secretallie:fryadvocate:secretallie:This is the moment I truly fell in love with Sophie Devereaux. H
secretallie:fryadvocate:secretallie:This is the moment I truly fell in love with Sophie Devereaux. Her instinctive reaction to Parker (whom she hardly knew at this point) saying she was sick was to check on her, to offer a caring touch that Parker may not have felt in a very long time. I was surprised. I mean, femme fatales I know. Maternal figures, I know them, too. But a femme fatale with a motherly side? I sat up and took notice.That’s how Leverage got me. It took all these tropes, shook them all up, added a pinch of this and that, and somehow gave us complex human beings we’d want to get to know and understand. So we got a femme fatale who mothers everyone, an emotionally intelligent tough guy, a charming and outgoing geek, a mastermind whose own life is out of control, and a childlike innocent who is perhaps the most dangerous member of the crew. And by the time the show’s over, not one of them has remained the exact same person we met in the first season—they’ve all changed and grown, as a family and as individuals, they’ve let their edges melt and overlap into each other while settling more comfortably into themselves. And we saw it happen. What a joy to have seen it happen.Ok, ALSO. ALSO ALSO. Parker is just the sort of character that someone else would have saying things like, “I don’t like other girls” or “I’m different than other girls” and have Parker NOT liking the other two more feminine women (Sophie and Maggie). BUT NOT ON LEVERAGE. On Leverage one of the most interesting things has been seeing Sophie and Parker become friendly and develop this deep friendship and also Parker LOVES Maggie and rather than thinking her not being a criminal makes her less than thinks that Maggie needs hugs and an emergency bag and okokok.ALL MY PARKER FEELINGS.Reblogging because awesome comment is awesome. And also true. Either Parker or Sophie could’ve been written as disdainful or dismissive of each other for having a different kind of femininity, but they weren’t. Instead of Parker disliking Sophie for being “too girly,” and Sophie disliking Parker for not being girly enough, we see them settle into a mutually affirming, accepting, supportive relationship.And the Sophie and Maggie dynamic–that could’ve been a catfight, but amazingly, wonderfully, thankfully, it wasn’t. And Tara, can we talk about Tara? The team distrusted and struggled to accept her at first, because they missed Sophie too much for different reasons, but not because she was overtly sexy and assertive. And honestly it feels kinda weird to have to be thankful for portrayals of women showing basic decency towards each other, because tbh this is just how the girls I’ve known in the real world interact, but in the twisted Hollywood fantasy land shaped by white male writers who write what they imagine women are like, Leverage feels like a window into reality, something refreshingly recognizable and real. -- source link
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