Tag: leverage

judayre:

Hardison is Jewish.  This makes Eliot’s life harder than it should be.

Hardison looked up from his computers when a plate landed on the table next to him.  Eliot was standing over him and his arms were already crossed.

“It’s been two days.  I don’t know how much you’ve slept, but I know you haven’t eaten.”

Hardison glanced at the plate and had to control his initial reaction, because it was one of Eliot’s special sandwiches – the kind he normally only made for himself – and it was nice to know how much he cared.

“Can’t, man.  It’s Passover.”

Eliot blinked a few times.  "You’re not Jewish.“

“I am,” Hardison confirmed with a nod.

“No, you’re not.”

Hardison threw himself back in his chair.  "Man, I am so Jewish.  I read the Torah, dance the hora, and I don’t eat bread during Passover.  Thanks for the thought.“  Eliot was still glaring as if he thought Hardison was pulling a con.  "Look, do you want to hear my haftorah?  I spent so much time learning the damn thing I think I’ll know it forever.”  But Nana had been so proud of him being bar mitzvahed he didn’t think he really minded.

Eliot grabbed the sandwich and stormed out of the base, muttering something under his breath that Hardison couldn’t quite make out.  Having been distracted reminded him that Eliot was right and he’d been working two days straight after taking two off to go home to Nana for the Seders.  He stretched, used the bathroom, and grabbed an orange soda.  When he got back to his station, he saw that there was a lot of activity on the Internet of Eliot’s phone.  He filed that in the back of his mind as unusual, then dove back into his research.

It seemed like moments later, although his computer’s clock told him it was nearly an hour and a half, when another plate crashed down next to him.

There was turkey on it, thin sliced and folded just so.  Mashed potatoes steamed gently, the hole in the center spilling clear gravy (no flour) onto the turkey.  The stuffing was filled with vegetables and had enough identifiable pieces of matzah to be sure of.  The plate even had a steaming roll – the same kind Nana always made out of matzah meal – cut open and buttered on one side.

Hardison gaped up at Eliot, who had his arms crossed and was studiously avoiding looking at him.  "It’s all new dishes, too, so you have no excuse.  Eat!“

It was lucky that there was a table in between them, because thought he might have hugged Eliot to death otherwise.  No one had ever put up with his occasional quirks of Jewishness before.  But Eliot – he must have been looking up what it was all about and making a whole new meal just for him!  He shifted his chair to the side so he wouldn’t get anything on the computers and made every appreciative noise he knew as he ate the food.

Eliot’s face flushed more and more as Hardison ate and he grabbed the plate and left before he could verbally thank him.  Hardison watched him go, then turned back to his computers.  Before returning to work, he searched for the best living weapon smith to make a custom order.

sayitwithsarcophilus:

I was being kind of facetious when I described Sophie’s approach to stereotypical female role pigeonholes as “who says you have to pick one?”, but really – a lot of Sophie’s shtick as a grifter is that she makes tropes work for her.  A lot of Sophie’s short-term single episode personas are real “types,” tailored to the situation, and I don’t think that’s her using shortcuts or anything.   I think it’s a deliberate strategy.  People are less likely to question things that fit smoothly in their internal narratives.

judayre:

More Leverage tiny fic. There have been Lord of the Rings references. This is entirely likely.

They walked out of the theater into the cold December air, Hardison conducting what felt like a complete recap of the movie to an interested but mostly unresponsive Eliot.

“And then he pull out his sword – you could see in the man’s eyes when he decide there ain’t no other way–”

“There wasn’t.”  Hardison stopped talking to glare, so Eliot stopped as well and continued.  "Look, Azog has both height and weight on him, he’s flat on his back, and the sword is pressing straight down.  He had no way to move, and if he didn’t pull away somehow it would’ve just kept comin’ down until he killed himself with his own sword block.  Pull it out and, sure, he gets stabbed sooner.  But he put Azog off balance enough to go in for the kill.“

He nodded approval and Hardison felt a chill that had nothing to do with the freezing temperatures.  "You know that ain’t you, right, man?”  Eliot gave him the same fond smile his Nana had when he’d said they would be okay even with all the medical bills.  He pushed closer, crowding into Eliot’s personal space – a place he knew he was lucky to be allowed.

“Thorin, he all alone up there.  Bilbo’s down for the count, nephews gone, Dwalin off somewhere busting heads and no com.  That ain’t you.”  He moved even closer, pressing their heads together so when he spoke no one else could hear.  "We got your back, man.  I got you.“

They were still a moment, looking in each other’s eyes, puffing out the same clouds of breath.  Then Eliot smiled, a small smile just for Hardison.  "I know.”

judayre:

Twice now, Hardison has pulled “you’re just being antisemitic” on people.  First season and fourth, but still.  Once is a joke about the black guy saying how it’s obvious what’s going on and pulling out antisemitism instead of racism.

Twice?  Hardison is Jewish, baby.

the-dragongirl
replied to your post “GAAAHHHH! So, if there is one thing that makes me want to shriek at TV…”

HOLY GODS YES. From what I have seen, TV shows almost never get that right (though with the silver line, don’t four lines technically also cross at metro center?) It’s almost as bad as shows set in Seattle, in which people can set out in a row boat in one body of water, and end up in a completely different body of water which is only connected to the first by shipping locks.

With the Silver line now running, there are actually five at L’Enfant Plaza, and four at Metro Center, but it wasn’t yet running at the time of Leverage Season 5, and I was grabbing an older map to confirm what I remembered.

And if they’d gotten that little detail right, and the fact it’s DC Metro, not DC Subway, I could have forgiven the mistakes of architecture (interior and exterior), and the cars that aren’t shaped right and don’t have the right interior.

It would have also been nice if they’d gotten the fact that blue/orange lines and the red line tracks are on different levels of Metro Center.

And ow, that’s… special. Although I’m pretty sure at this point that the people who make TV shows live in their own little bubble wherein every city in the world has the same transit details as LA (or whichever city/cities their primary filming is in). Just show an arial view of the city, everyone will buy that it’s that city even when the small details are entirely wrong.

… Which is probably true, if the people aren’t local to that city, or aren’t familiar with the unique quirks of that city. But it doesn’t take huge amounts of research to get more than the surface details right – Google is your friend.

*sighs* Ah, well.

morgynleri:

GAAAHHHH!

So, if there is one thing that makes me want to shriek at TV shows, it’s the way they completely miss how DC Metro is set up. And fail to manage any of the architectural features or the maps… and in the case of the episode of Leverage I’m watching now – they call it the “DC Subway”.

*whimpers and buries face in hands*

*thumps head on pillow*

Nope. Terminals are places where lines stop. And not a damned one of them has four of the lines stopping in the same place. And in fact, there is just one station which has four metro lines running though the station, L’Enfant Plaza. Which is not one stop along from Metro Center, which is the only station with both red and blue lines.

*draws in a deep breath* Can’t be arsed to do their research when someone with Google and five damned seconds can find that out, much less a DC area native who much prefers the Metro to get into the city, thank you.

Anyway. Guess who’s having some serious trouble holding onto suspension of disbelief with the current episode?

GAAAHHHH!

So, if there is one thing that makes me want to shriek at TV shows, it’s the way they completely miss how DC Metro is set up. And fail to manage any of the architectural features or the maps… and in the case of the episode of Leverage I’m watching now – they call it the “DC Subway”.

*whimpers and buries face in hands*