#ff liveblogs leverage

[foxfireflamequeen]

I'm sorry but this liveblog is gonne be 90% me babbling about how hot Jack looks in his uniform

[foxfireflamequeen]

i really really really liked the Leverage series finale, especially since seasons 4 and 5 were incredibly boring compared to seasons 1 and 2 (3 was okay i guess), so i really didn’t expect the season 5 finale to be so good but it was, and Parker became the new Nate, and she’s my favorite so that was fantastic.

that aside, what? i mean what? there was zero buildup to this episode. i know they want to keep us in suspense but other than that one episode with like half a minute of Nate and Hardison talking about a secret they were keeping, there was literally nothing building up to this. they’ve had this problem since season 3 where they completely fail to properly use the rest of the season to build up the overarching season plot (which is funny because the whole overarching season plot really started happening in season 3; seasons 1 and 2 were building up to something but for the most part they were individual cases that were regardless fun to watch), but this season was particularly bad. zero plot development, i mean really? and while i absolutely loved that Parker became the new mastermind, there was also zero buildup to that. seasons 4 and 5 develop Parker’s character very well, but it was for emotional development. not planning, not running cons. the one being groomed to be the next mastermind was Hardison. yeah, he kept screwing up, but the point was that he kept learning. i think Parker could maybe make a better mastermind than Hardison because of what Nate said, but they gave her zero leadership roles over the course of the entire show so yeah, Nate said it, but we never saw it. and because they spent all that time building up Hardison for this role instead, it doesn’t make sense.

imagine if they’d actually built up to Parker learning to run cons, learning to work with the team’s strengths and weaknesses, working around plans that went wrong and reworking cons to fit, actually being taught to be a mastermind instead of the show going, surprise! you thought it would be Hardison but psych! it’s not! goddammit. so much wasted potential. the Leverage writers are better than writers of most shows i’ve watched. they’re excellent with character development and group development and okay with plot, but their storytelling is consistently pretty terrible. Parker taking over from Nate could have been fucking perfect if they’d just developed her specifically for the role!

Eliot was great. i have nothing bad to say about anything that happened with him. great character development, great use of him as a plot device, great development in relation to the final plot. Nate and Sophie were pretty okay too, though Nate stopped developing entirely halfway through season 4 and i don’t get why Sophie likes him at all. but Parker and Hardison really annoyed me, especially since Parker’s my favorite and Hardison’s a close second.

so. ugh. i’m really disappointed in the last two seasons of this show, and extremely disappointed in the lack of buildup to the post-Leverage team, and the lack of sense the ending made because of choices the writers made throughout the show, even though i really liked the final episode.

[foxfireflamequeen]

I can't believe Leverage made a canon The Office AU

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Yeah okay I got a new ship Eliot/Sterling hate-boner

[foxfireflamequeen]

"You crawled three miles THROUGH A SEWER to kill the head of Al-Qaeda in Yemen but the COFFEE is a problem"

[foxfireflamequeen]

Why is it so hard for me to ship people on this show so far the only ones I've got are past Eliot/Moreau and completely non-sexual and almost platonic Hardison/Parker

[foxfireflamequeen]

Sterling vs Nate used to be fun and now it isn't anymore so I'm moving to Eliot vs Sterling at least there's hatred there

[foxfireflamequeen]

They even dumbed down Sterling to make way for Nate's superiority