Levverage!
Jun. 28th, 2010 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessI'm going to be behind – very behind – on Leverage, because TNT is delaying a week or more to put the shows up on their site and I'm too lazy to look for illegal sites.
So most of what I have to say about this season has already been said elsewhere, but,
Episode 301:
I have to echo the concerns of many about Eliot's little speech on the plight of the questionably charged/imprisoned middle class, and the resulting implication that the majority of working class citizens aren't particularly law-abiding, and that once, again, the true oppressed people in this country are the middle class. Sigh. Too, it would have easy enough to alter the speech just slightly – have Eliot say something about, "Because they're citizens. Law-abiding, middle and working class citizens…." and then keep the rest of the speech." The only way I could justify this in my mind was fan wanking that Eliot thinks of many of those working class types – I'm thinking maids, janitors, and the like in my definition here – as middle-class, but a, no, and b, I don't like fan-wanking socially important speeches.
Second, ok, I get the overreaching arc that the Italian chick and her Evil Boss have pulled strings to ensure that Nate Ford won't be followed by the cops and can continue to live in his apartment and his bar so that the show doesn't have to invest in new sets yet again. Get it. With that said…Nate, you flee prison, knowing that many, many people have reasons to be more than mildly ticked at you, and knowing that your placement in that prison, along with a nicely corrupt warden, had been arranged, making you Suspicious, and you….immediately head back to your apartment/offices/bar well known to be your headquarters? Are you kidding me? And I'm still questioning the decision to stay in the apartment/office – lovely though it is, conveniently over a bar though it is – given the growing number of people with reasons to be irked at Nate Ford. I work hard on my suspension for disbelief with this show which has never exactly been particularly probable, but.
On the other hand, I liked Nate telling the Italian chick not to mess with his team.
Episode 302:
I'm a sap. I admit it. So, yeah, I liked the end. I will also say that both of these relationships are among the few genuinely justified Unresolved Sexual Tension couples out there, because Nate? Has some severe, but severe, issues, and although I actually think Parker is more mentally stable, I'm not sure she quite gets the whole relationship thing yet. So, enjoying the small bits like this while the couples are kept apart.
And loved Eliot's irritated reaction – "And does anyone care about Eliot???"
And loved Sophie's (I'm still calling her Sophie until told otherwise, since I figure we're going to be told her name is Gertrude or something like that, and I like Sophie better) little play on Eliot with the tea.
But otherwise, eh. One of the weaker episodes of the show.
So most of what I have to say about this season has already been said elsewhere, but,
Episode 301:
I have to echo the concerns of many about Eliot's little speech on the plight of the questionably charged/imprisoned middle class, and the resulting implication that the majority of working class citizens aren't particularly law-abiding, and that once, again, the true oppressed people in this country are the middle class. Sigh. Too, it would have easy enough to alter the speech just slightly – have Eliot say something about, "Because they're citizens. Law-abiding, middle and working class citizens…." and then keep the rest of the speech." The only way I could justify this in my mind was fan wanking that Eliot thinks of many of those working class types – I'm thinking maids, janitors, and the like in my definition here – as middle-class, but a, no, and b, I don't like fan-wanking socially important speeches.
Second, ok, I get the overreaching arc that the Italian chick and her Evil Boss have pulled strings to ensure that Nate Ford won't be followed by the cops and can continue to live in his apartment and his bar so that the show doesn't have to invest in new sets yet again. Get it. With that said…Nate, you flee prison, knowing that many, many people have reasons to be more than mildly ticked at you, and knowing that your placement in that prison, along with a nicely corrupt warden, had been arranged, making you Suspicious, and you….immediately head back to your apartment/offices/bar well known to be your headquarters? Are you kidding me? And I'm still questioning the decision to stay in the apartment/office – lovely though it is, conveniently over a bar though it is – given the growing number of people with reasons to be irked at Nate Ford. I work hard on my suspension for disbelief with this show which has never exactly been particularly probable, but.
On the other hand, I liked Nate telling the Italian chick not to mess with his team.
Episode 302:
I'm a sap. I admit it. So, yeah, I liked the end. I will also say that both of these relationships are among the few genuinely justified Unresolved Sexual Tension couples out there, because Nate? Has some severe, but severe, issues, and although I actually think Parker is more mentally stable, I'm not sure she quite gets the whole relationship thing yet. So, enjoying the small bits like this while the couples are kept apart.
And loved Eliot's irritated reaction – "And does anyone care about Eliot???"
And loved Sophie's (I'm still calling her Sophie until told otherwise, since I figure we're going to be told her name is Gertrude or something like that, and I like Sophie better) little play on Eliot with the tea.
But otherwise, eh. One of the weaker episodes of the show.