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for the record there is no high quite like the person you're watching leverage with near immediately realising that maggie's toying with eliot and nate like a cat with a mouse. chef's kiss.

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"I will fully admit, I am occasionally overly poetic when writing, but there’s absolutely some stuff that was written - which is when she steps in the doorway, Maggie realizes she’s lost her son, but Nate has lost his mind. And that’s- His sanity, his sense of self worth, everything was destroyed. She had a tragedy; he was destroyed. He will never be the same human being again." — John Rogers on the full hospital sequence, Leverage Commentaries, 1.12 The Second David Job

this would be better posted after a gifset so you can see it (because in my opinion you very much can) but I tripped over this before watching the ep with a friend and it knocked me kinda sideways.

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I thought of eight songs that would be too on-the-nose to actually put them on an Eliot playlist. And then I put them on this Eliot playlist.

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Hat Bracket Round 1B, Match 4: All-American Sleaze Cap v. 10 Gallons of Flim-flam

All-American Sleaze Cap Episode: 3x08 The Boost Job Character: Nate as Used Car Dealerdouche A.J. Lucas Propaganda: Nothing we haven’t seen before but still greasy man in a hat vibes so kind of exciting. One for the bracket simply for the sleaziness and the Sophie Nate fake(?) fighting this episode Submitted by: @independent-fics

10 Gallons of Flim-Flam Episode: 3x06 The Studio Job Character: Nate as Kenneth Crane's Manager Propaganda: He's got a few good cowboy hats but imo this is the dumbest. I think because it's so clean and shiny that it looks extra fake, very much like he's a city guy trying badly to pass himself off as a local

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Hat Bracket Round 1B, Match 3: The "Yes Chef" v. Eliot's Xmas Hat

The “Yes Chef” Character: Chef Eliot Episode: 5x04 1x03 The Wedding Job, The French Connection Job Propaganda: Okay so these are bandanas and -------- CORRECTION. I have learned a thing! They are Japanese multi-purpose cloths called tenegui and they're used for like, EVERYTHING but the salient thing is that they're worn like this both as part of a chef uniform and also in Kendo. And I think it's very in-character that Eliot who wants a katana for Christmas picked this as his go-to chef vibe, and it's very consistent, I pulled one from season one and one from season five.

Eliot’s Xmas Hat Episode: R2x07 The Big Rig Job Character: Eliot, as Eliot Propaganda: Awoowoo Pics courtesy of @faorism

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Hat Bracket Round 1B, Match 2: Magical Mastermind Tophats v. Cask-Iana Jones Hat

Magical Mastermind Tophats Episode: 2x06 The Top Hat Job Character: Nate as Henry Turner: Illusionist, and Parker as The Lovely Assistant Clea Propaganda: 1. A top hat is the most hat you can get per hat. 2. No other hat has an episode NAMED after it. 3. It comes with a bunny.

Cask-Iana Jones Hat Episode: R3x02 The Digital Frankenstein Job Character: Eliot, as Billy McGovern aka Cask-Iana Jones Propaganda: Eliot finally gets to wear a cowboy hat! And he gets to keep his curls! Submitted by: @thieves-never-say-die

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woke up in the middle of the night, wrote down this "great post" in my drafts, and went straight back to sleep:

extremely important. thank you for your input, half-asleep me.

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Ghostly's Mini Leverage Crack Vid 13/?

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it's fun watching this show with someone for the first time (as in the first time I've watched it with someone, also the first time they've watched it) and having to stop myself occasionally to be like "is it overkill to prep a clip of clayne crawford playing a juvenile delinquent in buffy or does that fall within standard huh I wonder where I've seen that actor before parameters?"

(justice for rodney munson tho, who may not have deserved better than being snogged to death by a mummy and quite possibly toured around museums indefinitely in her place, but like, willow was sweetly unafraid of him and that means something. and all credit to the actor for having the feral bastard vibes down that early.)

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if eliot could wink properly it would be much less endearing.

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Ghostly's Mini Leverage Crack Vid 11/?!

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Hat Bracket Round 1A, Match 8: Sneakin' Beanie v. The Pixie

Sneakin’ Beanie Episode: 1x09 The Snow Job Character: Parker, as Parker Propaganda: I just always enjoy when she dresses up like an actual cat burglar.

The Pixie Episode: 1x05 The Mile High Job, 3x07 The Gone Fishin Job Character: Eliot, as Eliot Propaganda: you may be thinking "this is just a boring beanie, compared to all the weird fedoras out there" think again! this is the a very fun knit hat- the chevron stitch, the multilayer ribbing, the point at the top!!! (that's called a pixie style pointy hat) this is a classic understated eliot move. it makes his hair look great and the point is so whimsical. anyway we should all be wearing pixie hats Editor's Note: Originally submitted for the Mile High Job, submitter then noted it's also in Gone Fishin, which means it goes on my list of "Probably the characters' actual favorite hats"

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"you didn't sign up for this. trust me."

said in the voice of someone who also didn't sign up for this shit (or at least couldn't know what he was signing up for), eighteen years old and trusting himself to the military, doing worse and worse things because his fellow soldiers needed him to watch out for them and because his country never stopped asking it of him—

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RIP Richard Chamberlain

March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025

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Thinking About Gender Performance via Eliot in Leverage...

I adore how this show comments on masculinity with Eliot, and the shootout in The Big Band Job represents that perfectly. Eliot doesn’t use guns. We know he can, that’s never been a question, he’s career military until whatever shattered his illusions with that career (I don’t know if we find out, I haven’t finished the series yet). I didn’t want to really comment until I finished the series, but it’s too much of a standout not to comment. In most shows, Eliot would be armed at all times. It would become a running gag how constantly and thoroughly he is armed. He would have to disarm and pull out an inexplicable number of weapons, like Aragorn in The Two Towers or Inej in Shadow and Bone. Alternately, he might become a true pacifist—think Shepherd Book in Firefly. That’s the usual portrayal of a gunman who’s turned his back on guns. Instead, Eliot doesn’t, can’t walk away from that life. So he stays in it without relying on the easy solution. He’s a stone-cold badass because of what he can do unarmed, or scavenge-armed with a shovel or chair or whatever’s on hand. So why do I keep coming back to the scene where Eliot picks up a gun? Where he behaves like the cowboy I’ve seen a thousand different times in a thousand different media? Because the second the camera panned to the gun, my stomach clenched, because this wasn’t about how cool an outlaw is. It was about all the trauma Eliot can barely keep to a simmer that he was about to face head-on because he is still, above all, beholden to and defined by duty. And the way that scene is framed is so, so, so cool. It evokes cowboys and action heroes and The Matrix. The violence is justified: these are bad guys and Eliot is saving Nate. We literally see a handgun jammed down the front of Eliot’s trousers—he has, in the cultural parlance, reclaimed his masculinity. And that’s the toxic masculinity. The soldier. The cowboy. The myth of those roles without the hard work and dirt and early mornings. The cowboy without hardscrabble, the soldier without blood. We know Eliot can step into either role. He is, capital-a capital-m, A Man. And that scene is so, so, so cool. I can’t stop thinking about it. If it were in most shows, it wouldn’t stay with me the same way. It would be heroic and triumphant. In Leverage, what defines that scene? “They don’t need to know what I did.” It's shame. It’s a reminder that no matter how cool and justified and cowboy, this wasn’t the time Eliot took out a bunker full of mooks. This was when Eliot was pushed into such a narrow corner he defied his principles. He broke the rule that keeps everything in check. I don’t leave this episode feeling like Eliot’s a badass. Eliot’s always been a badass. I leave the episode remembering how deeply shattered this character is. In conclusion, no other show does it like Leverage, this is good stuff right here and I’m so glad I found it!

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Countdown to LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION Season 3 ↳ Eliot Spencer Appreciation -> A Favorite Quote

S01EP04 The Tower Job

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hell yeah, thank you! 🎉

for my future reference:

E: For what it's worth, we all got regrets. You'll move past it. H: How did you learn to live with what you've done? E: I decided not to care. I didn't care who I hurt. Who paid me. When Nate put this team together, I thought it was one and done, that I'd go back to that. But Sophie, Parker, Hardison, and Nathan Ford showed me there was another way. And little by little, you get a piece of your soul back. E: Ain't that right, Parker? P: Absolutely.

okay this isn't important, just annoying, but does anyone remember what episode the harry + eliot (+ parker in a box) elevator scene chat about moral injury and/or righting wrongs was in? does anyone remember ANYTHING about it? I'd normally go search transcripts for keywords but I remember nothing except I thought it was Good Lore and quoted it once, and apparently I never reblogged a gifset if there was one.