…and no, Conan, it is not
“to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
(Yes, Mark, this quote is for you, Thank you1991…)
Good, actually, is not even merely to do what seems superficially good for a moment, Dudu. Last week we saw , bölüm/episode 17, and how Things Are NOT Always As They Appear, and this week, we will see what good really could be, or not, despite how it may appear.
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The summary comes from a fellow blogger (Birgit)’s point of view.
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There are two main threads in this episode:
- The elections for Head Fairy, as Perihan’s term runs out
- Sadik’s birthday
Everybody around Sadik pretends to have forgotten about his birthday, while secretly they are preparing for a surprise party. Sadik is sad all day, but his sadness very quickly turns into happiness when he comes home and sees the preparations for his birthday. When he blows out the candles his wish is to always have his loved ones around him and to see his old friends from his youth again

-First make a wish and then…
-OK.
Dudu has decided to run for Head Fairy herself but doesn’t tell Perihan because she wants to see her face when she tells her at the elections. Betüs and Eda vote for Perihan; they are afraid if Dudu gets elected, she will definitely break up their relationships with mortals.

Would that you could be elected again.
There is one problem for the candidates though: A fairy who wants to stand for election has to be known as a good fairy, not misusing their powers, and they would have to do a favour to a mortal that would not be forgotten. Dudu asks her boyfriend Umur what good deeds one could do for somebody that they won’t forget. He gives Sadik as an example who has dreamt from childhood to one day own a red sportscar. To quality for the elections she buys Sadik the car and gives it to him for his birthday in the evening.
Meanwhile, Perihan is thinking about a gift for Sadik. She finds out what would make him most happy, which is to meet his three friends again which whom he made music together when he was young. Perihan finds all of them and persuades them to come to the birthday party. They do so although they can only stay for an hour.
(Sadık and his friends, in the Featured Image up top, play traditional Turkish music on modern rock instruments!)
The Head Fairy election has the result Perihan 800 votes to Dudu 1 vote. The one vote is actually Perihan’s vote, who is just being a good friend.

Just to gain votes… a Fairy yammering on about her good deed
Next morning, Sadik is musing together with Betüs what has made him most happy at his birthday and why. When Dudu gave him the car, he was excited at first, but he says he could see in Dudu’s eyes that she doesn’t really like him and most probably gave him the car to make Betüs happy. That destroys the good feeling about that present and he doesn’t want to accept such an expensive present from somebody who doesn’t like him. If he had worked and save money for the car, he would have been happier about it.
Meeting his friends again meant most to him, as for the friendships he made an effort. What one gets without any effort is meaningless.
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Many, many thanks to Birgit, of the
Stella, oh, Stella blog, for all of the of the English and image content, today.
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I like how this episode shows both how the kids feel bad about lying to their dad, even for a ‘good’ reason, and how it pains him, even as the adults assure them that all is just fine with this little white lie. I personally think that they could have been a little bit more creative and found ways to hint to him that his birthday had not been forgotten, but that he would have to wait to find out for certain. I love how this episode shows both that the Fairy world is a democracy (ok, a Republic), and also that most of the voting Fairies are not idiots, and do not fall for Dudu’s plan. Most of all, I adore how this episode shows that good is not only subjective, but also subject to the considerations of both long term effects, and current personal context. Sadık is a bit slow, but he eventually gets it, as this episode shows, even though his mother in law does not yet get it. It takes both education for empathy, and also both the desire and resources to do good. That is where Project Do Better works to be of service, via teaching and advocating for better sharing of our common resources for the common good. Please see the link below for details on how you can also help all of us to be part of the solution for Good.
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Next week will be blm/ep. 19: ,
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Ok, why was I sure that there was a CC and an English subtitles option when I looked at this video clip before I linked it?
To summarize, first, the kids are arguing with the father (Sadik, a wonderful name meaning Loyal) about being too young to have a mobile phone, and then the mother in law, Dudu, causes a record snowstorm to hit Istanbul, for which she is punished by Perihan (the President of the Fairies) with an order to deliver presents to each of the 7 billion normal people on earth, including in Antarctica, individually! They have conflated the winter holidays, giving Christmas presents on New Year’s Eve, probably to avoid the religious aspect, as Turkey is technically a secular but majority Muslim country. So, by minute 17:19, when we see the beloved late actress Defne Joy Foster look up, the Fairy Leaders, starting with the lady, as it is a matriarchy, are asking the kids not to make the same mistakes the adults have made, and reminding adults that we borrow this world from the children. Then, wishes for a better new year for all of the world.
I can never watch this clip without crying.