Ertugrul Season 2 Episode 63

• People after lockdown is reimposed in the place I live in and halls and cinemas being closed, I started watching web series once more.
• I continued Ertugrul Season 2 from Episode 38 where I had left off.
• I have reached till episode 63.
• So decided now this needs an update by way of a blog post.
  
• What I found that Season 2 deals mainly with Mongols.
• While Season 1 dealt with the Crusades and Christian mercenaries.
• What happens is that the Turks get sandwiched between two powerful forces in Asia Minor region.
• Mongols are coming from the East and Christians namely the Byzantine Empire is in the West ruling over Constantinople.
  
• In the series, it is finally in Episode 57 that the Christians and Byzantine Empire foot soldiers are shown after 56 episodes.
• There is not much difference between the uniforms of Crusaders foot soldiers shown in Season 1 and the Byzantine soldiers shown in Season 2.
• Ertugrul has seen and surveyed the scene in and around areas bordering the remnant of Byzantine Empire and decides to return later which would be shown in later episode.
• In other words Ertugrul has come face to face with what he would be facing in future when he moves Westward.
  
• Now let us fast forward to Episode 63.
• From Episode 57 to 63 the show has progressed a lot.
• Mainly it shows Noyan, the Mongol as to how dangerous a villain he is or can become.
• Episode 63 shows that two important characters die.
• First is Deli Demir and next is Tangut.
• The Mongols were introduced in the very first episode by Tangut.
• Deli Demir is also very old character from Season 1.
• His death and return of his body to the tribe is probably the saddest death scene in Ertugrul both Seasons so far.
• The relationship between Deli Demir and the kids will also be missed the way he used to tell stories.
• There is one particular scene in the series between Episode 57 and 63 where Sadettin Koppek meets with Gumustkin Bey and tells him while carving wood rather asks him, which is stronger your sword or the implement which he is using to carve the wood.
• Sadettin Kopek goes on to explain that sword is that much strong as long as the body it has killed becomes dust. But the sharp implement used to carve the wood makes a thing which may last centuries.
• Come to think about it we can see in retrospective effect.
• Why did early Sultans of India build the Qutub Minar?
  
• Why did Mughals build the Taj Mahal or numerous other buildings?
• Why did the British build the VT Terminus which resembles a cathedral in sense or Gateway of India monument or Victoria memorial?
• Or why is now BJP under Modi building a new Parliament building?
• They have learnt the lesson that Sadettin Koppek gives to Gumstuken.
• If you kill a person using force the moment the body turns to dust your legacy is finished.
• In case of monuments it will last a lifetime or as we have seen centuries.
• It will leave a lasting legacy for a long time certainly beyond ones lifetime.