I've read quite a few opinions lately, and I agree it's hard to analyse Alya when we're barely given her POV. But if Cihan changed after the bloody wedding, why are we analysing Alya as if she's the same woman from the past 2 seasons? Something changed in her too.
This is MY interpretation. The writers haven't explained her thought process, so we're connecting the dots ourselves. Thanks for that btw. Now, shall we?
First, the pregnancy. Some suggest this baby will bring Alya and Cihan back together. I disagree. Well, partially. A baby shouldn't FIX their relationship. These are 2 people who already love each other. Love was never the problem.
What the pregnancy gives Alya, imo, is HOPE. She'd convinced herself they had no future, she told Nare so. Cihan believes the same, cause he thinks she's Enver's wife. Both believe it's over. And suddenly there's a baby. It won't solve anything, but might make Alya question the ending she'd accepted.
And to understand why that hope matters, we need to talk about guilt.
For 2 seasons, Alya's instinct was to run. But this time she can't convince herself leaving was for the best. She has to face what her decision did to someone she loves.
Think about the first words she remembers from Cihan: "I won't forgive you." Not "I don't love you."
Now, I know what some will say: she came back! Yes, and Cihan rejected her. But does Alya see that rejection separately from what happened the day before? I doubt it. She knows WHY the man at that door isn't the one she left at the altar. Returning a day later doesn't erase the damage.
Whether Cihan was right to reject her is another debate. My point is his rejection might not feel unfair to HER. It might feel deserved. She's carrying survivor's guilt and the belief she broke the man she loves.
Which brings me to Enver and the marriage like a protest behaviour, a way to make Cihan fight for her. I could entertain that when she threatened him in the cell. But she didn't marry Enver, yet she's pretending she did.
Protest needs an audience and a reaction. Alya created a situation where Cihan has no reason to fight. He thinks she's married. What is she gaining? Certainly not reconciliation.
She's building a wall he can't cross. I don't see a woman trying to make Cihan fight for her. I see someone who doesn't believe she deserves to be fought for anymore.
And the lie protects her too. If Cihan thinks she's married, he won't come looking, and she won't risk rejection or hurting him again. Self-preservation and self-punishment simultaneously. Contradictory? Sure. But guilt doesn't exactly make people rational.
It might also explain why Alya makes Cihan the villain. If he's the cruel man who rejected her, perhaps she didn't destroy a good man who loved her. Perhaps she escaped someone who would've hurt her anyway. Anger at him is easier than admitting she hurt the person she loves.
Now, before anyone decides I'm blaming Alya for everything, let's talk about Cihan.
Alya left him at the altar. That's the original rupture, and trauma doesn't erase the consequences. But Cihan owns his response too. He turned her away, brought back cold attitude, and let his family's voice drown out his own.
He doesn't owe her an apology for feeling betrayed, but he does for how he treated her. And she owes him one for leaving and maintaining the lie.
The tragedy? Cihan needs to know Alya will choose him and STAY. Alya needs to believe he can forgive her, but fears the answer might be no. So they keep hurting each other, convinced the other has made their choice.
The point is: I don't think Alya is running from Cihan anymore. She's running from what she did to him.
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Just a random thought...
If Cihan turns out not to be Sadakat's biological son, wouldn't that completely change the dynamics especially when it comes to Deniz?
Whether Cihan is Azem's son from another woman or, as some theories suggest, Fidan and Ecmel's son, he's still an Albora. But he's not her Albora.
Deniz isn't just her grandson. He's the last living piece of boran, her golden child.
So what happens when Sadakat finds out that the man raising boran's son, the man Deniz calls baba, isn't actually her blood? Would she still see Cihan as Deniz's father, or suddenly as someone standing between her and the last piece of boran?
Because knowing Sadakat, blood has always mattered, but possession matters even more. And I genuinely wonder whether this secret could turn her against Cihan in a way we've never seen before.
Anyway, I'm very curious to see what this revelation would bring out in her.
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?
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