Leverage 401-404
Oct. 20th, 2013 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatOut of these 4 - The Long Way Down Job, The 10 Li'l Grifters Job, The 15 Minutes Job & The Van Gogh Job - I liked the first one best. I actually liked it so much so that I immediately listened to the audio commentary, which doesn't happen often. I usually watch the whole season first, then do the audio commentaries. But this one... Was really great. And the commentary was amazing!
In this episode, my favorite scenes were the Parker and Eliot ones, especially those where they were stuck in the cave together and Parker wanted to do the right thing. That was fantastic. And when they then had to leave the body behind and Eliot told her that it was good that it was them who had found the dead man because they were able and willing to do what was necessary for survival - they left the body there and saved themselves. As Eliot said, if it had been anyone else, and especially Hardison, they would have tried again and again to get the dead man to back to his wife - and they would've died trying.
This is the reason why I love Eliot and Parker best. They are willing to get their hands dirty. They are morally ambiguous and they know it. And they both hurt because of it which is why they understand each other so well that they can communicate without words. I loved what the exec. producer said about them: they are not a brother and a sister and they are not lovers, yet in some ways they are closer than any other two members of the team.
What hit me the most, though, was what the producer said about Eliot: everybody else does the right thing to redeem themselves - he doesn't. Eliot knows he's going to hell but along the way, he wants to help his friends. That really got to me. That and the fact that he's balancing out the rest of the team, he's there to deal with their problems and protect them, even at the cost of his own life. It's amazing, this insight the writers and producers have, how well they know their characters.
In this episode, my favorite scenes were the Parker and Eliot ones, especially those where they were stuck in the cave together and Parker wanted to do the right thing. That was fantastic. And when they then had to leave the body behind and Eliot told her that it was good that it was them who had found the dead man because they were able and willing to do what was necessary for survival - they left the body there and saved themselves. As Eliot said, if it had been anyone else, and especially Hardison, they would have tried again and again to get the dead man to back to his wife - and they would've died trying.
This is the reason why I love Eliot and Parker best. They are willing to get their hands dirty. They are morally ambiguous and they know it. And they both hurt because of it which is why they understand each other so well that they can communicate without words. I loved what the exec. producer said about them: they are not a brother and a sister and they are not lovers, yet in some ways they are closer than any other two members of the team.
What hit me the most, though, was what the producer said about Eliot: everybody else does the right thing to redeem themselves - he doesn't. Eliot knows he's going to hell but along the way, he wants to help his friends. That really got to me. That and the fact that he's balancing out the rest of the team, he's there to deal with their problems and protect them, even at the cost of his own life. It's amazing, this insight the writers and producers have, how well they know their characters.
