailor.

Tariq Ihsanli:

Stylishly delivered by the #Vuslat and #BirPeriMasali stunner Baran Bölükbaşı; Tariq is a character introduced to contrast Ferit Korhan and the promised revenge on his family.

While he keeps the gun that holds the bullets to a Korhan’s heart on him at all times, Tariq is also path to important realizations for Ferit and Seyran’s marriage at current.

For Ferit: to realize how, within a matter of days, Seyran can be snatched from him and he can lose her to her father’s dictatorship. To eventually realize how the weak trust he has established in their relationship can make Seyran sacrifice her love for her cruel fate.

For Seyran: to realize Ferit’s uniqueness and fortunate presence in her life.

Several times in the episode, Seyran is shown getting flashbacks of herself with Ferit, whenever with Tariq. As Ferit had started getting when he used to be with Pelin. She realizes how she misses his presence, despite choosing to remove it herself.

To eventually realize Ferit’s uniqueness, when Tariq’s obsessive intentions are revealed onto her.

‘Have you ever thought if there was someone else in my place?’

To realize how any man will force himself on her, the second he gets the opportunity and how Ferit had never done so.

From preparing his current obsession for a new inmate friend to manipulating Seyran’s weaknesses, Tariq’s got all the right targets in place.

Blurs: Ferit and Seyran

The two characters are written to be captives on a ship sailing to the past. The sailors; their prideful and prejudiced elders, who exploit Nasihat and hold them in their self-built gilded cages to justify their own insecurities and delusions.

Ferit Korhan, before Seyran Sanli’s presence in his life, was a golden child gone blind from the ignorance inflicted on him and that which he further inflicted on others around him. The child who was never taught to and so feared growing up. Seyran Sanli before Ferit Korhan’s forced interference in her life was a burnt bird, who knew nothing but to escape her cage. When put in a room together, these two enemies started to find each other familiar. Ferit Korhan’s blindness started blurring into clarity and Seyran Sanli’s burns started cooling into the possibility of another fate.

From Ferit Korhan to Ferit, from Seyran Sanli to Seyran just - To then Fero and Seyro for each other, the captives started adapting to the cage in the hope of not being alone. While Seyran in reaction to his unintentional care tried to see through Ferit’s frozen exterior first, Ferit, in fear of inferiority, kept stabbing her with the spikes that had formed over years of darkness. A constant breaking of trust, abandoning, humiliation, intentional snatching of her dreams, even to the extent of making claims at her virtue. Ferit Korhan continued blind to love, while gradually falling into it even more.

Seyran meanwhile never let her pride sit down. Rejecting her mother’s fate, Seyran continued suffering alone but never let Ferit see her vulnerability. Verbal even physical violence was played from her side to compensate the psychological cruelty Ferit had been inflicting on her.

As for Ferit Korhan, through Seyran’s description of him, he was always a child at heart. Heart as pure as it, jealousy as fiery as it. Anger as easy as it comes. But kindness as endless as it. As he kept on stabbing her, he gradually realized the pain that the double-edged knife had been causing him more than her. Crying alone, sleepless nights, fear of losing her, confusion at heart as to why he was behaving like this. He didn’t understand why he was hurting her but kept on doing so unintentionally.

With every surpassing fight, every miscommunicated feeling, Ferit, even though feeling love for her, continued making mistakes despite trying not to. Seyran despite starting anew every time, eventually fell weak to the knife. The blood on the floor could not be unseen anymore. Ferit had caused too much of it to look away.

Not realizing Seyran’s diminish, Ferit then started to see her light. A light at the end of the tunnel to be traditional.

The blind child, when woken with an ever-consuming light, realized it to be love and started running towards it, thirsty for vision all at once. Something that this runner didn’t realize was that this light was hiding darkness behind it. Darkness, that he himself had forced upon it.

Ferit after accepting his feelings and realizing that he loves Seyran more than anyone he’d ever tried to love, forgot about all that they’d been through. His love stood as a light at the end of the tunnel but started blurring the surroundings that he left behind while running towards it. He forgot the humiliation he had made Seyran bear and now saw her only as the person he loves. Not the one that he had stabbed over and over again for 3 months now.

While Ferit constantly made endeavors to win her back, Seyran had now already been burnt. The burns that she had thought to be cooling down because of his love, he had burned even more. Constant dimming of her pride had now caused her prejudice to flare and explode. While still struggling to put her self-respect over her hopelessness for his love, Seyran let her pride win. Not having received any validation or compensation for the things he had done to her, Seyran saw no reason to sacrifice her pride for his love. Even when signed the divorce papers she had still expected Ferit to take her hand and take her away. Expecting action from him any chance that they were given, Seyran broke her heart with his inability - to understand what he’d done to her. She didn’t even expect him to explain his mistakes, just to do something to stop her from leaving him.

Ferit meanwhile confused her chances with her selfishness and hatred for him. Hence, kept on breaking his own heart.

Masterful moves from Mehmet Baris Gunger, Burcu Alptekin, and lead showstoppers Mert Ramazan Demir and Afra Saracoglu put the audience in a storm of perspective this week, with Seyran and Ferit switching places as active/inactive – static/dynamic characters.

While both were shown breaking each other constantly, Ferit Korhan took lead and initiation in the deed. Now that he sees clearly, his love for Seyran, Seyran is manipulatively shown to take his place.

The difference between a static character described to evoke a sympathetic viewer response and a dynamic character in struggle with desires and motivation aimed at solving a problem enmeshed in intellectual, emotional, or physical conflict that evokes viewer empathy results in two opposites that, by being aware of them during story construction, can improve a writer. Basically, the writer’s choice is inaction told versus action shown.

Seyran and Ferit are both dynamic characters, just activated at different times. When Seyran was shown to open her mind to Ferit’s actions and see through his mask, Ferit was told to be static to the situation. Now that Ferit tries to change for love constantly, and is shown to try visibly, Seyran is told to be static to the situation. What is skilfully masked here is the fact that neither Ferit nor Seyran were ever static to start with. Ferit Korhan closed himself off to any possibility of change when Seyran Sanli interfered in his ways of viewing the world, however, here we are 20 episodes later, where he constantly handles the world from her perspective.

Consequently, Seyran Sanli may be shown to be unresponsive to his endeavors, but she constantly discovers moments that make her realize his perspective. However, these realizations will be of no use until Ferit Korhan faces himself for the mistakes that have brought them to this day. When Ferit was started to be shown in inaction (victim situation) a few episodes ago. The audience quickly fell victim to the cinematic trap. Mehmet Gunger along with the woman fronting his words, Burcu Alptekin flowed mastery into the emotional aspect of Ferit Korhan. Scenes that told Ferit Korhan to be victim of Seyran’s prejudice quickly took the mean of the audience into an empathetic hold. The goal visibly being the traditional experiment of what consistency of a chokehold a character can have on the viewership. While viewers watching through dual perspective understood the places to be switching by fate. Similarly to Ferit, 90% of the mean audience forgot past fact, seeing only present delusion.

Ferit Korhan: The captive that sees a light running away

The past is best left behind if it stops you from building your future. But not when it’s the reason you don’t have one. Seeing light at the end of the tunnel will make you run toward itself with all that you’ve got. But don’t be so quick to leave the darkness behind. It possesses the people you’ve consumed into it.

Ferit Korhan is the central character before Seyran Sanli. It is his story that Bolum 1 introduces the viewer to first, his cage that’s introduced first and then the woman’s, who derives him out of it after escaping hers. Along a long road of realization, the Yali Capkini (Ferit Korhan) learns love. Love that he came across accidentally in a baklava shop, love that he fell in at first sight but didn’t realize. Though this love was a blurry feeling behind a clear weight of pride and wasn’t realized immediately by either of the two captives imprisoned in the same cage. Likeliness of a girl and loneliness within the darkness of his mind were two different worlds for Ferit. He never imagined a connection between the two when he chose Seyran Sanli to be his bearable compensation for a forceful marriage. Seyran, despite his uncontrollable attraction and care towards her, was supposed to be a coping mechanism to feed to his severed ego, like all other women in his life. However, with time, unfolded a realization that he had never imagined. Seyran Sanli, surprisingly to his expectation proved to be a girl that saw him for the boy apart from his surname. This girl who stood for nothing but herself and her morals made Ferit realize the reason behind his spontaneous feelings toward her. Between hurting her and testing her for betrayal Ferit started seeing a light in himself. The kid left in darkness. The darkness that had consumed his existence. Started seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, which eventually he discovered to be his love for Seyran.

Now seeing the light, this captive has started to run towards it with all that he’s got. Running from the darkness that threatens to take him again, he runs to her in hope of survival. Surprising to his expectation again, he notices this light is running too. But away from him. He keeps making endeavors, keeps apologizing to Seyran, keeps reaching for her but she keeps going away. As the light keeps getting far, running behind her, his vision has started going blur. Leaving behind even the past that he was running from, he has now almost forgotten it. Forgotten everything he has done, everything that he has done to her, he only remembers he loves her and that she rejects it.

Multiple dialogues stand proof, he skips his participation in the storm that led to this reckoning. ‘Why did you do this to us’ ‘I won’t let you forget what you said to me’ while he rejects any memory of what he himself had contributed to the events. Constant apologies and offers to move on should not be ignored here. Ferit at this point has sacrificed even his pride for Seyran to accept him. But this is not that simple what he’s done to bring them here. It would take his acceptance and addressing of his exact and all actions that would break Seyran’s ice. Take into account for example Ferit’s memories and flashbacks of Seyran. While Mert Ramazan Demir kills us with the pain, it is easy to miss the fact that all his memories are either of their good times or ones where Seyran rejects him. Until Ferit starts remembering every time that he has humiliated her, broken her, and rejected her endeavors to start anew. He’s getting nowhere near hope of getting her to compromise.

Seyran Korhan: The captive that hides borrowed darkness behind her light

Seyran’s actions this episode were a continuation of her behavior from the last. Revising an extract from episode 29 for clearer insight into why she’s doing what she’s doing; “Observe Seyran’s words and expressions closely at the start of ep. 28 and end of 29. Both times, she didn’t love Ferit any less but seemed to make irrational choices of words and actions. Ep. 28 – when she told Ferit to leave and Ep. 29 – When she provoked Ferit with unrealistic claims at the future “Today or one day you’ll get the invitation to my wedding after the divorce’ Both times it wasn’t her conscious mind that was speaking but rather a sub-conscious ego state that kept making itself visible with Afra Saracoglu’s skill in expression. See, Seyran’s mental capacity has clearly been shown severing down through the episode. From thinking that nothing could hurt her more than Ferit to realizing that there’s no end to the Korhan’s imbecility, she had completely lost all control of herself at this point. While Seyran juggles through all three (as does Ferit), at current she operates completely through a child ego state.

The Child Ego State is primarily concerned with feelings though that does not mean that when in the ‘here and now’ experience, the person does not have access to attitudes and thinking, but it simply means that when activated, feelings are usually the executive energy force. The child ego state is the part of the personality, which is preserved from actual childhood; it also contains all the impulses a person was born with. It is, as said above, primarily about spontaneous feelings, needs, and wants of the child. It is also important to note that the child ego state contains ‘recordings’ of childhood memories and experiences. Therefore, when the person feels and acts as they did when they were very young, they are experiencing their child ego state. To understand Seyran from this angle, we need to observe how her pride had been targeted this whole episode. The character’s pride is something that takes a strong front in her set of emotions as was developed as a rebellious reaction to childhood trauma. Think about it this way; what does a child do when embarrassed for something they were confident about? What does it do when discouraged shamefully? The child acts irrationally, rebelliously, in a provoking manner. As to hurt the opposing party where they are sure it will. Because this child isn’t really thinking about anything else other than reviving their own discouraged image. ‘Run away, you have time, save yourself, please’ ‘you have lived this way and you will die this way’ ‘I say eat you will eat, I say drink you drink, I say marry you will marry’. Reminder to note how Seyran’s decision had been built over time under constant pressure. She saves herself by divorce. She thinks for a second there, about how hurtful that possibility could be. When Ferit hints at why Halis brought her here. But quickly decides to claim it as compensation for her pride being severed. It is to be noted, that Seyran at current blames Ferit for anything that happens to her. If not for him breaking her strong conscience, she would not have come to this point. No matter how much he tries to change and even changes, the other factors surrounding her (e.g. abuse at her house) will not let her forgive what has brought her to those consequences. Hence she rejects anything other than Ferit paying the cost for it/separating from him. She also sees him as someone who will judge her/mock her, if finds her proven wrong. Pride again. Hence she fixates on proving that she’s very much able to control her life. ‘If I want I can do anything’ ‘Pray that I don’t want to’ While Ferit goes array, watching her spit unrealistic claims at both the past and future, she continues sticking to the child that wants to prove herself no matter what. Reality strikes her, while she watches Ferit break the room, going mad, triggered into madness. But still continues with the rebellion. She will not see Ferit’s broken heart this time, he is the reason she’s lost contact with her identity. She will win it back no matter what. Will show the men, she can control her life the way she wants, no matter what”

Seyran Sanli is portrayed to be a girl, living parallel fate to Ferit Korhan, just in a different cage. Where Ferit is shown to be blind to any and all possibilities of escape. Seyran’s only dream in life is to escape her scripted fate. Her rebellion starts when she’s unexpectedly moved to another cage at the cost of her dreams. Holding the key to this new cage is Ferit Korhan. A boy she had received to be ‘not eligible to her standards of a civil human being’ since the day she met him. Starved, beaten, abandoned to be forced into the marriage, Seyran eventually falls captive to her scripted fate. Though she decides never to let the cage captivate her pride like it did her dreams. Proved by dialogue itself, Seyran is shown rebellious to titling customs, but never to the sacristy of marriage. Reflecting her maturity and mother’s upbringing Seyran had expected her marriage to go traditionally since the very first day. Giving her hope for adapting and surviving were the discoveries that Ferit too was forced into the marriage and that the Korhans would revive her dreams after it. Now Seyran had operated harshly with Ferit since the day they met, but it was never something cruel enough to break him. It was simply, reaction to the pressure that was being inflicted upon her. Her rising from the panic attack in the bathroom, moments before she walked with Ferit to their room, proves she has prepared herself to operate adaptively. Standing beside the wedding decorations in their room was a girl. A girl standing in a married couple’s room on their wedding night. A girl that from the looks of her, was casually there. Here is where the game had started. Traumatized by Ferit’s introduction of a mistress a few hours after she had signed to be his wife, Seyran slaps his imbecility and audacity to do so. She then spends her wedding night lying in the bathroom.

After seeing him sick and apologizing for last night’s events Seyran decides to move past the trauma for the time being. She tries to adapt to the new cage as much as she can. The following day her sister Suna happens to be bearing the consequences of Ferit’s decision in Antep alone. With her name being thrown everywhere on the streets to Kazim their father punishing her for it, Suna bears hell on top of the rejection. Hearing this, Seyran freaks out and blames Ferit instantly. Ferit on top of being the reason for her sister’s abuse, forces himself on her when finds no way to calm her down. Shocked to this second blow, Seyran slaps Ferit again.

Fights, empty words, actions, blames, he said-she said continues and Ferit starts going overboard every time. Taking away the only possibility of her survival at current, lying to the family to stop her from studying, making claims on her character, blaming her for everything that comes their way. Humiliating her virtue in front of another man, that too a man that she had repelled away with confidence in her marriage. Threatening her with claims to wanting a child with his mistress. Abandoning her in public to go to the other woman. Blaming her trauma on her despite knowing she has it. Telling others she has no control over her life and that she’s not allowed to decide for herself in front of her. Breaking her trust multiple times and being with another. Betting her rejection of sexually being with him on her plead to save her sister and revealing it to be a test. Ferit had been stabbing her pride every time that she had tried to move on. While Seyran hadn’t held back in breaking his ego either, this was the difference in their actions. Seyran with her cruelty was breaking Ferit’s ego, while Ferit with his constant humiliation was breaking her pride. Breaking one's ego introduces them to a possibility of change and healing. ‘The quiet but inexorable breaking down of pride and self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul’. Also keep in mind that Seyran, as Ferit is now, had made several endeavors to move past their differences and his ignorance of the darkness he was inflicting, but Ferit took the time it took to break her fully to finally move on and see her solely besides his own complexes. Now that she puts her pride before her love for him constantly, he sees it not as her broken feelings but straight rejection.

Seyran’s comparison of Ferit to Tariq was another character manipulation that the audience rejected this week. The writer and director’s methods to hook the viewer to this extent, especially Saracoglu and Demir’s mastery that they flow into their performances is impeccably visible in how they make the viewer dig perspective. Watching Seyran compare Ferit to Tariq, it is worth noting how Ferit did the same while comparing her to Pelin. Gunger follows patterns that justify the couple’s hits on each other in a pretty sneaky manner;

'Will you bring her in front of me as a second wife Ferit?’

‘Maybe, I want to have a child’ ‘Maybe I want to become a father’ ‘MAYBE’ ‘Since you reject a future with me, I will do anything I want with anyone I want’ The same that Seyran, in a taunting expression, uses to hit him back with this episode; ‘Will you compare me to this guy Seyran?’

‘Maybe I can compare’ ‘ Maybe that’s why I’m not next to you’ ‘MAYBE’ ‘the dreams that you intentionally snatched from me, he supports’ Just like Ferit’s words were delivered only to hurt Seyran at the time, Seyran’s comparison is directed for the very same. Neither Ferit accepted any possibility of making a family with Pelin in reality, neither Seyran thinks Tariq any better than Ferit. Tariq’s manipulations might seem to be catching her attention, but Ferit will never be that distant in her heart to actually fall for them. If somehow she does fall for them, that too will be build up for her humbling and realization of Ferit’s fortuity and uniqueness in her life.

Ferit learned love and sees only that now. Seyran sees rationality. She wasn’t blind to the world before, she just chose to exist for a cause. Ferit was blind with no reason to hold onto any dream, he found a light called love and now chooses to look only at it. Ignores everything else. This ignorance is Seyran’s problem. At the start of ep. 23 When she tells Ferit that he was doing all of this for only himself, she means this selfishness that he establishes even in love. He sees a goal, a goal that is getting Seyran to confess, and the rest he forgets. He would fight everything that he couldn’t control and that hurt Seyran. For example, taking stand to her and his family in her absence. But not the thing that he did directly and yet could control and which also hurt Seyran the most. Multiple times he could have controlled the situation and let Pelin and Zerrin off their lives but he chose to handle it directly in a childish manner and brought them right at the center still. Multiple times he was given the chance to address the mistakes he had made but he never did. Ferit just constantly made apologies without explanation and surprised her with Cupid.

Seyran’s current rejection of Ferit’s offer to leave everything behind is not that but her sacrifice for the sake of her pride. Sacrifice that kills even her because of the longing it costs her. She has now multiple times confessed to Suna that she loves him. Even that she didn’t leave the mansion because of Ferit. Though Ferit is a sacrifice she is ready to lay in front of her pride and honor. Why? Because it is the only thing she has control over in her life. Comparing him to other men, repelling him away from her life, giving into Kazim’s cruelty instead of staying at the mansion are all sacrifices she makes to revive her identity. Though Ferit and her love for him stay her weakness.

A bigger game:

‘If all of this happened because of Ferit (or me), we would’ve settled it. The house in which we were born and raised is to blame Anne, not Ferit (or me). It is all because we lived in that house. It doesn’t end. It won’t end.'

Apart from Ferit and Seyran’s own demurrals, it is the sailors that derive their fates still. Halis and Kazim at the top, Hattuce, Orhan, Gulgun, and Ifakat adapted as their second grade officers. ‘Referencing to the painting that was addressed in the previous episode – Kazim and Halis, the self-claimed sailors to the ship of fate, cage their kin: ‘While respecting, understanding, obeying our loved ones is crucial to life, these said elders, also have a responsibility towards kin. Nasihat. That has been exploited for one’s own satisfaction and control over life, but not utilized to heal the ones it is being passed on to’ Like they’d decided to bind them together, disregarding their will in all. Now they decide to part them. “You will not see that boy – you will not think of that girl” “you will not cry – you will not shed a tear” The same instructions that were given when they were being married. ‘We made a mistake at the beginning, now we are correcting that mistake’ – ‘This marriage is over, they will get divorced’ Human puppets that are disregarded for any humanity at all. You’ll get married, adapt to it, now you’ll get divorced, adapt to it. ‘Inside all this madness I tried to hold onto something, to force myself to believe in something’ Why I wonder, because of you. Out of desperation to survive. No regard to how two strangers have killed their own consciences to adapt to the cage, now they are forced to leave the cage that they’ve accepted their home, only to fly into another’.

Seyran behind her staged blame on Ferit realizes this fact for truth. The fact that if all of this was a matter between them and them only, they would’ve solved it like always. She realizes all of this is not them but their corrupted families who have caused her to protect her pride and sacrifice her love for it. Consequently, Ferit too realizes that all of this is because of Ifakat’s planning and his family’s fear of standing up to injustice. Even though he stages blame on Seyran for not fighting for them and leaving him, he gradually realizes through the past two episodes that all of this could be prevented if his family had the balls to do something. Both however, through the blurred line of love, fail to see each other’s relatable feelings in this aspect too and stay waiting for the other to take stand.

Next week on Yali Capkini:

Onto its 31st Episode with a close to 20M viewership threatening to drop the series if not satisfied with a fast-paced past plot #seyferbosanmavarsabizyokuz

With the 2 trailer tradition returning, OGM Pictures released two trailers over the week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhDhMwlQbso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzMoPLf9OVo

Seyran panics, with the divorce process being opened up this quick. Fearing her staged claims to be coming true, she puts the blame on Ferit for not taking stand when he should’ve. Ferit on the other hand had completely gone array and back to the darkness he was running from. Now exhausted from running behind the light, he finally gives up after being humiliated in front of a man he was made felt inferior to and proposes to Pelin in spite.

Consequently, to the discovery of the Korhans being captive to Halis’ dictatorship and supportive to the injustice being done to him, Ferit rebels at the mansion too. Though is quickly brought down by Ifakat who provokes his anger to be fresh till he marries Pelin for good. After hearing she was seen trying out wedding dresses (which she was forced to), Ferit makes every attempt at letting Seyran know, he’s marrying too. Blind to why she’s sacrificing him for her pride and still seeing her actions as hateful rejection, Ferit hits her where it’d hurt the most, knowing it will. Seyran breaks down at the discovery of this information and raids where he is to ask for account. Slapping his audacity for bringing another woman into their marriage as she did the first night. Only this time it is Pelin who’s seen leaving instead of Seyran.

The double-edged sword takes at stake this time, their demurral again, but angst with it. Seyran unable to see his ego that she’d uncontrollably activated with her constant repelling; Ferit unable to see how his decision is different to Seyran’s. Seyran, even though claiming she has control over her life cannot escape her forced marriage with Tariq. The only way is to hold Ferit’s hand which she won’t due to her pride being severed. Ferit on the other hand has made this decision by himself. Seyran exploits an already-made decision to hurt Ferit. Ferit himself creates the situation to hurt her.

The hearing arrives in a matter of breaths for Ferit and Seyran and the big decision faces them in the eyes. Panicking on the consequences of their staged prides onto each other, both hesitate to enter the judge’s room.

Hattuce and Seyran take an unexpected hit at the hearing. Seyran and Ferit prepare to cause each other as much pain as they’ve felt alone.

Expectations for the plot: Manifestations by Mehmet Baris

The burning question on Yali Capkini’s hashtag at current is ‘Who will take stand to save #SeyFer?’

If Seyran takes stand, which is expected at most on the hearing day, #seyfer will still stay circled to the same pattern as before. Ferit may interpret this to be her rejection to separation or regret, but this will not melt his angst, nor Seyran’s when she discovers he proposed to Pelin.

Towards the finale, it will be Ferit, Darcy, and Zeus who will initiate the right attempt at saving his love and stand up to his corrupted traditions. Seyran, Lizzy, and Hera will be the one who will accept it to be justified and fight beside him.

Ferit Korhan was always ice. The golden child destined to freeze within his own mind.

Seyran Sanli was always the fire. The caged bird destined to blaze out and melt the ice.

Even though the ice tried to consume the fire, dim it. The fire will blaze through and melt the ice eventually. When the ice has now melted. The fire too has given up on its blaze. The fire turns to water, water turns ice. It’s time for the once-frozen ice to learn from its warmth that the fire had given him, and melt the ice that was once that blazing fire.

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.” ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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