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theinfinitedivides · 2 months

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'somebody kiss this man so i don't have to' ykw what we call that in this house. we call those some famous last f*cking words, Eliot Spencer sir

#tv: leverage #leverage #leverage s1 #the nigerian job #local gay watches Leverage (or their first American series in f*cking years and gets a shiny new OT3 to show for it).txt #so i did it. i gave up and started the show but who the f*ck cares really we all know the polyship did me in #also bby!Aldis. bby!Aldis did me in my love for that man even in his fetus era knows no bounds #foaming at the mouth over this i cannot wait to see all of the OT3 shenanigans with the token straights overseeing sh*t sksksksk #it's the age of the f*cking geek babe!!!!!!!!

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cressida-jayoungr · 6 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: Black Redux

Leverage (s1e12, "The First David Job") / Gina Bellman as Sophie Devereaux as Portia del Duccio

I think this is one of Sophie's best looks in the whole series. She's posing as an Italian museum curator at a fancy party for patrons of the arts. The off-the-shoulder gown is sleek and sophisticated, with a hidden fullness to the skirt that helps it "tulip" out when she walks. The froufrou on the shoulder gives it just a touch of quirkiness without losing the high-fashion aura, and also mirrors the loose side-twist of her hair. For accessories, she has a multi-strand gold bracelet and a colorful clutch purse. Magnifico!

#leverage #black dresses #gina bellman #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #television costumes #tv costumes #leverage tv #2000s style #2000s fashion #leverage season 1 #leverage s1 #the first david job #black dress #sophie devereaux #off the shoulder #black redux

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coffeenonsense · 2 years

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top tier leverage dynamic is nate trying to teach the rest of the crew morals even though his own moral compass is a jeopardy wheel so even though he constantly lectures them on bad behavior it comes with a huge moral caveat of "but remember anything is okay so long as it fucks with rich people"

#nate ford #leverage #i'm rewatching this show and it's so funny seeing like s1 nate trying to pretend he has more moral character than the rest of the crew #mr. 'i manipulated my dad's killer of a cliff' get real lmao #sophie devereaux #parker #alec hardison #eliot spencer #this is valid to be clear #he is not wrong

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wall-e-gorl · 7 months

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"Oh I didn't kill you. God killed you. I just- made sure it took" <- most badass nate line in the whole show

#echos the line he had in the miracle job too #something about god saving the church or whatever it was a s1 ep and im into s4 now idr #leverage

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cloysterbell · 1 year

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#leverage #leverageedit #leverage redemption #leverage redemption spoilers #eliot spencer #harry wilson #mine:photoset #he did this with sophie in s1 too and it's very important to me every time #harry listens and learns and that's why he's my best friend #also i did make these gifs at the office on my work computer so @ IT if you're monitoring my laptop what's up how y'all doing

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leverage-ot3 · 1 year

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you ever think about how harry was legitimately kidnapped by a strange group of thieves and then he just... stayed??? he was kidnapped by CRIMINALS and just sat there and decided, I think I find crime fun and I want a found family and just DECIDED TO ROLL WITH IT AND STAYED WITH THEM??? A GROUP OF STRANGERS THAT ROUTINELY BREAK THE LAW FOR FUN???

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gammija · 17 days

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the target here is most likely Klaus, imo. Klaus is a name Gwen is familiar with, so it's one she could reasonably 'work out', and we already know Lena (or whatever she's working for) wanted him dead in the first place

#plus it removes some leverage she had over her #i assume the Guys In Charge don't listen to every case that comes by #Gerard is too random a name to come up with. Alice is p random too #but gwen would also notice that something happened to her before the case came through #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp s1 #tmagp theory #gwendolyn bouchard

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claudia-kishi · 2 years

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Hey.

#leverage redemption #leverage: redemption #leverageredemptionedit #l:redit #l:r s1 #rjs*: new #the great train job #eliot spencer #harry wilson #lskdfjalsdjf harry....i

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ghostlyarchaeologist · 8 months

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Leverage S03E11 The Rashomon Job.

#leverage #parker #alec hardison #sophie devereaux #eliot spencer #nate ford #it's a found family your honour #s1 nate: i'm not a criminal!#s3 nate: hey wait for me!#GROWTH!#the family that steals together stays together #ghostly'sgifs

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littled0lls · 5 months

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That was so ��💖💓❤️

#almost done with s1 !!#sophie devereaux #parker #leverage

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darkfinch · 2 years

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ok but what is YOUR favourite eliot fight. which eliot fight did they choreograph for YOU specifically

#i THOUGHT my fave was the plane fight from s1 but ive now watched approx 10 mins of eliot spencer fight footage #just back 2 back 2 back punches #and i have no idea what the bangers are. my brain is so full of punching #finchtalks #leverage

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theinfinitedivides · 2 months

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Eliot losing his sh*t when Hardison drops the slushie on the floor of the front passenger seat only to shut up when they spot the mark coming out of the club the two of you are married. this is beyond workplace entanglement you have three stepkids atp and several backup offshore accounts with like a dozen different identities attached to those so you can ride off into the f*cking sunset if need be. and no as much as you are threatening to kill him for the violation of your car space you wouldn't do a damn thing let's be real

#tv: leverage #leverage #leverage s1 #the 12 step job #local gay watches Leverage (or their first American series in f*cking years and gets a shiny new OT3 to show for it).txt #rip to that floor mat tho. that sh*t was in an ungodly color of blue + Hardison was wearing semi-white sneakers i don't think #that's getting out any time soon sorry

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cressida-jayoungr · 11 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

Leverage (s1e7, "The Wedding Job") / Beth Riesgraf as Parker, plus Lindsay Halladay as Maid of Honor

I really have to hand it to the Leverage costume team--they are positive geniuses at coming up with a truly terrible costume when the situation calls for it (here's another fine example of their work). This bridesmaid dress would be bad enough if it had just been overly ruched, shiny, and pink--but whoever decided to sprinkle it with blue roses deserves an Emmy. And just when you think it can't get worse, there are the gloves! Which appear to have some sort of frilly garter holding them on, because you can see in one picture that Parker is starting to pull the glove off, but there's still a band further up her forearm. Add blue open-toed shoes and a silly little tiara for the crowning (pun intended) touch.

The dress zips up the back and then a panel snaps over the fastening to hide it. I've included a shot of the back fastening for reference.

Also, for comparison and to prove that the dress really looks good on no one, here it is on Lindsay Halliday as the Maid of Honor from the same episode:

#leverage #wedding costumes #beth riesgraf #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #television costumes #tv costumes #2000s style #2000s fashion #the wedding job #leverage s1 #leverage season 1 #bridesmaid costume #bridesmaid dress #lindsay halladay #parker the thief #so bad it's good

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bloodonhissocks · 2 years

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Rewatching The 12 Step Job (1x10), I noticed a scene that I've glossed over many times before. When Hardison activates the bomb under the car by sitting in the seat, he naturally panics as Eliot assesses the situation. Hardison comes up with the idea of a bag of bricks to which Eliot says, "That only works in the movies."

The rest of the scene unfolds sort of in a comedic way, though I don't know if that's because I've seen it so many times and know that they obviously don't die. Hardison has clearly never been in such an extreme near-death situation (not yet at least) and is unfamiliar with the pressure and fear, so he starts rambling and insisting on the bag of bricks because he's panicking. On the other hand, Eliot is more calm and able to deal with the situation because, we can assume, he lives in constant high-stakes situations. He figures out that the bomb is a computer bomb.

Gosh I have so much to say about this scene haha, so I'm gonna start with the way that Hardison's and Eliot's characters are simultaneously both in a situation that is foreign yet familiar. There's a better phrase for it, but I can't think of it. Eliot is used to being close to death but is clueless about computers. Hardison works with computers, but since he's the one trapped by the bomb, he's forced to reboot it indirectly and under enormous pressure. As a result, they have to trust each other.

I think I never noticed this dynamic because I was distracted by the layer of comedy. Hardison tells Eliot that the margin of error is half a second to which Eliot responds, "Run the bag of bricks by me again." We know Eliot knows that the bag of bricks will not work, but he's so out of his depth that he circles back to an impossible idea. I can't articulate why exactly that's comedic because I haven't studied comedy, but I always thought his remark was funny along with other remarks such as Hardison saying "I'm gonna die" because he knows Eliot is out of his depth.

Right before Eliot yanks the wires, we get a close-up shot of his hand shaking and that is such an important detail to highlight. When was the last time Eliot was that afraid? He's so used to being able to take care of himself and handle things on his own, and now he's in a situation where he has to completely trust someone else with his own life. I can't even imagine how he was feeling in that moment. This speaks volumes about how much of a bond he and Hardison have at that point in season 1 and I will never shut up about how much of a family they've become in such a short (I'm assuming since it's still within season 1) period of time. Eliot could've dipped and left Hardison to die, but no, he would never have done that. I would like to think that running didn't even cross Eliot's mind.

They survive, of course, and the comedy returns for a third and final time when Hardison asks Eliot for an uncertain confirmation of whether Eliot would've dragged him under the truck as well and Eliot says, "Sure." Eliot will trust Hardison with his life but won't openly admit that, of course, he would save Hardison 🥴 FKSDHFKDSHKFSDL I just remembered that this was also the episode where Hardison pretended that he and Eliot were together so that that could both "visit" at the rehab center. That just makes everything so much better.

Anyways, I love that scene between those two. It also highlighted Eliot's jock archetype without all the bad stuff. We've had Eliot "camera was too far to punch so I threw a rock at it" Spencer who is the same exact person as Eliot "hopelessly clueless about computers and doesn't know what to do because he can't just punch it" Spencer and I am so here for that duality.

#I love them so much #their dynamic is just so beautiful and rich #actions speak louder than words #what did we do to deserve this bromance #it's already this good and it's only s1 #leverage #the 12 step job #1x10 #eliot spencer #alec hardison #mkwg4271

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wall-e-gorl · 7 months

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Favourite episode of leverage?

I have thought about this so much you have no idea. Bankshot Job.

It has everything. Job in a job, early example of the ot3 working together, great Nate/Sophie episode, "sometimes the bad guys are the only good guys you get", sets up the fbi aliases + mcsweetheart and whats-his-face reoccurring thing, eliot beats up some meth heads (and says "we'd be the calvary" which gets references SEASONS later in the San Lorenzo job), Nate even gets shot! It's got everything!!

#thanks for the ask!#its a early s1 episode and its just so effective at what it sets out to do #might as well tag it #leverage #the bank shot job

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unloneliest · 2 years

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hello leverage fandom. i’d like to post thoughts about eliot spencer, but i’ve spent Some Years thinking about the show without being in the right space to post, so there’s a lot of prerequisites to the current eliot meta rumbling around in my brain (mostly having to do with my analytical framework for the show as a whole) that i’ll need to get out there first.

since there’s no way everyone’s operating from the same set of assumptions as me, i’d like to at least be able to point people who’re confused by what i’m saying in the direction of posts that outline where i’m coming from.

here’s the inroad to the tangle of thoughts i’ve been having: nate ford is not a reliable narrator, and the show’s a lot more interesting when you account for that.

we’re all familiar with the ghostfacers effect, right? within the text of supernatural it’s canonized that there’s a discrepancy between the lived experiences of the characters and what we see onscreen. we’re seeing the shadows cast upon a wall, and interpreting what casts those shadows is up to the viewer. and it’s in the interpreting, in the space left behind by that discrepancy, where fandom flourishes.

leverage is not supernatural. that could be an essay in and of itself, but i’ll leave it at this: supernatural’s contempt for its own fans is distasteful at best and leverage feels like a love letter to fandom. this is not entirely on topic, though not entirely off topic, and i’ll now get back to the point by starting at a different one entirely.

for a long time i blamed every gripe i have with leverage on the fact that nate ford is the perspective character, though this was done in jest. i do not like him. my dislike of nate ford is entirely genuine, but also a genuine part of my enjoyment of the show. complaining done right is fun, being a hater is fun, and i’m not going to be an asshole online to people who like him. there’s no downside to any of this.

at some point, however, scapegoating nate shifted for me from a hyperbolic joke to an interesting way of analyzing the show, and i know what initiated that shift: revisiting the rashomon job.

again: leverage is not supernatural. there’s nothing as extreme as the ghostfacer effect going on here. but the rashomon job textualizes both that a) the show is from nate’s perspective and that b) he’s far from an objective narrator.

we see from the rest of the team’s perspective for the first time as they each recount their version of the night’s events; that’s what textualizes nate’s point of view as what we’re used to.

what textualizes his unreliability is his depiction of coswell. he paints the man as bumbling, incompetant, and smitten with sophie—while the rest of the team saw him as a reasonably competent adversary. nate may have had access to more facts about what happened to the dagger, but that doesn’t make him impartial or the most right about what happened that night. the truth of things is likely somewhere between all 5 recollections.

some difference in memory is understandable without jumping to the conclusion that nate is exaggerating. for thieves, any head of security is someone to be wary of, no matter how competent or incompetent. and nate was not a thief at the time—he was someone whose job was frequently made more difficult when he had to work with others, including heads of security like coswell.

it would be strange if there was no variation between the team's recollections and nate's. but ultimately, nate seems as objective about the gallery’s head of security as the rest of the team was when teasing sophie about her accent.

so why would he emphasize such an incompetant portrayal of coswell? because earlier in the episode, sophie said that coswell could be smarter than nate is—and nate's ego couldn't let that go. diminishing coswell's capability serves to both remove coswell as competition and re-affirm nate's expertise in his role. i also think he characterized coswell the way he did to flirt with sophie—similarly to sophie flirting with nate by having him help with her dress's zipper in the flashback.

why talk about this?

because as i said earlier: the fun lives in a story’s negative spaces. and because nate’s unreliability as a narrator is something i’ve never seen discussed in this fandom. nate is very convinced that he’s an objective, outside authority. and the show is from his perspective; it’s very easy to roll with this supposition. but understanding him as an unreliable narrator opens the door to a much richer universe of analysis, and i'd love for people to join me here.

(if you’d like me to tag you in meta posts i make, let me know & i’ll do so)

#leverage #leverage meta #nate ford #the rashomon job #leverage posting #jam posts #l101 #related thoughts i have to this:#parker as the main character #the team in general lying in s1 #eliot performing masculinity around nate #follow up to my post a bout the inside job + the long goodbye job #this one will wait til i finish my s3 rewatch but #my thoughts on the rashomon job + the big bang job 🔪

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