u/Helpful_Hour1984

• Fatma has one job: kill Hurrem. Instead, she plays around with the torch, burning her face, instead of just stabbing her. Or at least doing what Elif did to herself: throw a pot of oil over her and set her on fire properly.
• Aybige is supposed to be this Tatar Amazon type who pulls a knife on Bali Bey and talks about wanting to go on campaign, yet the one time her fighting skills are actually necessary, she allows herself to be surrounded and disarmed in 5 seconds by a bunch of harem girls. She could've defended the stairs to the upper floor by just standing at the top and kicking them off, but instead she goes all the way down and turns her back on some of them.
• Once Daye arrives with the guards, it takes them forever to break down the harem door. Meanwhile, the rioters are long gone, and the only girls left in the Stone Room are Hurrem's loyalists who, instead of removing the barricades, sit around crying.
• Ibrahim casually intercepts a letter addressed to Suleyman by his WIFE! And then writes a letter to Hurrem telling her that he did so (thus giving her written proof of what he did). He couldn't just pretend it never arrived? In those days, half the mail probably got lost on the way, messengers were killed etc.
• Hurrem throws Daye under the bus with Valide by telling her that she reported the incident to Suleyman. What was the point of that? How could she be sure the letter even reached Suleyman (which it didn't)? And even if she had known for sure, why spoil Daye's standing with Valide before it was necessary? Daye literally saved her life multiple times. She was starting to become her ally. Why throw that away?
• The rioters were never punished (just moved to the Old Palace for a while). That alone should've been proof that Valide orchestrated the whole thing.
• And why didn't Valide punish the rioters harshly? They failed miserably. There's absolutely no reason why she shouldn't have had them all sewn into sacks and thrown into the Bosphorus. It would've helped her convince Suleyman that she had no hand in what happened. And it would've got rid of potential witnesses.
• No investigation was done into the matter. Hurrem's horse is killed and the entire harem is questioned at length. But Hurrem herself is almost killed and her face burned off, but everyone is like: "oh, well, you survived, çok şükür, let's move on."
• Hurrem also lets the rioters get away with it. Fatma gets a burn on her face, but come on! The Hurrem we know wouldn't have let her live after what she did to her. Not in a million years.
• Burn wounds heal miraculously, without a trace, in an age before skin grafts and antiseptics.

Pardon the rant. The series is generally well done, but this entire plot is utter bullshit.

...and Suleyman looks shocked by how much he has grown. Like, he seriously hasn't seen him in the past couple of years since he and Mahidevran moved there? It's not like he was at the farthest corner of the empire. Edirne is only about 240 km from Istanbul, clearly close enough that the women even went there before one of the campaigns, to enjoy the "clean forest air" and see Suleyman off. So we're supposed to believe that Mustafa hasn't been invited back to the palace for visits, or that Suleyman didn't have some "vacations" there all this time?