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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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Our show is about a group of broken people who, when they come together, form a kind of dysfunctional family. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 
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leverage + love
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 ↪ LEVERAGE + TV TROPES: Five-Bad Band
Heroes aren’t the only ones who enjoy bonding in groups of five. Villains do it, too, and this trope is the Evil Counterpart of the Five-Man Band.
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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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This came across as a real “family” episode, not just because we wrote it that way but because it was actually the first we shot without Gina being on set every day. The other cast members were genuinely uncomfortable at her absence. A lot of the emotions you’re seeing on screen were real.
John Rogers (“The Ice Man Job” Post-Game)
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You loved them very much, didn’t you?
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leverage + happy times That family dynamic is so strong — it’s heart-wrenching how much we care about each other and the strength that we have as a team. It’s really come to a head in the end. This is really it, this is where they’ve all arrived. They can’t live without each other basically because they are essentially a team.
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if you touch one of them, the deal is off.
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“You have become my family, my only family. I won’t forget that.”
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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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Hitter, hacker, grifter, thief, dad.
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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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I’m rewatching The Bottle Job and I never realized how THEM Hardison, Parker, and Eliot’s hiding places for money were. Eliot hid it under a chair, which seems like a spot an ex-mercenary would hide things, a place no one would think to look. Parker hid it in the cereal boxes, which makes sense because when is she not eating cereal at Nate’s? Hardison hid it behind Old Nate and even explains it with “Why did you think I kept Old Nate around?”.
Plus they HIDE MONEY AT NATES like I find this hilarious because he probably has no idea and had a talk with them about it afterwards. “YOU CAN’T JUST HIDE STACKS OF MONEY IN MY APARTMENT” “I OWN THE BUILDING”
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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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Mikado for leveragethingathon
Nate had anticipated everything, from plan F merging into I the moment their mark fired her assistant and unexpectedly named Sophie chief of staff, to Parker having a close encounter with the ground after a tête-à-tête with an irresponsibly unkempt balcony; from Hardison burning computers –literally, setting them on fire in the overheated Lucille-, to Sophie and Eliot being on edge – Sophie had words with said ex-assistant over atonal jazz music and Eliot accidentally offended a goon in the middle of a fight; none of them recovered.
Nate had watched Parker growing friendlier as the con collapsed and the team needed comforting, with annoyance but no surprise. He had accepted that Sophie, rather than giving him the cold shoulder, was punishing him through with full-blown teasing warfare, that Eliot was too busy saving Nate’s hat and whole person to change clothes after the show and that Hardison was the most likely to ask him for a raise after the hacking/firefighting stunt he pulled in a van tossed and turned at full throttle by Sophie’s car-chasing skills.
Nate had not anticipated Lucille breaking down in the middle of nowhere -a very hot nowhere-, with no signal, no light, no computer, no one accepting to walk miles in the wee hours to find the piece that had melted, and no cover or pillows whatsoever, at least none that wasn’t smoked. Hardison had used them to smother the fire. Water, food and exhaustion, they had aplenty; desire to chat, less so.
They fought in the dim light dispensed by Hardison’s generator, over everything, from plan I involving a raccoon, to “We have a secret stash of designer’s clothes but no crunchy?”. Eliot lost it when he looked upon the emergency food stash with which he was supposed to put together a midnight dinner. Parker more or less proclaimed herself mastermind of the night and set her mind to get everyone to sleep there, together, huddled.
Because it has been acknowledged Parker has superpowers, she succeeded. The first thing they agreed on since the beginning of the trip was how comfortable Hardison was to sleep on.
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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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One thing I love about Leverage: Redemption but haven’t seen noted yet is the overhead shot motif. Or at least a specific aspect of it.
We see it sprinkled throughout the original series when the team’s coming together or when they’re going their separate ways. It’s a symbol representing the team as a cohesive unit (thank you Symbolism of The Circle) - this group of random strangers that has somehow forged themselves a family.
And you can use it to understand the team’s current dynamics. The first time we see them like this, they’ve just finished a one-off job for a lying asshole Dubenich. All of them understand and want this to be a one-time thing. They’re all moving within the circle as they talk, antsy, and when it’s time to part ways no one hesitates.
Then, compare that to the end of the season. At this point they’ve grown close. They’re a family. None of them want to go, but they have to because they need to lay low for a while and they can’t do that as a group. It’s a separation that’s probably going to last forever and no one is moving. In fact it takes forever for them to turn and leave, and some of them are close to tears (Sophie actually does cry). And the first to turn away? Nate. Because despite these people being his family and him not wanting to leave them, he’s not a thief. (Which is the exact reason Sophie cries. It’s a rejection of who they are, who she is, because Nate hasn’t come to terms with who he is yet.)
So now we have Leverage: Redemption, where we get our first overhead shot. It’s at the beginning of the first episode to show us where the team stands in the present day, and it’s a fucking gut punch. At first we think it hits hard because Nate’s not there. The team is there, but a piece is missing, leaving a hole both literally and figuratively. And this is what I’ve seen a lot of comments on.
But that’s not the case. If you look closer, you realize that Nate Ford IS in the shot, in his place by Sophie, even, but instead of his presence being a comfort to the team it’s an oppressive weight. A figurative hole, but not a literal one.
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Nate’s death is the elephant in the room. Always present and affecting everyone, even though he’s no longer physically there with them.
And the first to leave the shot?
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Sophie.
She exits swiftly in the opposite direction of Nate, cutting her way through the rest of the team in her effort to get away. In fact we learn not a few moment later that she’s been avoiding everyone and trying to get away for a while now. (“Because you’ve stopped returning our calls” ~ Parker)
Sophie’s arc this season is her grief, learning to process the loss and, in my opinion, to keep living throughout the process. Grieving is something we all do. It’s natural and it’s necessary, but when we’re grieving we cannot also forget to live. And I get the distinct feeling that Sophie has forgotten how to keep living through her grief and that hasn’t allowed her to fully process it. It’s also why I think the rest of the family came to rope her back into the business. It started out as a way to distract her or make her smile again, but really it’s encouraging her to live. Then, through the numerous cons afterward, she’s able to keep living and grieving side-by-side, and that is what helps her process her loss.
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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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What I love about leverage: redemption is that the characters and writers never, EVER, shy away about the missing people and their shared past
With reboots and renewals the characters will usually (if at all) give a throwaway line or a one off about the people that’s gone or dead but in leverage: redemption it’s an integral part of the story
All of the characters are shown affected by the loss and love of (found) family (sophie mourning in the first two episodes and throughout the series, and don’t get me started on “he’s his father’s son” to describe hardison, the others talking about or even to hardison off and onscreen, the entire fucking mastermind episode, and so much more)
It’s something so simple yet so effective, adding depth and dimensions to all the characters that it elevates the story above and beyond
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specialgirlxoxo · 2 years
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one of my favourite (and imo underrated) leverage tropes is when the job goes wrong and someone has to make a phone call surrounded by other people, and so has to disguise it as a call to their spouse (Hardison held hostage and calling Sophie and pretending he’s calling Parker, Nate calling Hardison “sweetheart” during the AA meeting, Sophie and Eliot talking over sat-comm about the “baby”) and whoever’s on the other end of the line catches on STRAIGHT away and decodes whatever the hell they’re trying to say. sheer competence porn off the charts. complete opposite of “only has one braincell”. I love it.
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I need her to be serious. Cody stupid ass would still be alive and breathing if he ain’t threaten to put them grubby mitts of his on MC! Need her to stop acting like a victim when most of the that happened to her and her lil friends could've been avoided if they didn’t act like psychos 😭 
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yes, she did <3 and u guys deserved it <3
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