So I'm Watching Leverage 4x05...

[redbrunja]

...and I am disliking Nate/Sophie more and more and more.

On the plus side, it's helping me be less impatient for Hardison/Parker because fuck knows, I have zero confidence that the writers will write that pairing well, now.

(Side note: wasn't episode 4x04 the WORST EPISODE EVER? The writing was terrible and every actor except Aldis Hodge was totally phoning it in, and even Hodge couldn't save most of those terrible, terrible scenes.)

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[starandvine.livejournal.com]

Nate/Sophie I never totally shipped, so I have to admit that however they're written usually doesn't bother me. I do feel like they sometimes write their relationship to fit certain plot points instead of letting it grow organically, which is annoying because the changes in their relationship make less sense that way.

But as a Hardison/Parker shipper I was pissed about 4x04 because it was built up as a Hardison/Parker-centered episode, but that's not what it was about at all. They were playing completely different characters and then she took his hand at the end. That was it. It was like the writers wanted to make a Hardison/Parker-centered episode (which they didn't need to do, the show is best when everyone gets to be involved in a realistic way- Hardison/Parker doesn't need to be the focus) that, I don't know, they thought would sate shippers? But it just didn't feel like I was watching an episode of Leverage. I was watching the characters be other people, who I didn't particularly care for, and when they were themselves they just weren't as good as I would normally expect them to be, if that makes sense.

I will say they've done Hardison/Parker, in general, really well so far, I think, and I'm still excited for the 'Grave Danger' episode coming up this Sunday.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I do feel like they sometimes write their relationship to fit certain plot points instead of letting it grow organically, which is annoying

I definitely think this is it, and that how they're deciding to progress the relationship really isn't organic to the characters.

But as a Hardison/Parker shipper I was pissed about 4x04 because it was built up as a Hardison/Parker-centered episode, but that's not what it was about at all. They were playing completely different characters and then she took his hand at the end. That was it.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THIS EPISODE. And besides Parker and Hardison being totally different characters, they're also the fact that there really are no valid parallels between the two stories, so it's extra pointless.