Leverage and other Kane
May. 30th, 2022 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethDid the tasks of the day, received the weekly food, ate comfortable portions of the food, including ice cream despite being cold, and watched a disc of Leverage.
I'm watching them in dvd order and it's very different than the order on wikipedia.
The time they're on the airplane on the way to the Caymans, The Mile High Job, the Librarian movie that's playing gets funnier given the Redemption casting. Small world.
While they're stealing a miracle Eliot mentions a nephew.
In crossover world we could get Lindsey McDonald on the family tree (after enough of a falling out someone changes their family name, which Eliot and Lindsey both have had). Lindsey mentioned six of them in one room and only four after flu season, and losing the house when he was 7. Not an exact fit for what else we know, but you can make it work.
The worlds only work together because it's possible to be ignorant of the demons and so forth, but if team Leverage were that ignorant of something that huge, it would be a difficult sell, given their general competence.
But there's the fun writer suggestion that Eliot works for the SGC some times, or used to, and it just never came up, outside of "you never know when you might have to fight an alien". So I figure it's more plausible the team are keeping secrets than that they don't know at all.
So that leaves me noodling what kind of secrets. Like they'd have one each. And each one would seem Huge and Secret, but also somehow not come up at work?
... tricky.
If Eliot is ex Initiative and got a slightly different job when the experiment fell apart, he could have an edge in resilience, but know how bad things can get. And have to keep secrets officially. And want to keep it all away from the others.
I did read a fic where Parker was all, of course vampires are real, we know that, right? ... Right?
So she wasn't keeping a secret she just didn't think it needed saying.
That also seems plausible.
What Nate would need from the world of the supernatural, especially the kind of stuff Lindsey's former employers were selling access too, gets real dark. Experimental treatment *indeed*.
But if he knew enough, especially about the corporate end, to stay the hell away from the demonic stuff... and still wonders in the small hours if that was the right call...
dark.
Hardison not knowing would be funny. Because Hardison knows all. But the internet carries everything humans say at each other, not, like, carefully peer reviewed knowledge. If he knows all those websites that let you look up types of demons but just assumes it's all as real as WoW that would be funniest.
It would be easy to think Sophie has a glamour or a bard's knack for Suggestion and Fascinate, but then it's just magic. Anyone can apply magic. Boring.
She's just good at seeing.
Maybe a little too good for someone with no magic, but, she's still just seeing people, how they act, what they do, what they're trying to hide.
How she uses that is all skill.
Librarians and Angel looks like it should be an easy fit (magic) but is so different in the detail it feels harder than saying masquerade worked on one team.
I dont feel like these are new thoughts.
I should watch something new and have new thoughts.
... I havent really felt like watching new things for A While now. Just... there's a lot of world in the world lately, and I want to know how the story goes before I start again.
Ah well.
Also today I bought the expansion for the Wingspan computer game that gives you European birds, so I have happy stuff to play on there. It's harder to make a plan with more birds though. And I'm not near my high score yet. Shall see how that works out.
Was a nice day.
I'm watching them in dvd order and it's very different than the order on wikipedia.
The time they're on the airplane on the way to the Caymans, The Mile High Job, the Librarian movie that's playing gets funnier given the Redemption casting. Small world.
While they're stealing a miracle Eliot mentions a nephew.
In crossover world we could get Lindsey McDonald on the family tree (after enough of a falling out someone changes their family name, which Eliot and Lindsey both have had). Lindsey mentioned six of them in one room and only four after flu season, and losing the house when he was 7. Not an exact fit for what else we know, but you can make it work.
The worlds only work together because it's possible to be ignorant of the demons and so forth, but if team Leverage were that ignorant of something that huge, it would be a difficult sell, given their general competence.
But there's the fun writer suggestion that Eliot works for the SGC some times, or used to, and it just never came up, outside of "you never know when you might have to fight an alien". So I figure it's more plausible the team are keeping secrets than that they don't know at all.
So that leaves me noodling what kind of secrets. Like they'd have one each. And each one would seem Huge and Secret, but also somehow not come up at work?
... tricky.
If Eliot is ex Initiative and got a slightly different job when the experiment fell apart, he could have an edge in resilience, but know how bad things can get. And have to keep secrets officially. And want to keep it all away from the others.
I did read a fic where Parker was all, of course vampires are real, we know that, right? ... Right?
So she wasn't keeping a secret she just didn't think it needed saying.
That also seems plausible.
What Nate would need from the world of the supernatural, especially the kind of stuff Lindsey's former employers were selling access too, gets real dark. Experimental treatment *indeed*.
But if he knew enough, especially about the corporate end, to stay the hell away from the demonic stuff... and still wonders in the small hours if that was the right call...
dark.
Hardison not knowing would be funny. Because Hardison knows all. But the internet carries everything humans say at each other, not, like, carefully peer reviewed knowledge. If he knows all those websites that let you look up types of demons but just assumes it's all as real as WoW that would be funniest.
It would be easy to think Sophie has a glamour or a bard's knack for Suggestion and Fascinate, but then it's just magic. Anyone can apply magic. Boring.
She's just good at seeing.
Maybe a little too good for someone with no magic, but, she's still just seeing people, how they act, what they do, what they're trying to hide.
How she uses that is all skill.
Librarians and Angel looks like it should be an easy fit (magic) but is so different in the detail it feels harder than saying masquerade worked on one team.
I dont feel like these are new thoughts.
I should watch something new and have new thoughts.
... I havent really felt like watching new things for A While now. Just... there's a lot of world in the world lately, and I want to know how the story goes before I start again.
Ah well.
Also today I bought the expansion for the Wingspan computer game that gives you European birds, so I have happy stuff to play on there. It's harder to make a plan with more birds though. And I'm not near my high score yet. Shall see how that works out.
Was a nice day.