sometimes I talk about television (really!)

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The problem, I think, is that most of the television I've been watching lately isn't worth talking about. For a good part of the last year or so, that's exactly what I've needed--the more brainless, the better! I'm starting to miss good, thinky TV, though, and I suspect that soon enough I'll be tapping my fingers impatiently: where is my shiny, new

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In my personal canon, Cam is from North Carolina--partly a Browder thing, partly a Synecdochic thing, I think. But Janet is totally from Kentucky! Possibly because I sometimes have a little too much of a tendency toward self-insertion when it comes to Janet...

For Eliot, though, I think there's a pretty solid case to be made that he's from Kentucky, and if not there, somewhere quite nearby (like West Virginia or Tennessee, and probably not much further than that). But probably Kentucky. The accent and country singer stuff place him in the south, but only broadly so. But he has particular experience with horse racing (season 1) and coal mining (season 3--here it's less that he's done it before, I guess, but he definitely knows that world in a way that an outsider wouldn't). Cross horse racing with coal mining and you get Kentucky. It's to the point where I wouldn't be at all surprised if we got this confirmed, and I would be a little surprised and disappointed if it turned out he was from somewhere else. I'm just waiting for the episode where he and Hardison talk NCAA basketball!

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I'm just waiting for the episode where he and Hardison talk NCAA basketball!
Oh, I would LOVE that! I do agree with you that the character development has been lacking in S3, compared to 1&2. I desperately want the Nate/Sophie arc to progress more than it has. I do like it that they're taking it slow, and showing that they still have a lot of issues to work out, but it's too slow. I also desperately wish that we would see some growth in the Elliot/Hardison relationship, because the unrelenting arguing banter is starting to wear a bit thin. And get annoying.

One of the more frequent women writers (name escapes me at the moment) left this season, so I wonder if that's the cause. But many of the really good S1&2 eps were written by some combination of Devlin/Rogers/third guy (really bad with names today), so what's up with them, I wonder. I've also read that there were many N/S scenes that were written but never made it to screen.

I still love my show, though! I just hope the last 3 eps in Dec return to awesome!

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I haven't paid enough attention to Leverage that I know the writers and that sort of thing. I'm not sure what seems to have shifted in season 3, but maybe there is a specific cause like that. I'm still enjoying it immensely, but I do wish they were pushing just a little bit harder on the character stuff.

It seems, though, like the final arc, being arc-y (or at least it's supposed to be, right?), is likely to take heed of that sort of thing a little better than some of the stand-alones have done. I hope so, anyway!