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I had to draw something with these two ❤️

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G.I. Robot and Nina Mazursky Creature Commandos Season 1 Episode 3

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I simply cannot hate a character who takes pride and joy in killing Nazis. He's a cold-blooded American, we used to CELEBRATE that kind of thing.

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Creature commando girlfriends<33

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ABSOLUTE PEAK TV SHOW I LOVE CREATURE COMMANDOS

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LEVERAGE | 3.08

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Another Rant...

You know one of the things I love about “The French Connection Job”? It’s the back-and-forth between Parker and Eliot.

It’s established that food is Eliot’s passion, that he loves it because it made him feel when he thought he would never feel again, and that it’s how he expresses himself and lets people in his head, and let’s them know how he feels. It’s his art.

And then Parker, disheartened because she doesn’t have that, doesn’t have a ‘thing,’ a passion, something that makes her feel, goes to Eliot and asks him to, “Teach me how to like stuff."

And we don’t see it happen immediately, but Parker feels something from Eliot’s cooking, something he shared with her. And she even gives a suggestion which Eliot takes underwing immediately.

So the thing that helped Eliot learn how to feel and express himself when he didn’t know how, he shared with someone who needed it for a different reason, and showed how much he cared about her in the process. He “let her in his head,” and let her feel what he felt. And that impacted her enough that she turned around and started feeling things from the art that she previously only loved for the challenge of the security systems around it.

THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF THE POWER OF ART. Not to mention a beautiful demonstration of a ridiculously heartfelt character dynamic. And guess what—THAT’S art too.

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nobody fucking TALKS about how parker had a brother who died young!!! i'm never going to shut the fuck up about it!!!! he could've been her twin! she was so alone but there was a point before that where she had a BROTHER!!!!! and the hurt of that loss is so big that she never ever fucking talks about it! we wouldn't have known if it weren't for that psychic!

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one thing people need to understand about leverage is that it quite literally invented competence porn.

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Leverage S04E08 The Boiler Room Job.

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Let Me Rant a Second...

I love this scene—this whole episode—so much, because it’s one of the first that really dive into what the team has actually done for Eliot, and how it’s changed him. A lot of people come out of the military conditioned to obey orders. And it’s not just PTSD, it’s a psychological phenomenon that has been observed to affect 2/3 people after just two days of being under someone else’s command. And not just little things either, two out of three people administered what they believed to be a lethal shock to another human being after just a few days, sometimes a few *hours* of being in someone else’s command. Years of it, and it affects a significantly higher percentage of people. Considering that, it’s little wonder how someone who went on the jobs that Eliot did—ex-black ops, classified jobs, often working alone, became an assassin for hire.

And in that line, when he asks for understanding—he’s not asking for permission, just understanding. I feel like that’s all he wants from Nate and the others sometimes—is to get where he’s coming from, and who he is. As someone who has a different kind of PTSD, I can attest that sometimes someone understanding why you are the way you are and why you do what you do is what makes you feel like you haven’t gone over the deep end. What makes it better, is that understanding is something that Nate is very consistent in giving Eliot. Understanding is something that all of them are very consistent in giving Eliot, often without him having to ask at all. We see it in the “Queen��s Gambit Job” in how he’s treated around Sterling and after he was drugged, and in the “Last Dam Job,” when Eliot comes up in conversation and in his converstaion with Nate when Nate is looking for excuses to kill a man for revenge. We see it in “The Tap Out Job” when Sophie gets concerned over Eliot taking the fall, afraid that it would trigger something in him.

And we see how Nate, and how *his* orders and this team had helped Eliot. Eliot says later with Parker...

And that makes me wonder, just how much this team—this non-judgemental, slightly crazy family that he picked up and that picked him up just because he agreed to another job for a price a bit *below* regular rate for someone of his caliber��just how much this team put the pieces back together to get him to feel like a human again. And to make him feel, if not worthy, than cared for.

I see it a lot with Nate. Parker and Hardison and Sophie too, yes, but in a different way. There are so many times in the show that Eliot *lets* Nate hold him back. He admits things to Nate that he doesn’t to the others, and Nate covers for him. He didn’t tell them about the warehouse of dead bodies that Eliot left behind in “The Big Bang Job,” or any of the kills that he must have known about before the team even got together, because remember in the first episode, he had investigated all of them.

And later, in the same episode, we see Eliot about to kill someone. And it’s obvious—he’s not pretending. He’s furious, this man hurt Toby, ruined his work helping kids, after Toby had done so much for Eliot himself. His eyes look almost glazed over, like he’s not even fully there.

And then...

He lets himself be called back, and he stops. And after, Nate doesn’t give him judgement, instead...

He gives him an out, a way to brush it aside and collect himself.

His family knows who he is, but Nate knows what he’s done. And all of them keep Eliot from going back to who he was, but Nate is the only one we really see face it head off, and pull him back from that edge without judgement. He’s also pretty much the only one who lets Eliot loose, almost like he knows that there’s something inside of Eliot that needs to be let out as much as it needs to be controlled. And that… that is the makings for one of the most heartfelt and awesome character dynamics I’ve ever seen. Eliot’s dynamics with everyone on the team is just… awesome. And so nuanced that you can see it in all the little things and it doesn’t even have to be said out loud. THAT is good writing.

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LEVERAGE | 2.04

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With a character like Sophie, who is so inherently charismatic and sexy (which is like 90% of her job), it was such a Choice to introduce her with her terrible stage acting fr. Truly unmatched.

Parker is first on screen hanging upside down and then shouting with unfettered glee as she launches herself off a building (ahead of the count). Let alone the little flashback of her as a child blowing up her childhood home and running off with her thieved Bunny.

It's something I love about the Leverage pilot is that like. Yeah, Parker and Sophie are hot but they're also Freaks and you HAVE to be down for them as Freaks to get on this train. They're not just hot hypercompetent genre cliches, they're unhinged messes in their own ways. Just. Women.

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An American Werewolf in London (1981) dir. John Landis

"Sister Hobbs said there's a disturbance in Piccadilly Circus involving some sort of mad dog."

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Hellraiser (1987) press still

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1975

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