YEAH, actually. I did not initially think it was that deep, butā¦
Seasons 1 & 2 he has very little reason to stop and think about what this all means in the big picture. He never feels like heās fully committed to it, and although heās certainly trying to do good, heās mostly just doing what FEELS good.
Season Three rolls around, heās made his decision, heās committed, 100%, which means he has to actually think about the reasoning and drive behind it. AND at the same time, he gets thrown into this Moreau thing, which, for the first time, really starts to drive home how none of these bad guys exist in a vacuum. Itās all interconnected, itās all systemic, and yeah, maybe that DOES mean the whole system is the problem.
So yeah, I think Moreau is the first domino. But I donāt think Nate has a whole plan here. Because he needs a second, much bigger domino: Latimer, explaining to him that Leverage is just a market control. This has always bothered me because Latimer is RIGHT and that isnāt directly addressed. But Nateās just not quite ready for it yet, because Season Four is a whole reassessing process, including the reassessment of āhmm something is very wrong with how iāve been doing things, maybe i should just kill people?ā So he kinda has to work through THAT before he gets to
Season Five: Yeah, what heās doing isnāt enough. AND maybe he isnāt the one who can fix it. Because even now that he can see what needs to be done, heās too mired in his own experiences ā heās still the Honest Man, here meaning heās the one whoās been an active and complacent participant in the system. So even knowing that itās wrong, he canāt fully visualize and commit to making it right. But he can set the stage for the ones who can.
And maybe the person who can do the most to fix it is the one who has very few preconceived notions about how the world is supposed to work. The person who has had to do the most work to learn for herself whatās right and wrong. The person who now cares very deeply about the things sheās learned through experience are right, and who doesnāt give a fuck if that lines up with the way things are āsupposedā to work.
They donāt need the honest man anymore. They need the thief.
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