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why does it feel like lou is the physical manifestation of your brain waiting to see what’s on the other side of a brennan monologue
You know, in all the posts I've seen about how great Leverage is (which are the posts that got me to watch the show!) there's one part of it that doesn't really come up. They take down the bad guys, and that's really cool, and the characters are incredible, and that's also really cool.
What gets me the most though? Is the jobs where they make things better.
The jobs where they do still take down the bad guys, give them their due, stop the harm. But they also make things better.
Sometimes it's small things, like the Tap Out Job where the guy they help gets to run the boxing club going forward, keep his people safe. The checks they sometimes give at the end of an episode, with a suggestion of what to use it for, fall into this theme.
Slightly bigger, you get things like the Underground Job where the mine will have proper safety equipment now and an owner who will keep it that way. Or the Blue Line Job, which comes with a show of solidarity between the guys that fight each other on the ice - but not when it could kill one of them. Not once they know. And now they'll make sure no one faces that risk again.
On a personal level, there's the Carnival Job, where a father ends up connecting with his daughter again by the end.
And then there's the episode that got me thinking about this.
The Gimme A K Street Job.
For once, they're doing a (mostly) legal job. And the end goal is simple: get laws into place so teenage girls won't get hurt from the lack of safety regulations.
And they do it.
And going forward, no more teenage girls are going to break their bones because they landed on a mat that doesn't give anything except the illusion of protection.
Leverage is different from the typical crime solving show because of the robin hood angle, sure. But it's also different because every now and then, they don't just catch the bad guy. Every now and then, they make things better.
noah wyle to john rogers coming off of 15 episodes of the pitt: sir, if you don't let me be so fucking funny in redemption season 3, i cannot be held responsible for my actions
Hey remember how leverage had one historical flashback episode with Parker and Hardison as the couple, and then another historical flashback episode with Parker and Eliot as the couple. Hey. Hey remember that.
watching the pitt with noah wyle as dr robby (the saddest and most anxious ridden man in all of pittsburgh) THEN watching leverage redemption with noah wyle as lawyer harry wilson (former evil lawyer but turned good guy, enthusiastic louisiana weird guy who occasionally wears funny costumes and pulls cons) is giving me serious whiplash
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Hector Barbossa & Elizabeth Swann (extended from this post: X)
#These two had such an impact on each other–in a weird way it’s Platonic!Hades and Persephone #where she learns to become a better king of the dark sea and dead men than he ever could and he comes to almost admire her for it. #Just… y'all have been sleeping on this relationship. #Elizabeth didn’t retain shit from Jack Sparrow–Will did. She learned from Barbossa. (via @theimpossiblescheme)
Hector Barbossa & Elizabeth Swann | Parallels & Developments
#These two had such an impact on each other–in a weird way it’s Platonic!Hades and Persephone #where she learns to become a better king of the dark sea and dead men than he ever could and he comes to almost admire her for it. #Just… y'all have been sleeping on this relationship. #Elizabeth didn’t retain shit from Jack Sparrow–Will did. She learned from Barbossa. (via @theimpossiblescheme)
THIS. Not only is Barbossa far more of a Proper (Cinematic) Pirate than Jack (with the outgrown Errol Flynn hair to prove it!), but he absolutely plays the role of Hades in Curse of the Black Pearl.
While Elizabeth first boards the Black Pearl (here functioning as both Hades’ chariot and Charon’s ferry) more or less voluntarily, Barbossa/Hades does indeed kidnap her and take her to the “land of the dead”—the Isla de Muerta. The Black Pearl also serves as a kind of limbo, holding men halfway between death and life. Much like Pluto of old, CotBP!Barbossa is strongly associated with both wealth and death, even more so than the other pirates. When they get to the “Underworld”, we see that the cursed crew members require a blood sacrifice to regain (permanent) corporeality, paralleling the shades Odysseus encounters who require blood to regain the ability to speak (Odyssey 11.24-50).
By the time At World’s End rolls around, Elizabeth has begun to catch up to Barbossa in terms of piracy and command. She visits another, more literal Underworld at Barbossa’s side; he knows the way, and she has more than learned from her previous experiences. It was Elizabeth thinking more piratically—thinking like Barbossa—that made the trip to the Locker necessary, after all.
In the end, she eclipses Barbossa in power and is crowned King, with her own beloved ferrying souls between worlds as she sails the seven seas. Like Persephone, Elizabeth straddles worlds and holds power in both, and it was Barbossa/Hades who first helped her get there.
(Anyway, this series owns my entire ass, follow for more irregularly scheduled Pirates content and hmu if you want a longer essay on how the Locker journey in AWE is a classical katabasis narrative with a sweet twist on Orpheus’ in particular. Also Barbossa quotes the Aeneid.)
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It's so important to me that the musical ends with "I love you." Because that's what it was all about, wasn't it? Epic is about the love Odysseus has for his wife and son and his desire to get back to them. And the Ithaca Saga goes, "It was always two sided. They love him too. Penelope has loved him this entire time, and no matter who he is now, she loves him. Epic begins and ends with their love." I adore it
now that the ithaca saga is out i'd like to just put it out there that, in the original text, after they reunite odysseus and penelope immediately run off to fuck - obviously (20 years at sea away from your wife call that the wettest dry spell mankind's ever seen). BUT while they're getting all hot and heavy, athena decides to put her owl motif to good use and wingman for odysseus by quite literally holding off the dawn until they're fully satisfied (od. 23.345-248). which is just. what a way to end off one of the greatest pieces of storytelling in human history