don't be dull, be fannish

204 The Fairy Godparents Job: Loved Parker being... not empathic at all and her giggle whenever someone mentioned being allergic to strawberries. Loved Nathan's outfit. Loved Sophie in pigtails. Loved Hardison doing Parker's job and Parker coaching him. Loved Eliot's disinterest in Hardison's gadgets.

In the commentary, I loved Jonathan Frakes' comments. The way they praised Aldis Hodge. Them talking about Gina's pregnancy, how they filmed around it. The comments about Chris Kane being great with children, how the kids love him... Love the commentaries!

202 The Tap-Out Job: What a lovely Eliot episode - Christian Kane was awesome in it. I loved Eliot's chats with Sophie, they're great together. And once again, Eliot was "in danger" - hehe, just once I would love for the danger to be real, not staged to get the bad guys. Loved that Eliot's been teaching Parker how to fight, that's a real big bro thing to do. The scene where Parker put Hardison in a choke-hold was so funny! And the fact that Nate didn't react at all to what the kids were doing behind the couch was so, so hilarious!

In the commentary, I loved that they praised Christian for being such an accomplished actor and for doing his own stunts. And it's cute that the writers/directors/execs themselves are calling Parker, Hardison and Eliot "The Kids" whereas Nate and Sophie are considered "The Parents" :P

I decided to marathon Leverage S2 on DVD! First I watch the ep, then I watch it again with the audio commentary. Dean Devlin and the others - writers and directors - are so funny!

201 The Beantown Bailout Job: I loved how the team invaded Nate's home - and how he wanted them out, out, OUT and they just didn't listen to him. Sophie and The Sounds of Music. Parker and Hardison, Sophie and Eliot - that was so cute. Eliot making fun of Parker in that nun outfit! The orange juice in the fridge. And Hardison bought the building! Oh, and I loved the scene where Sophie "killed" Eliot, that looked so real - Christian Kane was awesome there!

I love the team so much. They clicked so fast this season, like right away!

Day 19 - Best TV show cast:

Well, I would say SGA but that would be cheating, I've used the SGA card too many times already so... something else... WhiCo! Ugh, I used that too many times too...

Leverage, that's one I haven't mentioned yet! Awesome cast! So funny. And I hope that now that Gina Bellman's back, the show will get back on track again. Oh, don't get me wrong, I love Jerri Ryan - I've loved her since Seven of Nine! - but the original cast clicked perfectly, they played off each other so well when Gina had to drop out for some time because of her pregnancy and let Jerri replace her. After the smooth beginning of S2, the change seemed... jarring. But I'm glad that my favorite team is back together again! \o/

( Days to come )

Spoiler for a S3 guest star, as tweeted by a delighted Chris Kane:

( Twitter! )

* I'm thinking of hoarding the rest of Numb3rs - only four more episodes to go! - and then marathoning it in one go. It's easier to go through the teeth-gritting or mind-numbing parts when you have more Colby and David in one heap!

* Leverage is still delegated to DVD. I love the show and I love the "kids" - Eliot, Hardison and Parker - but my plate is just too full! Besides, the audio commentaries on the DVDs are hilarious. And also insightful!

* White Collar and Supernatural return next week! My favorite two shows back on TV. I hope that a) Neal and Peter stay buddies and b) Sam and Dean's... brotherness... will be back. I can't do without the one or the other.

* I decided to download the season finale of Sanctuary - the promo looked good and besides, I really want to LIKE this show. I stopped watching around 105 but I was told that just after that it became really good. Hm. Ok, I will give it a another go.

* Still need to catch up on: Castle, Bones, The Mentalist and House.

* And the pilot of Human Target is out on torrents? It might be a good one so I'll try it out - even though the opening credits left kinda blah :( But I'm not getting too excited about it. I loved the old version with Rick Springfield - I really, REALLY loved it - so a re-do... Springfield's character, Christopher Chance, was so broken and his team was so protective of him that the show pushed all my buttons!

I'm now all caught up on Leverage. 2x05 was an average episode but I loved the team's interaction, especially among the "kids": ( spoilers! )

I read a spoiler about how they want to deal with Gina Bellman's pregnancy, that ( spoilers for episodes that did NOT air yet! )

Yay, the eps of S2 are - at least so far - much better than S1's! *bounces*

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You know, the team feels much more like a family this season. I don't know why. Maybe the writers finally really "got" the characters? And it's fun how they are trying to hide Gina Bellman's pregnancy :P

You know what I love about the audio commentaries? How aware TPTB are of their fans' reactions. Like, in The 12-Step Job? The scene where Hardison pretended that he and Eliot were boyfriends? The writer knew that it was a fan-favorite scene. Or when Parker jumped-hugged Eliot? A scene that spouted dozens of fics pairing up Parker and Eliot. It's actually kinda cute.

Though it gets a bit annoying how they keep repeating that they are filming the episodes on a 7-days-basis, like it's a huge accomplishment of some sorts. I mean, it's awesome, don't get me wrong, but it's a team show where you can split five people and film separately. Supernatural, IIRC, is filmed on an 8-days-basis - with only two leads who are in almost every scene. I mean, compared to that...

But I love how TPTB loves the scenes with Aldis Hodge and Christian Kane. I loved the bit where they said that those two were friends in RL so it was easy to film their bickering and that Christian actually taught Aldis how to mock-fight.

And the huge fight between Eliot and the baddie in The First David Job? That guy's one of Christian Kane's best friends, when they were kids they already planned these huge fights in Christian's home's basement, that's why Christian rec'ed this guy for that role. Is it just me or is every other person "one of Christian Kane's best friends"? ;P