Kan Cicekleri 199

 Episode 199 Marriage And Honeymoon

Quick synopsis: A trip to Mardin. Somebody gets married. A singing finale.

The knock comes again from outside their hotel room. Baran looks daggers at the door as Dilan pulls away. A heavy, resigned sigh, and then he looks forlornly after her as she moves across the room. She actually escapes to the bathroom and he answers the door. The look he gives the poor hotel clerk. Oof. Like Amy Winehouse says, he could "Tear men down like Roger Moore" right now. Dilan is excited, if feeling overwhelmed. She's pretty smiley. 

Right! Gul's engagement ring fell out of her purse, onto the floor, right behind Azade-doom. Step on it Gul! Something! Cover it up. Firat walks in just as she turns around and puts himself between Gul and her doom. 

(See what I did there?)

Plus, the little squint and nod that he gives her on the way out is absolutely adorable.

I'm loving child-like Firat in love.

Baran and Dilan are both glancing and smiling during dinner, though Dilan just picks at her food. Uh-oh...and they both reach for the salt at the same time... She pulls away and just when I think he's going to hand it to her like he's done in the past, he salts her food.

Wha-?

Anyway.

Some more eating and then he gets up and goes around behind her to bend down and ask in her ear if she wants dessert.

I'm pretty sure that 's an innuendo.

Dilan gets panicky again and jumps up. No, she's tired. She'll go to bed.

Baran stalks. You know what I'm talking about. It's a very deliberate stepping, almost as if he's leading with his hips, like when he puts his hands in his pockets and leads with them and his shoulders. He's challenging these fears she has, countering her arguments. And he gets a to tip his head, a questioning look.

She immediately feels chagrined and almost turns around to tell him, but ultimately doesn't. 

Firat and Gul share (literally) a cup of coffee. 

OMG y'all. Firat is the cutest.

Baran is doing a lot of leaning down on her chair tonight. Dilan continues her ruse with a false yawn and a sidelong look like, whelp, here we go.

Baran is perpetually amused by this reticence. I think for the physical stuff, but also because she refuses to talk to him about it. The whole scene is painful and hilarious. 

She walks away from the vanity toward the bed but Baran stalks again, pulling on her arm to twist her around to face him. Just looking at his wife, that's all. She says goodnight and lays down.

He is smiling as he walks toward it too, amused.

And y'all, she's literally hiding under the covers.

He shakes his head in amusement. 

Holy Frick: he turns out the light. For the first time in, like, almost 200 episodes. 

As he reaches over to turn out the light on her side of the bed, she freaks out. What's she scared of, he asks?

She almost tells him. Or maybe isn't exactly sure, I think she might want to just sit with the new closeness for a bit, enjoying the newness of it to herself, this man she loves, loving her, and now openly wanting her too.*

She is still under the covers, but she is smiling to herself too.

But in the morning we are still doing the pretend-you-are-asleep thing.

And he knows she's faking. Ha!

Sabiha gets DNA results. None of the kids' are a match to hers. The children buried where Hikmet told her aren't her daughter. Now she's got a mission.

Cevahir is back at the mansion.

Is Gul going to be able to leave to go to the courthouse?

Dilan and Baran have an interesting conversation at breakfast. She has remarked before how getting to know someone's childhood brings you closer to them. Particularly in a marriage. And especially seeing and visiting the places. It's a very vulnerable part of themselves they share with you. And for DIlan, who feels like she lost her family, is missing a piece of her childhood, and is now being accepted by a new family, with deep ties in an old town, not to mention the man who is helping her find her mom... It's like a magic spell. A bit like a fairytale. A dark prince, a lost princess, a love that brings them together. 

I mean, remember when he didn't want the family back in Mardin to even know about her? Complete opposite now.

Now Sabiha is at the mansion too. Kudret and Cevahir sign off on the contract.

Ooooh! Now the lovebirds are side by side at the breakfast table. He's got his arm around her shoulders. It's lovely to see them both delighting in each other, cherishing their new closeness.

Cevahir is smarmy. But he's leaving. Dilan isn't home so Sabiha is taking off too. Gul gets away! Firat is waiting, And off they go, after he calls her Gul Karabey. Squee!

Sabiha calls Cevahir out. Like, form the doorway as he's crossing the drive. She struts forward and has some things to say to that man. His only aim? To see if he could infiltrate the Karabey family. Havin and Sabiha are not impressed. 

Hanife bought a gun. Lordy. She's really stuck on this Karabeys-will-enact-vengeance kick.

Dilan and Baran stroll hand in hand through the market. She takes teeny bites of a sample pastry. He brushes crumbs from her lips with his thumb. They hold parasols. (Is that a tourist thing in coastal Turkey?) Selfie in front of a mural.** She cuddles up to him. He takes her face in his hands and she...takes his in hers hands! She's a little bolder having told him she wants to know him better, know everything about him. He's bought her another scarf. This one has little coins dangling from the edges. He knows how to tie it in the traditional style. There's a musician playing in a square. They nod to each other; they'll dance.

It's the same dance as the wedding dance.

They get to mend the rift, do that dance over, in Mardin, with her in a Mardin head scarf, after having spent the day immersed in a personal old world paradise. Complete with hand slap to the ground (the Mardin ground), hand to the heart, to the mouth, to the head. Then hand to her. The complete dance, her tucked up against him. The people gather around, and he kisses her forehead when they are done.

Firat bought Gul a veil when she wasn't looking on their shopping spree. 

Hasan's man in Mardin tells him Baran and Dilan are walking and shopping, nothing else. 

He's so wrong.

They did it! Firat and Gul are married!! Cihan was the best man. Firat is unstoppable when his eyes are smiling.

Baran and Dilan watch the sunset from a hillside. It's a local legendary spot. Star crossed lovers would come and yell what was in their hearts. The words never disappeared, just echoed off the hills. Dilan points out that this means they are surrounded by love stories. Their story should be there too. She spreads her arms wide and yells "I love you, Baran Karabey!". He yells it too, that he loves her, and then they stand, clasped together on the hillside in the setting sun. And Baran...sings?!

Hold. the. phone.

OMG Dude can sing? Ok, this old world fairytale is complete.

No, it's not, because now she's singing too! 

Officially this is the love episode. Official honeymoon.

This is a happy, souls-bared, couple.

Culturisms:

Dilan and Baran's room service set includes pewter like teacups. Interesting. Is this high end cutlery in Turkey? I like it. It looks like treasure.

*Ok, for as much as I'm always going on about 'how have they not kissed' I do have to say, even aside from this being one of the points of dizi, it's one of the things I like about his show. There's not a jump to physical stuff. Options are nice. 

And as much as I like that part, there are also some really disturbing things too, very centric things, that I could do without. Like him salting her food. It's a cultural thing, I know, and I accept that as much as the not kissing thing. But the pervasive husband-knows-best undercurrent, even when she's asserting herself and proven to be right, is something I cannot get behind. 

 But once you've accepted the vendetta bride as your plot premise, in for a pound I guess.

One last thing: I do actually quite like this push back that she does to assert herself, and is proven right so many times, to undermine that stereotype that he is the last word. I suppose this could also be a trope, but it makes the show palatable to a more feminist audience.

Yelling at the tv:
**I think they walk past a chalk drawing of the Elvish gate at Kazakdum on a wall. #Azade-doom.

Teaser 200:

Dilan is in a wedding dress. Baran closes the door. They have room service again. A new song. Some disrobing. Honeymoon episode part 2. The man knows how to set a mood.