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METIN AKDÜLGER AS SULTAN MURAD IV

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“My son leaves in the morning and comes back at night, I never see him. He won’t stay out of the cold, he’s going to get sick again. I tell you, this grieving over the child is destroying me. Talk to him, when you get a chance. He must take care of himself. [...] Just let him stay alive, he is vital to all of us. [...] You must give him as much advice as you can.”

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me learning about mafld and nash and cirrhosis: hey have y'all ever heard of murad iv the seventeenth sultan of the ottoman empire

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Noteworthy that it's after learning that Kasim refused to disobey his orders that Murad decides to free him, so we can interpret the act of freeing his brother less as an act of remorse / love and more as an act of ego: you are rewarded for your submission to me.

Yet at the same time, when Murad frees Kasim and sees the state he's in, he has a flashback to the moment where Osman says that he is scared of becoming a cruel sultan (this is after killing Mehmed) and Murad replies "aren't you already", hiding behind his back a wooden sword to protect himself and his brothers, and asks Kasim whether he is afraid of him. So it's also about mourning the loss of innocence and of becoming what you once hated.

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I find this scene very interesting: the dichotomy Murad creates between his "brother" persona and his "sultan" persona. This is something recurring with sultans, as it allows them to deal emotionally with hurting (or even outright killing) their family members (or even others): it's a form of compartmentalization that they need to cope with the amount of power they have over others and the decisions they have or feel like they have to make in order to keep that power.

What stands out to me here is that Murad seems disturbed by his lack of remorse, and it's this lack of remorse he feels sad about it, and not the fact that Kasim himself is hurting. He makes the whole thing about him: "I punished myself, not him." I feel like this is a mark of egomania. Instead of thinking about what Kasim is going through, he's like: "I don't feel. This hurts me. Therefore, I am the true victim." It's more about a narcissistic injury of having betrayed his self-image as a just and righteous person, but also of not being able to remain the loving brother he once was, the child who would use a wooden sword to defend his brothers. Those were dangerous times, but at least they had each other, and he didn't have all these responsibilities, all this power that changed him for the worse.

I think it also shows the dilemma of rulers who crave both absolute control and moral legitimacy, when these two are bound to come into conflict.

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I love this rare instance of them working together so much

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MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KÖSEM XXXIV

our friends are siblings we discover, while our siblings are friends gifted to us by fate.

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In a more serious show, Murad in this scene would be delusional but since the show has established that he's essentially Captain Ottoman, he may well be right

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