So, this show is the best example of a missed opportunity. Could have been amazing. Really. Started off just okay, I let the plot holes slide because Istanbul is so beautiful and Faysal is so great. Well, turns out, he is the one saving grace of this show. Zeynep has yet to learn how to hold a gun, after 3 whole seasons!, and all the growth that the previous season could have brought to the main characters is ignored. They decide to not show the beginning of the "disease", which is a poor poor decision imo. Hakan going bananas while Zeynep is recovering and everyone is slowly dying in Istanbul... could be a set up for a great plot. But no. We have this instead. The oracle is only there to make Zeynep act like a child instead of having an actual conversation with Hakan about what their relationship means for the greater task they have been given. I think is like a test for the shippers but it's now just idiotic. Weren't they meant for each other, as implied numerous times last season with the whole magic property comes back kiss, loyals and protectors being naturally attracted to each other and so on? And it gets worse. Zeynep invades a fortress so easily makes it seem it's a kindergarten, the bad guys place Zeynep with Nisan instead of separately even though it's a big ass construction and there is certainly room elsewhere, then Hakan just manages to get them out of there so quickly I was almost hoping against hope they would not make it so painfully obvious that Nisan is the other immortal. Not so spoiler alert: she is. It was all a set up. If you hear carefully, she even mutters "This is a poorly constructed set up". I swear. Sad day for writers who actually think about the plot. The rest of the season probably has better ratings because, in comparison to this hot mess, it can't be worse. But stay tuned, super fake cartoon moustache, people acting dumb, emotional immaturity, bipolar like behaviour, obvious plot twists that aren't plot twists because they announce them so much it's like watching the show backwards, loyals that are clearly there to be expendable, and all the ridiculous things we have seen in the previous season will make a come back in this one.
Review of Episode #3.1
