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featherquillpen: pagerunner: peroxidepirate: See, this kills...

2019-12-31T19:48:37Z

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peroxidepirate:

See, this kills me because it’s a pretty fucking fundamental driving force in Eliot Spencer’s character - “you can’t make that promise to more than one person.” And yet he ends the series doing exactly that.

The evil writerly part of my brain wants to know what happens when he can’t be there for Parker and Hardison both at the same moment. Whether it’s a heist gone wrong and he has to choose who to protect, or they’re in conflict with each other and he can’t avoid taking sides - what happens?

Hardison. (At least for the job gone wrong, and assuming nothing in the job fundamentally supercedes it by putting other’s lives in danger.) Parker would tell him to get Hardison out and he’d do it, because that’s what makes them…them.

And when Hardison demands why, Eliot tells him, “she said to say, there’s never a plan M.”

i feel personally attacked by this headcanon

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runicbinary: keyofjetwolf: thatpreciousthing: keyofjetwolf: The dark, menacing underbelly of...

2019-11-22T17:26:33Z

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thatpreciousthing:

keyofjetwolf:

The dark, menacing underbelly of Found Family they never warn you about: IT’S THAT MANY MORE PEOPLE TO YELL AT YOU FOR NOT DOING “GOOD FOR YOU” STUFF THAT YOU DON’T WANT TO DO

I don’t know Leverage, but I’m delighted that this could have been so relevant.

That is literally the most appealing part of found family. My darkest fantasy is having someone in my life who will knock on my door just to be like “Hey, I came over to check if you were awake yet because it’s 2pm. Put your shoes on, let’s go for a walk outside.”

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Leverage Did It Well

2019-11-08T21:19:44Z

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lianabrooks:

I didn’t notice this the first time I watched Leverage (or the sixth), but when I posted a GIF of Hardison last week I noticed something…

The line is adorable, the writing fantastic, but the big thing I noticed is YOU CAN SEE HARDISON. Aldis Hodge is lit up so you can see his face easily.

Here’s another GIF.

And another…

So, here’s the thing. In most shows black actors fade in the background. They’re lit incorrectly and the dark background combined with the dark skin means the character vanishes. Especially on shows with cops and a lot of white people.

Poor David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard) of Numb3rs is invisible in every night scene because he’s not lit up correctly.

Before the advent of colored TV there were more black actors. They were common almost. But with color came the problem that a dark background makes a fair skinned person stand out while making a darker skinned person vanish. The Hollywood solution was to stop hiring darker skinned people. (Not a good idea).

In the first GIF Hardison is in a darker room. He should have vanished, they back-lit him, had ground lights, and framed him well.

Same with the second on, notice the light on his head. He’s glowing like an angel.

Third GIF… notice the lamp placement? The light almost washes out the color of the green towel behind Hardison, but it means the viewers see him perfectly. And isn’t that really the goal?

this is obviously about racism but also some part of you looks at this gorgeous human and thinks “OF COURSE THEY WANTED HIM BATHED IN SOFT LIGHT SO THAT WE COULD ALL GAZE UPON HIM AND BASK”

There’s a bit in one of the DVD commentaries where they talked about working with the lighting and not shooting until everyone is lit.

To be honest, yes to the above but also the real skill is when Hardison and Parker share a scene. Because they’re about as polar opposite as can be in terms of ideal lighting … But if a cable show produced on the smell of an empty rag can pull it off, no one has any excuse.

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calamitys-child:PARKER REALLY WENT “DOES THIS

2019-11-08T19:04:34Z

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PARKER REALLY WENT “DOES THIS RAG SMELL LIKE CHLOROFORM TO YOU” HOLY SHIT

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hatnhousejacket:Rewatched some leverage to introduce it

2019-09-11T20:53:47Z

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Rewatched some leverage to introduce it to a bud and all I’ve been able to think abt since is the need to design cartoony versions of the ot3

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dailyleverage: Leverage is getting a Korean remake! -

2019-09-11T20:53:44Z

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Leverage is getting a Korean remake!

- It’s set to premiere next month, October 13. ‘The Korean remake, titled “Leverage: Con Artists” (literal title), will tell the story of Lee Tae Joon, an elite insurance investigator turned scam strategist who recruits the best “players” in order to catch the real criminals who think they’re above the law.’ (x)

- Lee Dong Gun will play Lee Tae Joon, a man of principle who becomes the leader of a team of con artists. He was once known as the “Grim Reaper” of con artists due to his role in evading every trick in the book with his intelligence and insight, but after an unexpected incident, he will bring together the best con artists he once caught with his own hands to bring down society’s true criminals and show an authentic “implementation of justice.” (x)

- Jeon Hye Bin will take on the role of Hwang Soo Kyung. Although she’s a terrible actress on stage, Hwang Soo Kyung becomes an Academy Award-level actress when it comes to real-world scams. She is a top scammer who is also able to speak four languages fluently, and her mysterious relationship with Lee Tae Joon piques viewers’ curiosity. (x)

- Yeo Hoe-hyun plays Jeong Eui-seong, a timid and whimsical character who has skills like no other when it comes to computers, CCTVs, cell phones and anything digital. However, he’s blind when it comes to current affairs. He’s talkative and nosy, but a good source that connects the fraud team to everything. (x)

- Kim Sae Ron will be playing Go Na Byul, a former national fencer and now top class thief who specializes in opening locked doors or safes, evading lazer obstacles, running, and sneaking in with her unequaled agility and flexibility. Though she has an impulsive personality and nonchalant way of speaking, she is lovable in her own unique way. (x)

- Kim Kwon is Roy Ryu, a security specialist and a fighter whose strength makes him into a human weapon. When he was young, he was adopted by a family in the United States and became a mercenary specializing in various forms of martial arts. He only cares about getting rewarded for his skills and does not trust other people or believe in things like justice or loyalty. However, he sometimes shows an unexpected soft side like when he adopts a puppy abandoned on the battlefield. (x)

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Leverage: Supers

2019-09-01T13:19:42Z

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They don’t have superpowers. They don’t. Or at least, they don’t have super powers.

Sure, Nate jokes that he’s psychic. It’s a con he’s played on more than one mark, not counting the times Sophie (or, memorably, Tara) picked up the role. The rumors of precognition floated around him as an investigator no matter how much he insisted otherwise. As his reputation as a thief grew, so did the rumors. Being assumed as a seer of some kind has been a help as much as a hindrance, really, but it deters more trouble than it attracts, so Nate’s let the rumor lie.

But there are times, once in a while, when Nate pauses. His voice will get raspy. Usually it’s just a word: duck, stop, run, wait. The team has learned that you don’t argue when he uses that voice, because he’s always right, and it’s saved their lives more than once. Nate calls it a feeling, or an instinct, and then changes the subject. One time, when he was drunk and pressed, he slurred, “It didn’t save my son.” After that, they stopped asking.

Sophie isn’t actually a shapeshifter, not like in that 1970’s footage of the person changing, one face after another sliding across their body like a slideshow. They know Sophie can’t do that, because she’s a good liar but they know she cares, and if she could do that, she would have, when they were in a few tight spots where a change of face would have stopped the violence.

But there’s something just slightly too good about her performances, sometimes. Even though it’s her skills that sell it, her features never betray her. Her skin is always just enough of the right shade. Her eyes are always just close enough to the right shape. It could be written off as the mind playing tricks, except that Hardison keep having to update his facial analysis algorithms, because they keep getting Sophie wrong. People who have met her before swear they haven’t, and vice versa.

Eliot is easy to pin down, if harder to prove. It’s just not natural for anyone to take that much damage and never need a hospital. He always waves it off, insists it’s not as bad as it looks, but that doesn’t explain why he has smooth skin in places where he absolutely should have scars, given the injuries he’s acquired during their work.

One day Hardison cracks the right server and finds a photo he recognizes on a list in a military database. After that, he notices the way Eliot reacts to mentions of super soldiers and government experiments. It’s subtle. It could be mistaken for the general dislike many army grunts have of superheroes, if he didn’t know better.

Parker also has instinctive reactions, though she denies them even while tensing, just enough for her teammates to notice, around large men in lab coats when they tower over her, around needles and syringes. She doesn’t know why because she was far too young to remember anything before the endless foster homes.

When she trusts them, eventually, they get glimpses of Parker dislocating joints that shouldn’t be able to dislocate and popping them back into place without blinking or bruising. It’s a bit too much for even the most limber double-jointed acrobats. Hardison thinks of cats, who can fold their collarbones to fit through tight spaces, and deliberately does not go looking for Parker’s past.

And Hardison? Hardison doesn’t think he has anything at all above baseline. Sure, he’s always talked to his tech. He names his computers, the vans, the robots. He whispers soothing encouragements or desperate pleas off-mic. Like any good programmer, he’s irrationally superstitious, but he doesn’t really, logically, objectively think much of it, until the day when Parker thrusts her phone in his face, cracked and probably irreparably dead, and tells him to ask it to turn on for just a bit longer so they can call for help.

He does. It does. Parker seems completely unsurprised. Haridison starts being more aware of how he talks to things, starts leaning how to feel the connections that he’s been tapping into unconsciously his whole life.

They don’t have superpowers. But then again, none of them ever claimed to be normal.

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cardcaptorsushi: The Thief Mastermind for @iride

2019-08-25T20:20:23Z

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cardcaptorsushi:

The Thief Mastermind

for iridescentblossoms

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pearwaldorf: sad-eyed-lady-of-the-low-lands: I feel like

2019-07-30T19:59:34Z

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sad-eyed-lady-of-the-low-lands:

I feel like it’s really easy to lean towards categorising Sophie as the mom friend but like, no. no Sophie is the Cool aunt who’s always slightly tipsy and whisks you away for impromptu shopping trips and lets you drink but Eliot, Eliot is the mom friend.

#this is absolutely correct#likewise Nate is not the dad #he’s just Sophie’s weird drunk boyfriend #the dad is the one who makes terrible jokes #and takes you on trips saying IT’LL BE FUN#and then instead you end up covered in bugs #the dad is the one who gives you candy when you’re sad #and insists that Santa Claus is real #it’s Parker #Parker is the dad (wintersoldierfell)

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mastertano: Leverage - “The First David

2019-07-07T23:40:35Z

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mastertano:

Leverage - “The First David Job”

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faejilly: glorious-spoon: notemily: k-she-rambles: Dude, Leverage follows that storytelling...

2019-07-07T21:40:31Z

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faejilly:

glorious-spoon:

notemily:

k-she-rambles:

Dude, Leverage follows that storytelling advice that everything should either advance the story or the characters, and it follows it scrupulously.

Even something as small as why Eliot doesn’t like baseball (until he plays it): “I don’t like any game you can’t win on defense.”

“Winning through defense” (both as in sports and as in defending others) / “aggressive defense”? That’s how Eliot lives.

There are a lot of reasons why Eliot doesn’t like guns, but I bet this is one of them too. You can defend someone with a gun, but it’s always an offensive action, not a defensive one. You can guard, you can react, you can frighten away, but you cannot shield.

Anyway, nothing seems to be wasted on this show, and it’s fantastic. As a viewer I’m enjoying it, and as a writer I’m going “!!!!”

My roommate describes Leverage as “the only show that never let me down” and she has high standards. It’s not a perfect show, but unlike many (most?) multi-season TV shows, it never has a sudden dip in quality that makes people wonder what went wrong. If you like it, you’ll keep liking it all the way to the end. And it’s one of the only shows that has an ending I really like, too, which I’m pretty sure is because the showrunners had it in mind for a while and didn’t just pull it out of their asses at the last minute for shock value and plot twists. Ahem.

John Rogers has said that they ended every season in a way that would be a satisfying place to end the show, but left just enough hanging that they could pick it up again, and it works brilliantly. I wish more showrunners would do this instead of cliffhangers and endless escalation

John Rogers is legit one of my writing *heroes* he’s amazing. His disdain for TV cliff-hangers is definitely part of why. (Paraphrased mightily, but: IF! Your characters are not interesting enough that people want to come back to see more of them, YOU HAVE FAILED AT YOUR JOB, and a plot cliff-hanger that may come back to bite you in the ass because TV production is the most fragile of businesses WILL NOT SAVE YOU.)

I remember when Leverage first aired I kind of lost track of it during s3, partly because of the schedule of my life at the time, but also partly I *thought* they were doing something dumb with one of the characters; when I finally got around to rewatching it once it was streaming where I could see it all in a row, I realized that what seemed like sloppy production at first (because in *any other show* it would have been) was entirely on purpose and tied into the season’s over-arcing plot and it was BEAUTIFUL.

Leverage is still my favorite TV show ever.

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keepitdreamin: leverage is the best piece of televison: follows a case of the week format which is..

2019-04-14T19:40:41Z

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leverage is the best piece of televison:

follows a case of the week format which is so underrated now

the seasonal Big Bads don’t take up multiple episodes just for them

maybe there’s a few minutes every couple episodes, and maybe the cases they work relate to getting closer to the big bad, but we don’t spend half the season focused on this one guy

consequently, except for the few two-parters and season finales, episodes can be picked up and watched in any season without needing a lot of explanation

i’ve dropped so many shows because they get to a point where a whole season is devoted to one case and even the ‘regular’ episodes are half them talking about it

stuck to its premise and didn’t lose quality over time!

i legitimately can’t think of an episode that i dislike but even more than that i can’t think of an episode that i’m even just apathetic towards

robin hood but with fun heist music!

the people they take down are generally all disgustingly wealthy, mostly white, mostly men and all taking advantage of marginalized and disadvantaged folk

speed run found family

literally eliot’s old gf called them a family in the third fucking episode

fun and interesting recurring characters!

tara, chaos, quinn, archie, maggie, sterling, hurley, peggy, bonanno they’re all unique and amazing

romantic relationships develop naturally and you really care about them

hilarious recurring bits

arguing about what a particular con is called “no that’s the vegas wake up call” “you need a hooker for that” “no that’s the—”

the old nate painting following them to each new headquarters

“it’s a very distinctive —”

do you have a competency kink? because you will

and literally a million other things god it’s so good

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2019-02-25T14:28:34Z

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toosmallortootall: I think perhaps my favourite thing

2019-02-15T21:42:24Z

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toosmallortootall:

I think perhaps my favourite thing about Leverage is that it gave us Parker. I don’t think I’ve ever seen another character like her on television, well, ever.

She’s incredibly, wildly competent and brilliant at what she does, has been through some shit that’s mostly played off for laughs, but not in order to invalidate that shit but rather that’s just how she sees her life (mood!!). While she’s the epitome of conventionally attractive she is absolutely and entirely uncomfortable with any kind of attention (and stabs dudes with forks when they upset her!), she actively behaves in a manner counter to everything we’ve been taught about conventional femininity, and she’s got a charisma score in the negatives (and that’s a good thing! she’s got the biggest heart but is still the most awkward person I’ve ever seen! It’s so rare for a female character to be allotted leeway to just be wildly terrible at emotional/interpersonal interactions, excepting the few like ‘cold blooded evil women TM’ that we get tossed every now and then, ugh. Like! Parker is the opposite of them! She’s so ‘warmblooded’ but she’s also so awkward!).

I’m really not sure how to convey and explain how much I love her as a character unless you’ve seen her in action because she’s just! Such an anomaly in media and I really appreciate her and wish more writers and directors were aware that she’s an option as a character archetype for women.

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love-the-aftertaste: So here’s another thing

2019-02-01T13:44:43Z

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love-the-aftertaste:

So here’s another thing that I love about Leverage.

Gina Bellman was 42 in 2008 when the show premiered and yet from the very first episode she is portrayed as beautiful and sexy and desirable. But not in a “she’s 42 but she’s sexy bc she looks 21″ kinda way and not in a “oh she’s a hot cougar I like older woman bc I a 20 year old manchild with an oedipal complex” kinda way. She’s portrayed as desirable bc Sophie is one badass bitch who can do anything and con anyone in any role she wants to. Also 42, despite what society tells us, is not actually old. But it feels like it is, for women at least. We are constantly bombarded with all this crap about how getting wrinkles in the worst thing ever and how looking over 30 is a horror story that should be avoided for as long as possible.

But no. Sophie is over 30. She is over 40. And she looks it. And she looks great. Not she looks great for her age. Just she looks great. Period. She is proof that women who are over 30 are not old or pathetic or “passed their prime” or whatever else society would have us believe. Women who are over 30 can be whatever the fuck they want. Sophie can be the “mom” for the team but she can also be the geeky museum curator or the fucking english mob boss or the seductress with the tight short skirts. And she fucking kills it.

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sonyaliloquy: pyresrpgear: deprofundisclamoadte: season 5 of Leverage is great not only because...

2018-12-12T08:44:23Z

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deprofundisclamoadte:

season 5 of Leverage is great not only because they were able to prove to us that Parker could be a mastermind and that she, Eliot, and Hardison could hold their own as a team, but also because they gave us a glimpse at how Nate and Sophie will spend their retirement life

namely, sneaking into parties, drinking champagne, stealing paintings, and running circles around Sterling

I bet at some point Nate or Sophie or both of them have Hardison do up a tracking program that lets them know when Sterling is at some obnoxiously fancy party with tons of shit worth stealing. They crash, spend the whole night going thru the motions of being on a job, and then just go home without stealing anything. Then Sterling spends WEEKS tearing out his hair trying to figure out what they stole and replaced with a forgery.

They do this over and over for a few years. Until he finally calls them out. He still isn’t sure they haven’t been stealing and replacing things, but he is also nearly positive they are just fucking with him.

And that night they clean the place out.

(And just because Sterling was so sure they were replacing stuff with fakes Nate decides to leave behind a couple “replacement” paintings. A black velvet Elvis and dogs playing poker. Once the team get word of it they break in a few days later and Parker and Eliot add Old Nate to the collection, because they want in on the fun. And Old Nate is still creepy as hell.)

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