@555Anisia I’m pretty sure that Alya and Deniz are gone. The last scene was some sort of poetic attempt to leave the audience unhinged for next season. For me, it was pretty lame. No need to put them together in the same frame.
On a more personal note:
The most uncomfortable part of healing is not admitting that you were hurt.
It’s admitting that your wounds are now making decisions for you.
We are talking about Alya’s abandonment trauma.
And we should.
She was abandoned.
She was uprooted.
She was betrayed.
She was threatened.
Those things happened.
But healing doesn’t begin when we understand why we run.
Healing begins when we realize that we are still running.
That is the part nobody likes to talk about.
Because there comes a moment when the question is no longer:
“Who hurt me?”
The question becomes:
“What am I doing because of that hurt?”
Trauma explains behavior.
It does not transform it.
Transformation begins when the pattern is interrupted.
When the person who always leaves stays.
When the person who always hides speaks.
When the person who always sacrifices themselves asks for what they need.
When the person who always assumes rejection risks connection.
That is where healing lives.
Not in understanding the wound.
In making a different choice while the wound is still hurting.
That is why Alya’s story feels so tragic to me.
Not because she is wrong.
Not because she is weak.
But because she keeps returning to the same survival strategy.
And survival is not the same thing as healing.
The hardest truth about trauma is also the most liberating one:
What happened to you was not your fault.
But what happens next is your responsibility.
And in the story, I am no seeing none of it. Just more of the same.
#UzakŞehir
Before judging Alya, let's ask ourselves why she left?
Gülizar used emotional destructive decision over some rational decision as a plot device. I thought we will have Alya growing out of her trauma, but obviously it's not the time yet.
So her reaction is not that she simply leaves. And I am not asking we should agree with her choice, but to understand it.
Alya’s confession - "they always tore her away from all the places she tried to hold on to," "she felt like she has returned to the place where she belongs" - is the orphan’s prayer finally answered.
She has lived a life of uprooting: from the mother who disappeared, from the father she never knew, from Caroline's death, from the marriage that failed, from every place that promised safety only to become a site of loss.
And then Cihan. For the first time, she finds a place where she is not extra. Where she is not the one who waits. Where she is whole.
And again, they tear her away.
And the basis of that torn Alya is the exhaustion. Through out the whole season of being on the edge, of scraps instead of peace, of communication fractured by threat and fear...
#CihAl never got the one thing a couple needs to build: time without some fight. They never got an episode where they could just be. And when Alya, already drained, runs into Boran again, he attacks her wound.
He knows exactly which trauma to exploit.
He knows that an Alya who still carries abandonment trauma will never put her love before the possibility of Cihan losing his blood child. She would not want that for the child. She would not want that for Cihan. Because she did everything to stay by her own. She fought to belong.
And exhaustion made her see once again that the one who was extra in everyone else’s happiness was her.
Her mistake was leaving without talking. I agree and I pointed out these things before. The exhaustion she carried added to her fears made her resort to what has always been her defense mechanism: running away, giving up, leaving with the only thing that is truly hers: with her son.
She left because she thought it was the right thing.
She said to Deniz: "I am weak." That is human saturation. She is exhausted. She is traumatized. She is overwhelmed. And now she is so exhausted that she can't think clearly. She can't see that staying and fighting might be the braver choice.
And this is also perfectly human. At least to me.
It is not hard to put yourself in her shoes if you are willing to feel what she has felt. Imagine being dragged from one trauma to another, every single day, for months. Imagine your nervous system never resetting. Imagine your body living in constant fight-or-flight, your heart always braced for the next blow. Imagine telling yourself “I can do this” until you can't anymore. Imagine reaching a point where your exhaustion is so deep that it lives in your bones, where your fear is so old that it lives in your blood, where your only defense mechanism is to run because staying feels like drowning.
That is Alya.
Her choice was not rational but emotionally destructive. Human.
Rational choices are made by people who are rested. Who are not being threatened.
CihAl story is a story of people who are broken trying to heal each other. Alya carries the orphan’s wound. Cihan carries the guilt of his past. And none of them are fully innocent. None of them are fully guilty.
The tragedy is that everyone is wounded, and the wounds keep colliding.
The past doesn't let go that easily. Guilt doesn't disappear that easily. And the armor of belonging is not enough to protect against the necessity of survival.
Now they are both broken. Alya is uprooted again. Cihan is breathing without his oxygen. And the only way forward is not to blame. The only way forward is to heal.
My hope that Gülizar will reach this healing in the next season.
And again, you don't need to agree with me, but I am operating from the served story point-of-view and not what I would like it happened. If you follow me, I was saying she won't leave. It didn't happen. But my understanding didn't left with Alya.
#UzakŞehir #SinemÜnsal #OzanAkbaba
@MnicaAz46392015 It seems that way. I’m just too tired to keep watching and waiting for some sort of emotional payback that hasn’t come in 63 episodes.
@mmaxxi07 Totalmente de acuerdo y que Cihan no la busque. Que lo que pasó con Sahin y Boran lo lleve a poner el foco en otro lado y ella vuelva por sus propios medios. 😊
Tanto trauma, tampoco es real. Creo que “el deber ser” también puso a Alya en el lugar en el que la deja el final de la temporada. Entiendo y comprendo que se siente sola y su híper independencia hace que las cosas sean más grandes. Pero el que no agarre responsabilidad de sus propios actos, es una de las razones por las cuales Boran y Sadakat la llevan al límite.
Como dices, todo muy oportuno. Ahora, animas que Cihan no vaya tras de ella y que ella tenga que volver y convencer a Cihan de que su relación vale la pena; de otra forma, seguirá siendo triste y mediocre. 🤷🏻♀️
@ConnieOkobia Agreed. She’s so lost… and I truly hope that Cihan doesn’t go after her; in my eyes that’s the only way Uzak has a chance to redeem itself. Alya has to go back to Mardin by her own accord.
The tragedy of Alya and Cihan was never that they didn’t love each other enough.
It’s that neither of them fully trusted that the other could handle the truth.
That’s the wound at the center of this story.
Not Boran. Not Meryem. Not the endless parade of obstacles.
The truth.
A wound introduced in Episode 1 and, remarkably, still unresolved by Episode 63. Seriously. 🤦🏻♀️
Draw your own conclusions.
#uzakșehir
“I have no choice” but to say the following:
It was a sad and mediocre season. To say the least.
The only things that made it remotely bearable were the cast’s performances and the crew’s hard work.
The writing, combined with Gulizar’s obsession with parallels, led exactly where everyone expected it would:
Alya leaves because she is too afraid to fight for what she wants in life. Until she heals on her own—and I highly doubt the writers or producers will ever allow that—nothing is going to change.
I’m as frustrated as Cihan is, @Uzaksehirdizi and this time, I won’t forgive you.
Congratulations! You got the ratings. You got the ad revenue.
But what you no longer have is quality.
At some point, you stopped telling a story and started manufacturing a product.
Enjoy! What you reap is what you sow.
@ayyapim@KanalD@cataykerem78
#UzakŞehir
#uzakșehir
Sometimes we forget that behind an account there is a real person.
The account @DreamsInFrames was suspended for “inauthentic behavior,” but those of us who know her, know that her community, interactions, and presence have always been genuine.
Hopefully the account can receive a “human” review soon. @Support@Safety
Nenhum dos dois jamais deixou a desejar em trabalhos anteriores, mas o que Silvia Navarro e Daniel Atenas estão entregando agora é absurdo. A química deles simplesmente SALTA da tela. Ouro puro!
#GuardiánDeMiVida