The new Star TV series, Yüz Yıllık Mucize (A Hundred Years of Miracles), is a fantastic production. The story of a 130-year-old man’s life between his past and present has a very interesting story… The fact that the script of the series was so different impressed many viewers.
However, those who look at the comments on the 4th episode trailer are not aware that the screenwriters missed the point, that connecting the event to a love story will alienate the audience from the series.
Süreyya sees Eşref, whom she fell in love with years ago, as Kemal this time. Kemal, on the other hand, appears in front of him as the love of Harika. At this point, the audience of the series is right in the criticism, “The nephew relationship is officially…” The audience, who praise the acting performances of Ebru Şahin and Birkan Sokullu, who are in the lead roles in the series, have different thoughts about the scenario.
Distorted relationships are constantly handled in the series, but what really bothers the audience in the Yüz Yıllık Mucize project is that a person who lived during the national struggle before the establishment of the Republic of Turkey has so much to convey to today’s world, while the series embraces the theme of a distorted love story.
The meaning of the Yüz Yıllık Mucize series would be much deeper if the screenwriters actually put forward scenes that will establish a stronger bond with the past, and if they more strongly reconcile Kemal’s heroism as a soldier with the national struggle and the important events in the period before it.
As a result, the story is presented to the audience as the story of a 130-year-old man, but as a result, the audience immediately sticks a note to the series with the interpretation of “the twisted relationship between uncle and nephew”.
While criticism is increasing that it can serve to normalize such situations, there is also the risk that Yüz Yıllık Mucize will be dragged into a marginal story.
A viewer says, “You participated in the Sakarya War, you lived for more than a hundred years, you are chasing love instead of writing your memoirs.”
How justified indeed. If the story of the series had been described as a love story, giving a strong message through the emphasis on the national struggle, perhaps the audience would have had different expectations.