rewatching leverage after Y E A R S and holy shit i can't believe this fucking show got five years of runtime when it's this fucking *vicious* about corporations
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leverage is great because it makes real commentary on actual problems and the people behind the scenes do seem to genuinely care about those problems but also it's a show where they faked an alien abduction and one of the main characters sent another character plot-relevant petplay magazines. it's a show where one of the lines from the original finale still haunts me with how true it ultimately is--"justice or order. one day, you are going to have to make that choice"--and it's a show where there's an office parody episode that involves the same character who said that insisting in a straight-to-camera interview that he "loves foreplay." they solved the DB cooper case one time. it rules
Anyway, "Scrooge" should actually mean "wealthy capitalist who doesn't care about the lives and welfare of their workers, even on Christmas", not "person who happens not to like Christmas".
The overly cheerful corporate ads spreading "Christmas cheer" and then making their employees work overtime without pay during the holiday season are the actual Scrooges, not people who just don't like Christmas for one reason or another.
"if mushrooms are the superior lifeform that really calls the shots on this earth, why haven't they destroyed us yet?" listen to yourself. have we as humans gotten rid of every mountain on the planet just because we are smarter than big rocks? no!! because they don't pose a threat to us. sure some people die rock climbing or skiing and that's tragic but mountains aren't dangerous to us as a global society. do you see where i am going with this. it's your misplaced hubris that makes you think that humankind is worth destroying to a mushroom. we are a part of the mundane landscape on the surface. we pose no threat to the mycelian era. humble yourself