“…a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
chibisashimi replied to your post “akahypotheticals replied to your post: (shows up with some takeout…”
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
akahypotheticals replied to your post: akahypotheticals replied to your post: (shows up…
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.
Listen my friends we’re building up a REAL beautiful ramshackle palace of decoupaged Moka Efti mythology and hello to it!
akahypotheticals replied to your post: (shows up with some takeout Thai food) So, in…
additional thought no one asked for: lotte dancing in the club at the end of season 2 and they do that wide shot and she looks so worn out and unhappy gave me MAD “eurydice in the underworld waiting for orpheus to show tf up already” vibes
Hell YEAH, hell yeah buddy! I like where your head’s at!
Ooh. Greek Myth Babylon Berlin. Now there’s a notion.
This isn’t based on much there save a vague gesture toward the Girls in the Underworld (your Eurydices, your Persephones), but I had this amorphous thought of a Lotte who, after she was brought into various rooms in Moka Efti she hadn’t been to before, with a sort of mythic reasoning would just kinda decide that since she’d passed some important thresholds, awoke in the Armenian’s chambers, partook of the pomegranate and all that, she was now allowed essentially free reign through the whole premises as part of the bargain. She ate, so Hades is allowed to call her back again, but also she’s allowed to move through the Underworld light-footed. I don’t know, I can just see her, exhausted, in that shot you mentioned, deciding to Hell with it, and winding upstairs back to the room with the golden moons and falling asleep in the blankets on that couch again.
chibisashimi asked:
(shows up with some takeout Thai food) So, in Babylon Brooklyn, when Edgar is feeding up Our Lotte, she's eating from all the food, and there are these gorgeously prominently displayed pomegranates there, and I can't imagine that's an accident, given the underworld vibes of club itself. What I can't get over is what this means in the future, whether we're hinting at some kind of demon's bargain between Edgar and Lotte or her place between the cops and the criminals or what. Thoughts?
Okay initial note—this has actually happened to me before, even with this very program!, but I’m always blown away when someone with a url I feel like I’ve never seen before pops up to chat about a show I’ve been blogging about. You are so welcome to join in at any time! Stay a while, throw a like around, maybe a reply, bc I had no idea you or the person above (below?) were even here at the party?!
Anyway you showed up with Thai food so you are VERY welcome. AND because you are talking about THIS MOMENT:
A clip I just dropped in in full because I feel it really captures two things
1. the extent to which I agreeeee
2. that I love Edgar okay, and so none of my Edgar takes should be trusted!!!!
….But that said I want him to adopt Lotte and Toni as their Crime Dad and of course this makes no fucking sense and of course he imprisoned Charlotte in a freezer for a while which would be I imagine pretty difficult to move past, but I personally would enjoy this nonsensical crime fam plot I have made up just for me. And part of it is yes exactly, “between the cops and the criminals”, because I think it would be kinda perf if Charlotte, already moving around in these weird liminal spaces in the Polizei between typist and detective, was part of the police force but also she’s the ward of the local crime boss, and Gereon’s like ‘uh’ and she’s like ‘it’s fine no one knows about conflicts of interest in 1929’ and he’s like ‘actually I think they Do’ and anyway as you can see from this super character accurate and not at all meta-aware dialogue I don’t believe this is remotely realistic as an actual show development. But then again if you had told me what would happen at the end of Episode 16 I would laughed “ha ha ha you are out of your MIND!”, and look what happened. That.
So you know never say die, never say Crime Dad couldn’t be weird endgame