Hawthorn

Liz looks good!

And I've lost count of how many episodes I'm behind.
Hopefully after this week-end I'll have more time to catch up with all fandom things.

Sulieter

Thanks for the great gifs.

I hope you get time to do that, Fran.

Hamburgo1001

This fan art looks very nice:





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Sulieter

Awesome, thanks.

Hamburgo1001

^ You're welcome.


I have found a short interview with German actor Tom Wlaschiha, who plays Berger on the show. In it, he talks a bit about the Berger/Carine dynamic and what it's like to work with Liz and Goran:

Hawthorn

Thanks!

It's always nice to hear people mention how professional and down to earth Liz is.

Sulieter

Thanks for the article, Alex.

a fine mess

I haven't seen this show. Yet. Didn't know about it actually. Maybe I'll start after my binge-watch of How to Get Away with Murder.

Hawthorn

^ I didn't know this show existed until Elizabeth was cast in it, either.
There are too many tv shows and movies to keep track of all of them. @_@

Have you already started watching HTGAWM? Do you like it? It was in my list of programs to check out (before real life ate all my free time, but the hope is to get around to watch at least part of it, eventually).

Hamburgo1001

I had never heard of this show before Elizabeth's casting, either. If you do decide to give it a shot, don't expect too much from it. Crossing Lines is a nice show to watch if you have an hour to spare on Thursday evenings, but it's pretty much a run of the mill NCIS or CSI knockoff - only with European locations.

Hawthorn

Do they at least make a good use of that point? I mean, do you get a sense that the features of different countries and the different characters' nationalities get a big focus?

Balian

Up to 3x05. Liz's character continues to be a big disappointment to me. She's by far the member who has the least interesting things to do in the team. Even when she appears more, she's still at best a supporting character in the Marco Show. She revolves almost entirely around his character arc. Even when she brings up an important point about her past, it's only being brought up in relation to his current situation, and it's very possible that it will never be brought up again. There is still no real insight into who she really is.

Hamburgo1001

Keep in mind that I haven't watched many episodes of the show yet, but at this point I would have to say no. While the characters take on a case in a different country each episode, it doesn't really offer much outside of some very lovely on-location shots, The show's writers never seems to explore the differences of each countries justice system nor do they delve into any of the laws of the EU. It doesn't look much better on the character front, either. Berger has a son but for some reason, they always seem to communicate in English and with Carine, I basically only know that she's supposed to be Swedish from a press release. You would never guess that from watching the show.

Sulieter

That's a shame. One of my favourite shows is The Bridge. It has a combination of Danish and Swedish speakers with English subtitles. Actually they are American English subtitles. Crossing Lines could have been like that.

Hamburgo1001

I watched episodes 6 and 7 yesterday. Sadly, not much going on in terms of character development for Liz's character, but the writers are finally using the ensemble to it's full capacity. All characters have an equal part to play in the episodes, now. Oh, and we did find out that Carine has an interest in cars. I know it isn't much, but at this point, I'm happy for the little things.

I've only ever seen the remake of the The Bridge, but I agree. It would have been nice if Crossing Lines was more like that show.


I have found a new gif set:




Elizabeth + sunglasses

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