Leverage and CK characters

I have been rewatching a lot of Leverage
and watching Eliot
and comparing him to Lindsey.

Eliot is angry, like, A Lot, possibly all the time, but he's the kind of angry where people can poke him and he'll still think about how he responds, and if they're just playing he'll just say 'dammit' and tell them to quit it and move on.

I don't think poking Lindsey was ever going to go that well.
He gets angry and *mean*.
They make different angry faces.

I think I read Lindsey different having seen the same face make different feelings, or different takes on related feelings.

Even when Eliot is happy he's winning and satisfied with his own skill, which do happen, he don't seem to be enjoying people getting hurt. I think.

It is leaving me things to ponder.




Also, I always end up worrying about CK, all the stunts and all. He says it's like a dance but it still hurts. So I end up wanting to give him more armour and a nice sit down and possibly some foods.



I am in the middle of Leverage season 3 right now and it seems to me Parker and Eliot are having their feelings wake up but are dealing with them... not badly but maybe clumsy?
Like I'm not sure Eliot has figured out which bits make him happy. Kind of want to sit him down and have a long chat. But it would be about feelings so it probably wouldnt work.

I love these characters and now I know how the stories go I know I can trust them, with a few bumpy bits for alcohol.

Leverage is excellent.



Still need to figure out how to watch the reboot.
DVDs are so much simpler than all these streaming whatsits.

What is wrong with USA rich people houses: Stairs

Okay, so, I have been looking at houses on zillow
(no I dont know why either)
and I have discovered that rich people houses in the USA are just... wrong.

Like, I'm not saying this for reasons of taste, make it look however, and I'm not saying British housing is superior, because... *big sigh, vague gesture at everything*
but looking at houses in the USA listings at the rich end just...
they're structurally incoherent. They seem to have no idea what space is *for*, or indeed that it can be for something. The heating and cooling bills must be stupendous, because they appear to have no necessary connection to the climate, and Really Big Glass Wall has been In for at least twenty years, like as a focus for what you might call the living room but I'm not sure they live in it.

... I'm not sure rich people live in these houses. Like they logically must stand, sit, or lie down in at least part of them, but they don't look like houses someone lives a life in.

And when trying to figure out why they give that impression, I have focused in on
Stairs.

Their stairs keep on being incoherent junky messes, and if the stairs are Like That, seems like the rest of the house is going to be too.

I have pondered what I mean by that:
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Once you stop measuring and shaping and placing architecture as a human space where human bodies will do human things, it gets pretty fricking uncanny really fast, imho.

Or just, like, vastly uncomfortable looking.



So the stairs are like a microcosm or symptom of what all else the architecture is likely to be doing, but I feel I have figured out my problem with the stairs first.

Other stuff can be much more nebulous.


... just, so many rooms, so awkwardly placed, no flow, no function, how many people are actually expecting to ever go in there?

What is any of it for?

*big sigh*




I tell you, I look at a lot of these, I miss great halls where the purpose is inviting all your friends and all your enemies and seating them far enough apart they'd have to take a step before they lunge.

Those at least make sense.