Ave, Leverage.
Dec. 21st, 2012 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanDeadline.com posted the news, and John Rogers confirmed it on Twitter: after five seasons, Leverage has ended its run.
I am...of mixed feelings about it. On the one hand - this is one of my top-ten-ever favorite shows, a not-guilty pleasure and a must-see tv date. Part of me wanted it to run forever. Let's go steal us a (new) network.
But part of what made Leverage so wonderful is also what makes me able to let it go, and say "yes, this is okay." Because the characters changed. They grew. They evolved. And they were starting to reach a point where the original premise no longer worked: they weren't emotional misfits held together by the sheer will of their leader and their own surprised joy in the con-for-good. They'd become functional, responsible adults, settling into their skins and their relationships. And that was lovely to watch....
But it also took some of the joyfully chaotic energy out of their scams. And - let's face it - there's only so many times you can take down [fill in the blank] and make it seem fresh and filled with potential disaster at every turn. I've been enjoying this season, but the writer-brain was constantly seeing where the threads were beginning to tie off, closure coming up in the distance. I would have been happy for a sixth season, but I would have been worried, too.
And I'd rather they go out on a high note*.
Now. How fast can we get them all working again?
*and hey, we still have the novels to come...
I am...of mixed feelings about it. On the one hand - this is one of my top-ten-ever favorite shows, a not-guilty pleasure and a must-see tv date. Part of me wanted it to run forever. Let's go steal us a (new) network.
But part of what made Leverage so wonderful is also what makes me able to let it go, and say "yes, this is okay." Because the characters changed. They grew. They evolved. And they were starting to reach a point where the original premise no longer worked: they weren't emotional misfits held together by the sheer will of their leader and their own surprised joy in the con-for-good. They'd become functional, responsible adults, settling into their skins and their relationships. And that was lovely to watch....
But it also took some of the joyfully chaotic energy out of their scams. And - let's face it - there's only so many times you can take down [fill in the blank] and make it seem fresh and filled with potential disaster at every turn. I've been enjoying this season, but the writer-brain was constantly seeing where the threads were beginning to tie off, closure coming up in the distance. I would have been happy for a sixth season, but I would have been worried, too.
And I'd rather they go out on a high note*.
Now. How fast can we get them all working again?
*and hey, we still have the novels to come...
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Date: 2012-12-22 06:03 pm (UTC)Just de-lurking to say that I started watching Leverage in the first place because you were posting about it a couple of years ago. And I wanted to thank you for introducing me to one of my favorite shows. But it was too good to last for long. There are only so many capers you can plan, only so many good plots you can write. So yes, I too have to admit glad to see them go out while the scripts were still good and before the team became a mockery of themselves. It's been fun watching them all grow up together.
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Date: 2012-12-22 09:41 pm (UTC)