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blorbosexterminator · 1 year

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Raquel and Alicia would be in the berlin spin off? What do you think of that? What possible plot line that could have fit in with them?

This simultaneously came as the biggest surprise related to the spin-off possible and also completely unsurprising LMFAO. A few weeks ago, @roccinan and I were joking about this exact same thing and went if 'what if instead of everyone else, Alex Pina gets Itizar to play Raquel in the spin-off, wouldn't that be insane?' And as always, the conversation took so many different turns and twists and we joked about everything but I think we both concluded that it actually wouldn't be that insane and that it's HIGHLY plausible if he did want to do it. Because Raquel is a major policewoman/detective in Madrid and it would actually be very interesting if we watched her rise as a policewoman in parallel to Andrés rise as a thief; they are both young and still haven't made that formidable name but they are incredible at what they do and show this potential and as a viewer knowing how they end up it would be very cool. And the other thing we talked about would if basically Raquel is just running around the city always constantly 'nearly' catching Andrés but he always slips out of her finger at the last moment and maybe she doesn't know 'who' exactly she's looking for, and maybe she does.

What I want to say is, they are many scenarios they could fit in because it's not at all weird that a major policeman like Raquel would be working on a major heist case in Madrid. And putting Alicia in too, makes a lot of sense because they graduated together and it's very likely they worked together on some cases, and also very cool because their dynamic obviously have a lot of fans. And it's basically two spin-offs in one: one based on Berlin and his rise, and one based on Raquel's younger years in the force.

That's on one hand, on the other, it was a genius marketing trick by Pina because he's basically ensuring at least 80% of the original audience will watch the spin-off now. Either because they genuienly just love Raquel (which most general audience and also fandom do), or now they will be waiting for any 'prequel' thoughts on serquel (and the serquel fandom is hugel), or for Alicia, the s3 villain that gained a huge amount of fans.

Bottomline is, I think it's something that is making me way more excited for the show (and I already was) and will have the same effect on many other people. And I think it promises that the show will be pretty fun, playful, and paying homage to the original show. So overall, a good move (they obviously can ruin it in the show itself, but until now, it seems very promising to me); I can imagine a lot of storylines that can organically involve Raquel and Alicia, and on a marketing level, I think it's genius to ensure the show is watched by enough people to get a second season, which I believe what Pina wants and is planing for.

#I also think it's cool in other dynamic introductions #like Alberto when he was maybe still a good boyfriend but with red signs that the viewer see how it'll end up #(there is something always insanely cool to me about a viewer knowing the character's future that they don't know themselves)#we can actually have German as a character which could be very fun to see the man that a woman like Alicia loved that much #and maybe (PLEASE GOD PLEASE) we can get my dude my man my icon Tamayo #and also Prieto because I actually find him fun #the only downside to this is the expected annoyance from certain parts of the larger fandom who won't shut up about rapist berlin and how #they cannot stand him even though they are willingly watching a show that's named after him #and who will be loudly complaining about the lack of serquel because they would be 100% expecting it to be a serquel spin-off now #and/or complaining about why the romance between Raquel and Alicia isn't the central thesis of the berlin show #but also that would be enough talking about the show to convince netflix that it's popular enough to be granted a second season lol #but fingers crossed that we all enjoy it and that it's genuinely just a fun good show that adds to lcdp rather than takes from it #(and that we get an answer to 'you didn’t even tell the truth to your own brother son of a bitch' lik #lcdp #Berlin netflix

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