#jan31

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the box before, but they sure did linger on the shot of it.  Currently, my thought is that the significance is just that we saw him put it in a special place. He didn’t put it somewhere carelessly or try and trade it in with the jeweler.  And that Selin saw it too. She very obviously saw and knows that he seemingly put it in a special place. So it’s either to poke at her and her insecurities, or it’s because she’s going to do something to it. 

That’s why it will be easier, cos we have had no jeller for most of the season, so no heartbreak

I very respectfully disagree. 

The problem I have, the problem I've always had that no one else seems to have had this season, is that they spent a lot of time showing Jane and Kurt at odds. And then everything that would have had me believing they're in a place where this is the most devastating thing Kurt's ever heard was handwaved off-screen.

So, we've been basically given these random scenes that are very short that are supposed to have us feeling like everything's fine and it's all good but for me, personally, it wasn't enough to lead up to this. I needed more 'I love you, I love you, I love you' moments. What Jane said last week was great, but it should have happened episodes ago.

I know that this fandom is really great at just plugging ahead and not staying upset about that forever and just taking what comes so I'll be over here in my salty little corner all by myself. 

tl;dr we deserved to see more Jeller happy and loving and concerned about one another before it all got taken away. It doesn't make this easier for me, it just makes me tired. Because after this long without that dynamic, now we'll be waiting even longer. There's never any real payoff anymore. Just more crappy circumstances forcing them apart.

Ok thanks for the tip x

I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I watched and rewatched the whole flashback scene and I don’t see anything out of the ordinary... except Shepherd’s text...

I’m starting to believe that maybe it was Remi who ordered the hit on Emma and made Shepherd tell Roman to take care of the problem. Or maybe Remi just stole Shepherd’s phone and sent the text idk. 

Sorry another query. The American shows normally run for approx 8 months (with small breaks in between) then are on hiatus for 4 months, is it the same with Turkish TV industry What was the relevance of Efe collapsing the roof on his friends house, was it to bring out the Eda story of her parents into the public, is this something that will be playing out later, when Grandma arrives. The arrival of the new woman is so cliche, Blindspot bombed when they did that, I guess it's the format!

Hello there. I also enjoy Blindspot! But I still haven’t watched the final season, I need to get on that, maybe over the holidays. 

Happy to answer your questions as best I can. This is my first Turkish dizi, so I’ve been learning along the way, all to say I’m by no means an expert. 

The episodes are 2 hours 20 mins approx compared to US and UK shows, how do they manage to do that every week,

They shoot at a breakneck pace. The cast and crew post a ton on social and if you follow any of that on instagram and twitter you’ll see that they’re constantly shooting until 2 or 3 in the morning.  Kerem and Hande recently answered an ask in an IGLive about how long it takes to film one episode. They said 4-6 days. Kerem was a bit tetchy about it towards TPTB, so they obviously feel the strain on how much they’re working and producing. In the US, a standard network hour-long drama takes 8+1 days to shoot (meaning 8 full days and 1 of second unit shooting usually done while they’re shooting another episode) and that’s for about 44 minutes of content. 

So how do they do it? Just from watching the show I’ve observed a few things. First, while the episodes are almost 3 times as long, the scenes are also much longer than you’d find in a US produced show.  So for instance a scene in a US show might take 2 minutes of screentime, in SCK that same scene might be 6-8 minutes. But it doesn’t take 3-4x longer to shoot to get those 6-8 minutes because it’s all one set up and all one scene.  

Additionally, from what I can tell, everything is shot on location, no sound stages, and they have a finite number of locations per episode. So they’ll go in and shoot all the scenes at ArtLife for that ep in one set up, all at Serkan’s house in one set up, all at Eda’s house in one set up, all at Aydan’s house in one set up, and then all at the speciality location(s) for that episode in one set up. So they’re not doing huge set ups to get one shot or one scene like you see on uber high-production value US shows. Also everything is mostly dialogue based, very little action, no effects, so it’s pretty straight forward. No time consuming stunts.

Also I don’t think the actors get near as many takes as they do on US-based shows. I think they get the scene and move on, no re-dos to improve one emotional reaction and the like. Thankfully the actors are great. Usually the production value is pretty decent despite this, there have been a few locations where I’ve noticed bad lighting or cramped camera angles, where they are obviously just making due, and that would not fly on a US network show.

 it must be insane hours for them. Is this normal running time for Turkish dramas?

 Yes, that seems to be the standard timing format for shows in Turkey. What’s crazy to me is that they are shooting episodes only like a week out from the air date.  That is next level pressure. 

Any idea when the season will close, I saw it mentioned that Saturdays episode will be the last for a month, how many episodes are there in a season?

I’d seen speculation about that, but then I heard they were only breaking for a week. I haven’t seen anything official. The latest news I’ve seen is that they are trying to shoot episode 24 before the break. In Turkey, the big holiday is New Years, so I think episode 24 may air on December 26, then no episode on Jan 2nd, then back on Jan 9th. As a note, I’d also heard there would be no ep on Dec 26th and then ep 24 airing on Jan 2nd, so we’ll see how it turns out. In this scenario the cast/crew will only get like 4 days off.That sucks for them, I was hoping they were actually going to get at least two weeks off before coming back. However, we’ll see, it all seems oddly speculative. 

Sorry another query. The American shows normally run for approx 8 months (with small breaks in between) then are on hiatus for 4 months, is it the same with Turkish TV industry 

It seems to vary.  I talked a little bit about it in this post. 

What was the relevance of Efe collapsing the roof on his friends house, was it to bring out the Eda story of her parents into the public, is this something that will be playing out later, when Grandma arrives. 

Efe did not mean to cause that level of destruction. He was so panicked after it happened, because that wasn’t his intention. As for his motives, remember earlier that episode he had told Serkan he wanted to review Serkan’s drawings of the house and Serkan was like, “HARD PASS.” Efe was pissed, so I think he was trying to teach Serkan a lesson, that he’s not infallible and that if he had consulted with his partner and let his partner see the drawings it probably wouldn’t have happened (you know second set of eyes.)  I think Efe hoped it would make Serkan lose confidence and as a by product Efe would gain trust and be let deeper into ArtLife and the holding to further Grandma’s plan. However, it blew up in Efe’s face because he ironically didn’t know what he was doing, made a change too extreme and the roof fully collapsed, instead of just causing a smaller issue. Eda’s unwavering belief in her man led her to uncovering that it wasn’t Serkan’s fault and Efe wound up losing his reputation all over Europe. Oops. 

The arrival of the new woman is so cliche, Blindspot bombed when they did that, I guess it's the format!

Some might describe most things about this show as cliche, it’s unapologetically about the tropes. I love that about it, it’s like a giant AU fanfic come to life. This woman is another device to push Serkan and Eda towards each other and to give us some fiery Eda jealousy. Serkan only has eyes for Eda, there is no “triangle” or third-party love interest.  Just a lady with some psychological issues zeroing in on our hero, she will be dealt with soon enough. 

The new lady BK, has no chance against love struck Serkan, she may test their relationship with some unscrupulous behaviour, but the girls will be on to her and chase her out of town! I love Edas girlfriends, they are fierce. Do you think we will ever get a backstory on Fifi. So she will meet someone and fall in love with the initials SB, can we offer up Seyfi as a candidate instead! Do we know his surname! I love Engin, his loyalty is amazing, no secret Serkan ever tells him is revealed

My mistake, i meant episode 22!!!

Hi again! I really enjoyed ep 22 as well. Efe tried to blackmail Sellin, but all he had on her was that she covered up the fact that Ferit is the one who gave the photo of the marriage contract to Kaan. The only person that information matters to is Serkan, so Selin decided to come clean to Serkan rather than let Efe blackmail her. To her credit. At least she showed a little backbone on the way out the door. And Efe’s last act was a failure, he paid off the reporter for nothing.

You’re correct, now that Serkan has Selin’s 5% he has 50% of the shares in the holding, Ferit has 5% and Granny has 45%. I love how they’ve set this up so perfectly. They’re gonna go through it with whatever revenge Granny has planned, but eventually Eda will own those shares and she and Serkan will run the Holding together like the power couple they are. My heart. 

Agreed on Balca, Serkan has no interest in anyone but Eda, and now that Eda knows what she’s up to she may succeed in stirring up trouble here and there, but she will ultimately fail. As for offering up Seyfi as her astrology mate, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Seyfi is waaaaaay too good for that unscrupulous, nasty lady! He deserves a better fate by far. Also Balca doesn’t need to find her SB, no reason for the bizarro astrology lady to be proven right. Balca can eventually leave humiliated and empty handed. 

Love Engin, he’s my fav teddy bear. Serkan really couldn’t ask for a better, more loyal friend. They work well together, because Serkan is the star, and Engin is very satisfied with being the right hand man. 

Where did you find the blindspot music for phone?