If- instead of Afife Hatun- Gulfem was the one who found Hรผrrem attempting to commit suicide in episode 72? Would she stop her? Would she think she and Hatice have gone too far as she did when she found out about Nigarโs suicide attempt? Is this a moment where Gรผlfem might see Hรผrrem differently?
Huh, this one's tough, actually.
Gรผlfem suffers from the side effect of being in a large ensemble cast in that the writing for her character tends to be very one note. In the end, she basically just becomes an extension of Hatice, illustrated all the more in how her arc becomes the same as the woman she servesโmoving drastically away from the kind, good-hearted person at the start of the series.
Still, outside of when she dares to tell Nigar that she's responsible for the death of her own daughter because of her "sins" (horrible behavior, I won't stand for anyone trying to tell me otherwise) we don't really see Gรผlfem move towards a darker version of herself until after Ibrahim's death. That Gรผlfem, who calls Hatice "innocent," despite helping her try to assassinate Hรผrrem, and bemoans that Fahriye stops Hรผrrem from burning herself alive, certainly wouldn't lift so much as a finger to save Hรผrrem.
Still, this is before all of that, back in episode 72 and, yes, I do believe that that Gรผlfem would stop Hรผrrem from killing herself, based on, like you said, the reaction she has after Nigar tries similar.
Still, even if Gรผlfem did save Hรผrrem and even if, by some chance, she thought things had gone too far...how much would it affect things?
While it sometimes might prove easy to forget given their closeness (and Hatice certainly forgets her elitist remarks can apply to Gรผlfem as well), at the end of the day Gรผlfem isn't just of lower rank than Hatice, she's of particularly low rank in the harem as a forgotten concubine of the sultan's. If anything, it could be argued that Mahidevran got her idea for surviving through allying herself as much as possible to the Valide Sultan and Hatice through her since it's really those two relationships that kept her supported.
All of this means that, even if Gรผlfem did bring this up to Hatice, it might not change anything at all from Hatice's side if she wanted to disregard her friend and keep going.
It might be a chance to pursue a more historically accurate Gรผlfem who, in reality, was far more Hรผrrem's fiend than Hatice's but I also don't know if the Gรผlfem of the show would be as prepared to adopt to Hรผrrem's way of doing things.
So, like I said...tricky.
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