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"The D.B. Cooper Job" doodles
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The Van Gogh Job and The DB Cooper Job both telling a past story using our current cast to play a different set of characters AND both of them being a love story between Parker and her boys!!
Like the Van Gogh Job was obviously trying to show parallels and set up Parker and Hardison’s relationship and it was the only episode that told a story in this way (that I can think of right now). THEN they bring this trope (genre? I can’t think of the word write now, style? maybe) back for the DB Cooper Job with the main love story this time being between Parker and Eliot, instead of Hardison. And technically I know this one was about true justice and what it means, BUT it was also about the love between Stephanie and Steve.
All I’m saying is that connected the dots, where the dots are and what shape they make I don’t know, but I connected them
#leverage#parker leverage#eliot spencer#alec hardison#parker x hardison x eliot#the van gogh job#the db cooper job
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For me the fascination is not even who was DB Cooper, or how did he pulled of the heist, but the simple fact that the first arrived search and rescue team said: „there is little chance he survived that jump“
And then the press kept on asking: „yeah but what if?!“
And the rescue team answered: „yeah IF he survived the weather, IF he was not killed by a lightning, IF he didn’t crashed into a tree, IF he made it to the ground safe… then, yeah, he survived“
And everyone took that and rolled with it for the next 50 years. Completely ignoring what the search and rescue team said. That it didn’t matter how well DB Cooper was trained, during this weather and with no place to land, game over
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Stunning. Not my favorite episode, but also, my favorite episode.
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DB COOPER IS A REAL PERSON?
#i just saw the netflix documentary trailer 😭#made for a good leverage episode tho#leverage#the db cooper job#db cooper
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Nate: If you could choose someone from "The Odyssey" that most resembles me, who would it be?
Sophie: Well, um... The hero, obviously. Odysseus. Cunning warrior, master of disguise, and it means "trouble" in Greek.
Nate: I think I'm like a siren.
Sophie: You sing the songs that lure the sailors to their death.
Nate: Yes, but not just any song.
Sophie: No, no, no. The song that offers them their deepest desire.
#Leverage#quotations#lines from the show that made me insane#I have never seen a siren-coded male hero let alone one who categorises himself as such IN CANON#whoever wrote The DB Cooper Job I am free tonight jsyk#also 2 of my main interests colliding wow#The Odyssey
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i’m so sorry i have literally no other social media what’s going on with shane?? feel free to ignore if you don’t feel like answering LMAO i know it’s not ur job to be Reporter for the Amish (me) i’m just sooo curious
no worries, i got you!!!
it's nothing that Shane did alone, per se. but basically, Watcher hyped up this big announcement that they had (w a countdown even, which—hindsight?? oof) and it ended up being that they were leaving YouTube (a la Dropout, but without the money, the decades-long support from fans, the cultural status, the portfolio diversity, and a mega-rich owner to bail them out if things went bad) and starting their OWN streaming service/platform. it's like, $82CAD a year, and maybe $8.27CAD a month (or $60USD/year or $5.99/month). that's what they're asking their fans to pay. and in a global cost of living crisis where rent has easily surpassed income by a margin that fills me with existential dread just thinking about lmao
but post-backlash, they updated their pinned post on YouTube and said that they would release the first episode of each series on YouTube (AND keep their backlog of work up, for free—how generous), but the rest of the episodes, and any new shows moving forward, will be on their streaming service exclusively.
the gist of the move is for better "production quality" which is ridiculous. it's almost as if they have no idea what made them special in the first place. and, IMO, its just (wheeze). that's it. that's all they needed. i'd watch Ryan and Shane sit in a basement and bicker back and forth about cryptids or DB Cooper any day over this.
and i fully get supporting your favourite creators, but this move was just. not it :/ not when they don't have a fraction of the backlog to justify such an insanely high subscription price when people can barely afford to live.
#it's just. a mess#but the youtube drama docs on this clusterfuck should be fun#goddddddddddd#i'm too invested in this but i have a morbid fascination w trainwrecks you know?? god i love a good dumpster fire#watcher#aptn should hire me
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Leverage: Redemption S2E10 "The Work Study Job" could've and maybe even should've been way more intimate
(That's the episode about the grad student whose research was stolen by her professor)
The episode begins with a student accusing her professor of stealing and publishing her research, and him using her severe anxiety to publicly humiliate her.
Pretty good start, right? No need for a sob story, we already despise the Bad Guy, great directing. But most importantly: it's extremely low stakes, and yet the emotional stakes are so very high. If the team fails, a very nice girl is upset, loses 2 years of her life. She says that she'll have to drop out of her PhD program, that it will ruin her life, but we also learn throughout the episode that she's very smart and underestimates herself, maybe she could build herself back up. But also, if the team fails, this really nice person with no evil in her heart - who was betrayed by a man she trusted, was humiliated publicly, and had her biggest work yet stolen - would be incredibly upset. The stakes are the feelings of a girl who the episode makes us deeply sympathize with in 150 seconds.
And then it turns out the research is gonna be the anti-oil or whatever. It turns out the Bad Guy wants to steal it and sell it to Big Oil so they could bury it. And now it's a whole thing, they need to stop climate change, they need space Hardison. This very grounded episode about a guy everyone knows abusing his power became a larger than life heist.
This episode could've been so many things: What if her research was just fun math? What if the Bad Guy just really wanted attention? It could've been enough to get him to steal bogus research and spend the rest of the episode showing Emma (the Victim) how to believe in herself (which they already did, but it was kinda sidetracked by the high stakes heist they were doing).
Some of the best episodes of both shows are, imo, the ones where it's just about helping some guy stuck in trouble - The Bank Shot Job where they help the most helpless bank robbers, The Carnival Job where Elliot teaches the Mark's daughter to love herself, The Order 23 Job which is an ok episode except when Elliot saves a kid from abuse from his cop father, The Rollin' On The River Job which is an ok episode except when Elliot befriends a security guard, The DB Cooper Job.
In general Elliot has huge Big Brother Energy and every episode where he interacts with someone is elevated.
My (barely supported) conclusion: the episode didn't need elevated stakes, it set up great stakes in the first 2:30 minutes, and I think that's enough.
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I just noticed the DB Cooper song playing in the background of a scene in The Jackal Job. Nice little call back to the DB Cooper Job? Or just coincidence?
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On the subject of DB reveals: Personally, I love that you're subverting the main trope of time-travel fix-it fics. Subverting tropes is fun! And it's so in character! Like, a former spy with dangerous intel gets dumped into a civil war...why WOULD she reveal it? Now, as for her brother the force ghost...who will be meeting his grandmother at some point in the future... *raises eyebrows* That's gonna be interesting.
It was really important to me that Leia be allowed to keep this secret as long as she wanted and could. Not because this was objectively the only good choice, but because...well a lot of things. Not the least of which is exactly what you said. Why would Leia reveal it?
I think some of this comes down to how I view Palpatine and his power. I honestly just don't see him as someone who is dangerous because of the Force. I know people disagree with me, but I look at the political and social power he wields, and I'm like, "That. That's why he's dangerous. That's why he's dangerous for decades, even after he is dead."
This is probably my fault for not having Leia narrate her personal history in the New Republic as often as say, her grief over her dead family, but Leia isn't nearly as scared of "the Emperor" as she is of "the Empire." And when she looks at the Republic (and the Separatists), even setting Palpatine aside, she sees a political body that is ready to descend into violent fascism at just about any moment. She's looking at a galaxy that is slipping into an "every man for himself" mentality at a time when that will immediately turn them all into weaker, easier targets.
She's looking at a galaxy that she once tried to drag back into cooperation, kicking and screaming, and largely didn't succeed because of the decades of hostility and resentment between systems.
Leia is fighting that. She's aware that there's a Sith is behind it. But her goal is to stay in a government job and prevent a lot of the harm she knows is coming.
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i don’t go here but i’m intrigued, what is the van gogh job?
Okay first I must say: please go here Leverage is amazing, I recommend it to everyone.
Second: this is probably going to be a little bit spoilery for the episode, sorry 😅
The Van Gogh Job is an episode in season four where the team help a man who others are trying to kill to get a lost Van Gogh masterpiece. While the rest of the team take out the bad guys and look for the painting, the man tells Parker the story of how he found the painting and brought it was to the U.S. so he and his sweetheart could run away together. It's told through flashbacks to the 1940s, where the Leverage team actors play the roles of the characters in the story, which just adds to all the feelings because of the parallels between past and present and the layers you can peel back with the team dynamics and relationships.
Side note: they do the flashback thing again for the DB Cooper Job in season five, which is one of my favourite episodes of all time and somehow has even more feelings and delicious team dynamic parallels through the flashbacks. These episodes almost have mini historical AUs inside of them it's so fun.
The Van Gogh Job is just..... so many feelings. It's a love story, about forbidden love (a black man and a white woman in the 1940s), and taking risks for love (the past relationship but also Parker and Hardison in the present), and how love endures. For the present day team, it also has some important character development stuff for Parker re love and navigating unfamiliar feelings. I could ramble more but it would definitely be spoilers lol and might not make a lot of sense without the show up to that point as context.
The TLDR is: The Van Gogh Job is beautiful and painful and heartwarming and I 100% recommend watching Leverage for a good time filled with crime and found family.
#asked and answered#Leverage#had to stop myself from writing a full essay lmao#I love this episode and this show so so much
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So I did a tier rank list for Leverage before I do my full rewatch, with episodes based off of memory (some I even had to look up what they were!). I wonder how controversial these opinions are, if at all.
S = Absolute Favorite
A = Love them!
B = Enjoy Them!
C = Average episode but still like them
D = Meh/Boring/Dislike
....I also wonder if that's even legible! Just in case, I'll do a read more with the breakdown typed out. (and FYI, in C tier, they're all fairly interchangeable. Other tiers feel about right. Also two part finale episodes are always combined together as one.) (and yes, I'm aware that I have a bias for earlier seasons, partially because I have rewatched them more frequently just from starting from E1 then going on, and partially because I genuinely think that they are better.)
Link for anyone who would want to do this:
S Tier:
The Bank Shot Job #107
The Future Job #213
The Bottle Job #211
The Snow Job #104
The Ice Man Job #208
The Rashomon Job #311
The Van Gogh Job #404
The Long Goodbye Job #515
A Tier:
The Inside Job #303
The Gone Fishin' Job #307
The Grave Danger Job #407
The Tap-Out Job #202
The Long Way Down Job #401
The Home Coming Job #102
The Nigerian Job #101
The 12 Step Job #111
The Experimental Job #411
The First David Job/The Second David Job #112/113
The Mile High Job #105
The King George Job #312
The Jailhouse Job #301
The Stork Job #109
The 3-Card Monte Job #309
B Tier:
The Boost Job #308
The Cross My Heart Job #409
The Reunion Job #302
The Three Days of the Hunter Job #205
The Two-Horse Job #106
The Broken Wing Job #508
The Queen's Gambit Job #410
The Big Bang Job/The San Lorenzo Job #315/316
The Frame Up Job #509
The Rundown Job #510
The Runway Job #210
The Girls' Night Out Job #413
The 15 Minutes Job #403
C Tier:
The Lost Heir Job #209
The Zanzibar Marketplace job #212
The 10 Li'l Grifters Job #402
The Boys' Night Job #414
The Top Hat Job #206
The Two Live Crew Job #207
The Gold Job #416
The Last Dam Job #418
The Fairy Godparents Job #204
The Juror #6 Job #110
The Hot Potato Job #405
The Beantown Bailout Job #201
The French Connection Job #504
The Double-Blind Job #305
The Order 24 Job #203
The Morning After Job #313
The First Contact Job #503
The Blue Line Job #502
The Carnival Job #406
The Maltese Falcon Job/The Three Strikes Job #215/214
The Underground Job #310
The Radio Job #417
The Miracle Job #108
The Real Fake Car Job #507
The Corkscrew Job #513
The Boiler Room Job #408
D Tier:
The Lonely Hearts Job #415
The DB Cooper Job #506
The Studio Job #306
The Toy Job #514
The Ho Ho Ho Job #314
The Low Low Price Job #511
The Office Job #412
The Very Big Bird Job #501
The Give Me A K Street Job #505
The Scheherazade Job #304
The Wedding Job #103
The White Rabbit Job #512
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Sometimes I rember that one really dark scene exists where not-Parker kisses not-Eliot and i feel pure happines
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I <3 the Scheherazade Job but the ending twist just makes me bang my head against a table. can you fucking imagine if they'd ended The Studio Job by saying that Nate had hypnotized Elliot into having perfect pitch. actually I take that back, in that case it would have been extremely funny
lmao yeah i was like:
(excuse the handwriting, i drew it with my finger on my phone lol: it says "hypnotism")
hypnotism is a real thing and it can do a lot of weird-but-cool stuff, but like. when did nate learn how to hypnotize people perfectly? was hardison a straught up violin prodigy as a kid, to be able to draw on those old skills he apparently had? how lucky is it that hardison happened to be a violin player & a relatively easy target of hypnotism, and also just happen to be the person already in that role in the con? howeverrrr i love seeing hardison/aldis hodge getting to play the violin, it’s a genuinely beautiful piece and damn if im not having the same stunned, amazed reaction as the team. so i have to let the logic issues go lol.
i also love sophie talking about Scheherazade, technically probably the most famous grifter from literature. sophie’s youth sounds weird: she had a poster of DB Cooper on her bedroom walls growing up, and she idolises Scheherazade… she would’ve been like a geek but for grifting. love that for her.
eliot already gets mad about sophie’s neurolinguistic programming, nate might have to get more than a cockroach in his food if he hypnotised eliot in the studio job! either we’d get a hilariously very pissed off eliot moment ("damnit har- i mean, dammit sophie!" "huh? me? what did *i* do??" "nate didn’t teach HIMSELF that, did he!") or maybe some genuine anger/betrayal - i don’t think he wants people to know what’s in his mind & memories. and sophie seems to feel a bit guilty about helping to mess w hardison’s head. but hardison’s mind is probably a bit… uh… safer to poke around in than eliot’s, smart choice there nate!
thank you for talking to me about leverage btw, i love this show so much!! <33 always love to hear people’s thoughts about it & i love getting to talk about it!!
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It’s time for Leverage season 5 and I am stoked. Watched through to the DB Cooper job and andhjwjshs the French Connection job, Eliot and Parker, I was going feral.
Also Nate is slowly starting to reveal the fact that he’s gonna leave and he’s kinda grooming the others, letting them take a bit more of a lead in preparation for when he and Sophie leave and that is cool but also makes me sad cause like, I’m on the last season. I don’t want it to end, I’ll miss them. Not to say I’m not excited for Leverage Redemption but yeah. I’m not sure I’m ready to say goodbye to this era. Of course once I’m done with the show I’ll probably rewatch the heck out of it first.
Also, we got a Todd Mcsweeten centric episode! And also the way that episode in particular highlighted the changes in Nate and actually stated instead of implying and hinting at why Nate wants to stop. Idk it Twas fun.
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Meet the Writer
image to represent me: (i used this picrew)
three fun facts about me:
i used to row as a sport
i believe my great uncle was DB Cooper
i’m double jointed
favorite season: spring
continent i where i live: north america
how i spend my time: between studying biomedical engineering, applying to jobs, and writing
are you published? not yet but i’m submitting short stories
introvert or extrovert? introvert
favorite meal: sweet and sour chicken over rice
i’m (no pressure) tagging @thatndginger @toribookworm22 @magic-is-something-we-create @coffeewritesfiction @dogmomwrites
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