a straight line, an arrow

we make our choices and take what comes

[starsandaces24]

the beauty of early 2000s shows is that they just... stuck to the bit. You watch this show to see a neurodiverent man solve crime with his best friend, you will get that for 8 seasons. We said this show would be about an ex-spy and his employer who built an AI and the people they save. They will do it even when they admit in the show it makes no sense because that's what you signed up for. Leverage commited so much that they got a modern version that still does the same thing instead of being 6 episode seasons about one big con.

I miss "filler" episodes, but they aren't filler because that's what you signed up for! that's why you watch the show! to see them do the thing you started watching the show for!

[aardvaark]

average nate-centric leverage episode: grief & drinking & catholic guilt & maybe sterling is there also

average parker-centric episode: another incredibly traumatic piece of her backstory is revealed

average sophie-centric episode: oops she lied/manipulated/kept secrets too much & backed herself into a corner

average hardison-centric episode: hardison gets into a Situation TM

average eliot-centric episode: what if we made eliot a minor celebrity. again.

[thisisnotacreativeusername]

cozy game means fucking nothing. i saw someone call firewatch a cozy game. the game about child death. i saw someone say dredge was a cozy game thats secretly horror. theres nothing secret about the horror the main plot is about necromancy and the world ends. what the fuck are you talking about. is it bc the art style is nice to look at. oh im gonna watch my favorite chick flick the descent. what are you fucking talking about

[kyonite]

GODDDD Firewall (s1 finale) is actually so fucking funny when you know that the twist is Root putting a hit on herself. Her alias is caroline TURING. she does a whole fake therapy session with John,, at one point she's like wow mr paranoid man are you former military and he's like yeah, good guess!! girl,,,, she was just playing with her food.

She eats lunch (a bigass brownie, because she has the diet of a twelve year old) in the most open courtyard imaginable, makes John's hiding spot (you can see her glance right at him for a second) and then spends the rest of her lunch looking around all Nervous.

When they get to the hotel she's like "oh my god is this what panic feels like" and when John hands her some chocolate she's like "oh will this create an adrenaline response to level out the panic?" he just says. no. but it tastes good. (The Machine views Root as a yellow Primary Asset square as soon as they enter the hotel it's so funny)

She waits until the last possible second to hack the elevator for their escape, just to see what John and Finch do when put into a corner.

Her idea of furnishing a fake office is to put a picture of a dude from a medicine ad in a picture frame.

She runs down 20+ flights of stairs IN HEELS???

and then when John sends her down the tunnel to Harold she looks him straight in the eye and very earnestly says Thank You because she is polite!! even if her next action is to shoot a woman in the passenger seat of Harold's car.

SHE DESCRIBES PUTTING A HIT ON HERSELF AS A CORPORATE RETREAT TRUST FALL

she's so deeply unserious I'm obsessed with her

[leopardmuffinxo]

random firewatch scenery [1/?]

[cosmic-espero]

[chthonic-kids]

this person gets it

[blue-ravens]

there's episodes of tv, and then there's whatever person of interest season 4 episode 11 'if-then-else' had going on

[machineexmachina]

I think we aren't taking enough about how Raphael and Harvey have said that Emily Drexel Lela Kaldwin I was originally meant to be Daud's daughter, whom he raised as an assassin and to impersonate the real daughter of Jessamine, whom she had in secret out of wedlock and had to give up. So Emily would show up ten years later pretending to be that child

[machineexmachina]

I thought this was going to be a run-of-the-mill crime procedural with an interesting but underdeveloped AI side plot, but instead I found a gripping serialised thriller about the dangers of mass surveillance, the corruption of the government, and three of the best characters i have ever seen on tv

[machineexmachina]

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