#everyone..else in berlin!

This is making me want to resurrect my mythology about the MC in Cabaret who died in the war and came back just to die in the next one. I think this is relating so well because Gereon's story is a descent, from living Cologne to dead Berlin. To be in Berlin is to be dead, and subject to the rule of stranger kings. That's why Helga doesn't fit. She's alive, and she looks it, compared to Lotte, with Theda Bara eyes, and poor Grete, whose a twitching corpse by the ep 16.

Oooooohhh. Oohh interesting. A city of the dead, and the dead keep it. God that’s so true about Helga, almost like she can’t even SEE that everyone around her is dying (her almost spookily blind response when Gereon at last rises back up from a dose looking like a whole ghost, comes to mind). And Lotte’s Theda Bara eyes yes!

Anyway I also appreciate this Cabaret mythology very much, which has additionally reminded me of a thought I had while running to ‘Wannsee Weise’ the other day:

This better not give us a Gereon as Orpheus moment where he goes to retrieve(rescue?) Lotte and then at the last minute turns around because he doesn't believe she'd follow him out. He turns to check on her, she realizes he doesn't trust her enough, and she walks back down to the one king in Berlin who treats people equally (at least, that's Edgar's hype).

Unfortunately,,,

I love it.

I like stories of tragedy and weirdness and the unexpected where you don’t wind up where you thought you’d be but Huh and I! like! the line! “the one king in Berlin.” The King of Berlin! The King of Berlin! it sounds like bells when you say it

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edgar as hades imagery is so thick on the ground it’s laughable. the obvious underworld/mob thing yes, the pomegranates yes, the classical physical resemblance sure, but the strict enforcement of a code/hades as judge thing, the differing levels of ME/regions of the underworld thing, calling him “the armenian” rather than using his name (the greeks hated getting hades’s attention too)… so many thingsssss

[shriek] wait Berlin has a bear doesn’t it? Or at least in Neverwhere, each of the ancient cities had a mythic beast in their underworld—the Boar below London, the Alligator below New York, the Bear below Berlin. And you weren’t supposed to say the true name of the bears.

idk if anyone else mentioned this and I’m just late, but I’m in the middle of a second rewatch as well and the second (shinier, nicer) gun Gereon pulled was actually Edgar’s - the latter had it under his jacket (at his waist I think?) and was going to pull it when he saw the safe was open before Gereon disarmed him at gunpoint. so later on, when Gereon’s shooting up the place two-handed like he’s in Hard Boiled, that’s Edgar’s gun he’s using. :’D lollll the aggravation.

memory-for-trifles: GOOD, definitely pour your pharmacy grade heroin or whatever directly into your beer, GREAT CALL wellntruly: the Gregory House portions of my brain do enjoy watching Gereon Rath recklessly take medications memory-for-trifles: I think of all people Gregory House would also appreciate some sedatives with a beer chaser

memory-for-trifles: Birthmark guy’s outfit looks like Weimar Tom Baker cosplay

memory-for-trifles: Of course he stands up when a lady leaves the table. Of course. wellntruly: Who could notice. memory-for-trifles: 😂😂😂 Mean! I love it!

memory-for-trifles: Don’t care for pistol kid

memory-for-trifles: Oh honey, these gays are just gonna eat you up wellntruly: If graven twink Gereon Rath makes it out of this series without having an (1) gay encounter you can color me Surprised

WELL this is what I get for sitting on this joke for so long, you beat me to it