#leverage finale

[mimi123meg]

I just watched the finale of leverage in my rewatch with my bf and omfg that episode goes so hard. Like unironically probably one of the best last episodes of tv in my opinion.

The callbacks to the very first episode? Immaculate. Breathtaking. Stunning.

Nate's acting in the holding room? Beautiful, Sophie did a good job with this one.

The fake out of Sophie's real name? Honestly the best thing about her character.

The culmination of Nate having trained Eliot, hardison and Parker to take over leverage? So well done. Beautiful. I like it, Picasso

Last but certainly not least, the ot3 being shown throughout the episode is everything to me. Eliot dying in Parker and hardisons arms, hardisons first question being "did Eliot make it?" And Eliot comforting him before all three of them die. Eliot telling Nate that he did need something and looking over at Parker and hardison, and saying that thanks to him he doesn't need to keep searching (I'm screaming). I just love this show so much and thjs episode does not disappoint as a series finale.

[thebiballerina]

BBC Merlin fandom on December 24th, 2022: It has been ten years since the finale. 😭 Remember when they crushed our dreams and tore out our hearts? 💔 Every fanwork you see will evoke 13 repressed feelings and make you yearn for a future you'll never behold. That finale hurt me like nothing else. I still can't believe that happened! 😫

Leverage fandom on December 25th, 2022: It has been ten years since the finale! 😄 Remember when they not only fulfilled, but exceeded, our hopes for the conclusion? ❤️ Let's celebrate the way we saw five seasons of character development draw together beautifully. That finale impressed me like nothing else. I still can't believe that happened! 😍

Where are my besties in both fandoms who have enjoyed the whiplash with me? 😘

Also, there have got to be at least a few people who experienced both these finales in real time, and wherever you may be, please tell me what that was like. I beg of you.

[somestorythoughts]

The fourth Leverage Finale is the first one that does NOT involve any significant lies on the part of any one of the team. Sophie lies to them the first time, Nate the second, Eliot the third. (You could also say Nate and Hardison lied in the fifth finale and they do but they also come clean before the con goes down.) But in the fourth the closest we get to lying is Nate not telling them all that’s going on and he’s up front about that.

It’s also the first where Hardison doesn’t go through shit. First he blew up his second home, then blew up his car Lucielle, then nearly drowned, the finalies are rough on Hardison.

[thatrandombookworm]

Omg the Long Goodbye Job. Yes I’ve watched it before. Yes i still get emotional over it. That’s how good it is. I also forgot a lot of it because its been a while since the last time I saw it

I have so many thoughts about this episode so spoilers below the cut

Starting with Nate’s version of events: I forgot how many callbacks to the first episode there are! Hardison and Eliot say their first lines about Parker again, Sophie does the Scottish play (badly) again, Hardison and Eliot do the door scene again (Hardison unlocks while Eliot defends), there’s probably more im just to tired to remember rn.

Then obviously there’s The Scene™️. You know the one. The car one. Yeah that one. Need I say more

Also in this version they do not end up getting what they came for.

Then the Interpol agent’s version (i dont remember her name rn): mostly the same, but Parker is unaccounted for after she enters, not much else. The car scene still happens.

Then the actual version: Sophie was good during the play! They didn’t actually die! It was all a con! They got what they came for! Sterling was…good?

I also can’t get over the fact that Leverage started and ended with Nate’s son as the initial starting force for both cons (another callback?)

And then Nate proposes to Sophie! Hardison, Parker, and Eliot take over Leverage! Parker looks amazing as boss! Then the final callback when she does the “We provide…Leverage” speech!

So many thoughts so few brain cells to process them

[ot3showdown]

MAY THE BEST OT3 WIN!!!

[aardvaark]

the long way down job is such an important turning point in eliot & parker’s relationship bc they’d both been viewing the things they have in common as fairly negative: they’ve both been told that they’re cold and ruthless and dangerous and they know those things are true. so when they’ve recognised themselves in each other, it’s been a sense of "the thing that’s wrong with me is a lot like the thing that’s wrong with you". and there’s comfort in that, in a way. but now eliot gets parker to see that maybe those aren’t all negative traits, they’re just… traits. neutral. it doesn’t make them bad or good, it makes them who they are. and now when they see themselves reflected in each other, it’s not a reminder that they’re wrong and bad - it’s kinship, it’s familiarity, it’s belonging.

[powerpolyculeshowdown]

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Leverage Redemption Season 1 Gag Reel

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[foundfamilyappreciation]

FINAL SHOWDOWN OF ULTIMATE DESTINY:

Gaang (Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, Suki, Zuko) from Avatar: The Last Airbender

VS

Leverage Crew (Nate Ford, Sophie Devereaux, Eliot Spencer, Parker, Alec Hardison) from Leverage

[leulahart]

sometimes a family is a drunken mentor and his two tributes who survived the war against all odds

[basketcasemp3]

LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION 2.04 • The Date Night Job

[echofades]

We’re like the Doctor. We’re like.. two Doctors. Like a Christmas special with multiple Doctors. LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION | 2.04 | The Date Night Job

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

⭐ Gay wrongs tournament, finals of the major bracket ⭐

Propaganda:

For the Leverage trio:

No murder (except occasionally by Elliot) but the theifsom as they are sometimes called rob from every kind of evil rich asshole they can find. Three of the best criminals in the world. Be poly do crime

A canonical (Word of God) triad who run cons with the ultimate goal of helping people. Hardison is a hacker, Eliot is a hitter, and Parker is a thief

For Hanningram:

Ive previously only heard the term "murder husbands" refer to hannigram so it feels flitting. The whole series culminated with a murder they did together bathing in blood. 

The show and ship that coined murder husbands. It’s in the text in s3 from a journalist side character. They do Many murders either together or as a message to each other. Usually this involves turning the dead body into an art piece. The show ends with them killing a guy together in a slo mo scene backed by porno music.

They're both batshit and manipulative.

ALRIGHT so they're not canonically together but it is HEAVILY implied and they have some sort of fucked up psychosexual obsession with each other. in the later parts of the show they start committing murder and cannibalism together and they're soooo unhinged but it's awesome

kill people for each other. maim each other. kill people together. most batshit insane metaphors. send each other to jail. ruin everyone’s lives. someone can probably say this better than me but these gay people are insane

Literally THE murder husbands. They kill for each other. They've tried to kill each other. They're canon in all but name, like the homoeroticism between these two is the driving force of the show.

one time hannibal folded a guy into an origami human heart

They are in love and they kill and eat people. They are called Murder Husbands in canon.

The original murder husbands (literally, that's not just their ship name, they get called that in canon)

The show begins with Will working for the FBI and trying to catch Hannibal, but because Hannibal is so intrigued by the way Will is able to see the world and the motives behind the killings so easily, it becomes a game of Hannibal isolating Will even more from the people around and seducing him to try and kill. By the time Will starts embracing the side of him that Hannibal sees, he starts oulling back and trying to distance himself so that when the time comes for Will to fully embrace himself and Hannibal, no one really suspects what they have planned. 

hannibal literally does murder as courtship and it works bc will is also a fucked up little guy

I'm actually quite offended they aren't included by default (joke). They are THE murder husbands!!!!!! (mod note: they should have been, but I wanted to see how many submissions they'd get. They got 19, making them a little more than 6% of total submission count).

do i have to say it. they literally get called murder husbands IN THE SHOW

There are 3201 works for Hannibal on ao3 tagged Murder Husbands. They are the ogs, they are the pioneers we owe it all to them.

THEE murder couple. You know it. I know it. They commit crimes at each other as courting and then commit crimes together and then fall off a cliff to wash up somewhere and live on to serve cunt. Get referred to as 'murder husbands' in canon. What more do you need

Hannigram were literally called Murder Husbands in canon, they are the og, they are THE blueprint. They were gay as hell and comitted so much murder so many crimes. THEY RAN OFF TO EUROPE TOGETHER.

[sheppardsmckay]

@lgbtqcreators creators bingo: Comedy| Strangers to friends| Colour| Team colors

[polyam-ship-showdown]

Polyam Ship Showdown Grand Final

[kermit-coded]

nate: i got caught, i'm serving the time and that's final!

the rest of the crew: