Normalcy Is A Small Box

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ghostlyarchaeologist:

Leverage: Redemption S01E09 The Bucket Job.

violet-oriel:

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Why is this actually such a good summary of both of their teaching styles though?

Sophie came from an environment where street smarts saved your skin, you didn’t study; you did. I mean, you can’t exactly learn out of a book how to take a car hit or steal a painting. Over time, she gradually refined her techniques by running scams and stealing priceless artifacts until she became the best. That’s not to negate the loads of research she probably did to get as good as she is, but as we see in Tournament Job, a lot of the time she is able to con without much preparation at all.

So it makes sense when she’s teaching Parker, Hardison, Harry, Breanna, and even Maggie how to grift that she doesn’t actually grift on their behalf or by having them follow behind her when she plays a character. She gives them a few suggestions and lets them try it out for themselves. This also relates to non-grifting teaching as well, like when she’s teaching the crew about the nature of smuggled artifacts in The King George Job. She allows for each crew member to tell their observations about the statue of Ra before she details why that’s significant. With Sophie, you learn and you con by doing.

Eliot came from a sports and military background, where you receive a looooot of feedback, a lot of the time in insult or brutal honesty. Depending on the person, feedback combined with further training and repetition can lead to solid improvement. You best believe that Eliot has taken every piece of advice to heart so that he could be the best. He has cultivated his skills through many different facets, namely in black ops, retrieval assignments, and culinary school. We see evidence of the years of training and experience in every single episode. With Eliot, you learn and you con by honesty (ironically) and correction.

So again, it makes sense that Eliot’s the most brutally honest out of the whole crew and uses that to his advantage when teaching. Because he calls the crew out on their individual shit, it allows for them to assess dangerous or painful situations accurately and work together to evade or conquer. They improve because of his feedback. That’s not to say that Eliot is not an incredibly gifted teacher or that he doesn’t tune his feedback to who he’s teaching (I love how gentle he is with kids and Parker for example), but he doesn’t sugarcoat to spare people’s feelings. He wants them to succeed, but he’s not above knocking them out in the name of showing them proper technique to do so. We see this time and time again with his interactions with Hardison and Nate.

But what I do love is that both of them praise the crew ALL. THE. TIME. It starts as early as The Bank Shot Job where Sophie praises Parker’s baby grifter attempts and obviously Eliot boosts morale through the entire original show. This carries all the way through Redemption, they really can’t not hype their family up and it is so so fun to see. Especially considering that they probably didn’t receive much positive validation in the years that made them great.

danburys:

favorite breanna b-storyline is when she helps that woman save the frogs of one particular area. like, this is the woman who constantly worries she isn’t doing enough and that her activism isn’t enough and that she won’t be able to save the world in time, and then she meets this lady and she’s working so hard to prove that a secret military society is doing something to the local frog population and breanna uses her skills to help her save those frogs!

she enforces an actionable item, enacts change on a small scale and for breanna that’s so, so important to do. because, as sophie tells her, she helps one person and then the next and slowly those things add up. and one of the best ways to bring forth real change is to care really deeply about ONE very small thing and put all your resources behind that one issue.

i love it so much, the walk in the woods job, you are so dear to me.

notasouleater:

I love whenever Leverage has cold opens like. Here’s Johny Smith a hard-working American :) Look how sweet he is to his kids and wife who rely on him :)

Here is Johny going to work down a mineshaft, like ooh Johny I don’t think you’re making it

vargamornight:

one thing i love about leverage redemption is actually something that was (accidentally) foreshadowed in the white rabbit job: nate’s crew was clockwork, plans and backup plans. chaotic scenarios tend to throw them a bit, and when nate doesn’t have a plan, my god does shit hit the fan.

but sophie doesn’t work like that—she never has. she goes in with a loose idea of a plan, but her adaptability is her strength, so that’s how she runs her crew. the only reason the redemption crew gets away with flying by the seat of their pants every episode is because they’re them.

and i don’t just mean them individually. yes, she’s sophie devereaux, and she’s THE parker. he’s alec hardison. he’s eliot spencer. they are each the best in the entire world in their respective fields. their names strike awe and fear into the criminal underworld.

but they’re also them. they’re the crew. they’re the family they built themselves up to be. they work together so easily, know each other so well, that even when shit hits the fan, they adapt.

i mostly prefer the way the original leverage episodes are formatted, but redemption being different from the ground up is both necessary and an amazing way to showcase the crew’s growth and flexibility in a way og leverage couldn’t have

bodhiscurls:

love isn’t earned, it’s given. ( johnny storm )

where johnny storm also has bad days and needs your comfort even when he doesn’t know how to ask for it. cue comfort bath time as you wash away his worries and his bloody hair and remind him of all the reasons he’s deserving of love especially when he can’t find it in him to believe it.

human torch! johnny storm x fem! reader

themes: fluff, minor angst to comfort, mentions of insecurities- not feeling good enough etc. johnny needing a fat hug after a long day of being a superhero, lots of reassurance/ affirmations at bath time, nothing sexual just like cutely intimate.

masterlist. (queued!)

“you should go, i’m uh, i’m not much fun tonight, doll,” the voice rumbles, almost with defeat like it’s taken him the last of his energy to speak so much that he doesn’t even look up from you from his position.

he’s still in his fight suit, the white and blue branded onto his skin and you press your lips in a fine line, his gaze lowered into his lap somberly but he’d recognise the sound of your footsteps and heartbeat anywhere. a small groan leaves his lips as he drops his head into his hands, hoping to burden off some of this torturous weight but its only when you’ve abandoned your spot from the bedroom door and stand between his legs, fingers combing through the tangled and bloody knots of his usual blonde hair does he finally let himself fall.

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