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thenajwanimri · 4 months
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Alicia is 💯% the kind of woman Berlin would like! 🔥❤️‍🔥
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roccinan · 4 months
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I know it's only been a day but I'm dying of curiosity, have you watched the spinoff yet? What are your thoughts?
Hi anon! As you can see, I posted an initial ramble in an earlier answer LOL I talked about my feelings for the new characters there so I won't bore you and repeat it.
In a nutshell: new banda was "meh." Cameron was hot and I hope she gets more breakout roles, but the character was written like a Tokyo/Nairobi knockoff without any of their depth or magnetism. And I personally didn't like how her backstory was treated (it wasn't taken seriously for the right reasons imo). Keila was surprisingly likable but I keep making a lemon face when I remember her being horny for Bruce's sweat. Same for Bruce. He would have been enjoyable if not for the pubic hair fetish that he keeps bringing up asdfasdf
I was most interested in Roi, and he didn't disappoint, but I was baffled over why the spinoff ignored the most important question: how did he meet Andres and why did Andres take him in?? Genuinely needed a flashback there.
Main questions that the show needs to, but didn't answer:
How did Damian/Keila/Roi/Cameron/Bruce meet Andres?
Why did Damian/Andres choose Cameron and Bruce to help?
Why weren't any of these people in the mint and bank heists? You can argue that Bruce/Keila/Cameron weren't close to Andres, but nothing indicated Damian and Roi would abandon him. Alicia "exposed" their identities, but they don't know she did that so it's HUH
Why did Andres replace them all with Jakov, Martin, and Santiago? I mean, I would too LOL but in universe, there needs to be some explanation
Why is he calling himself Berlin?
We also still have no idea why Andres and Sergio have different surnames since this show addressed nothing about them having the same or different parents. No idea when or why Andres became a thief, how he came to love heisting, etc. Overall, the spinoff chose to flash romances between the new characters instead of giving us more information about Andres, which was a stupid move imo.
That said, there were things I did like about the spinoff:
Aside from that hilarious tracksuit, Pedro pulled the various turtlenecks off more or less. He was gorgeous more often than not, but for what? smh
The ending was tight, exaggerated, and fun
I actually was hyped when Alicia and Raquel showed up
Lots of jokes/moments landed and made me laugh out loud
Camille topping Andres every chance she got was Quality content
The heist itself didn't have me on pins and needles, but it was entertaining and I never got bored of it
I liked that aside from Roi, Andres wasn't close to any of the young people on the team- that makes more sense with his character and also helps me forget the 27yo comment asdfadf
The shoutout to Sergio :') Hermanito lives rent free in Andres' mind
General elements that I wasn't a fan of, aside from the forced romances:
Not a berlicia shipper, but come on- why would you put Alicia and Andres in the same time space and NOT have them interact!?
The car race confused me, and not just because Cameron's phone breakdown made me cringe. I honestly don't understand why the racers needed a girl to stand on the roof. What purpose? How does that help or hinder the race- what- at first, I thought the girls were going to whack each other with sticks or try to break the other person's car and this was a high stakes death battle. But no, they just did this to be cool.
Speaking of the race, I think too many "cool" moments became boring because they were tailormade for the cool new stars; there should have been more moments like Berlin at the "opera"-- Ex. we should have gotten Damian and Andres at that race instead of Cameron and Roi- that would have been so much funnier, and thus more memorable
Andres' speeches were repetitive and made no sense, even for him. BUT it was hilarious how in the show's effort to ignore Martin, everything Andres says and does makes it look like he's waiting for his one true love in the form of Palermo, a man; even that no homo moment with Roi was so on-the-nose it has to be foreshadowing Martin XD
The ending with Camille was too open for my taste, especially pointless because we KNOW they don't end up together
BUT I do want a season 2, just so we can see Martin entering Andres' life and a glimpse of Sergio + any scrap of an actual backstory for Andres. They already did the romcom route, so maybe they'll experiment with yet another genre in s2, who knows lol.
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thenajwanimri · 3 months
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What the romantic arc in the Berlin spinoff should have been about
Or what it should be about, now that a second season is confirmed!
► If the preview above is not available, you can watch the video here!
(This is the same video I posted earlier, but I wanted to repost it with this song, because after I shared it it occurred to me that it suited the video even better.)
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[PS: Psst, there’s also a fic which goes with this. Check it if you’re interested. Here.]
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thenajwanimri · 4 months
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✘ BAD ROMANCE ✘ [Berlin/Andres de Fonollosa & Alicia Sierra ]
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thenajwanimri · 3 months
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Berlin & Alicia Sierra || Crashing Like A Blazing Fall
What the romantic ark in the Berlin spinoff should have been about. ♥ 
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This just happened. I wasn't planning to make a new video these days. But I stumbled upon a couple of random Berlin and Alicia screencaps, and my mind went like 'this could have been an actual scene with the two of them,' and... yeah, this is the result. This much about my tendency to get carried away... 🫠 When I deliberately sat down to make a video about them all I could come up with was the short Bad Romance one. Oh well... gotta ride the wave! But gosh, I am still lowkey pissed that they've robbed us of this pairing! I always have to point it out. Yes.
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PS: I started a fic, which in fact inspired this video. Check it out, if you’re interested [wattpad-link] :)
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thenajwanimri · 4 months
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Berlin meets Alicia Sierra 💥
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thenajwanimri · 1 year
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Omg! Are they going to give us the Berlin/Alicia backstory we've wanted all along?! I am totally on board with that ship! 🤩🤞
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thenajwanimri · 4 months
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➤ New Berlicia fic!
Wattpad:
AO3:
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thenajwanimri · 3 months
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A bit of shameless self-promotion. 👀
A new chapter of my Berlicia fic is up on AO3 and Wattpad!
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thenajwanimri · 3 years
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I'd love it if Alicia would turn out to be an ex-wife of Berlin.
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