Fandom: Leverage
Aug. 5th, 2016 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
escritoireazulThank you so much for all your recs. I've finally finished watching it ("finally" I pretty much marathoned all five seasons in a couple weeks, omg), and will start checking out your recs this weekend. I'm so excited about it! (And I wasn't clear about this, but vid recs are always welcome, too.)
I went into Leverage knowing: (1) a bunch of people whose taste I really trust absolutely adore it, (2) Aldis Hodge is ridiculously hot, (3) he played a wicked smart tech geek which makes him even hotter, (4) the blonde woman was an amazing thief who liked fire, (5) it was going to give me all sorts of chosen family feelings, and (6) there was an OT3 of OT3s that I was probably going to adore. And all those things are so, so, so true.
I love Hardison and I love Parker and I love Sophie and I was so over-the-top thrilled when Jeri Ryan turned up, but the thing I did not expect was how fucking hot Eliot is. I first saw Kane as Lindsay on Angel and lawyers do not do it for me to a pretty hard core extent, and while I like his music, he's not really been on my radar.
HOLY HELL YOU GUYS ELIOT IS SO GODDAMN HOT.
Dear friends warned me about Nate's man pain, but also promised me it was fairly easy to ignore most of the time, and they were right. I even sort of liked him sometimes, but mostly I wished the team had someone else in his place. I did really enjoy his romance with Sophie, mostly because he (eventually) made Sophie happy, and I wanted her to be happy. All sorts of happy for Sophie, who is such a delight.
But mostly, y'all, the Eliot/Hardison/Parker OT3 to end all OT3s. MY HEART. I keep seeing people reference The Rundown Job as the episode that is as close to making it canon as can be without them actually saying THREESOME HERE, Y'ALL. But there are adorable moments between the three of them from the fucking pilot episode, which I did not expect, and I was sold from moment one. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
I want all the stories about post-series Leverage International, where they are pulling off heists and amazing tricks and are as snarky and adorable and hilarious and hot as ever, and Sophie has her happy ending and is off running theaters and wearing ridiculously expensive shoes and being dizzy with joy.
Parker learning about emotions just about undid me every single time it came up. I adore her.
I adore everything, Hardison's absolutely unbelievable tech, the way Eliot has that tiny little grin every time he says "come on" during a fight, Sophie's acting skill increasing by a billion when she's on a con, Parker flipping and bending through space (and basically time), Eliot picking up guns again to keep them safe, Parker's love of fire and explosives, the way Hardison looks at the two of them, how goddamn hot they all are, the list goes on and on and on. THIS SHOW. MY HEART. IT HAS GIVEN ME ALL THE FEELINGS. ALL OF THEM.
But oh my god, people, Eliot Spencer is so goddamn pretty. HOLY HELL.
When I watched the final episode, I immediately started a rewatch, which I have never done before with a tv show. In part, I wasn't done living in this world, but also, it is excellent background for writing. I managed more than 70k last month, finished a draft of my current project, and am making great progress on the first draft of my next project.
LEVERAGE, Y'ALL. <3 <3 <3
I went into Leverage knowing: (1) a bunch of people whose taste I really trust absolutely adore it, (2) Aldis Hodge is ridiculously hot, (3) he played a wicked smart tech geek which makes him even hotter, (4) the blonde woman was an amazing thief who liked fire, (5) it was going to give me all sorts of chosen family feelings, and (6) there was an OT3 of OT3s that I was probably going to adore. And all those things are so, so, so true.
I love Hardison and I love Parker and I love Sophie and I was so over-the-top thrilled when Jeri Ryan turned up, but the thing I did not expect was how fucking hot Eliot is. I first saw Kane as Lindsay on Angel and lawyers do not do it for me to a pretty hard core extent, and while I like his music, he's not really been on my radar.
HOLY HELL YOU GUYS ELIOT IS SO GODDAMN HOT.
Dear friends warned me about Nate's man pain, but also promised me it was fairly easy to ignore most of the time, and they were right. I even sort of liked him sometimes, but mostly I wished the team had someone else in his place. I did really enjoy his romance with Sophie, mostly because he (eventually) made Sophie happy, and I wanted her to be happy. All sorts of happy for Sophie, who is such a delight.
But mostly, y'all, the Eliot/Hardison/Parker OT3 to end all OT3s. MY HEART. I keep seeing people reference The Rundown Job as the episode that is as close to making it canon as can be without them actually saying THREESOME HERE, Y'ALL. But there are adorable moments between the three of them from the fucking pilot episode, which I did not expect, and I was sold from moment one. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
I want all the stories about post-series Leverage International, where they are pulling off heists and amazing tricks and are as snarky and adorable and hilarious and hot as ever, and Sophie has her happy ending and is off running theaters and wearing ridiculously expensive shoes and being dizzy with joy.
Parker learning about emotions just about undid me every single time it came up. I adore her.
I adore everything, Hardison's absolutely unbelievable tech, the way Eliot has that tiny little grin every time he says "come on" during a fight, Sophie's acting skill increasing by a billion when she's on a con, Parker flipping and bending through space (and basically time), Eliot picking up guns again to keep them safe, Parker's love of fire and explosives, the way Hardison looks at the two of them, how goddamn hot they all are, the list goes on and on and on. THIS SHOW. MY HEART. IT HAS GIVEN ME ALL THE FEELINGS. ALL OF THEM.
But oh my god, people, Eliot Spencer is so goddamn pretty. HOLY HELL.
When I watched the final episode, I immediately started a rewatch, which I have never done before with a tv show. In part, I wasn't done living in this world, but also, it is excellent background for writing. I managed more than 70k last month, finished a draft of my current project, and am making great progress on the first draft of my next project.
LEVERAGE, Y'ALL. <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2016-08-21 05:08 am (UTC)(When Nate goes back to his apartment to retrieve Sam's family portrait and then gets caught by Sterling, my heart breaks so much.) I don't hate Nate; I just think he's a SOB. I think he's one of the rare cases of asshole that I like - which is weird for me, because I hate House and I'm just done with McKay and I'm only good with MCU Tony Stark because RDJ is an unbelievably talented actor and can sell me on the depths of his emotion. (Though don't get me started on Civil War. Can we please be over Tony Stark's daddy issues already?)
Though I agree with every bit of this except the McKay part, and that's only because I haven't watched the source material. Once I'm do, I'm sure I'll be there, too.
(I fucking love MCU Tony Stark, and yet am so done with him as of Civil War. FUCK, TONY, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER. Though really, his character arc through IM3 worked well, I thought, but does not work with Civil War Tony or, to a lesser extent, AOU Tony.)
I have complicated headcanon that I wish I had time to write about Nate having to share Sophie with Maggie every now and again (he is utterly terrified by this) and a mental story I have zero time to write about Nate and Sophie post-series accidentally getting Maggie caught up in some kind of art theft shenanigans and then all of them getting drunk and mostly-accidentally falling into bed all together at least once.
I AM SO FUCKING SAD YOU ARE NOT WRITING THIS. I would read the HELL out of it. Give me all the Nate/Sophie/Maggie and Nate&Sophie&Maggie and Sophie/Maggie and Sophie&Maggie and -- yeah, okay, you get the picture. I'm coming out of this second viewing in particular with TWO OT3s to end all OT3s. Maggie and Sophie together is the best, and since they both love Nate, I'm good with him going along for the ride, too. Whatever, Nate, you have awesome taste in women.