{"id":74,"date":"2009-01-29T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-01-29T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:00:59","slug":"television-whitenoise-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Television Whitenoise: Leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I just caught up on my dose of Leverage and it was just as entertaining as those first few episodes. The Mile High Job<\/em> had a nice little nod to Doctor Who<\/em> amongst other nice touches. They are slowly working to round out each character, each through their own liberally sprinkled flashbacks. I think the show gets away with a lot of what it does because everyone seems to be having such a great time making the show. The stories are compelling and touch on a lot of areas currently at the forefront of people\\’s consciousness, providing a great set of vicarious thrills as these guys get their comeuppance.<\/p>\n

However, today, watching three episodes in one sitting, it struck me that things for them generally go too smooth — I felt that their needed to be more friction to impede their progress. I know I might be alone in this, and their have been obstacles they\\’ve had to overcome, but nothing, even a plane falling out of the sky, that really seemed to pose a real or significant threat. Some of this is the slickness of the show (also ironically one of its good points) and I was perhaps wanting a grungier take on the whole thing – could be just around the corner … who knows? I think they may be building to some big emotional pay off as they are pushing the characters closer together so they have more invested in each other. I hope so – I would hate for the show to become bogged down in being clever-clever and losing that emotional heart we\\’ve seen at certain points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I just caught up on my dose of Leverage and it was just as entertaining as those first few episodes. The Mile High Job had a nice little nod to Doctor Who amongst other nice touches. They are slowly Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[154,170],"tags":[677,770,771,844,999],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television-whitenoise","category-update","tag-leverage","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}