Kurulus Osman Episode 75 Review By Neelofer Siddiqui<\/p>\n
The haze of pain that a mortally injured – impaled by a spear – Osman was enveloped in gazing up at treetops silhouetted against a winter sky, at his life fading, at the dream he\u2019d always held close to his heart evaporating away to oblivion, reached across the screen in visceral – heart constricting – waves. It felt real. It felt bewildering.<\/p>\n
It was not only brilliantly enacted but also brilliant in the way it made me realize – with earth shattering clarity – the extent to which I was invested in this show, invested in our beloved Osman bey\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n
This episode marked his biggest setback thus far & isn\u2019t it both ironical & realistic that this setback – this lethal injury to both him & his dream – didn\u2019t come at the hands of his established enemy – the Byzantines or the Mongols – but at the hands of his own people, some of them with sound intentions & some without..<\/p>\n
As is often the case – in a world filled with a multitude of tombstones of similar dreams\u2026<\/p>\n
Turn back the pages of history, observe the world around you & you\u2019ll realize that this is a truism that, unfortunately, can\u2019t be denied.<\/p>\n
So yes, this episode was a splash of cold reality, a douse of brutal honesty, a brilliantly detailed look at what would soon be – both a new beginning & an end. The birth pains, the cutting of the umbilical cord connecting an old dying State with the one about to be born.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m SO glad the makers are not making creating\/ establishing a state seem as easy as a walk in the park, a mere matter of a storm of horsemen, swords & standards aloft, charging at castles, conquering one after another, in quick succession.<\/p>\n