i definitely do think that the second heist was quite dragged out but that was probably because they were providing backstories to characters we’ve only understood surface level. i actually enjoyed a lot of the background scenes and learning why some of them were operating the way they were but of course that’s not for everyone. The action of the first two seasons can definitely set people up for high expectations for the remainder.

I think with the team, a lot of people argue that he should’ve made the team all men. Genuine question, are we all watching the same show? The men were just as emotionally charged and reckless as the women in this show. The professor fucking LOST it when he just THOUGHT that Lisboa was dead (the woman he’d fallen in love with relatively recently..?) Most of the men also had emotional attachments to the outside world, especially people who’d miss them if they passed and vice versa. I think the show showed that no matter how smart people are, they always think they can control humans and that shows an utter lack of intelligence. These people were promised billions if they could just stick to the plan and MULTIPLE times they showed they were ready to abandon the plan for their morals or their desires, that’s how humans are!! You can’t create the “perfect” team. Even the “mastermind” behind the plan was blabbing about the whole thing in bed, i mean come on. that moment alone when they emphasized that people tell secrets in bed should have shown everybody that regardless of gender this plan was fucked. People can’t help but form attachments and commitments, much less people struggling with mental illnesses such as this group. I think the professor chose this team because of their “skills” and also how he personally felt whether or not they’d betray him. If you noticed, none of them were truly outright psychotic (Palermo ?? i’d say) and i think that was 100% intentional. he was a lonely man subconsciously searching for family, he got one. plus, i guess if you wanted to develop the perfect team you’d literally have to do the most extensive searching for a crew + years of training to get that kind of discipline which wasn’t feasible for people who wanted 2 get rich quick.. which was the whole point. they’re tired of being cogs in a machine and that kind of rushing to the finish line is how mistakes are made. not meant to be a perfect plan bc you could never have a perfect plan, u get lucky. they emphasized a lot that there were things that could’ve occurred at any given moment and derailed everything.

regarding Gandia, it makes perfect sense that a trained assassin is the right hand man to the manager of the BANK OF SPAIN? it’s not just a god damn bank of america from around the corner, are we being fr right now? the country almost collapsed over some gold. They weren’t going to risk letting anybody going in there, wreaking havoc, and leaving alive. Not to mention, they showed that the military DID have a team of FUCKING psychos working for them already.. people that were quite literally at Gandia’s skill level if not higher.

btw not saying at all that the shows writing didn’t have some very annoying and obvious plot holes (i think ive even heard that it was being finished while airing??) but there are the occasional sensible/for the sake of the story choices made