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Inspired by my last reblog:

Imagine finally meeting Nana in Leverage: Redemption, except it's another "Rashomon Job"-esque retelling, and every character has a vastly different interpretation of who Nana is as a person and what her actions mean within the given scenario (to the point where she's even played by several different actresses)

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"You can't sell blood or organs for transplant, but if the cadaver is legally obtained, you can sell it for, as you say, parts."

Leverage Redemption S03E03 The Scared Stiff Job.

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thing about Rose is that she's not fancy, her mascara is ridiculous, and she asks the right questions

not always the smart questions, but the right ones. She's special and flawed

she's ALSO one of the only people who internalized that the Doctor's actually nuts. you could argue for others but they mostly just do banter while still deep in hero worship

instead Rose is like...I want chips. No big decisions right away. Chips

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gotta love that part at the beginning of any leverage episode where it’s like

nate: we can get you your money back—

client: i don’t want money, Mr. Ford. i want a philosophical/emotional/social repayment. that’s not going to be soothed with simple dollars and cents.

nate:

nate:

nate: well we can do that too so

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to me, correctly using 5+ commas in a single sentence is like perfectly executing a combo in a fighting game. to me.

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Don’t mind me just getting emotional over the thought of Breanna trying to impress Sophie so much in the beginning because, even though she and Hardison had Nana, she probably grew up learning about the mother figure Sophie became to Hardison and how important she was to him and Breanna wanted to experience that relationship too. It’s fine. I’m fine.

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Nothing more embarrassing than accidentally using a big word wrong because now I'm simultaneously both stupid and pretentious, the worst combination of all time

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sophie canonically not only not putting her shopping cart away but pushing it randomly out into the empty parking lot is so fucking funny. she literally always expects other people to just take care of it because it’s her job to con people into making them take care of it for her & this is one of many many many reasons why she is so enamored with her weird control freak husband who compulsively takes care of it without her even asking him to do it. if nate were there he would put the shopping cart back. he is not. It gets pushed out into nowhere, where it will obstruct traffic

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leverage villain of the week: you thought you could play me? ME? i’m so much smarter and so much richer and so much BETTER than you. i saw you coming a MILE off. i have beautifully dismantled your stupid plan!

nate: ok :)

leverage villain of the week: wh

leverage villain of the week: what do you mean “ok :)”

nate: 👍👍👍

leverage villain of the week:

leverage villain of the week: i don’t feel safe anymore

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I love that in leverage canon, some occupations that have led leverage teams that are not from the standard thief / con artist backgrounds include:

Insurance Investigator

Neuroscientist

Professor of Philosophy

Clockmaker

Lawyer

I don't know what it is about it, but something about the worldbuilding aspect here really tugs at me. The overarching idea that it's people from all types of backgrounds, with all sorts of ways of looking at things, that might look at an unjust world and find their own ways and means of fixing it. What a beautiful thesis for a show to hammer on

Edit: I forgot Hurley, disgraced broker

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in other news, i was really hoping that they'd mention more of their korean team. i was honestly half expecting that lee tae-joon would show up at the end, or that roy ryu would show up and help eliot beat the north koreans up. even just a "it turns out, our korean team has been chasing the north koreans because they xyz".

but alas. they did not.

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"Why is the punchline always tax evasion" buddy, do you know how easy it is to accidentally commit tax evasion? If you sell a Steam trading card on the community market and fail to report the resulting eight cents as hobby or self-employment income, technically you are now a tax evader.

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Dear August,

You were a small, unassuming miracle. Nothing grand, nothing thunderous, yet everything shifted slow and steady beneath my feet. You taught me that holding on to myself, is not survival, it’s love. That hating myself for what life throws my way is a cruelty I no longer owe. Your orange skies peeking through dark clouds whispered that life will always be a mess, tangled and imperfect. But the way I walk through it is what shapes the story: whether it bruises me into despair or blooms me into wonder.

In your days, I said yes more than no. To spontaneous journeys, to long hours of work, to laughter echoing down streets and tears soaking the shower floor. And at nights I devoured stories like they were oxygen. Picaresque worlds from K-dramas, lives tucked inside the spines of my new books, soothing Ghibli movies, and every new song that sportify slid into my queue. From iridescent clouds drifting over riverbanks to sunrises spilling gold across the shore. From sunsets burning on long roads to skies blushing pink behind coconut trees. Tapri chai by the highways, coffee cradled in quiet cafés—I tasted them all. I chased the clouds, I smiled at the stars. I ate until I was full, moved until I was breathless, and wrote until the words built me a new beginning. Dear August, with you, I lived it all.

You reminded me that life will happen if I let it. That if I meet the universe with a wholehearted now, it will return to me in miracles disguised as ordinary days.

So here’s to you, Dear August! To the chaos and the calm, the bruises and the balm. Thank you for teaching me that even in the mess, life is still worth living!

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Another thing I appreciate about Leverage Redemption-

In the OG Nate was the mastermind, and also the main mentor - specifically for Parker and Hardison, but also for some clients. He was the one that would help guide them through the pain of whatever happened to them, helped them make sense of it

Meanwhile Sophie was the one they trusted to look after all of them, make sure they were all okay. Make sure that everyone felt listened to and taken care of

Fast forward to Redemption and it’s clear that in terms of mastermind-ing and mentorship, those duties are pretty well split between Sophie and Parker. Sophie with Breanna and Harry, Parker with Breanna and Hurley. Sophie guiding the clients through their woes, and Parker actually being asked for relationship advice.

Meanwhile who has taken on the emotional role that Sophie once held? Who is it that everyone insists was the one who was really worried about Sophie on the anniversary of Nate’s death? Who’s the one that Hardison is told needs an apology when he comes back at the end of season one? Who goes along with the idea that Parker measured his head for a robot body? Who checks in with Breanna to acknowledge that yeah, sending her into a group of nazis it’s dangerous? Who agrees to cook for Parker and Hardison’s date, and Breanna’s date, and makes Sophie a vegan breakfast, and still makes Sophie tea with or without neurolinguistic programming?

It’s Eliot

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