One more thing to love about Leverage (because I have a shortage here, mind you) is how not-commonly attractive the team members are.
I mean, something that’s considered to be commonly attractive appearence usually consists of two parts:
– basic looks, aka face features, skin and body shape;
– attire, aka make up, outfit, hair style, etc.
Now look. We have Nate, who looks like a thrift store version of Mark Ruffalo and doesn’t really bother with attire.
We have Sophie, who cares about her looks very much, both professionally and personally, and she pays a lot of attention to her attire. And she’s really beautiful! But it’s not typical all-American beauty. Sophie has pretty big nose, her features are more impressive than delicate. She charms with her behavior and attire, and, more than anything, her self-confidence.
Eliot. Eliot, you guys. Eliot looks like a lost royal heir who was raised by the rough crowd.
(Oh my god, Eliot looks like Aragorn!)
Eliot surely doesn’t look like a Common Handsome White male. He has no glass-sharp jawline. He doesn’t dress to show off his pectorals and/or deep color of his eyes.
Parker absolutely can look commonly attractive. She does it for jobs, she does it well. She’s stunning when she wants to play a stunning woman.
For herself? Pfffft. Nah. Jumping from the top of the building is much more interesting.
So she has basic looks, but attire is just a tool fo her.
Hardison is the most commonly attractive one of them. His scarves (!), his henleys. His, well, everything.
And guys. He’s, you know, black.
Compare Parker and Sophie to Maggie, Tara and italien woman. Compare Nate, Hardison and Eliot, to, idk, Oliver Quinn. Or any other male lead with stubble and cheekbones.
This is the moment I truly fell in love with Sophie Devereaux. Her instinctive reaction to Parker (whom she hardly knew at this point) saying she was sick was to check on her, to offer a caring touch that Parker may not have felt in a very long time. I was surprised. I mean, femme fatales I know. Maternal figures, I know them, too. But a femme fatale with a motherly side? I sat up and took notice.
That’s how Leverage got me. It took all these tropes, shook them all up, added a pinch of this and that, and somehow gave us complex human beings we’d want to get to know and understand. So we got a femme fatale who mothers everyone, an emotionally intelligent tough guy, a charming and outgoing geek, a mastermind whose own life is out of control, and a childlike innocent who is perhaps the most dangerous member of the crew. And by the time the show’s over, not one of them has remained the exact same person we met in the first season–they’ve all changed and grown, as a family and as individuals, they’ve let their edges melt and overlap into each other while settling more comfortably into themselves. And we saw it happen.
I love that Hardison’s very obvious feelings for Parker are accompanied by unwavering patience.
Like, I think back to him referring to Parker’s “sexiness” to Nate in the SECOND EPISODE of the series and how he says “just between us”, like he’s not going to shower her with adoration and sweet nothings at almost every turn between them, I think about how he tells her that he likes how she turned out when she’s crying her eyes out, broken, knowing she’s different and weird and possibly even a lost cause at this point, I think about how from the moment he met her, he was already interested and how her quirks – while sometimes frustrating – never pushed/scared him away, I think about how he spends three seasons being a major leg and arm and lung in her growing support system and when she finally DOES tell him that she’s been having “feelings [for pretzels]”, he just smiles even though his heart is probably in his throat at this overwhelming progress they’ve made and he sits down and tells her kindly, lovingly, that they’re there when she’s ready to have them.
He will always be there when she is ready for him.
Would the chicken be the leader or the violent loose cannon who wants to be the leader but grudgingly knows goat is better suited to the role
Bull is a gentle giant who will kick the ass of anyone who endangers their friends, alpaca is wise and has many stories to share
In a great twist, the sheep is actually the leader.
They look like a very commanding sheep…
I would definitely agree that the sheep is the leader. The chicken is mostly there to cook up crazy distractions. The bull is the quiet one who just gets stuff done. Goat’s dragged into chicken’s antics, and acts like he hates that when really he loves chicken’s crazy schemes. Alpaca is the group’s conscience.
So what you mean is this:
omg this is perfect
I love this scene. Eliot’s hug is such a bro “off to work honey, see you at dinner” and he just does it automatically
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