Watching Monday
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No one died this week either! I'm starting to think we may maintain (at least most of) the way-too-big cast list.
Poor Ginger! Her attempts to stop Eric were hilarious. I hope we get to see her again before the show ends.
There was a ton of random stuff this episode that I loved, even if I don't think it hung together as a whole. Still: Pam and Eric in terrible Texas republican outfits! Sarah's Laura-Bush-knockoff mom! Actual Laura Bush references! James and Lafayette are so hot together, even if James really should have broken up with Jessica first. Similarly, Lafayette's speech to Jessica was fantastic, but again: breakup first, hookup second. Of course, I also fully support Jessica/Jason, so I'm down with this rearrangement of relationships. Andy's proposal to Holly (I totally thought she would say no, and was surprised at the happy resolution). Lettie Mae stabbing people! Eric ripping off the yakuza dude's jaw!
My main problems centered around Bill's flashback. Why was he even being moody and having flashbacks? And if so, why were they so confusing and inaccurate? I'm pretty sure Shreveport would not have been that large of a town in 1860-ish, and even if it was, it would not have looked like Generic Wild West. Louisiana seceded before the battle at Fort Sumter, not after, as said by that guy in the speech. Why on earth was Bill and his family escaping on the Underground Railroad? Why on earth did anyone trust Bill and his family enough to hook them up with the Underground Railroad? Why did random Confederate dude only seem to care about Bill and not the dozens of slaves (presumably?) sneaking away with him? Why was the conductor referred to as a "deserter", when black people did not serve as soldiers for the Confederacy? But mainly my problem was NO YOU CANNOT RETCON A SYMPATHETIC BACKSTORY IN THE SEVENTH SEASON TO A DUDE WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AND PROUD OF IT.
Leverage
The Rundown Job:
Haaaa, the look Hardison gives Parker while she's being all bendy to get through the lasers! Naughty~.
"If this wasn't such a violation of our civil liberties, I would be in love right now." Haaaaaa.
I love Hardison's weird thing with calling trucks/vans "ladies".
"...thank you creepy spy truck." HA.
Man, this is such a slashy episode - between Eliot's intense speech about Hardison being the smartest man he knows, and then the "YEAH MY BOY" and hugging Hardison... of course, then there's also Parker defusing a bomb while upside down with her legs around Hardison, so maybe it's just the 'everyone wants Hardison' episode.
OMG IT'S A TERRORISM PLOT ABOUT THE FEAR-MONGERING AND PANIC RHETORIC RESPONSE TO TERRORISM. Oh, Leverage, you are such a liberal fantasy I love it.
OMG THE PARKER/ELIOT NOD. THE PARKER/HARDISON KISS FOR LUCK. PARKER BURNING THE FLU SPRAY AND HARDSION RUNNING AFTER HER AND HUGS AND OMGGGGGGG.
Eliot being all "I work with them now". And then throwing down the crutch to lean on Hardison and Parker instead!
The Frame Up Job
Ha, I love that Nate is into film noir.
UGH STERLING'S BEARD UGH HOW DID HE GET UGLIER?
OMG it's a handcuffed-together episode. Or... no, it's not. I suppose it makes sense that all of these people would be very good at picking locks, but I love cheesy handcuffed-together-plots and now I want an episode about that. I will also accept fic.
"The butler did it!" Ha, Sophie is so excited to get to say that.
I always get annoyed at the Sophie/Nate trust fights. Why doesn't she trust him enough to explain how she knows the painting's not right?
Haaaaa, I totally called that it was a painting of Sophie.
The Low Low Price Job
Hardison, it's hipster, not hippie!
I would totally watch an entire show about Hardison and Eliot running a restaurant and arguing about it.
"Look, Value!More, what they earn in a year -- it trumps the GDP of most first-world nations." So, right after Hurrican Katrina happened, I was watching CNN or a similar 24-hour news channel. They were running a scroll of the amounts various countries had donated to the recovery effort - mostly it was in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. And then came Walmart – totally on the same list as Nigeria and Germany and other actual countries – to donate over a million. Which I suppose at least was nice of them, but was still entirely terrifying.
Awww, Hardison being so interested in learning Eliot's backstory. And Eliot refusing at first to answer, and then not even looking at Hardison while he speaks... AWWW.
Awww, Eliot is all teary-eyed when no one answers the door at the end!
I feel sort of morally obligated to link this news story from last month, in which Walmart totally did close a store because the workers tried to unionize. I was also pretty pissed off when they sent a contingent to march in NYC's Pride Parade (which, to be fair, is a thing lots of big companies do) despite the fact that there is no Walmart in NYC, and all of their efforts to build one have been repeatedly blocked by the community and city government. Wearing rainbow t-shirts does not actually make you ethical, Walmart.
No one died this week either! I'm starting to think we may maintain (at least most of) the way-too-big cast list.
Poor Ginger! Her attempts to stop Eric were hilarious. I hope we get to see her again before the show ends.
There was a ton of random stuff this episode that I loved, even if I don't think it hung together as a whole. Still: Pam and Eric in terrible Texas republican outfits! Sarah's Laura-Bush-knockoff mom! Actual Laura Bush references! James and Lafayette are so hot together, even if James really should have broken up with Jessica first. Similarly, Lafayette's speech to Jessica was fantastic, but again: breakup first, hookup second. Of course, I also fully support Jessica/Jason, so I'm down with this rearrangement of relationships. Andy's proposal to Holly (I totally thought she would say no, and was surprised at the happy resolution). Lettie Mae stabbing people! Eric ripping off the yakuza dude's jaw!
My main problems centered around Bill's flashback. Why was he even being moody and having flashbacks? And if so, why were they so confusing and inaccurate? I'm pretty sure Shreveport would not have been that large of a town in 1860-ish, and even if it was, it would not have looked like Generic Wild West. Louisiana seceded before the battle at Fort Sumter, not after, as said by that guy in the speech. Why on earth was Bill and his family escaping on the Underground Railroad? Why on earth did anyone trust Bill and his family enough to hook them up with the Underground Railroad? Why did random Confederate dude only seem to care about Bill and not the dozens of slaves (presumably?) sneaking away with him? Why was the conductor referred to as a "deserter", when black people did not serve as soldiers for the Confederacy? But mainly my problem was NO YOU CANNOT RETCON A SYMPATHETIC BACKSTORY IN THE SEVENTH SEASON TO A DUDE WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AND PROUD OF IT.
Leverage
The Rundown Job:
Haaaa, the look Hardison gives Parker while she's being all bendy to get through the lasers! Naughty~.
"If this wasn't such a violation of our civil liberties, I would be in love right now." Haaaaaa.
I love Hardison's weird thing with calling trucks/vans "ladies".
"...thank you creepy spy truck." HA.
Man, this is such a slashy episode - between Eliot's intense speech about Hardison being the smartest man he knows, and then the "YEAH MY BOY" and hugging Hardison... of course, then there's also Parker defusing a bomb while upside down with her legs around Hardison, so maybe it's just the 'everyone wants Hardison' episode.
OMG IT'S A TERRORISM PLOT ABOUT THE FEAR-MONGERING AND PANIC RHETORIC RESPONSE TO TERRORISM. Oh, Leverage, you are such a liberal fantasy I love it.
OMG THE PARKER/ELIOT NOD. THE PARKER/HARDISON KISS FOR LUCK. PARKER BURNING THE FLU SPRAY AND HARDSION RUNNING AFTER HER AND HUGS AND OMGGGGGGG.
Eliot being all "I work with them now". And then throwing down the crutch to lean on Hardison and Parker instead!
The Frame Up Job
Ha, I love that Nate is into film noir.
UGH STERLING'S BEARD UGH HOW DID HE GET UGLIER?
OMG it's a handcuffed-together episode. Or... no, it's not. I suppose it makes sense that all of these people would be very good at picking locks, but I love cheesy handcuffed-together-plots and now I want an episode about that. I will also accept fic.
"The butler did it!" Ha, Sophie is so excited to get to say that.
I always get annoyed at the Sophie/Nate trust fights. Why doesn't she trust him enough to explain how she knows the painting's not right?
Haaaaa, I totally called that it was a painting of Sophie.
The Low Low Price Job
Hardison, it's hipster, not hippie!
I would totally watch an entire show about Hardison and Eliot running a restaurant and arguing about it.
"Look, Value!More, what they earn in a year -- it trumps the GDP of most first-world nations." So, right after Hurrican Katrina happened, I was watching CNN or a similar 24-hour news channel. They were running a scroll of the amounts various countries had donated to the recovery effort - mostly it was in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. And then came Walmart – totally on the same list as Nigeria and Germany and other actual countries – to donate over a million. Which I suppose at least was nice of them, but was still entirely terrifying.
Awww, Hardison being so interested in learning Eliot's backstory. And Eliot refusing at first to answer, and then not even looking at Hardison while he speaks... AWWW.
Awww, Eliot is all teary-eyed when no one answers the door at the end!
I feel sort of morally obligated to link this news story from last month, in which Walmart totally did close a store because the workers tried to unionize. I was also pretty pissed off when they sent a contingent to march in NYC's Pride Parade (which, to be fair, is a thing lots of big companies do) despite the fact that there is no Walmart in NYC, and all of their efforts to build one have been repeatedly blocked by the community and city government. Wearing rainbow t-shirts does not actually make you ethical, Walmart.
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Date: 2014-07-22 06:10 pm (UTC)(And yes, of course they did. Carefully, for the bullet wounds and all, but yes, yes.)
I liked Low Price Job because Walmart is seriously that evil, but I was a bit disappointed by the White Rabbit Job, which I just saw. Even though the idea of 'Inception if it wasn't sci-fi' is pretty incredible.
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Date: 2014-07-22 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-22 06:17 pm (UTC)