This is a Leverage post

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So the wedding of doom is over and now all I really have the energy for is to sit here and watch leverage, which is kind of perfect because I love Leverage, so yay! I missed the first twelve minutes of the episode, because my daddy was watching the Yankees, but here is a play-by-play of my watching it?

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THESE EPISODES WERE SO GOOD!!!!

Omg, the violin solo was just...amazing. Although I was a little distracted by the fact that I couldn't tell if the bow was hitting the strings or not so I was wondering if it was some sort of con although later on I guess they make it clear that Hardison really was playing the violin (side note: which do you think Hardison was more upset by: Nate's hypnotizing him or Nate telling him that he couldn't push/challenge people and therefore couldn't run his own crew?). But their faces in the solo scene were just AWESOME. And although I thought the beginning was hilariously cheesy (which works because, hey, it's Leverage), I loved the classical accompaniment with that whole thing. The president's man was one of my very favoritest parts.

Also, I was kinda hoping to learn more about Hardison in that ep like we had learned more about Parker in the last episode. And I was half hoping we'd get that the real reason that Hardison quit violin was because he'd massively embarrassed himself as a kid because he'd gotten stage fright or something and I was hoping to at least see SOME sort of flashback.

You know, violin isn't really an instrument I'd associate with Aldis Hodge. I could see Tim Hutton or Gina Bellman playing violin, but I was surprised when I saw that interview on youtube that Aldis Hodge plays? dabbles? with violin? I wonder if the writers wrote this around the fact that he could play?

Also yes, these last two eps were AMAZING and way better than the first two, which were also excellent. The first two or three episodes of last season weren't as strong to me (last season actually lagged a lot for me) and I can see why people don't enjoy the premiere episodes as much as the midseason ones, partially because they've been separated and now the dynamic needs an episode or two to click again (although The Homecoming Job is my favoritest Leverage episode, followed closely by The Juror #6 Job and The Mile High Job).

But yes. Yay Leverage!