Divergent

Ok, I admit, I just love so-called young adult books/films. They are so naive and so exciting even if they are very predictable. All the girls are brave and clever, All the boys are honest and trustworthy. The author creates an imaginery life where you can put yourself into the leading character's mind and body. That feels fantastic. I can't help it, I love it.  

This was the first reason why I watched this movie and also you learn why I read Twilight and Hunger Games and I am still watching The Vampire Diaries :)

Additionally, imagine a film that has your three favourite brilliant young star: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Miles Teller. Even if it still feels weird when you see Shailene and Ansel as brothers after their perfect chemistry in "The Fault in Our Stars" and Miles as a bad guy after his amazing drummer performance in "Whiplash". So they were the second reason that I wanted to watch this film. I should add even if it is so tempting I won't read the books, it is filmed perfectly fine. 

Nobody can only have positive points, right? Aside from being very predictable, unfortunately the whole storyline reminds you very much of "The Hunger Games". SPOILER ALERT: Even the part where Four forgets all his emotions and attacks to Tris. Seriously?! 

These similarities is sometimes really irritating if you know 'The Hunger Games" very well. And I also read that the forth book after the trilogy tells stories from the male's character's point of view. I don't know if anybody remembers but this was Stephie Meyer's (the author of Twilight series) idea. Due to the online leak of the forth book's chapters, she stopped writing. But let's come back to the point. C'mon man don't you have any original ideas?!

I will lastly mention one of my concerns. Shailane Woodley is a promising actress. Is it smart to put her in a film that the character will probably stick to her for a long time. I mean, look at Kristen Stewart, even if she tries so hard (watch her in "Still Alice".) we still see her as Bella (from "Twilight"), right? I know you are thinking about Jennifer Lawrence (from "The Hunger Games") but the case is not the same. When she started play Katniss, she was already very much noticed by The Academy and everyone was talking about how good actress she is and at her young age. Additionally she played in very good movies while she was playing Katniss and she won an Oscar. That was an extraordinary case. Additionally we shouldn't forget that she also played in "The X-men"series too so she worked so hard that we won't only remember her as Katniss. Is Shailane doing the same? Unfortunately not! That's why I think this role is a threat for her acting career.

Anyway let's go back to the point. As I clearly explained  my reasons this movie before and after concordes me so much that I can not have bad feelings. Now, I just want to watch the second one. If you are also like me, DO NOT MISS IT!

The Oscar Predictions 2015!

The Oscars are coming closer (February 22, Sunday) and I have nearly seen all the films that are nominated. So it’s time to share my predictions. Here it comes,

Best Picture

Will Win: Boyhood

May Win: Birdman        

Should Win: Boyhood (Birdman was good but not good enough to win the “Best Picture” Oscar. Boyhood was a cinema experience and it was more touching. Boyhood deserves more.)

Best Director

Will Win: Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

May Win: Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Should Win: Alejandro González Iñárritu (Definitely! He is a very good director and Birdman should be honored with this category. Additionally he already won the Directors Guild of America Award so actually I have no doubt.)

Best Actor in Leading Role

Will Win: Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything)   

May Win: Eddie Redmayne (There is no ‘may win’! He will win the Oscar, he deserves every inch of it and he already won every award so far.)

Should Win: Eddie Redmayne

Best Actress in Leading Role

Will Win: Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

May Win: Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)

Should Win: Julianne Moore (Actually here is also no ‘may win’. Moore also won every award and she needs a Oscar. She is a great actress and her performance in “Still Alice” was great too!)

Best Actor in Supporting Role

Will Win: J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

May Win: Robert Duvall (The Judge)

Should Win: J. K. Simmons (I remember only the performance of Christopher Waltz in ‘Inglorious Basterds’ as impressive and as real as the performance of Simmons. Masterpiece performance! Just Perfect! )

Best Actress in Supporting Role

Will Win: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

May Win: Emma Stone (Birdman)          

Should Win: Patricia Arquette (The all nominees are good but Arquette needs the Oscar for this humble and minimalist performance.)

Best Original Screenplay

Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel

May Win: Birdman

Should Win: Birdman (Unfortunately I think that The Grand Budapest Hotel will win but it doesn’t deserve it. It is not a good movie, there is no originality in the scenario. Sorry but for me the weakest link of this year’s Oscars is definitely The Grand Budapest Hotel. If you want to see some colors, Tim Burton did much more better films with colors. Let’s not exaggerate!)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Will Win: Whiplash

May Win: The Theory of Everything

Should Win: The Theory of Everything (Even if I don’t know how Whiplash is adapted to the film, we all know that The Theory of Everything is a good adaptation. Stephan Hawking says it.)

Best Foreign Language Film

Will Win: Leviathan

May Win: Ida

Should Win: Ida (Actually I can’t say who should win because I only saw Ida but if Ida wins, it will be well-deserved.)

Best Original Score

Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel      

May Win: The Theory of Everything

Should Win: The Theory Of Everything (In this category all the composers are well-known and all of them did terrific jobs so it isn’t easy to decide. My heart says Johann Johannson with The Theory of Everything.)

Best Original Song

Will Win: Glory (Selma)

May Win: I’m not gonna miss you (Glen Campbell… I’ll be me)

Should Win: Glory

For the technical nominations I have some predictions but I can not say which film should win, cause I don’t have that knowledge to really question their judgement.

Achievement in Cinematography

Will Win: Birdman

May Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Achievement in Costume Design

Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel

May Win: Mr Turner

Achievement in Film Editing

Will Win: Whiplash

May Win: Boyhood

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel

May Win: Foxcatcher

Achievement in Production Design

Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel

May Win: Mr Turner

Achievement in Sound Editing

Will Win: Birdman

May Win: The Hobbit : The Battle of Five Armies

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Will Win: Whiplash

May Win: Birdman

Achievement in Visual Effects

Will Win: Interstellar

May Win: Dawn of the Planet Apps

Lastly let’s come to the categories for which I have no idea who will win or who may win but for some of them I have some instincts about the winners: Best Documentary (The Salt of the Earth), Best Documentary Short Subject, Best Animated Film (How to Train Your Dragon 2), Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film.

On February 22, I will be watching the Oscars ‘live’. I am sure it will be a lot of fun. Remember, this year’s host is Neil Patrick Harris so my expectations are really high about the fun factor of the ceremony and I will keep scores so that I can share with you how many of my predictions become reality.

Chocolate Mousse

Nobody can say this: “I don’t like chocolate mousse”. It is impossible! It is full of chocolate and that creamy taste can be even seductive at some point. Do you want to surprise your guest ( or just yourself J )  with an extremely delicious but a very easy and quickly-prepared dessert? Then you will try this recipe definitely. I used my friend’s recipe as baseline and did some little changes. It became semi-sweet, fruity and creamy. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients

·         180 gr milk chocolate ( quiet unusual but I gave the bitterness with another ingredient J )

·         55 gr butter

·         1 cup (40 ml) Vanilla espresso (I used 1 nespresso capsule of Vanilio, you can of course use standard espresso and add a 1 tsp of vanilla for flavor.)

·         20 ml milk

·         1 egg yolk

·         250 ml crème-fraiche

·         250 gr raspberries

·         Whipped cream

·         Grated chocolate

Methods

1.  Put the chocolate, butter, espresso and milk in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water and stir it occasionally.
2.  Once the chocolate totally melted put the egg yolk and start to stir it immediately and fast so that egg yolk do not cook in the chocolate mix, if so you will see yellow egg particles in the mix and whole chocolate is ruined.
3.  After 2 - 3 minutes of constant stirring, put the bowl aside and let the chocolate mix cool down.
4.  Put the crème-fraiche in an another bowl and whip it till thickened (app 3 min). (if it is not thick enough, you will get a soft form which you don’t want.)
5. Add the chocolate mix into the thickened crème-fraiche and mix them very well.
6. Transfer the mousse into 4 - 6 bowls (according to the size of your bowls.)
7. Put them in the refrigerator for at least 1 – 2 hours.

Serving Tip: Here comes the fruity and more creamy part!

o   Chopped the raspberries (it can be also blueberries or blackberries.) into small pieces.

o   Put the chopped raspberries on the top of the mousse.

o   Top with the whipped cream and grated chocolate

Enjoy!

Hic kimseden bunu duyamazsiniz: “Ben cikolatali mousse sevmiyorum.” Imkansiz! Bir kere bu tatli neredeyse sadece ve sadece cikolatayla yapiliyor. Kim boyle bir tatliya hayir diyebilir ki?! Siz de benim gibi misafirlerinize (veya sadece kendinize J) ultra lezzetli ama bir o kadar da kolay bir tatli hazirlamak istiyorsaniz bunu kesinlikle denemelisiniz. Bir arkadasimdan aldigim tarifin uzerinde birkac degisiklik yaparak yari-tatli, meyvemsi, bol kremali cikolatali mousse hazirladim. Iste tarifi.

Malzemeler

• 180 gr sutlu cikolata (Normalde bitter cikolata kullanilir, fakat ben bitter tadini baska bir malzemeyle verdim.)
•  55 gr tereyagi
•  40 ml vanilya aromali espresso (1 nespresso Vanilio kapsulu kullandim ama siz ayni tad icin normal espresso ve 1 cay kasigi vanilya da kullanabilirsiniz.)
•   20 ml sut
•   1 yumurta sarisi
•   250 ml krema
•    250 gr frambuaz
•    Hazir krema
•    Cikolata parcalari

Yapilis

1. Cikolata, tereyagi, espresso ve sutu bir kaba koyup ara sira karistirarak benmari usulu eritin.
2. Cikolata tamamen eridikten sonra yumurta sarisini ekleyin ve hemen cirpma teliyle surekli ve seri halde karistirin. Eger karistirmazsaniz yumurta piser ve kucuk sari parcalar gormeye baslarsiniz ki bu butun cikolata karisiminiz cope gitmesi anlamina gelir.
3. Yaklasik 3 dakika karistirmanin sonunda cikolata karisimini sogumaya birakin.
4. Baska bi kaba kremayi koyun ve iyice sertlesene kadar cirpin. Kremanin sert olmasi onemli yoksa mousse formunu tutturamazsiniz, sulu olur.
5. Sertlesen kremaya cikolata karisimini ekleyin ve iyice karistirin.
6. Servis kaplarina paylastirin. (kaplarinizin buyuklugune gore  4 – 6 kap cikar.)
7. Buzdolabinda en az 1 – 2 saat sogumaya birakin.

Servis icin: Iste burasi meyvemsi ve bol kremali yapmak icin!

o   Frambuazlari kucuk parcalar halinde dograyin. (Frambuaz yerine yaban mersini ya da bogurtlen de kullanabilirsiniz.)

o   Kaplarin uzerinlerine uzerini kapatacak sekilde ekleyin.

o   Hazir kremayla susleyip uzerine cikolata parcalarini ekleyerek servis yapin.

Afiyet olsun!

Merry Armenian Christmas!

It's been again a long time since I posted a blog, I know. We are now in 2015. For some of you it is late but still happy new year! For almost everybody holiday season is over but not for Armenians :) Today is Christmas Eve and tomorrow we will celebrate Christmas. That's why I wanted to share a recipe with you. It is a very easy cookie recipe. You can serve them after dinner with tea or coffee if you and your guests still have some space to eat something :) If you saw an Armenian dinner, you would know what I am talking about ;)

No more chit-chatting, here is the recipe. Merry Armenian Christmas :)

Ingredients

• butter (100g)
• brown sugar (200g)
• 2 eggs
• self raising flour (200g)
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• crunchy peanut butter (100g)
• 1 tsp of vanilla powder
• handful of walnuts
• caramel-honey dessert sauce or melted chocolate 

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
• Put the butter, brown sugar and eggs in big bowl and mix them till its soft.
• Add the flour, baking powder, vanilla and peanut butter and mix them very well.
• Shape dough into small balls by using two table spoons and put them on the baking tray.
• Put the walnuts on the top. 
• Bake them in the preheated oven for 12-14 minutes. 
• When they are cooled down you can put the sauce or the melted chocalate on them.

Enjoy!

Oncellikle herkese mutlu yillar! Biliyorum uzun zamandir yine blog yazmiyorum. Bugun yine bir tarifle karsinizdayim. Hepiniz icin tatil bitmis olsa da biz Ermeniler icin daha bitmedi. Bugun Noel arifesi, yarin ise Isa'nin dogumunu kutlayacagiz. Bu inanilmaz kolay fistik ezmeli biskuviyi ise tam noel yemegi sonrasi kahve ve cay esliginde rahatca sunabilirsiniz tabi hala misafirlerinizin midesinde azicik da olsa yer kaldiysa. Ermeni sofrasinda bulunmus olanlar ne demek istedigimi bilir :)

Sozu daha fazla uzatmadan tarife geciyorum. Shnorhavor Surp Dznund :)

Malzemeler

• 100 gr tereyagi
• 200 gr kahverengi seker
• 2 yumurta
• 100 gr fistik ezmesi
• 1 cay kasigi kabartma tozu
• 1 cay kasigi vanilya (daha yogun bir vanilya aromasi icin bir paket de konulabilir.)
• 200 gr un
• 1 avuc ceviz
• Karamelli-Balli tatli sosu veya erimis cikolata

Yapilis

• Firini 180 dereceye ayarlayip onceden isitin
• Seker, tereyagi ve yumurtayi buyuk bi kaba alin iyice karistirin. 
• Un, kabartma tozu, vanilya ve fistik ezmesini de iyice karistirip kasik yarimiyla kucuk toplar halinde firin tepsisine dizin.
• Uzerlerine sus olarak cevizleri ekleyin.
• Firinda 12-14 dakika arasinda pisirin.
• Biskuviler iyice soguduktan sonra uzerlerine tatli sosu veya erimis cikolata ile susleyin.

Afiyet olsun!

Pumpkin Soup

Autumn is one of my favourite seasons. The thousand different shades of brown color make me feel warm and cozy. Now it’s nearly the end of October so it is almost Halloween. Even if it is not our tradition, Halloween is one of the examples of how American culture influences the whole world. Halloween actually means holy evening. Strange enough, this day is dedicated to remembering the dead including saints. The ghost stories, the haunted houses, scary pranks are designed to confront the power of death. Pumpkin is of course the main symbol of the Halloween. They make carved pumpkins, Jack-o-lanters. They are used for scaring evil spirits. But it is also very good time to eat pumpkin. In my opinion, the most delicious dish with pumpkin is Pumpkin Soup. It is always nice to eat pumpkin soup when you come home cold and hungry. My pumpkin soup is a different one. I use different spices to give it more flavour.  So here is my Pumpkin Soup Recipe. Hope you like it.  

Ingredients

·         1 medium size pumpkin
·         3 tbsp olive oil
·         2 medium size carrots
·         1 onion
·         1 glove of garlic
·         1 tsp cumin
·         1 tsp pimenta
·         1 tsp curcuma
·         1 lt water

Method

·         Cut the pumpkin like a watermelon, deseed and peel it. Chop it into small blocks.
·         Peel the carrots and slice them.
·         Put the olive oil into a large saucepan and add the onion and garlic which are chopped into small pieces.
·         Cook the onion and garlic for 2 minutes covered with medium heat and add the pumpkin and carrots.
·         Cook them 3 minutes (covered) more and add spices. Stir very well so that every ingredient touches the spices.
·         Add boiled water and lower the heat. Cook them till the carrots and pumpkin are soft.
·         Use the food processor to make it puree till it’s smooth.

Serving tip : Use 1 tbsp of sour cream. (See the picture.)

Enjoy your meal!

Sonbahar benim en sevdigim mevsimler biridir. Kahverenginin binbir cesidini gormek icimi isitir. Ayrica Ekimin sonuna geldik, her ne kadar da bizim adetlerimizden biri olmasa, Cadilar Bayrami zamani simdi. Cadilar Bayrami yani “Halloween” kutsal gece demekmis. Olulerin anilmasina adanmis bu gun aslinda. Bu gece boyunca anlatilan hayalet hikayeleri, perili evler ve korkutucu sakalar is insanlarin olumunun gucuyle karsi karsiya kalmasi icin yapilmis. Hic suphesiz Cadilar Bayraminin en onemli sembolu Balkabagi. Balkabagindan yapilan lambalarin ama kotu ruhlari korkutmakmis. Bana sorarsiniz guzelim balkabaklarini lamba yapmak yerine oturup bir guzel corba yapin. Aksam usumus ve ac bir sekilde eve geldiginizde icebileceginiz en guzel corbadir balkabagi corbasi. Benim tarifim biraz degisik. Ben bu corbayi yaperken normalde belki yakistirmayacaginiz baharatlar kullaniyorum. Kimyon , yeni bahar ve zerdecal. Hepsinin farkli bir tat ve lezzet verecegine emin olabilir. Deneyin ve gorun.

Malzemeler

·         1 orta boy balkabagi
·         2 orta boy havuc
·         3 yemek kasigi zeytinyagi
·         1 orta boy sogan
·         1 dis sarmisak
·         1 cay kasigi kimyon
·         1 cay kasigi yeni bahar
·         1 cy kasigi zerdecal
·         1 lt su

Hazirlanisi

·         Balkabagini karpuz keser gibi kesin, cekirdeklerini cikartin ve soyun. Kucuk parcalar halinde kesin.
·         Havuclari soyup halkalar halinde dograyin.
·         Buyuk bir tencereye zeytinyagini koyup kucuk kucuk dogradiginiz sogan ve sarmisagi iki dakika orta hararette kavurunuz.
·         Balkabagini ve havucu da ekleyip kapagi kapali bir sekilde arada karistirarak 3 dakika pisirin.
·         Baharatlari ekleyin ve iyice karistirin. Baharatlar esit sekilde dagilsin.
·         Kaynamis suyu ilave edin ve dusuk ateste balkabaklari ve havoc yumusayana kadar pisirin.
·         Blenderla iyice pure haline getirin.

Servis ederken; 1 kasik krema kullanin. Resimdeki gibi. Afiyet olsun!

I am Back!

Hellooooo... Look who is back! Finally I found some time to motivate myself to write again. It's been quite a long time since I posted something. Summer has gone and past but don't wake me up when September ends (tribute to Greenday's song "Wake me up when September ends". ) because the weather is suprisingly great so I am enjoying September very much.

BUT what did I do all this time? How did my summer go? Let me give you some updates. I had a wonderful summer with my family and friends. It was crazy hot in Istanbul and also on the island it was nearly impossible to lie down under the sun. Although it was unbearable, I had nothing to complain about, summer should be like that, shouldn't it? It was also a very relaxing summer, I had finally found some time to reflect on the winter and also to make plans for upcoming winter (actually I started to do one of those plans, but that's next time's subject.). Being with friends, sleeping very late, waking up very late (sometimes early but I didn't even feel exhaustion.) and of course swimming in the beautiful Marmara Sea... I can keep on going, but I don't wanna bother you so much. As I had a amazing summer, it took me some time to adjust to my regular programme. Going to school, cooking, cleaning, being in the Netherlands. As I mentioned before September is so far so good but of course I am not talking about the evenings. This is the Netherlands,heh! It is always cold in the evenings. Cold evenings equals to movie nights with blanckets and homemade popcorn. (as it is in the picture.)

On one of those cold evenings we decided to watch "Back to the Future". It is my husband's childhood movie series and it was very important for him that I liked it too. He warned me beforehand so that I wouldn't become very critical about every little detail. He said "it is a 1985 movie, don't expect incredible visual effects." ,"even if Robert Zemeckis (who directed many of my favorite films like "Forrest Gump", "Cast Away" and very successful Christmas movies "The Polar Express" and "A Christmas Carol") is the director and Steven Spielberg (who is my childhood hero with his amazing imagination and his sensitive and touching film language) is the main producer, don't expect a very complicated movie, it is science-fiction at the end" and so on.

So we started watching the first movie. Of course we saw a very young Michael J. Fox there. I learned later that he was already very popular with a tv series called "Family Ties" so he was a sweetheart and he boosted his popularity with this movie series more. I should admit he has the star vibe. The movie has all the characteristic features of a Hollywood movie. There is a bad guy, a good guy, and a beautiful girl. This triangle comes back in the second movie too. An important feature of the movie is that every little detail is important because it all comes back and not only within the movie but in the entire serie. Though this doesn't bother your mind. Family and friendships are two important subjects. 

Although after watching many time-travel movies one might think this would be relatively a peace of cake but if you think it was 1985, it is a big deal to write a script like this.

I will not go in too deep and analyze the movies seperately, as their scripts are not very much different from each other but I should say,  the first movie is my favourite as you meet the characters, you learn the whole story and how time traveling effects other things too. I like the third one too because first of all it was kind of a western and there is also a new story about the doctor so it was like a new movie but the second one is my least favourite. In the second movie everything goes wrong, they just spend their time to make it right. There is no fun, no jokes and no warmth. It feels like you are watching the gangster version of the original movie.

The picture you see above tells a lot. You see Michael J Fox with the guitar for the first movie. That scene was remarkable and it refers to a real time event too. In the second one you see Fox with a hoverboard which is a flying skateboard.  This is important not just for the second movie but also for the third movie. So keep in mind. In the third one, you understand from the font type and little Fox picture that it is western. Lastly the car is all you need to travel in time and of course some fuel which differs in every movie. So let's go BACK TO THE FUTURE.

Yaktin beni 'The Vampire Diaries"

Bazi filmler vardir, bazi kitaplar, bazi diziler, alir sizi baska yerlere goturur. Baska karakterlerle tanistirir, baska hayatlarin icine sokar. Bir de bakmissiniz sanki orada yasiyorsunuz. Oradaki karakterler sizin dostunuz oluverir. Hatta bazi zamanlarda olaylarin arkasindan kafa yorarsiniz. Ben en cok bunu okudugum seri kitaplarda ve seyrettigim dizilerde hissediyorum. Filmler beni 2 saatligine veya en fazla 1-2 gunlugune mesgul ederken diziler ve seri kitaplar fazlasiyla beni icerisine aliyor. Kesin bunun psikolojide bir adi vardir ama bende bir baglilik yaratiyor diziler ve seri kitaplar. Bilemezsiniz  Harry Potter serisini nasil bitirdigimi. Son sayfanin bitmemesi icin cumleleri tekrar tekrar okudum ve kitabimi kapatirken ki o huzun... Kimse ayriliklari sevmez ama ben kitap karakterlerinden, dizi karakterlerinden bile ayrilamiyorum. O yuzdendir ki ozledikce kitaplara geri donuyorum. Bastan sona okumasam da bazi kisimlari okuyup ozlem gideriyorum. Hele de televizyonda her rastladigimda gecmem mumkun degil. Seyretmem lazim... Iste zaten o yuzden hala donup donup "Friends" seyrediyorum. Joey'i, Monica'yi, Rachel'i, Chandler'i, Phoebe' yi ve Ross'i ozluyorum. O yuzden "How I Met Your Mother" ekibine de o kadar kizdim. Onlari da arkadaslarim yerine koymustum ve benim arkadasim Ted hayatta finaldeki Ted gibi davranmazdi. Bazilariniz icin cok sacma dedigim belki ama ben o karakterlerin uzerinde sanki gerceklermis onca zaman dusunmustum. Acaba n'olucak diye meraklanmistim. Uzulmustum, aglamistim. Yeni ben ihaneti hakketmemistim. Gordugunuz uzere hala kizginim.

Neyse yavas yavas bu yazinin amacina gelelim... Ben kucuklugumden beri dogaustu yaratiklari pek sevmisimdir. Her cesidini ama... Superman, Spidermanden tutun da uzaylilara, vampirlere, kurtadamlara, cadilara kadar. O yuzden de herzaman ilgimi cekmistir bu dogaustu yaratiklarla ilgili diziler, filmler, kitaplar (Harry Potter hayrani olmam sizi sasirtmadi, degil mi?). 3-4 senedir bir diziye takildim yine. "The Vampire Diaries". Kitabi da varmis ama hic okumadim, hic okumayi da dusunmuyorum cunku ben sinirleniyorum kitap disi hikayeler gorunce ekranda. Bu kitap serisi dizi oldugunu gore dusunmek bile istemiyorum ne degisikler yaptiklarini. Ben kitap yazari olsam bazi durumlarda dava bile acardim herhalde. Zaten benim kitabim olsaydi ve dizi veya film yapmak isteselerdi ya senaryosunu ben yazardim ya da direkt hic izin vermezdim. Konumuza geri donelim. Butun dizilerin yaptigi gibi "The Vampire Diaries" de sezon finalini yapti. Ben 3-4 senedir seyrediyorum ama onlar 5 senedir ekranlarda. Bundan sonrasi spoiler icerir ona gore. Oyle bir final yaptiklar ki etkisinden cikamadim bir turlu. Bunu cozmenin en iyi yolu da yazmak diye dusundum. Bir kere bu sezonu hic sevmedim zaten. Nerdeyse her bolum yeni bir kotu karakter veya kotu bir durum cikti ve ertesi bolum olay cozuldu. Biraz sacma polisiye dizilerine dondu anlayacaginiz. Sonra nerdeyse hic kimse gercekten olmemeye basladi. Herkes geri donmeye tekrar olmeye ve tekrar geri donmeye basladi. Tamam, dogaustu falan ama herseyin de bir siniri var yani degil mi... Hersey de bu kadar dogaustu olamaz. Dizinin merkezindeki ask ucgeni de artik kabak tadi vermeye basladi derken ben yavas yavas izlememeyi dusunuyordum ki oyle bir sezon finali yapti ki hem butun asabimi bozdu hem de beni yeniden diziye bagladi tabi bir sartla eger finaldeki karakter yine dogaustu bir sekilde diziye geri donerse. Yoksa gercekten artik seyretmeyecegim. Yani bu kadar ciddiyim. Diziyi maalesef biraz "Cesur ve Guzel – Bold and Beautiful" ve "Dexter" arasi birsey yaptilar. Hic hosuma gitmiyor bu durum. Bir de ustune 3 bas karakterden birini sonsuzluga ugurlar gibi oldurunce iyice is cigirindan cikti benim icin.

Sen de herseyin kendi istedigin gibi olmasini istiyorsun diyeceksiniz ama nasil ki musteri memnuniyeti varsa izleyici/okuyucu memnuniyeti diye de birsey var yani. Ben de izleyici olarak bu durumdan hic memnun degilim. Hem kalkip bu karakterin boyle kahraman gibi sanki baska hic kimse yokmus gibi intihar bombaciligi yapmasi son derece mantiksizken bir de ustune herkesin geri donmesine onun tek basina arkada kalmasi, bir cadinin digeri cadiya yardim etmesi gerekirken kacmasi... Daha mantiksiz bircok sey sayabilirim.

Simdilik yaz tatili boyunca tek umudum 6. sezonda yazarlarin dinlenip, kendine gelip daha mantikli senaryolarla geri gelmesi. Bekleyip, gorecegiz...