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"SENOR10"
I'll be posting my personal thoughts on this evening's episode sometime later this evening.

 

lejos

Finally getting around to the recap! I get that the fire was also a distraction, but it seems like a wee bit over the top. There are other people living in that house! With their stuff! Also, why would they expect Boran to go see the fire when Deniz is there with him in the hospital? He had no reason to leave, except that he’s Frankenstein’s monster and goes where he’s told.

And Boran’s latest move may have gotten him a new dad, but he may have lost mom and she is way scarier.

K
 

Lejos Wednesday - Boran was kicked out of Deniz room by Dr. Alya when Boran got there. And Ecmel had told him earlier to let the hospital treat Deniz. Even if Boran had stayed, Ecmel and his guard would have left due to the fire So it would gave been several good Alboras against Boran.

Cihan did tell Sahin he would pay for any damage. But this was a ridiculous amount of damage.

 

Lejos Thursday - TelemundoWI in Milwaukee wasn't broadcasting Thursday night. I wonder why. Hope I can stream it tomorrow.

 

Lejos
Thursday, October 1st

Part I
Rewind: It’s night. Boran runs into the hospital and finds Deniz’s bed is empty. Out on the highway, Cihan has Alya and Deniz in the car.

At the hospital, Boran demands to know where his son is. A staff member tells him Cihan is going to bring charges against him for kidnapping. But I have custody! protests Boran. Sadakat: You didn’t watch over him. You went to see the fire. You should have stayed here. Boran: You all planned this didn’t, you? Sadakt: You said you’d bring your son to the mansion. But no, you went to the home of that snake. Now you’ve lost your home and your son. Get it together. That’s my last warning.

She calls Cihan to check in. She tells Nare, who is with her, that they are leaving Midyat. Nare swears she didn’t know anything about all this and asks if she can go to the mansion. Sadakat says no, the farm.

On the highway, they meet up with a dark van. Turns out it’s driven by Kadir and Pazike is in the back. Alya and Deniz get in. Cihan tells her he has a hotel all set in Izmel and that just in case there’s a hospital nearby. He knows the owner there. Alya says they wrecked so many lives, Fidan’s all the others’. I’ll fix it, says Cihan. We have a lot of obligations, says Alya, who seems to have a flair for understatement. They look at each other tenderly.

Fidan is crouching and crying outside her burning home. Firemen are there wielding their hoses. Sahin shows up and helps her up. Kaya: Sorry! Fidan:. Sorry? Really? Sahin: What else were we supposed to do? The boy was crying for his mother. Fidan laments. Some men run by with big plastic jugs of water, like that would help. They might as well spit on the fire. Kaya loads Fidan and Zerrin into his car. Ecmel glares at Sahin.

Kaya calls Cihan to let him know they’re at the farm. Nare tells Fidan Cihan didn’t do it to hurt her; he had no other option. Kaya locks eyes with Zerrin. They all go in. Alya calls Nare who wants to know where they are. Alya just says they’re on the road. We’ve wrecked so many lives she says. Nare: your son is with you; that’s the most important thing.

They arrive at a beautiful hotel on a rise outside the city.

Daytime. Ecmel along with Boran and Sahin is looking at the burned wreckage in his patio which is littered with charred furniture. We don’t know if the inside has burned – that place has thick stone walls. The guy with him (Fireman? Official? Insurance agent?) says nothing is salvageable. Even the floor is cracked. Ecmel says to Sahin: you don’t look upset. Sahin: I felt it burning clear inside me, but you caused this.

Demir arrives with his dad. They are savages, he says. I’m with you – I have scores to settle. You can use my men, says his dad.

The smoke this time is coming out of Ecmel’s ears. To the Albora mansion! he growls. Together we can do it!

 

Lejos
Part II

Sahin grabs Boran by the arm. Alya is married to Cihan. Accept it. This man (Ecmel) used me and now he’s using you to get revenge against the Alboras. Boran: that’s doesn’t change my mind. Sihan: You shame me! And then he tells Ecmel off: You managed to be a father but you never acted like one.

It’s almost battle time! The Alboras haven’t done anything sensible like putting a couple of heavy cars tight against the big front gate so it can’t be opened. Instead they’ve made a flimsy barricade way down the drive, near the house. It looks like it’s made from some tables. Gurgon says he wants to fight too. Cihan gets a henchie to give him a gun. Sahin is magically present and warns that his father won’t come alone. Cihan wants to send Sadakat to the farm, but she says no, this is my home. I always told you Alya would be a problem. I told you Boran would take the child. I told you Ecmel would get Boran to work for him. Nobody listened to me. She asks if Sahin will fight. He will.

Cihan calls the hotel. Deniz is still sleeping. Alya feels like she’s doing nothing while Cihan is in the middle of the fire, an apt choice of words. It’s my job, says Cihan. Alya wakes Deniz up. He’s hungry, and he also begs her never to leave him with that man again, presumably referring to Ecmel.

Now it’s battle time! Ecmel has brought a lot of men! They scatter near the mansion like ants over the rises and down in the lower areas among the rubble of ancient masonry. Ecmel, Demir and his dad and Boran are up on a higher hill to observe, in the time-honored tradition of generals safely avoiding the line of fire. Snipers are at the ready. Inside, Sadakat squints down her rifle barrel. Ummu lifts hers nervously.

Oh look! Cihan and Sahin (who really gets around) are at Ecmel’s warehouse! The giant doors are open and there are big stacks of pallets out front. Cihan and Sahin dart among them thinking that even though they’re in black and it’s bright daytime if they squat a bit while running nobody will see them. Nobody does at first. Cars of henchies pull in and suddenly it’s a gun battle.

Ecmel raises his hand – it’s the signal. Gunfire everywhere, his men wasting bullets shooting at the walls and the gate of the mansion. Sadakat looking down her rifle, says Bring it! Boran on the hill looks a little sad. Demir looks amused. Ecmal swears he’ll destroy the mansion stone by stone.

Back to the warehouse: Many workmen have been shot and the rest run off. Victory! Cihan flips a box open and sure enough there’s a rifle packed for shipping. Time for the big gas cans to do their thing again. Gas is sloshed all over the warehouse boxes. Cihan lights a gas trail and when the boxes start to burn. Sahin shoots his gun into them and boom! Cihan watches it burn with a hooded look.

Ecmel and his men are right at the gate. They have a couple of cars pulled up to it that they’re going to use for cover. He has his men shoot the lock out. Give me the kid!! Someone calls Ecmel to tell him about the warehouse.

The men breach the mansion gate and have to run half a league half a league onward to get to the barricade. Of course many get shot. Sadakat hollers at Boran if he was smart he wouldn’t have lost his wife and child. I’m so ashamed she says to herself.

Ecmel arrives at the smoking warehouse. He rants at a worker. Cihan calls to him and we see Cihan and Sahin approaching.

Erol has a helluva job ahead of him defending all this arson.

Maggie

 

Lejos

Back to Wednesday night’s episode. I read the recap too late to comment. Great job, Anastasia! I really appreciated all the detail.

I was impressed with Cihan’s bloodshot eyes. I wonder what they put in them to get that effect. It gave him a great air of menace. A little less menacing was that he looked like he could pass out at any time.

But no, he powered through everything. He even had the strength to go set Ecmel’s place on fire. That was a very impressive fire! I wonder how they did it without damaging the building.

But really? Burning the home of characters we love? As for Kaya, nothing says true love like burning the childhood home of your beloved. Couldn’t they have taken some other revenge? There’s that saying “don’t burn down the house just to get rid of a rat.”

It was de trop. And then the three instead of running off and hiding stood defiantly in the street side by side like Yeah we did it. So what?

Maggie


 

"SENOR10"
Howdy from the Alamo City CarayCaray Family. Here's my super-short recap of last night's episode.

*Bratty Amanda still smoozing with Almendariz.

*Reynaldo & Leo at the big fancy office discussing campaign strategies for Almendariz's presidential campaign.

*Aurelio notices that Felina is acting all weird & strange.
 

lejos

Thank you, novelera, Anastasia, and Maggie for your excellent recaps. I fell behind because of a lack of time, but I’m slowly losing desire to keep up. I haven’t even looked for edits or music in this week’s eps.

Where are we headed with this? Does anyone have the moral high ground in this dizi? Who am I supposed to root for? Cihan burning down a konak and warehouse? His family thinks it’s great. Wasn’t sure if I was watching El Señor or Lejos. Not much of a difference between this aşiret and that cartel. So, no drug trafficking (just weapons), and people don’t have sex in the aşiret.

Alya has become very annoying to me again. She fell in love with Cihan and left her values behind. It's all about him, oh and, yeah, she’ll do anything for her son. I can’t take the faces the actress is making either.

I’ve watched a lot of dizis with outstanding child actors, but unfortunately, and I know this sounds mean, this kid isn’t one of them. Is anyone giving him directions? It doesn’t help they write him horribly.

I’m so tired of “Granny get your gun” Sadakat and her rotten counterpart Ecmel. Right now, I’m leaning more towards wanting Ecmel to take out Granny. Maybe Boran will take out Ecmel. Ah, I know it’s never gonna happen.

I’m fed up with Zerrin’s lack of initiative. Thank goodness for Fidan.

Nare will always choose her family over her husband. But she does have beautiful hair and nice clothes.

Boran…ugh… still waiting for the Bulgarians.

I have sympathy for Sahin, Fidan (especially her), Pakize, and Kadir. Muzaffer, please let your daughter marry Kadir. I did get a kick out of seeing Ummu with a rifle.

End rant. No worries, I’ll have the Friday recap up over the weekend.

 

lejos

Great job on the recap, Maggie. Your snark was working overtime! Enjoyed Alya's "flair for understatement" tidbit.

I didn't realize until Sahin said "What else are we supposed to do?" that he was aware of the plan to burn Ecmel's mansion.

So the straw that broke the camel's back for Sadakat was Boran taking Deniz to live with Ecmel. I enjoyed her verbal dressing down of him.

Sahin actually called Boran brother as he tried to reason with him. But the Boran character is not budging a bit on being a total jerk. I'm with dondi, give us those Bulgarians and soon.

The Cihan actor speaks volumes with his eyes. The way he looked at Boran with pure hate in his eyes was impressive. And he looked into Vurgun's soul and had a gun given to him.

I liked Sadakat a bit more this episode. She planned to defend her home with her life and she stopped making excuses for Boran.

Oh how I enjoyed Demir's shocked face when he saw his big payday going up in flames. We're in for some ranting and raving as Ecmel realizes he's taken a massive loss...his home and his illicit funds from running guns.

ITA, dondi, about being tired of Zerrin's "lack of initiative" or cowardice. Cihan would get her baby out of Demir's clutches in a NY minute.