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#reductress#memes#humor#leverage memes#parker memes#parker#the inside job#the boiler room job#the broken wing job#the rolling on the river job#the ho ho ho job#the rashomon job#the three days of the hunter job#the french connection job#the very big bird job#I think#mine#pls like + reblog I spent over two hours looking through the reductress website for these memes#leverage#leverage redemption#yes parker is the cat in that scenario
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The Rashomon Job is hands down the best episode and nobody can tell me otherwise.
Like, your gonna tell me all of these *professional criminals* can't recognize each other five years later? And each of their stories are somehow accurate to how they perceive each other- even without them noticing at first. I couldn't get over how Hardison, Nate, and Parker all have Eliot holding basically a sword to Hardison's throat. 🤣 Sophie and Nate's were the probably the most accurate.
The ending was so sweet too, because it's all a redo. Even though they had Sophie, Parker, and Hardison running to go steal it and leaving Eliot and Nate at the bar- the viewers still get the implication that they'll steal it as a team. Especially when you get that little amused smile/nod from Eliot and that confirmation from Nate.
Nate was practically telling Eliot- Go. Watch their backs. Then he went to because he didn't want to be left out.
Also- Parker's imitation of Sophie is how I think she processes everyone's voice. 😂🫣
#leverage#eliot spencer#nate ford#sophie devereaux#alec hardison#parker#what's funny is#they worked together#technically#without even knowing it#it was their audition#the rashomon job#the stories were all entertaining#parker had the best sophie imitation#hands down#hardison's evil laugh is 10/10#they were all gloating#but none of them actually stole it#and nate took care of eliot before they actually knew each other#season 3 episode 11
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poll winner for favourite season: Season 3
with such hits as: The King George Job, The Rashomon Job, The Inside Job, The Scheherazad Job, The San Lorenzo Job
Bonus for fun:
#leverageedit#leverage#sophie devereaux#alec hardison#parker#archie#eliot spencer#the italian#damien moreau#we steal it back for you#the san lorenzo job#the king george job#the scheherazad job#the inside job#the rashomon job#the big bang job#the studio job
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"The Rashomon Job" doodles
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One thing I find interesting about the rashomon job is that everyone starts off their story by establishing that they had the perfect plan. Clearly they had all put a lot of time and thought into it and they all had a lot of time in advance to plan their heist, except for Eliot. He had to pull his whole plan out of thin air in under 24 hours and it almost worked too! His plan was just as, if not more successful than everyone else's (except for maybe Parker's since she's the only one who actually got her hands on the dagger.) Idk I just think it's a great testament to his quick thinking and ability to improvise.
#leverage#Eliot Spencer#parker#alec hardison#Sophie Devereaux#Nate ford#the rashomon job#my sister and I were talking about how his acting skills are severely underappreciated and it got me thinking about this#like he had no time to prepare for this roll and yet here he is#pulling of a successful grift fooling Sophie a professional grifter#and everyone else around him#i mean sure he didn't really talk to anybody for very long but i still think it's pretty impressive for such a last minute thing
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If you can't: go to therapy
Try: rewatching The Rashomon Job
Hope this helps <3
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Leverage really showed us the man with world's most punchable face (and a voice and accent to match) and left it to the fanfic writers to give us Eliot knocking his lights out
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Rashomon job thoughts after a rewatch
I hope they recruited Coswell into Leverage international. Poor guy needs a break and a hug. Maybe he works with Hurley so he can get lots of hugs.
Hardison’s recollection is probably the most accurate, even if not as complete as Nate’s, including the Sophie/Eliot moment and the size of the knife Parker gave to Eliot, probably the ‘very distinctive smell’ too
Eliot had to fight goons sent after him for a month or so until the bad bad guy was finally taken down, so not a fun time
Parker stole something else from the museum on her way out since she dropped the dagger and she’s not going to leave without something shiny
She might have lifted it from Hardison, who stole something else from the vault after finding the dagger wasn’t there
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The rashomon job is the ember island players of leverage
#no i will not elaborate#i mean you don't need me to tho#the departure from the form#the peak comedy#the conflicting interpretations of events#the way it's arguably the best episode?#anyway i love them#leverage#the rashomon job#atla#the ember island players
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Somebody needs to stop me from coming up with new fic ideas before I finish my current projects. Because I had a really good idea for a Leverage OT3 soulmate AU with soulmate timers and a little Rashomon Job rewrite but I have so many things I'm already writing. Putting it out there so maybe I'll write it when I have time
#writing#mine#fanfic#fanfic writing#leverage#leverage ot3#eliot spencer#alec hardison#parker#the rashomon job
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The Rashomon job is so important because it showcases how important it is that the team is all together instead of working as individuals.
Because if you think about it, stealing a dagger, even a super important dagger, isn’t that hard of a job. They do much bigger and more important work now. But at that point in their careers, not a single one of them could pull it off.
Granted, they were all working against each other, which goes to show how good they really are... but they couldn’t complete the task on their own. If they had teamed up it would have been an easy job. If they hadn’t been working against each other it would have been easier. Even if just Parker and Sophie, or just Eliot and Hardison worked together, they might have been able to do it.
But they were all alone, so they didn’t get the job done. They need each other. They’re better for it. They really are.
#leverage#leverage tv#sophie devereaux#nathan ford#the rashomon job#thieves#parker#hardison#team feels
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no episode could ever top the comedic energy of the rashomon job
#I’m sorry but it’s true#leverage rewatch#I’m watching it rn and it just started and it’s already amazing#leverage#leverage season 3#the rashomon job
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The Rashomon Job
Where the "I don't even know what it is that you do." is completely ignored.
Because Hardison remembers some fake doctor with a knife to his throat. But don't worry though-
Nothing else matters.
#leverage#alec hardison#he might not know what eliot does#but when he met him five years ago as a fake doctor#he just allows eliot to hold a kitchen knife to his throat#nothing else matters though#so don't worry#the rashomon job
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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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the leverage crew going after an oil baron because they need a TEAM BUILDING EXERCISE at the end of the Rashomon Job is probably the funniest thing ive ever seen ngl
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Knowing that Eliot and Sophia (and the whole team) had met prior to the first episode of leverage really puts Eliot's reaction to seeing Sophie at her play into a whole new perspective.
That is the face of a fearful man. He's afraid Sophie will recognize him from that night in Boston and that she'll spill the beans to these people who he is supposed to do one job with and then never speak to again.
Eliot totally recognized her right away but decided not to mention it in the hopes that she wouldn't recognize him and that no one ever had to find out about that. If she didn't mention it then he certainly wasn't going to be the one to bring it up.
#leverage#eliot spencer#Sophie Devereaux#Parker#alec hardison#Nate Ford#the rashomon job#the Nigerian job
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