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it’s also deeply funny working & living with people from all over the world who are so used to such vastly different life experiences.
in Sitka we had tsunami evacuation go-bags packed bc we got tsunami warnings several times after earthquakes & to me this was the wildest thing. I mean don’t get me wrong I adjusted to it very quickly. But it was just so far out of my wheelhouse it always felt a little crazy.
meanwhile my coworker got offered a job in Virginia and she was like “oh god?? aren’t there tornados there??”
And I was like (guy who’s personally experienced several) yeah dude, and she was SO distraught.
I was like “we had to wake up for a tsunami alert just last week” and she was like “okay??? we’re talking about tornadoes.”
it’s just so funny but also very interesting how the human psyche adapts out of necessity to just not be stressed about shit after a while. 
i like the idea of doing shakespeare adaptations set in high school a la 10 things i hate about you or she's the man but i feel like we're missing some opportunities by only doing the comedies. i wanna see macbeth but it's about a really high stakes student council election
it’s actually really funny that despite being given ample evidence that sokka is a good hunter (he is described offscreen by the writers as being a good hunter; it is a role he clearly takes pride in and defines himself by, ie, “the meat guy”; no one ever starves when he’s around; there’s the way he can accurately describe the events of an entire battle through simply looking at some footprints and scorch marks on the trees; and most crucially, his impeccable accuracy with a boomerang that has been a mainstay across his entire arc clearly required practice at some point, and considering it is literally a hunting weapon, i’m not exactly sure what else he’d even be practicing on), we never actually see him hunt successfully. every time he does attempt to hunt onscreen, he is thwarted by the elements, and his attempt fails disastrously (and comedically). and yet, there is no doubt in my mind that he is, in fact, good at hunting.
some people, however, do take katara’s claim that sokka doesn’t do any work around camp at face value, which is understandable, not only because we never actually see him properly hunt, but because he’s also just an asshole, generally, who undermines the value of domestic (ie, feminine) labor to attempt to bolster his own precariously fragile ego. the thing about katara’s rage in those early episodes is that it is undeniably cathartic and powerful, but also quite misplaced. gran gran making her do chores isn’t the enemy, and neither is sokka. they’re both overprotective to the point of stifling her freedom and dismissing her desires, but it’s for good reason. she is in direct danger, and they feel an existential need to protect her. her enemy is imperialism, not her overbearing, cynical family members. she deserves to be angry, and she deserves to scream and yearn and rebel, but that doesn’t mean that everything she says is correct. for example, just because we first see sokka through her point of view, “playing soldier” and pretending to be a real man, doesn’t mean he isn’t pulling his weight in multiple ways at all times, even if his narrow worldview does need to be challenged (but then again, so does hers).
so why do we never actually see sokka hunt? well, atla is, fundamentally, a children’s show. there are some things that they just simply cannot depict. someone killing, skinning, and cooking an animal would probably disturb children, even though it is also an everyday, normal occurrence and how all the meat they constantly allude to is produced. it’s funny what lines they’ll draw in the sand. especially because we never actually see sokka kill any animals with his boomerang, and yet he does kill actual human beings with it. but i suppose nickelodeon said that was fine.
Season 3's production is in full swing I see
The Night Train.
my usual mild afternoon headache became absolutely excruciating during trapeze class to the point that i about broke down crying from the pain in my car afterwards. i think it was aggravated from swinging about upside down, cause it mellowed out to a dull ache by the time i got home but boy oh boy what a fun way to end class
never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm
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One thing I think Leverage does really well is keep the stakes manageable. The biggest stakes/most outrageous scenes are probably at the end of season 3 with the Damien Moreau arc; Hardison and Parker with the bomb and Eliot surviving the “kill box” in The Big Bang Job are really the only moments in the entire series that my willful suspension of disbelief can’t handle. And honestly, if it wasn’t in the same episode as the Eliot scene, I’d probably give them the bomb scene.
(Small caveat: I have a VERY accommodating willful suspension of disbelief, so I’m certain other people’s mileage may vary)
Even the San Lorenzo job, which has enormous stakes because they are stealing a country, establishes early on that it’s a very small country and that Moreau doesn’t control the internet, which makes everything else more plausible and grounded in reality.
And then what happens at the beginning of season 4? They go back to business as usual. There must have been temptation to keep upping the stakes, to keep going bigger and bigger, but the show doesn’t fall into that trap. It keeps the heart of the show at the center - the team working together to help people and take down bad guys. Even the big season 4 arc is just a longer, stretched out version of the same thing they always do, just with two evil greedy CEOs. And season 5 is more of the same until the series finale, which ups the stakes for the characters but not for the world.
In a current media landscape that forces street level superheroes in galaxy spanning multiverse adventures with always increasing stakes, it’s really refreshing to go back to a show that knows exactly what it is and does it well.
This is TOTALLY worth ruining the page.
The Stork Job: Season One, Episode Six. The Leverage team goes after a Serbian adoption agency that's scamming money from desperate American couples looking to adopt needy war orphans. The job hits close to home for Parker who also was an orphan, and Hardison, a former foster child.
The Rundown Job: Season Five, Episode Nine. After finishing a job in Washington with Parker and Hardison, Eliot gets a call from an old employer that leads him to deduce that a terror attack is imminent. Only the three of them, with the help of an old Army colleague of Eliot's, can stop it.
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