Leverage 3.08 blow by blow

[havenward]

I really love the teasers for this ep. Not just because I've been looking forward to this since the cast and guest star were tweeting about it, though that's certainly true. No no. I love the teasers because my cable listings (among others across the country) said that there was a Memphis Beat re-run instead of, y'know, the new Leverage. Of course

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[havenward]

I've got this really love hate relationship with Nate... and most of the hate comes through the filter of Nate/Sophie. I like Sophie as the ultra-grifter. I like when she's being "mom". I don't like when she nags Nate, because it always seems premature and like an over-reaction. That whole "I'm the only one that likes you" thing? Oi. The thing about Sophie "having to explain" is that she was playing mom -- imo from the way Nate was already acting, he wasn't half as pissed about the situation as Hardison and Eliot were in the car. We'll never know if he would have done the same thing for Parker in the end on his own, because we're forced through this Sophie/Nate scope where she's assuming he's a completed and utter bastard.

Nate is a bastard, don't get me wrong. But Nate was always a bastard. He needs to be... you can't run a team of conmen and thieves against some of the biggest bastards in the world (and this season, apparently, the most dangerous) and not be. The lesson we were supposed to take away from the end of Scherazade Job (imo anyway) was that the reason he can get them to do their utter best when they think they can't is because he's disconnected enough from them (in an almost sociopathic sense) to be able to think of them as tools when he needs to. But then you turn that around in Double Blind Job -- he's right there with them, and if they get fucked, it's not that he walks away. It's the most twisted, fucked up way you can think about caring about people... But he really does care about the team.

Which is to say, I agree with you, but not in the way most people would agree with you. I want to see more of the spontaneous caring, rather than Sophie interfering, or else I want the writers to prove he's really that much of a dick without Sophie's intervention.

... I'm gonna stop babbling now. This is what I get for commenting when I first wake up > >

PS: Yes, do give Ghostbusters another shot. I can see how that situation would totally screw you over for enjoying the movie at all...

[shadowc44]

I get what you're saying. The Nate/Sophie dynamic doesn't do a thing for me. When she's playing Mom for the team, it's cute, but I never liked this semi-romantic thing she and Nate had going from the beginning. I just don't care for them together.