#the scheherazad job

[246bce]

poll winner for favourite season: Season 3

with such hits as: The King George Job, The Rashomon Job, The Inside Job, The Scheherazad Job, The San Lorenzo Job

Bonus for fun:

#leverageedit #leverage #sophie devereaux #alec hardison #parker #archie #eliot spencer #the italian #damien moreau #we steal it back for you #the san lorenzo job #the king george job #the scheherazad job #the inside job #the rashomon job #the big bang job #the studio job

[thewanderingace]

Parker + hearing her boys are good at music

#was doing a rewatch when this parallel popped up and said GIF THIS #so have this #leverage #the scheherazade job #the studio job #parker #alec hardison #eliot spencer #ot3 #eliot x parker x hardison #leverage ot3 #my gifs #stephs stuff

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 3x4 - "The Scheherazade Job"

#christian kane #leverage #eliot spencer #alec hardison #aldis hodge #nathan ford #timothy hutton #jane akinyemi #martha boles #the scheherazade job

[amazzyblaze]

"The Scheherazade Job" doodles

#leverage #parker leverage #alec hardison #drawings #the scheherazade job

[leverage-ot3]

“promise me- you’ll keep them safe”

“’till my dying day”

“you know, eliot, i’d say call if you need anything, but you never...never need anything”

“yeah, i did. and thanks to you... i don’t have to search anymore”

#NOOOOO WTF WHY IS IT ALL MESSED UP IM SO SORRY GUYS #THIS LOOKS SO UGLY I MIGHT DELETE #this has literally been in my drafts since July 28 2020 #parker #alec hardison #eliot spencer #parker x hardison x eliot #moodboards #edits #mine #the ice man job #the homecoming job #the 12 step job #the scheherazade job #i think #leverage: let's go steal a queue

[ziorite]

buckle up lads— i’ve played cello since before kindergarten and even if i’m no virtuoso, i’m about to unleash my thoughts on the scheherazade job upon the world anyways.

look, if hardison was good enough to play the scheherzade solo at fourteen there’s just no way he sounds that shit even if he hasn’t touched the instrument for ten years. he’s supposed to have been the most promising violinist in the city which has to be stiff competition because most classically trained string players start playing young. like three to five years old young. and we know hardison was a foster kid so he almost certainly started later than most. obviously he was talented, but now he can’t even play a scale? it just doesn’t make sense to me from what i know. i’ve gone a month without touching my cello and pretty much hopped straight back into the stuff i was practicing before after fifteen minutes of warm up. the knowledge of how to hold a bow and pull it across the string and make quality sound is the kind that doesn’t leave you— for anyone of teenage hardison’s supposed skill, that instinct is part of you for LIFE. so no, the persistent portrayal of present day hardison as completely incompetent just doesn’t sit right with me.

but that doesn’t mean i think he could pull off scheherazade’s solo without nate’s rather convenient hypnosis. so i googled around and here’s the sheet music:

to be honest i thought it would be absolute batshit crazy the way they treated it in the show. the shifts are kind of crazy but i can see a very dedicated fourteen year old who practiced the shit out of this solo being able to play it. not to say it’s not still hard! there are some SERIOUS high notes that you’d be hard pressed to hit perfectly every time even with weeks of practice under your belt. shit makes me sweat and i don’t even play that instrument.

it’s a damn impressive solo for a teenager to be playing and an absolutely deranged one to try and perform on such little notice. that’s why i need someone to rewrite the scheherazade job with more focus on hardison and his violin dammit! i feel like hardison would be able to bluff his way through the other parts of the piece with enough practice in the time he has before the job, but there’s just no way he’d be able to play that solo on his own after ten years of not touching the violin. he might not even be able to practice during all the time he has— his calluses would be gone!! that’s a whole other story!!

string instruments strings are vicious y’all. and a VAST majority of the scheherazade solo is on the teeny tiny e string that basically slices through raw fingertips. i can barely make it through five minutes of dedicated practice shifting around on my thinnest string and i’ve had my calluses built up for years; i can file these babies with a nail file and poke a hot pan with them— they get pretty damn thick, and hardison’s working with nuthin y’all. you can only go so far before you give yourself an actual blister you physically cannot play on.

as a result, i feel like hardison would’ve let nate hypnotize him if ONLY the oily little slime ball (with hate and love) had told him. i really don’t understand why nate didn’t say anything until the first place. aren’t they supposed to have learned that you’re not supposed to con your own crew already?? (not that i think nate would ever really take that to heart.)

anyways, that’s my hardison-should-be-better-at-violin propaganda as well as my why-the-scheherazade-job-needs-to-be-rewritten manifesto. maybe i’ll write it myself one of these days— leverage brainrot is real and it is a sickness. hope this 2 am rant didn’t disrupt anyone’s dashes too much!

#leverage #the scheherazade job #alec hardison #hardison #aldis hodge #leverage meta #nathan ford #nate ford

[life-love-geekculture]

Rewatching “The Scheherazade Job” again and…

Why has no one talked about the perfect serendipitous timing of the piece’s final measures and the characters focused on during them?

Because we go from Hardison’s solo to the rest of the orchestra smoothly accompanying him and zoom in immediately on Elliot “I leave this team when I leave this team” Spencer. The man who, contrary to the…everything he projects to the universe, needed this team. Needed to joined this community so he could protect it till his dying day.

Then, there’s a dip as Hardison’s solo melody rises up again in a minor key and we transition to Nate. The man whose sadness and grief made this entire thing possible. And it’s a sadness that carries him through much of the series, igniting some of his most vindictive moments, until he finally learns to let it go.

And finally the piece resolves into this beautiful and bright crescendo as we end on a crying Parker. The one character who’s development throughout the series embodies the hopefulness laid in its very bones. And it’s Parker expressing emotion in a way we won’t see her do so openly for about another season. It’s a promise of all the progress and good still to come.

#leverage #the Scheherazade job #nate ford #elliot spencer #Parker

[inthemoodforsomepretzels]

timing a heist to a concert is insane btw

#leverage #leverage rewatch #the scheherazade job #3x04

[geekynightowl1997]

Hardison playing the violin?

10/10

I mean did you see their faces? He played beautiful. ❤️🥰🥹

#leverage #the scheherazade job #alec hardison #chef kiss #10/10 #did you see his teams faces? #he was so elegant! #good job hardison! #aldis hodge

[eg515]

Breanna and Eliot duet with Hardison playing the violin WHEN?

#leverage redemption #the belly of the beast job #breanna casey #eliot spencer #alec hardison #leverage #and i guess #the studio job #the scheherazade job

[aardvaark]

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!!

#leverageposting #leverage #the scheherazade job #asks #ask #wren speaks

[renew-leverage]

It’s Sunday, Leverage Marathon folks, time for another episode!   This week we’re watching the 4th episode of season 3, The Scheherazade job - in which Hardison is a musician, Parker and Eliot are moved by it, Nate is more of a jerk then usual, and blackmail happens.  Watch the episode with us on our Sunday Leverage Marathon discord server and post all about your feelings, thoughts, comments, anything &  everything.

Come  on in, say hi to your fellow fans, get comfortable.  We’ll be starting  in about half an hour at 3:30 PM Eastern U.S. Time

#Leverage marathon #The Scheherazade Job #s3e4 #Leverage #streaming

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 3x4 - "The Scheherazade Job"

#christian kane #leverage #eliot spencer #alec hardison #aldis hodge #the scheherazade job

[suddenrundown]

season 3 eliot listens to Scheherazade on repeat tell me im wrong

#im not so don't lol #For Reasons im in a ''the scheherazade job'' mood #eliot is sooooo high strung in season 3 specifically and there's a reason for that #and i just think he listens to it because it makes the feelings he has a little quieter. more wistful less irritating. #idk he just feels Some Type of Way and resolutely decides that its about the song and the song only #hey did i make this post before? i think maybe i did. oops. have it again!

[omg-elledubs-things]

Sophie waxing rhapsodic about Scheherazade, and the way she paused and sighed, I expected her to say "Scheherazade: #goals".

But of course this was made in the 2000s, not the 2020s.

#leverage #sophie devereaux #season 3 #episode 4 #the Scheherazade job

[weprovide--leverage]

Had a trained classical musician friend watch The Scheherazade Job and he was APPALLED when Hardison stood up for his solo

#The Scheherazade Job #hardison #alec hardison #you don't stand up #you stay seated even if you have a solo #and before that when hardison was pretending to play #the rest of the orchestra would have been able to tell #as well as the conductor #that he wasn't playing #STAY SEATED #idk man #as if the mind control plot wasn't wild enough #and the president was like unattended by secret service #when he went to the vault? #plot holes gelore #not a top tier epp