I'm skipping your post because I haven't seen the latest episode, but I just had to tell you that when I saw your tag "ranty pants", I totally thought it said "panty rants".
Well that's a relief. Now I don't feel a crushing urge to watch warehouse 13 so I can watch the Sean Maher/Jewel Staite episode. He's in a purple skin tight suit right?
You might want to watch it, anyway. I mean, he was pretty much perfect casting for the role -- someone who is believably badass, but very vulnerable, too. Also, he bakes stuff.
Everytime I watch W13, I think it has a lot of potential but it never lives up. And same with Leverage, really. I don't get how W13 is their top rated show because it's so lame as far as sci fi is concerned. I guess people want the mindless entertainment, because that's shat it is.
Re Leverage: I think Nate must have had some commuted sentence after (since the prison was so not on the up and up.)
As for the world's problems--I don't think all of them are going to be African or Middle Eastern, but that's just my thoughts on it. (My race!fail radar only goes off for serious shenanigans.)
The African one wasn't so bad, because I think they went out of their way to be careful there, & created a fictional country. It definitely pinged on my radar after the Iranian one, though.
Every single Iranian person in that episode is portrayed as evil/working for the government, or completely, utterly helpless and in need of saving. The "client" who brought the case to their attention was beaten up and victimized, and all his work didn't amount to a hill of beans. It ended up being completely superfluous. On top of that, making the designer of the "Manticore" software an American is also really shifty. I mean, the villain's attitude that only he can provide the updates the Manticore needs to keep running (and therefore can gouge the Iranian government for money) is supposed to be disgusting and smug. But that specific attitude that Americans are the ones with the most sophisticated technology and techniques pervades the entire episode, and has leaked into other episodes, too
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This is my major problem with Leverage now, too. It's really hard to care about it now. Mostly I just watch the episodes and try to figure out what the hell happened in the writers room between season 2 and 3.
If you are a shipper who watches the show & don't slash Artie/James, I am totally judging you right now.AHAHAHA, okay, I'm only a demi-shipper, so do I get judged or not? Seriously, though, I find it hard to think that they WEREN'T aiming for slash. I just...okay, I'm not a fan of people "reading" romance into EVERY DAMN THING, but I can't see how we're supposed to interpret Artie and MacPherson WITHOUT romance
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I'm only a demi-shipper, so do I get judged or not?
Hahaha, but it sounds like you ship it to me. ;)
They really need to get J Flan back. I mean, they purposefully left a wide channel for his character to reoccur. GET ON IT, GUYS!
The thing is that it's not just the storyline which is skeevy, the way its written is skeevy. Like you said, with much hand-waving and no consequences.
I've also been really unsatisfied with the backstory on Leena's character. I mean, it's obvious that they want her to be mysterious, but like... we don't even know what her job IS. Why does she have full access to the warehouse, but not ever go to obtain any of the stray artifacts?
Well, I have a complicated relationship with the word "ship." I can't really see myself writing any Artie/James, and I don't have too much interest in reading any, but it's basically canon for me. Does that count? LOL
Mmmm, I second the vote to bring back Joe. On every show. Ever. *dazed*
Plus, I love mystery and ambiguity as much as the next girl, but at this point in the show we have TWO characters whose main purpose is to be mysterious. Can't we get some answers about *one* of them, at least? And yes, why does she know things? Why have access? In the pilot, I thought she was just a BnB owner who was very observant and smart and put the pieces all together. But that's totally not what it is, so. I don't know.
I like the theory that she herself is an artifact, though that seems unlikely to become canon.
What you said. She is introduced as someone who runs a B&B, who is safe to talk about artifacts around, and who mayyyybe occasionally lent a hand around the place, but it seems like she is full-on working there now. (I'm guessing the role changed as they wanted to write more scenes for the character, but. It still needs to be adressed more explicitly in the show, because it is so inconsistent.)
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Which, how would one do that, anyway?
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You might want to watch it, anyway. I mean, he was pretty much perfect casting for the role -- someone who is believably badass, but very vulnerable, too. Also, he bakes stuff.
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Everytime I watch W13, I think it has a lot of potential but it never lives up. And same with Leverage, really. I don't get how W13 is their top rated show because it's so lame as far as sci fi is concerned. I guess people want the mindless entertainment, because that's shat it is.
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As for the world's problems--I don't think all of them are going to be African or Middle Eastern, but that's just my thoughts on it. (My race!fail radar only goes off for serious shenanigans.)
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Every single Iranian person in that episode is portrayed as evil/working for the government, or completely, utterly helpless and in need of saving. The "client" who brought the case to their attention was beaten up and victimized, and all his work didn't amount to a hill of beans. It ended up being completely superfluous. On top of that, making the designer of the "Manticore" software an American is also really shifty. I mean, the villain's attitude that only he can provide the updates the Manticore needs to keep running (and therefore can gouge the Iranian government for money) is supposed to be disgusting and smug. But that specific attitude that Americans are the ones with the most sophisticated technology and techniques pervades the entire episode, and has leaked into other episodes, too ( ... )
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This is my major problem with Leverage now, too. It's really hard to care about it now. Mostly I just watch the episodes and try to figure out what the hell happened in the writers room between season 2 and 3.
If you are a shipper who watches the show & don't slash Artie/James, I am totally judging you right now.AHAHAHA, okay, I'm only a demi-shipper, so do I get judged or not? Seriously, though, I find it hard to think that they WEREN'T aiming for slash. I just...okay, I'm not a fan of people "reading" romance into EVERY DAMN THING, but I can't see how we're supposed to interpret Artie and MacPherson WITHOUT romance ( ... )
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Hahaha, but it sounds like you ship it to me. ;)
They really need to get J Flan back. I mean, they purposefully left a wide channel for his character to reoccur. GET ON IT, GUYS!
The thing is that it's not just the storyline which is skeevy, the way its written is skeevy. Like you said, with much hand-waving and no consequences.
I've also been really unsatisfied with the backstory on Leena's character. I mean, it's obvious that they want her to be mysterious, but like... we don't even know what her job IS. Why does she have full access to the warehouse, but not ever go to obtain any of the stray artifacts?
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Mmmm, I second the vote to bring back Joe. On every show. Ever. *dazed*
Plus, I love mystery and ambiguity as much as the next girl, but at this point in the show we have TWO characters whose main purpose is to be mysterious. Can't we get some answers about *one* of them, at least? And yes, why does she know things? Why have access? In the pilot, I thought she was just a BnB owner who was very observant and smart and put the pieces all together. But that's totally not what it is, so. I don't know.
I like the theory that she herself is an artifact, though that seems unlikely to become canon.
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What you said. She is introduced as someone who runs a B&B, who is safe to talk about artifacts around, and who mayyyybe occasionally lent a hand around the place, but it seems like she is full-on working there now. (I'm guessing the role changed as they wanted to write more scenes for the character, but. It still needs to be adressed more explicitly in the show, because it is so inconsistent.)
There is fic of that.
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