#but I personally love the idea of different timelines - cough read Parabola cough

[dormarunt]

What if Berlin2023 is an alternate universe? Berlin lives, Berlermo endgame. One can dream..

YES. Multiverse theory. Everything is the same, except Martin is straight. Just kidding. Except Andres isn't a coward and after he gets out of prison, he finds Martin and kisses him again and they gently work on recruiting that lost mitochondrion to the side of the majority.

We'd get Berlermo in the Mint (bonus: Andres almost surely won't rape anyone! ✨) And I'd love to see them both playing with Arturito (I wrote a scene like that in one of the last chapters of Parabola - loved it, these two could be the ultimate chaos to reign in the mess that is Arturo)

Maybe they do the Gold heist too, but not because they'd have to save Rio, just because they always wanted to. Different stakes, different configuration of circumstances entirely. Andres would probably send Gandia out the same way he did with Tokio during the Mint heist so they'll be rid of that pest too.

Sadly I think the writers will have to live with the consequences of having killed Andres (booo) BUT this still gives us Berlermo hopes! Berlermo interrupted, lol, but I'll take it over The Story of a Thief and his Many Ex Wives or whatever.

TBH I'm now afraid we might actually, somehow**, get that story, you know? Because I remember everyone speculating about a LCdP spinoff until the writers and actors were like, nah, not gonna happen. And then came that article about that possible spin-off with the wives and I'm afraid - what if it was just to test the waters? To see how the audience would react to the idea?

(** and I say somehow because Pedro Alonso isn't aging backwards so how can they film him and his first wives? The first of which was at least Rafael's-age years ago. They made a show about how Berlin 2023 is about Berlin, and Berlin is Pedro Alonso. UNLESS that spinoff I read about focuses on the ex-wives and not Andres? Somehow? Makes no sense to me.)

Because they surely have some overarching plot in mind to be able to sell it to Netflix, to make sure the actors are available etc. And that article about the spinoff with the five ex-wives came at the end of October while the Berlin spinoff was officially confirmed at the beginning of December. I don't know; I just don't.

I only hope for the spin-off to be good; if it includes Berlermo? I'll be ecstatic. Hopefully the fandom will revive again - even for 3 weeks, which is for how long it seems to active for after a new season. Or maybe they'll do a weekly episode type of deal, I'd love that.