Now I hope you will start to eat and ditch the heels Or I am calling the happy father

The reason I am crying myself to sleep tonight

UzakŞehir BuAkşam

My expectations for this ep? Well, I'm a pretty simple human being, it doesn't take much to keep me satisfied tbh. First, obviously, CihAl. Although at this point the angst is so painful I genuinely feel like a child of divorce. Second, DICLE. Welcome to the world, little one. We've been waiting for you for so long. And finally, the most important thing for me: ALYA. (If someone thinks this is a post hating on Alya, choosing sides, or anything else, then stop reading now, because it is not, and all the hate in the comments will not be tolerated anymore.) I think there's finally potential for Alya to SPEAK, to actually voice her emotions, and I'm putting a lot of hope into the graveyard scene and her scenes with Nare. Because here is something I noticed last ep. Kaya was constantly around Cihan, asking him what he thought, how he felt about Alya's decisions. And through those conversations, we actually got to UNDERSTAND Cihan. We know he believes Alya initially agreed to the marriage because she was cornered by the possibility of going to prison. We also know he thinks she's doing this to hurt him. Then he voices his belief that she won't actually go through with it. And he was RIGHT. She wasn't going to. He just doesn't know that yet. And in the frag, we see Kaya and Cihan talking AGAIN. See the pattern? Cihan has a VOICE. The writers give him opportunities to express his pain, his doubts, his anger, his reasoning. We don't have to sit there analysing every microexpression to understand what's going on in his head because HE TELLS US. Now compare that to Alya. Last ep, the closest we got was a conversation with her 7yo son, who had to ask his own mother whether she was doing all this to hurt his father. Which, first of all, WHY THE HELL is a 7yo being put in a position where he even has to ask that question? Ffs. And second, why is this child practically the only person trying to get Alya to explain herself? Look, I love reading all those beautiful analyses on X. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't. And I genuinely enjoy dissecting characters and their psychology. But as I said in my previous post, a character cannot remain silent and expect the entire audience to do the psychological homework for them. "Look at her eyes" "It's all coming from her trauma" "She's acting out of fear" Fine. Those are interpretations. Some of them are probably absolutely correct. But interpretations should ADD depth to a character's motivation, not be the ONLY way to discover it. And before anyone comes for me, I DO understand Alya. I'm not sitting here confused about her mental state or why she might be making these decisions. But I'm also not the entire audience. The average viewer shouldn't need to spend hours on X reading character analyses just to understand what the female lead is trying to achieve. If Cihan gets to explain his pain, why doesn't Alya get the same opportunity? That's why I have such high expectations for her scenes with Nare and especially the graveyard scene. I don't expect her to suddenly make all the right decisions, apologise for everything or stop being hurt. I just want her to TALK. To tell us what she's feeling, what she's afraid of, what she wants and WHY she's doing what she's doing. Let her be angry and irrational. Let her contradict herself. I don't care. Just give Alya the same narrative voice you've given Cihan. Because whether or not it makes Alya easier to love, I need the writers to finally let the audience HEAR her.

Was i stupid to love you? #UzakŞehir yeni bölümüyle pazartesi 20.00’de #KanalD’de! #CihanAlbora #AlyaAlbora #CihAl

Dicle and Firat parallel is comming, but now we have Dicle... dont talk to me, i need a minute

I'll do it all over again. For us. For Cihal #UzakŞehir yeni bölümüyle pazartesi 20.00’de #KanalD’de! #CihAl #CihanAlbora #AlyaAlbora

Training season is almost over @Uzaksehirdizi #UzakŞehir #CihAl #CihanAlbora #AlyaAlbora

Now Deniz won't be the most annoying kid, he finally has competition 😈

Sometimes I find it funny how this fandom gets so angry at Alya for supposedly having no logical reason behind her actions, only to turn around and behave exactly like her. Acting on emotions without having the full picture. The irony is rather beautiful. For the past 3 years, you've been proven wrong about leaks countless times. Some turned out to be completely false, others were technically true but looked entirely different once the actual scene aired. Now, I'm not here to take away your freedom to react. Believe the leaks, retweet them, quote them, have a meltdown over them. That's your choice. I'm certainly not going to ask you to prioritise logic over emotions. Although, I would've thought that after 3 years you'd at least start recognising a pattern. How it's always the negative stuff that conveniently makes its way onto the TL, and how it so often drops right around a frag, an episode, new pictures or an özet. But anywho, I digress. Do we have leaks? Yes. But what this fandom has is dry words. What it DOESN'T have is context, the setup of those scenes, the emotions behind them or even their continuation. When someone reads a script, especially a fragment of a scene, they don't interpret it objectively. They filter it through their own experiences, emotional responses, personal beliefs and moral principles (assuming they have any). So by the time that information reaches your TL, what you're actually reading is someone else's INTERPRETATION of the script rather than the raw words from it. Their subjective understanding of a scene they themselves haven't even watched. You're reacting to an opinion disguised as information. Remember when the S2 leak about Cihan screaming at Deniz had people ready to cancel him? A scene that, had you watched it without knowing about that leak, probably wouldn't have triggered even half of those reactions. And that's precisely my point. Some people lie for engagement. Others only get half the information and fill the gaps with their imagination. But even when the information itself is genuine, the person delivering it has already decided what it means before passing it on to you. And somehow, this fandom, which is about 98% drama at this point, keeps treating those interpretations as established facts. Again, react however you want. I'm not here to police anyone's emotions. But after 3 years of fighting imaginary dragons, it's genuinely a little sad that you still haven't learned to check whether the dragon actually exists before drawing your sword.

Hoş geldin, Dicle’m 🤍 You will be the second love of his life for your baba @Uzaksehirdizi #UzakŞehir #CihAl #CihanAlbora #AlyaAlbora

The second love of his life... Edit soon ⏳️

I usually don't talk about ratings because, frankly, why would I care? I'm not even part of the audience that counts. And this isn't my two cents on everything that's gone wrong with the show. But anyway, here we go. The plot is AMAZING. Don't get me wrong. The story itself is brilliant. But why isn't it working? Why are people rebelling against watching it? I think the answer is simple: you cannot sell a story when your female lead's motivation requires a bloody psychology dissertation to understand. I'm not saying Alya has no motivation. I'm saying the writers are failing to COMMUNICATE it. We can sit here analysing her mental state, dissecting her trauma and finding explanations for her decisions. We did that in S2 when she left. She was trying to protect Cihan's fatherhood, I guess. Great analysis. One problem: THE SHOW NEVER EXPLAINED THAT TO THE AUDIENCE. The average viewer isn't going to read a psychological treatise to understand Alya. They need clear motivation, preferably communicated through actual dialogue. Revolutionary concept, I know. Take this episode. Why did Alya agree to marry Enver? She believed she was going to prison and Enver would take Deniz. Fine. We understood that. But why is she STILL proceeding with this marriage? Sadakat? Family court? Because, unless I've misunderstood something, her marriage to Enver is precisely what's creating half these problems. And then there's her insistence on taking Deniz away because it's not safe. Yes, it's dangerous. We know. But the kid doesn't WANT to leave. He's happy with his life, riding his bike and genuinely not giving a flying duck about leaving. How is it that a 7 year old can communicate what he wants and WHY better than the female lead? Alya tells Deniz she's not doing this to hurt Cihan. Fine. I believe her. Then WHY proceed with the fake marriage? Does it help with custody? Apparently not. Does it help her take Deniz away? Also no, considering the child doesn't want to go. So what exactly are we fighting for? Right now Alya is fighting imaginary castles while everyone else has a clearly established motivation. And don't get me started on those scenes before the fake nikah. Her and Deniz's pillow, missing the child that she saw 5 min ago? WE KNOW SHE'S A MOTHER. WE HAVE KNOWN THAT FOR 3 SEASONS. But she's also a WOMAN. With her own desires, fears, heartbreak and identity beyond motherhood. Can we PLEASE stop reducing the female lead to her maternal instincts every time she needs an emotional scene? I'm not asking for less angst or an easier storyline. I'm not even asking Alya to make rational decisions. I'm asking the writers to make us UNDERSTAND them. A character can be irrational, traumatised, terrified and completely wrong. That's fine. But the audience needs to understand WHY, even when they disagree. The plot doesn't need fixing. The female lead's motivation and how it's communicated DOES. And one last thing, because I can already hear the arguments. If anyone explains Alya's decisions by saying she needs a man to support her, let me remind you: Alya MOTHERFUCKING Albora took on the entire Albora family in S1 with practically NO ONE beside her. And THAT is the woman people fell in love with. Not a woman who suddenly needs some random man to fight her battles. Yes, she's struggling. Yes, she's hurting. Yes, she's exhausted. And no, I don't enjoy watching her suffer. But none of that erases who she is. She is ANKA. She is the phoenix. And since when does a phoenix need some pathetic side-character man to rise from the ashes? Stop confusing vulnerability with helplessness. Stop reducing Alya to a character she was never written to be.