Watching Monday

[brigdh]

Leverage

"The Ho Ho Ho Job": Awww, this is such a cute episode. "I want flurries! Make it happen." AND THEN HARDISON LOOKS LIKE HE REALLY WANTS TO. OMG Parker's million-dollar tree decorations! "Respect the suit!" Lucille 2! Hahaha, I love the evil Santa's Christmas weapons- candy-cane crowbars, toy bags full of chainsaws. "Driver lady! And pushy consultant guy!" "You killed my friend's van."! Beards or no beards for the Santa fight! Parker's gift was cash, hahaha, of course! Aww, and her catching a snowflake on her tongue.
"The Big Bang Job": "Not everything blows up." "Let's go steal the Department of Defense."/"Isn't that treason?"/"We'll give it back." ahahahah! Oh, Eliot, learn how to share info. That must have been a really fucking heavy chair to nearly drown Hardison. Just sayin'. When I was a lifeguard, they make you haul 50 pounds off the bottom of a 12-foot deep pool, and I really doubt an office chair weighs more than 50 pounds. Also, Hardison can presumably lift more than I can. Awww, Eliot has guilt. Eliot did the dramatic firing guns while leaping sideways thing! I love it! This gun fight is so silly. "You know what I'm in the mood for? Pretzels!" Oh, Hardison. She likes it when you blow stuff up. :DD Good lord, Eliot in a tank top. Those are quite some muscles. I didn't think I was into him.
"The San Lorenzo Job": ...is this actually an episode about the difficulties of post-colonialism? Come on, Leverage, American TV can't handle those sorts of issues. Hahahaha, Eliot trying to explain why steam vents are bad to Parker. Wait, so is this the Island of Dr Moreau? "We got this- ah, hell, it's Moreau." Jesus christ, Leverage, y'all are corrupting this poor man on fast forward. OMG HARDISON'S EVIL POLITICAL AD. OMG WHAT IS WORSE THAN A SCANDAL INVOLVING MONEY OR SEX? Adorable puppies! Man, this episode is so depressing about politics. "I have a 24-year-old genius with a smartphone and a problem with authority. You never stood a chance." AHAHAHAHAHA.
"The Long Way Down Job": Oh, Hardison. I share your feelings, re: cold. "Are there avalanches on skyscrapers?"/"No. But that would be SO COOL." Oh, Hardison. Did you sleep with Parker and then think you needed to protect her? Tsk, tsk. "Very distinctive footprint"! The very distinctive thing is forever funny to me. Why would you bring your mortgage payment diary with you up a mountain? Because otherwise there wouldn't be an episode, I guess. OMG PARKER WANTING TO DO THE RIGHT THING. OMG ELIOT'S SPEECH ABOUT 'IT WAS GOOD IT WAS US'. OMG HARDISON CRYING "Y'ALL ARE MY PEOPLES". Oh, clever Parker. Does Hardison have like 27 bottles of orange soda in that fridge? "You realize this isn't going to be normal", awwwww. Parker meeting his nana! Eliot cooking! <3<3<3


I also watched the Oscars last night, but don't have much to say about that, as it was fairly boring. As Oscars traditionally are! I'm glad 12 Years a Slave won; I had some problems with it when I first saw it, but it's stuck in my mind much more than movies usually do, and I've liked it better the more I thought about it.

Comments

[somebraveapollo.livejournal.com]

1. you were a lifeguard??
2. I believe that Hardison somehow did make it snow. I don't know.
3. Eliot's tank top is almost as awesome as Hardison's tank top
4. I FORGOT THE ADORABLE PUPPIES, THAT WAS THE BEST, as was the light but not-messing-around take on post-colonialism and also the narrow margin of available roles for women in political revolutions
5. Hardison's problem with authority is almost as awesome as Parker's problem with authority
6. I think that Parker is Hardison's first relationship ever (ASK ME ABOUT MY STRONGLY-DEFINED THEORIES ON HARDISON'S ROMANTIC PAST) and so he kind of goes into hovering mode. But then he stops! It is awesome.
7. the very distinctive thing is the best of all things.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

1. Yup. Only for one summer, because turns out I find being a lifeguard SUPER BORING (it's basically sitting and staring at a pool for eight hours a day! But you can't even think about other things because what if someone dies and it's ALL YOUR FAULT???). But my mom was one for something like ~25 years, so I am all up on lifeguard knowledge.

2. ME TOO.

4. Yes, Sophie as the martyr that makes the last stage of revolution possible is... accurate/awful/very her.

6. I could really see that! Especially considering how sort of awful he is at trying to flirt in the flashbacks in "The Rashomon Job". But yes, I do like that he stops, and then Parker hugs him at the end. ♥

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Yes, hello, I would like to hear all about your STRONGLY-DEFINED THEORIES ON HARDISON'S ROMANTIC PAST, please and thank you.

[somebraveapollo.livejournal.com]

I HAVE FOUND THEM FOR YOU
http://laeria.livejournal.com/5158.html?thread=74534#t74534
(laeria is my previous lj handle; every once in a while I change names)

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I like these! (Especially Hardison's Nana as a lesbian.)

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I love the Ho Ho Ho Job! Parker's over-enthusiastic attachment to Christmas is a great piece of characterisation and I love that it is a thing that comes up again. (This may the first time Parker's ver had a Christmas gift.)
The "let's steal the Department of Defense" exchange is one of my favourite and one I always end up quoting when trying to explain the humour in the series. I think it's more that Hardison was tied to it than the weight of the chair. Unless you mean he should have floated, in which case i can only point out that some people (ie: me) don't float. Plus, the cushions must have filled with water and thus weighted more. I love that Leverage isn't afraid to be completely silly. have a ridiculous action scene, with slow-mo and everything!
I had never realised (too busy going "lalaIcan'thearyouhisnameisn'tDamienMoreau*"), but omg it is totally the Island of Dr Moreau! Somebody write that fic. Idk, I thought the episode was uplifting: sure politics is a sucker's game, but sometimes the good guys win anyway.
"That would be SO COOL." Oh, Parker ❤. It's a very distinctive catchphrase and it is forever hilarious (like all the catchphrases on the show). All the hugs! Hugs for everyone! They deserve it.



*I know someone called Damien Moreau. IT IS REALLY WEIRD.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aww, I could totally believe it being Parker's first Christmas present. That's so sad.

I only meant that Hardison is struggling and unable to pull the chair up with him, when a) it's clearly only 6-7 feet of water, if that, and b) he's more than physically capable of lifting that much weight. I could believe it if he didn't know how to swim, but he was making appropriate swimming motions, just acting like he was attached to a concrete weight or something. Like, unless the chair was so heavy he couldn't pick it up on land (and that would be a very heavy office chair!) there's no reason he shouldn't be able to do the same underwater, particularly since water buoyancy makes things easier to lift, even if they don't float. But I've played around with chairs in pools, so it probably strikes me as more intuitively wrong than people who haven't done so.

I love how silly Leverage can be too!

And ha, it's always so weird when a fictional characters has the same name as you or someone you know.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I can't remember, was he handcuffed both arms or one? I thought it was both, but your comments make more sense if it's just one.

It is totally weird, ngl. It's worse (for me) when the character is off-screen: Damien Moreau was annoying, but I'm fine with Game of Thrones' Melissandre.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Just one, that's how he was able to unlock himself once he got the keys.

Ah, Melissandre! That's such an unusual-sounding name, I never realized it was real.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

It's a real name, but it's very rare and dated.

[somebraveapollo.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD WHAT IF IT IS PARKER'S FIRST CHRISTMAS PRESENT. OH MAN. OH NO. I mean, I would like to credit Archie with not being THAT callous, but he is a horrible mess and might have thought it was unprofessional or something to give her a gift. Or, like, maybe they went on special Christmas present-stealing expeditions but this was the first time Parker got something she did not have to steal herself. Euuuuuuuuugh.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I think Archie is with his "real" family on Christmas, but he probably did (does) a thing with Parker a few days later or earlier, schedules allowing. Parker doesn't see this as 'counting' because it's not on Christmas, because if it's not on Christmas, it's not really a Christmas present, is it?