#Still laughing about that one #It's a very distinctive OT3 #Leverage #Leverage Redemption
It seriously means so much to me as an aroace person for parker & hardison to be so obviously in love but the narrative never relies on physical affection to tell us that…like they seriously kiss all of one time in the whole show but if someone tried to claim they weren’t head over heels for each other they’d be crazy because these two show how much they love each other in so many ways, in their words and actions and adorable matching necklaces and the way they make each other better people and and and…god. Not that kissing or sex is bad in any way, but love can be shown through more than kissing and sex and parker & hardison just hit all the right notes for me in how romance should be done
We constantly underestimate eliot’s intelligence, but we see just how fast his mind moves in the first episode of redemption with the take down analysis of FOUR FREAKING GUYS, and the fight itself is amazing to watch

it’s a very distinctive boi
eliot spencer really went from “somebody kiss this man so I don’t have to”
to “kiss this man because I can’t”
hottest sexiest moment in all of leverage is when “we are on a reset. the main objective is the girl, we find her and bring her back safe. we lose the chip if we have to, we burn connell if we have to.” and then “nate, if im engaged–” “do you worst.” and then “this is a goodwill gesture. what i want for it in return is your undivided attention and the benefit of the doubt. my name is nate ford and in a few seconds the phone is going to ring.” all with the screams of the people at the carnival in the background
Random person: cool thief team you got there
Harry Wilson, vibrating at top speed: thanks I like them a normal amount
ok but like my personal dislike of Nate aside, it was 100% thematically appropriate to replace him with Harry because so much of what Redemption is about is disillusion, about letting go of the belief that exposure leads to justice that was so central to the original show.
and so the switch from “““a good man””” to “a legal man” as the team’s point of entrance to the outside world builds into that acknowledgement, that bald-faced reality that we live in now, where the rich and powerful have gotten richer and more powerful and more legal, and it’s time to fully acknowledge that legality and morality are not just ‘not the same’, but ‘inherently at odds’