#Judson and Charlene

[summersnow82]

I finished “The Librarians”, y’all. What do I do now? 😱

Maybe it’s time for a “Leverage” rewatch. That show is perfection.

A few thoughts first:

1. I weirdly enjoyed the shorter seasons. I felt like the show was more focused.

2. Jenkins. I just adored him. It is by far my favorite role with John Larroquette. The scene where he’s a D&D Dungeon Master was a thing of beauty.

3. I love Eve’s maternal vibes.

4. Love love loved Ezekiel’s character development. The looper episode broke me.

5. The ships, but also… not? I totally ship Jacob and Cassandra, but also Jenkins and Cassandra, and yet… I really liked how they just… were. I love a good platonic relationship just as much.

6. Judson and Charlene.

7. The series finale. I don’t know if they knew the show was ending or not, but this was one of the best series finales I have ever seen. Just beautiful.

I told my husband this show gave me “SeaQuest” vibes: a great cast of characters, episodes that almost always ended on a happy note, and just a feel good vibe when I watched it. A great comfort show. I adore “Leverage”, too, so it was meant to be.

If you haven’t seen “The Librarians” it is currently streaming on Freevee. I will definitely be purchasing this one.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The Librarian Quest for the Spear (2004)

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[softboiledwonderland]

I’m watching the movie and baby Flynn is breaking my heart

[the-librarians-prompt-month]

It's time for the list! And here it is.

A reminder: the way this works is you have all of June to write before posting starts July 1st. The number on the list corresponds to the date in July! But you can post any time after as well. Towards the end of June I will create and post the collection!

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Now the list:

5+1 Times

Costume

Body Swap

Mistaken Relationship

Meet the Family (aka someones relatives make an appearance)

Mermaid

Baking

Movie Night

Singing

Hospital

First Kiss

Dragons

Rarepair

Charlene and Judson

Antique

Day Off

Case Fic

Library Rooms

Food

Phoenix

Crossover

Another country has a magic unit/agency ala DOSA

Mission gone wrong

Someone almost dies. Again.

Epiphany

Pegasus

The Serpent Brotherhood returns

Masquerade ball

Purple

Mummies

Celebration

Happy creating! I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

[no-s-estelle]

I've been gnawing on The Librarians like a dog on a bone ever since I finished the series a few weeks ago, and now I have Thoughts:

I hope the new show explores more of the library's history and the magical universe around the library. There's so much potential for Lore there, and so many implications the show never touched on. The library's existed for over 2000 years, but all the Librarians we see are white Europeans/Americans? (Besides Ezekiel) Technically Charlene and Judson as the original Guardian and Librarian must have been ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian maybe, but that was never explored. The library went from Alexandria to the New York Metropolitan Library? Where was it in the interim? It could have literally been anywhere in the world! Show me the library in tsarist Russia, or Edo Japan, or the Incan empire. Or at least mention that the library spent time anchored there. You have 2000 years of history to play with, ffs.

And then in the earlier seasons the show implied the existence of a whole magical society, and then barely did anything with it. Show me how the library as an institution impacts the magical world, beyond just collecting and locking away artifacts! Give me more librarians mediating disputes between pissed off dragons, except we don't have the CGI budget for actual dragons so they're just guys in fancy suits! What happened with the lake forum??? I kept waiting for that to be a bigger storyline, and it never went anywhere, even though Cassandra kept using magic. It felt like an unfired Chekhov's gun. Just. Just give me lore, please.

From press releases, it looks like the new show is going to at least start off in Serbia? Or just generic Central Europe? So I'm interested in what they do with that. Idk, I mostly want them to really lean in to the world-wide storytelling potential, even if they shoot it all in Oregon. I believed the same one forest in British Columbia was 50 different alien planets for Stargate; I'll believe Oregon is China or Japan or West Africa or wherever they want me to believe it is.

[wiredust]

i sound so insane but right now im rotating flynn carsen around in my head on a microwave dish and i'm headcanoning him as a timelord.

like, the librarian is some kind of renegade timelord like the doctor, but he and his tardis (the library!) fell into another dimension where the laws of science are so different that they're basically magic.

i'd imagine judson and charlene more or less know who he is and are also just companions that have stuck with him for so long, but they're not the first.

so obviously every time the librarian has to regenerate they put on this whole show about finding a new librarian. but really it's still the same guy.

[willofred]

Okay here’s what I like to imagine what happened to everyone after the series ended:

Eve and Flynn are the eternal Librarian and Guardian obviously. They bicker but they love each other, Flynn gives advice but also I think he runs interference for when the outside world gets librarian or magical issues (like the wiki leaks of DOSA files lol). Baird takes care of the books, just like Charlene showed her too. She also trains new teams for combat, to make sure they’re safe. The magical community always love hearing the updates from the new librarians teams about “mom and dad”

But I think probably after a few years Jenkins decides he is ready to retire (he misses Charlene and Judson) so they spend some time finding an artifact to let him go peacefully

But they need a new caretaker, good thing there’s a perfect replacement to train around: Cassandra! She becomes immortal and the new library caretaker. She carried on with some of Jenkins research but also with a lot of her own. If she’s not at the library you can find her at some fancy resort, rumor has it she’s hanging out with some vampire but no one really knows

Ezekiel gets another job offer a few years later too, the Bank of Thieves needs someone to run it after all! I think he becomes immortal and runs it in a very Robin Hood style lol. He also maybe helps fund this organization a good friend of his told him about, he doesn’t know the specifics but any Leverage Intl employee gets some fancy perks at the bank

Jacob Stone stays a librarian for a good more years, and gets to lead his own team of new and young librarians. Maybe Eve joins to train a guardian or two (maybe some familiar faces we’ve seen from adventures lol). I think he follows his mentors precedent and retires when he’s ready though, and runs a ranch for retired race horse (probably with a nice lady lol). The team misses him dearly over the centuries but they understand immortality isn’t for everyone

[the-monkey-ruler]

The Librarians (2014) 图书馆员

Starring: Bob Newhart / Christian Kane / Jane Curtin / John King / John Larquette / Lindy Booth / Matt Frewer / Noah Wyle / Rebecca Romijn / Lesley-Ann Blade Genre: Drama / Comedy / Action / Fantasy / Adventure Country/Region of Production: United States Language: English Date: 2014-12-07 (USA) Number of seasons: 4 Number of episodes: 42 Single episode length: 42 minutes Also known as: Librarian IMDb: tt3663490 Type: Crossover

Summary:

The series follows four people newly recruited by The Library: Colonel Eve Baird (Rebecca Romijn), of the NATO Anti-Terrorist Unit, destined to be the new Guardian; Ezekiel Jones (John Harlan Kim), a consummate thief who can hack an NSA computer as easily as he can steal a Fabergé egg; Cassandra Cillian (Lindy Booth), a brilliant scientist and mathematician who possesses a trace of magic; and Jacob Stone (Christian Kane), polymath, linguist, expert in architecture, art, art history, archaeology and world cultures of the past and present, including Native American cultures, and other fields too numerous to mention, including bar fighting. The latter three received invitations from the Library at the same time as the current Librarian, Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), but for various reasons didn't show up for their interviews.

In a break with the concept established in the films that there can be only one Librarian at a time, the first episodes reveal that the state of the world is so dire that it needs a team of Librarians, with Baird serving as Guardian of all four. With the help of Jenkins/Galahad (John Larroquette), immortal manager of the Library’s Annex, they solve impossible mysteries, rewrite and fix key moments in history, recover powerful magical artifacts, fight against supernatural threats, and learn important things about themselves and each other. In the first season, they battle the forces of the Serpent Brotherhood, led by the mysterious immortal Dulaque (Matt Frewer). Carsen, who spends the first season searching for the main Library (removed from time and space at the beginning of the series) appears in some episodes.

The second season offers up a pair of new villains, both from fiction: Prospero (Richard Cox), from Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Moriarty (David S. Lee), Sherlock Holmes' chief nemesis. The former is positioned as the greater evil, attempting to use magic to destroy the world in order to remake it more to his liking. Moriarty is more of a gray villain—generally aligned with Prospero but willing to side with the Librarians when it suits his own interests.

The third season introduces a new adversary, Apep, the Egyptian God of Chaos. Defeated centuries before by the first Librarian, Judson (Bob Newhart), and his Guardian, Charlene (Jane Curtin), he is resurrected when his sarcophagus is opened and embarks on a mission to release pure evil into the world, possessing many different people along the way. While they are trying to stop Apep, the Librarians' actions are closely monitored by General Cynthia Rockwell (Vanessa Williams) from a new secret government agency, called DOSA (Department of Statistical Anomalies).

The fourth season does away with season-long story arcs in favor of stand-alone episodes, with three ongoing issues: Before the vernal equinox, Flynn and Eve must undertake a ceremony that will bind them to each other and to the Library, as Charlene and Judson did before them. They will become immortal and bind the Library to Earth, giving it a human connection and a human heart rather than the cold, implacable and dangerously self-centered attitude that would characterize it without that bond. (We learn in season three that the Library is a conscious entity.) The return of Nicole Noone, Flynn's first Guardian, believed dead and now immortal, raises many questions. And conflict arises between the Librarians over former Librarian Darrington Dare's assertion that there can only be one Librarian at a time, or the result will be disastrous. These three stories are not resolved until the last episode.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Librarians_(2014_TV_series)

Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.68b0b42a-ee97-a6b1-d1f2-cfa3c2b2ef7a?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb

[madderbythesecond]

Starter for potestmagice’s Sebastian De Poitiers

“You received the white envelop?” Adamaris asked, of all people, why Sebastian De Poitiers had been called upon by the Library to serve as the Guardian was a mystery to her. The ways of the Library where somewhat of a mystery to many of the various Librarians and Guardians throughout history. Not even Judson and Charlene seemed to fully understand it. Adamaris’ gaze turned to Sebastian and she realized she was staring at him. She mumbled an apology before speaking so he could hear her again.

“Other than me, who exactly did you tell about this?” She asked.

@potestmagice​

[anonymousrobinhoodqueer]

The librarian movies are on peacock, and I’ve been watching them while I put my brother to sleep. (He needs the physical grounding) they are pretty funny to watch after watching the show. But at the end of the second movie it zooms out and shows that the library layout is nothing like it is in the show, it much more fantasy than in the show. But also they have armed guards and special keys to even get into the library. Perhaps if they still had those the serpent brotherhood would not have gotten in.

Charlene was married and divorced before the first movie, which is odd because she was supposed to be platonically and romantically tethered to Judson. But also Judson was the first librarian and was also somehow a marine?

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The Librarian Quest For The Spear (2004)

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July 2 - What if

What if Flynn had fallen off that bridge? = = = = =

Nicole Noone is depressed.

Charlene still isn't speaking to her.

"Give her t-time," Judson insists, paging through a rather large book. "Flynn was like a son to her."

"And to you," Nicole replies softly.

He nods his head in a stoic manner, both acknowledgement and resigned strength in the gesture. "I have a task for you. The Library sent out invitations for interviews..."

There's a tense pause.

"Charlene rejected them all, didn't she."

Judson raises his eyebrows briefly and nods again. "Some didn't come in f-for the interview. I need you to convince one in particular."  He motions her over to look at the name he's pointing to.

She frowns at the name. "Judson.  I've not had the best of luck with Librarians. Maybe I should step down and you can find someone else for this job."

He shakes his head. "Un-until the Library rescinds your invitation, Nicole, you are the Guardian."

"And I don't get a say?"

Judson gives her his best sad-puppy eyes.

"I really hate when you do that."

He shrugs a little helplessly but doesn't let up.

"Fine."  She grimaces and turns away.  "Fine, this once. Looks like I'm headed to Australia."

[the-librarians-prompt-month]

Charlene and Judson

[incorrectlibrarians]

When watching the later seasons of the librarians and listening to how much respect Jenkins and Flynn seem to have for each other it's easy to forget that before the show started Flynn had no idea that Jenkins existed. He was a librarian for 10 years and he had no idea, but of course Jenkins "knew all about it" Flynn from the start. Just there in the shadows during his "important work" hiding from the library, Charlene and Judson never mentioning him. But Darrington knew about him, there seem to be a good amount of animosity between the two of them. The caretaker and the librarian who was so dedicated to working alone that he died because he was alone.

​And that was the late 1800 so how long has Jenkins been squirreling himself away in the annex? what was the final straw? when we meet him he seems so casual about loosing librarians regularly, like that's just the way it is.

And then in the final season he makes that comment about how watching the people you care about die while you stay the same blackens your soul ...