“I tend to construct the villain plan absent the heroes, then drop them in. Also, I favor multiple little cons on the way to the big con – witness the pilot, Homecoming, and the season finale, along with various tweaks along the way. A lot of times I start with “What will we steal?”, while Chris [Downey] starts with “where are we?” There’s a fair bit of cross-pollination in the room, of course, and we’ve spot-welded our approaches several times – [Amy] Berg and Chris worked together on The 12 Step Job, while our Filthy Assistant’s first script, The Juror #6 Job, shows the taint of both Chris and I. Layered on the plots, of course, are the stories. Which, as we all know, are not the same thing. Homecoming was about the team learning that being good guys is a lot harder than being bad guys. Two Horse is about dealing with your past. Bank Shot is all about the team growing up, cementing the family bond – the ‘kids’ having to pull off the gig on their own. Miracle is about faith and hubris, of course, and you can go on and on. We don’t like to lay it on too thick, but the team story is the top layer. End of day, it’s very hard to get the audience to give a shit about the vic-of-the-week. In 42:30 they just don’t have the screentime. So tying our guys in – in hopefully non-hacky ways – is the key to the show’s emotional grounding. For what it’s worth, Mile High Job is a trust episode betwen the rest of the team and Hardison. I’d put it in the first half of the season arc. For those of you playing the home game, Bank Shot is the swing episode – the transition to where the team is fully invested in each other, and walking away is not really an option.”
— John Rogers, on building the first season of Leverage.
What if there were women’s cleanliness products that were marketed the way Old Spice stuff is? Like they had names like “Lioness” and “Sycamore” and “Wildfire” and “Hunter’s Moon” and they were touted as making you smell like a warrior queen who does not suffer fools and conquers all she beholds
HELLO LADIES
have you felt the primal call of the unmerciful sea calling you to strike down those who would defy you? no? well if you stopped using overpriced flower-scented body wash and switched to SEA HAG, you might.
look down.
back up. where are you? you’re a siren, bare-breasted and shrieking as you lure the unwary to their doom on the rocks below. and you smell amazing.
what’s in your hand? back at me. it’s a vial of skin-nourishing ingredients, derived from the seaweed you used to strangle a hated foe. it does wonders for your skin tone and resilience, and we all can agree that we will need that resilience in the coming war.
look again: the seaweed is now a formal apology from the last man who unnecessarily tried to explain something to you.
anything is possible when you smell like a vengeful sea witch and embrace your own rage. i’m on a narwhal.
04.15.2016 Les Jardins de Diane, Fontainebleau (France)
The gardens and the castle were empty. I managed to shut off my mind for few hours and simply enjoy myself in the moment, I need to spend more often such quality time.
Because most of us spend the majority
of our time indoors, NASA conducted a
Clean Air Study to determine which
common houseplants are the best for
filtering harmful toxins like ammonia
and formaldehyde from the air.
**Please note: Several of these plants are known to be toxic to cats, dogs and other pets. If you are a pet owner, please do check the toxicity of plants before introducing them to your home.**
RandomFandom 