I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM.

[dsudis]

I just watched twenty episodes of Leverage in a single day but, much like Nate Ford, okay, I do not have a problem.

Well, okay, I do have a problem. The problem is that I have run out of episodes to watch and have to wait until Wednesday for more. THAT IS A PROBLEM.

Comments

[inmyriadbits]

ITA that Tara is not Sophie, not even close...but I might be okay if they both stuck around, once Sophie comes back. Because she's awesome in different ways than Sophie is awesome. She's not the mom, she's the cool aunt! :)

[dsudis]

Tara can come visit sometimes, after Sophie comes back! But the team is the team and I want the team. :)

[rubynye]

Awww, Tara.

But Sophie had reasons to leave, both Doylist and Watsonian, and her being away has an arc and stuff. If Tara were just supposed to be Sophie-but-Cuter (as if) I would throw things at the screen whenever she came on, but I don't think she or anyone thinks she is.

I saw a gif of what I think is intended to be Sophie's returrn, and lo for she was not forgot. There were huge hugs and gravity defyment.

[dsudis]

Yeah, I mean. Okay, Gina Bellman needed to go HAVE A BABY, FINE. :) And I do like that Sophie gets to have this whole season arc of personal stuff, getting the focus slightly off Nate And His Manpain (uh, until Sophie's going away turned into another facet of Nate's manpain. but everyone else misses her too!) and I get it.

And Tara's, you know, fine, if you have to have someone who isn't Sophie around.

I just want Sophie back. :)

[havocthecat]

I sometimes feel like there are five people in the entire fandom other than me who love Tara and Sophie both. I feel like it's pretty useless to resent Tara when Sophie's gone since Gina Bellman had to take maternity leave.

(And Gina will be back. For sure in third season. According to an interview she did, it'll be in a big way.)

[dsudis]

I don't resent Tara? Exactly?

Um, well, okay, I did spend a lot of time in her first couple of episodes saying DIE IN A FIRE, TARA but I got over it, mostly. She is cool! She is! Although I realized this morning that one thing that kind of frustrates me about Tara and keeps me from accepting her as part of the team is that we haven't seen the thing Tara totally fails at yet. She's too good to need a team, unlike the rest of them, so she doesn't take the team seriously, like the team does, and like I do. That's what I can't quite like about Tara.

But that said, yeah, I know Gina's coming back! And I can't wait!

[havocthecat]

Um. I guess I'm hearing that you you don't like her because she's too perfect? And that's sounding a lot like "I don't like her because she's too perfect and the PTB have made her into a Mary Sue" kind of stuff that people have been using for years as an excuse for, say, Sam Carter or Elizabeth from Pirates of the Caribbean, or Hermione Granger, or, for that matter, any number of other female characters

[1001cranes]

to completely butt in, I think I agree with what dsudis is saying, in that... WHY is Tara part of the team? She really doesn't have a compelling reason to be there, so for me she just grates. I don't really want in her in the merry little Leverage band because it seems like she's in it for a lark, she doesn't really give a damn about any of them -- Nate's drinking problem, to begin with, although HOW SICK AM I of Nate's mainpain, hur hur -- and I don't want my replacement Sophia/Mom character that way :/

[harriet_vane]

I miss Sophie, but I have come to enjoy Tara just because I don't have to sit through endless "will they/won't they" between her and Nate. That is my least favorite part of the show. Bring back Sophie, but ftlog leave out all the angst with Nate.

[dsudis]

Maybe Sophie will come back cured of her Thing for Nate! THAT COULD HAPPEN. I live in hope. Shipping the trio is much more fun anyway.

[blacksquirrel]

You speak the truth! Come back, Sophie!

[dsudis]

COME BACK SOON.