OK, so I hope you don't mind if I an absolute stranger friends you, but you are the ONLY person I've found while reading through Yuletide letters who has requested SOPHIE, who is my absolute and total favorite character in Leverage. I'm pondering meta after I finish my fifth or sixth rewatch of the series. But. SOPHIE. Whom I adore, but everyone who likes female characters seems to glom onto Parker. Whom I also adore, but not in the same way that I love Sophie.
SOPHIE. YES. Seriously I KNOW. Because I love Parker (hell I love everything about this show and everyone in it) but Sophie owns my soul and I do not understand the apparent lack of Sophie worship. She's been my very favourite since the pilot, hands down, no questions asked. I like that people love Parker, but you'd think the adoration would be a little more evenly distributed. (Needless to say, I would be all over that meta.) Anyway, yes. SOPHIE. *friends you back like whoa*
Oh, there's no argument that I love all the characters, but Sophie. Yes. I mean, everyone got a flashback in the pilot (which I loved), but Sophie's flashback is shooting Nate (and getting shot by him. And despite all that, Nate is clearly at least half in love with her, if not more (and I, personally, think it's more), and she's also the first person he turns to when he needs backup in the pilot. She's also the person who's on him about drinking the majority of the season.
People keep calling her the Team Mom, which frustrates me, because she is so much more than that. And the thing is, I think Sophie's confused by it, because this is probably the first time she's found a group of people she can be friends with (she clearly tells Parker things she's not telling anyone else, for example, and she listens to Eliot, even when they disagree with each other), and she can probably relax and be the most like herself since she started grifting. Which is, at least in part, what I think has really been getting to Sophie this season
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(It's so cool that you want to talk about Sophie! Prepare for rambling! *is a dork*)
'Team Mom' is kind of unavoidable when so many glomp Parker/Eliot/Hardison together as the kids. I know I've done it myself. Sophie's a lot more flexible than that, though (of COURSE she is). Like I love her relationship with Eliot. Weirdly they seem to be more on a level with each other than anyone else. When everyone is calling her in 'Ice Man Job', Parker and Hardison call her because they need help, Eliot calls her to complain. Hee. (And Nate calls to stutter inanely at her like a giant dork. Honestly, Nate, I don't even know.)
Sophie's place on the team, though, - it is an issue for her more than it is for the others. Unlike them, she has worked with other people before, but this time she lets herself get wrapped up in the 'family', she opens up, she trusts, she reveals secrets. When Chaos finds out (can't remember dude's name either, but Nate's evil counterpart) wants to bring Sophie into the job, he tracks her down and sends her a bomb (
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People keep calling her the Team Mom, which frustrates me, because she is so much more than that. And the thing is, I think Sophie's confused by it, because this is probably the first time she's found a group of people she can be friends with (she clearly tells Parker things she's not telling anyone else, for example, and she listens to Eliot, even when they disagree with each other), and she can probably relax and be the most like herself since she started grifting. Which is, at least in part, what I think has really been getting to Sophie this season ( ... )
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'Team Mom' is kind of unavoidable when so many glomp Parker/Eliot/Hardison together as the kids. I know I've done it myself. Sophie's a lot more flexible than that, though (of COURSE she is). Like I love her relationship with Eliot. Weirdly they seem to be more on a level with each other than anyone else. When everyone is calling her in 'Ice Man Job', Parker and Hardison call her because they need help, Eliot calls her to complain. Hee. (And Nate calls to stutter inanely at her like a giant dork. Honestly, Nate, I don't even know.)
Sophie's place on the team, though, - it is an issue for her more than it is for the others. Unlike them, she has worked with other people before, but this time she lets herself get wrapped up in the 'family', she opens up, she trusts, she reveals secrets. When Chaos finds out (can't remember dude's name either, but Nate's evil counterpart) wants to bring Sophie into the job, he tracks her down and sends her a bomb ( ( ... )
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