I was watching the commentaries for season 2 of Leverage when I realized that not everyone watches them for the same reason.

I sometimes hunt down and read interviews with actors.  I was wondering why I do this when I hate remembering an actor's name while I'm watching them play a character.  Associating that face with a real person messes with the ( Read more... )

Leverage fandom, hypnosis is not brain rape.  Neither is suggestion.  Granted, neuro-linguistic programming doesn't really seem like a nice thing to try out on your friends, but it's still not brain rape.  Apparently, it's planting a suggestion in such a way as to make someone think it was their own idea.  Not that big a deal when the suggestion is ( Read more... )

Spoilers for a future episode of Leverage ahead.  I don't know if ANYONE on my f-list (besides Aub, who's never on LJ) watches this show, but I have to get this off my chest.  Keep in mind that this is just venting my terror, not predicting what will happen.  None of this is meant to be taken particularly seriously, and mild annoyance at some news ( Read more... )

The first two or three minutes of season one, episode one of TNT’s Leverage introduces us to an alcoholic who used to be an investigator for a massive company that insures art.  Used to, because as soon as his son took ill they refused to cover a treatment that could have cured him.  Now he is childless, divorced, unemployed, and utterly without ( Read more... )