charlieblue: (lev: elevators never had so much UST)
Something like a crossroads song ([personal profile] charlieblue) wrote2009-04-03 01:55 am

Leverage, hot damn.

So I have just discovered this show, you might have heard of it? Something to do with criminals, perchance?



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Look at this fucking team. Sweet mother of fuck just look at these GQ motherfuckers right here. Goddamn.


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Oh show, where have you been all my life? You burst in here with your explosions and witty repartee, with your criminals who enjoy being modern-day robin hoods but more often than not like the payback and money better. You with your characters who liberate Croatia in their free time, stab high society gentlemen with forks and pretend to be royalty for the giant novelty checks. You with your fucked up little family with insane chemistry that has me shipping het, gen, slash, femslash, OTP, OT3 and OT5 every which way and so fast I spin with glee. You with your actually competent, highly skilled, deeply flawed, brilliant, brilliant creations. You with your thieving, heisting, base-jumping ways.

How do I love thee so after four random episodes? Let me not count the ways, for I would surely fail miserably at explaining the utter delight that you are.


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So here, have some quotes instead:



Dean Devlin (Executive Producer): I said that the problem is the trend now, the style in television is to be very dark, kind of cold and procedural. While that makes for very compelling television it wasn’t something I was really interested in doing. He said “Well, what kind of show would you want to do?” and I said something more like a throwback to Mission Impossible or The Rockford Files. A mainstream, fun show the whole family can watch that isn’t being dumbed down. He said do you have any ideas? I said I’ve always wanted to do a show about high tech thieves who become modern day Robin Hoods. And he went “Sold!”

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Nathan: "We're going to the burn scam."
Hardison: "Going to plan B."
Nathan: "Technically that would be plan G."
Hardison: "How many plans to we have? Is there like a plan M?"
Nathan: "Yeah.. Hardison dies on plan M."
Eliot: "I like plan M."

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Parker: "My money is not in my account. That makes my cry inside.. in my special angry place."

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Nate: “Sophie, where are we at?
Sophie: “Huh? I don’t know, Nate. I think you need to ask yourself that question. You called me, remember? And now we’re working together every day. I don’t know what you want. And to ask me that dressed like a Vicar. You’re a very strange man.
Nate: “No, no, no. I meant where are we at with finding the money.”

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Maid of Honor: “You don’t think it makes me look fat?
Parker: “Oh definitely. I mean, why do you think I’m letting out the waist? To make you look less skinny?

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Hardison: “I just threw up in my mouth a little. I am a professional criminal, and I find that disturbing.”

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Nate: “We’re both addicts.”
Sophie: “We’re all addicts. One way or another, we’re all addicted to our past.”

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Dean Devlin (Executive Producer): I’m so sick of this 1980’s version of the computer geek with the pocket protector and the broken glasses with the band-aid. In our modern day world the computer guy is the coolest guy in the room. That’s where the line comes from in the show, “We run the world.”

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Hardison: “I had to retask 2 satellites just to get a lousy internet connection. Took more than an hour to torrent the last episode of Doctor Who.”
Parker: “Hey, illegal downloadingis wrong.”

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In conclusion, team.

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If you are not watching Leverage, start immediately, and if you are, do tell, that we might revel in fannish glee.
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[identity profile] halcyon-shift.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm watching! And ficcing, and vidding *facepalm* *draws hearts around everyone*
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/

Oh my god, how are they all so awesome? *draws even bigger hearts around yours*
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[identity profile] nextian.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
hahaha YUSSS. If it makes it to Hulu, I will mainline that bastard. I love this show. Have you seen the author blog? It's just ... it's smart! And not condescending! And feminist! And nerdy! And he wrote Blue Beetle! And like -- LEVERAGE.

I might be slightly biased since I plan to be Mrs. Alec Hardison one day, but damn.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think there's a single person, male or female, who could watch this show and not want to be Mrs. Alec Hardison some day. :D

But yes! So smart! I could die from the sheer glee this fact alone brings me, let alone all the other many and varied shades of awesome the show brings.
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[identity profile] lizfu.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to sound like the ass out of the bunch, but what's this show called? You didn't mention it's title, I don't think...
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, sorry - it's in the subject line, but I should have made it more clear. :P

It's called Leverage.

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
*fingers twitch* DO I WATCH IT OR DO I...
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
WAAAAAAATCH. YOUR PIMP COMMANDS YOU!

[identity profile] tearful-eye.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY!!!1! leverage makes life more livable :P so GOOD!

[livejournal.com profile] halcyon_shift's vid (http://community.livejournal.com/vidding/1781627.html) made me watch this show & it's so awesome, *happy sigh* although the season's much too short! (i need mooore)
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I am lucky, and yet not, for I haven't been able to get my hands on all the episodes as of yet. It is a bittersweet joy. ;)

[identity profile] bessemerprocess.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Having seen the entire season, all I can say is that it makes me happy. Which considering everything else I watch is tragic and thinky, is no small thing. I loves it. Especially Haridson... and Parker.... nope, I love all of them.

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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, me too! Every time I'm sure I finally have a favourite, Sophie gets wacked with a handbag and maintains supreme bitchiness, or Parker stabs a man with a fork or Nate shows mad acting skills as an insane director, or Eliot kills a man with lemons, or Hardisan just comes on screen.

Oh god. I'm totally gone.

[identity profile] espreite.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, random person here to say thank you for mentioning this show! I hadn't heard of it before, but it is AWESOME!

...is illegal downloading still wrong if I use it to download Leverage? :P
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
*waves* Hmmm. I think so, but I'm sure Hardison would totally approve. ;)

[identity profile] daydreamer64.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh crap. I just saw some of the promo clips and all I have to say is DO WANT. DO WANT.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
YES. YES YOU DO.

[identity profile] dodger-winslow.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The whole show is the definition of fucking awesome. Who knew Aldis had so much charisma? SPN sure missed the boat on that one.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, my brain just exploded with the image of Hardisan tapping away on his laptop in the back of the Impala, grumbling about werewolf blood on his new plasma screen, while the boys roll their eyes at each other and think about how they shoulda just killed the guy off rather than rescuing him from demonic influence. BRB.

[identity profile] dodger-winslow.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you SO need to write that. Seriously.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Oh boy. I really might. D:

[identity profile] trillianastra.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
many of the reasons I LOVE this show can be summed up by

PARKER

but the other stuff you said applies too, and oh god I seriously, seriously need Nate and Sophie to get together. Seriously.

[identity profile] everysecondtues.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, oh my God. I started watching this and flailed all over it and started scheming how to lure you and several other writers into this fandom . . . after you made this post. Somehow I missed this, but [livejournal.com profile] liviapenn's talk of it and Psych at the same time lured me immediately in. I feel kind of faily now, but hey! An awesome promo post to link people to.

(Meanwhile, I had wandered over because I was sure I saw you mention getting a DW account, and I'm attempting to track yours down for adding/subscribing.)
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Don't feel faily! YOU HAVE NO CAUSE TO EVER FEEL FAILY AGAIN IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. This is what being a fan of Leverage means. :D

(Meanwhile, I had wandered over because I was sure I saw you mention getting a DW account, and I'm attempting to track yours down for adding/subscribing.)

Ah, that's because I am puttering around trying to figure out whether I want to use charlieblue or some new name. Oh god! I have never been in something so early, and the choices are mindbogglingly vast. *runs in a circle*