fajrdrako | Leverage...

Tonight, with

commodorified,

fairestcat,

raynedaze,

random, and

auriaephiala, I watched three episodes of the second season of Leverage: "The Top Hat Job", "The Two Live Crew Job", and "The Ice Man Job".

As always, I remain madly in love with Parker. I can't even say why. She was particularly good in "The Ice Man Job".
Sophie is and always has been the weak point in this show for me. I don't like her as much as I want to; I like her role, but not her personality - or maybe it's that I don't understand her personality as I do the others. I liked her death (coffin and all) and I love her scene with Nathan when he asked her real name. Still: she has a real knack for seeming insincere, and I never seem to be able to see past it to the real Sophie beneath. So I don't care much about what happens to her, though I do care about the other's respect for her. To my eyes, there's a hole where Sophie ought to be, so the parts of the plot and theme that revolve around her personality don't quite work.
Hardison as the Ice Man was priceless.
Hardison wanting to hug Eliot was the funniest thing in the episode. Is Eliot getting more cantankerous as the show goes on?
Of the three, "The Ice Man Job" was my favourite. "The Two Live Crew Job" was brilliant but just a little too contrived for my tastes: fun, but I really, really had to put my brain on hold.
Seems to me that Nathan is less and less the anchor and mastermind of the team, while Sophie gets more of a leadership role. I don't like this.
I liked the way they all kept phoning Sophie, though.
Loved seeing young Parker have herself buried alive.
Eliot's initial confrontation with Raquel Dunne was the sexiest fight scene I've seen since Lee and Starbuck met in the boxing ring in Battlestar Galactica.