womenofmcu 8th year celebration: favorite moments
→ @just-the-pilot: character development of Melinda “The Cavalry” MayWell, sometimes that’s the price of doing the right thing. No one will understand, and it hurts like hell.
womenofmcu 8th year celebration: favorite moments
→ @just-the-pilot: character development of Melinda “The Cavalry” MayWell, sometimes that’s the price of doing the right thing. No one will understand, and it hurts like hell.
DAISY JOHNSON
in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — 7.03 “Alien Commies from the Future!”
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Did I watch this several times?
- Yes.
Did I giggle every time?
- Also yes.
This is a masterpiece. I don’t think you need to have even read or watched Pride and Prejudice to appreciate this, though of course if you actually know Pride and Prejudice this goes from funny to hysterical.
Fantastic, good to see Mr. Bingley put those powerpoint skills he developed at Eton to work.
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Another standout Vermish moment that we need to talk about.
I love how Hamish is so fiercely protective of Vera here. He’s standing beside Vera, but he angles his body towards her like he’s ready to shield her from whatever comes at her.
I had talked about how I think Hamish may have realized his feelings for Vera after Alyssa’s attack in her office. He woke up in a panic thinking Alyssa had killed Vera, and, while he tried to, he was helpless against it happening.
His relief, when he saw Vera, was palpable. Then he learned that she lost her magic and saw how fragile and vulnerable this formidable woman was at that moment, and he just wanted to fix it, rather he wanted to do what he can to help her fix it.
Hamish has always been a protector. He protects his pack - the people that he loves. It comes from a sense of responsibility (hello, alpha) but also, and more importanly, a place of love. He’s lost loved ones before. If he can do anything to prevent that from happening again, he damn sure will do it.
The attack on Vera, the subsequent loss of her magic, and the whirlwind of emotions he’d gone through in those moments made him fiercely protective of Vera. I think this was a pivotal moment for Hamish (for the both of them really, but I just wanted to talk about Hamish’s protective side because it’s the hottest thing on this show, aside from his sexy self-assuredness and his goofiness and his intellect and the way his eyes flash silver when he’s changing and anyway I digress). I think this was when he realized he truly cares about her. Their whatever-they-are doing is not something removed. She was not just a powerful woman he’s attracted to and respects. She is one of his.
“What is he doing here?” “We’re not staying.” “Yes, we are.” Protective Hamish is the hottest thing, okay? Even just his voice oozes sex like no other.
Also, the shot of Hamish and Vera in the middle of a Jack and Alyssa heart (okay, heart is a stretch) is so aesthetically pleasing to me.
However, the thing I love most about this is scene: “No, you’re not.” “It’s not safe.” “I’m no threat to her.” 1. The way they lower their voices and turn their heads towards each other - it’s such a private intimate conversation. These two are giving off couple energy like no one’s business. 2. Hamish’s intention of being there to protect Vera was not planned. (Jack, when they first got inside said they weren’t staying, and Vera’s now asked him to leave.) He just went fuck your plan imma protect my grand magus. 3. He respects Vera’s agency. He knew Vera was vulnerable without her magic. His instincts tell him he needs to be there for her. BUT when Vera asked him to go (he protested, sure), he went against what he thought he needed to do because he knows Vera is capable. Even without magic, she is smart woman. If she’s sure she’ll be okay, then he’ll trust that.
This is not Hamish being a lapdog. This is a man not subscribing to conventional
toxicmasculine behaviours, and we need to appreciate that more.
Vera and Hamish - Full circle
Thinking where Vera and Hamish are at the end of season 2 is honestly the only way I’m coping with Netflix cancelling The Order (and drowning myself in Vermish fics), so I am yelling one last time (probably) about Vermish.
There are so many things unresolved around and within them (most notably Vera’s magic), but these two had complete arcs. They started broken and alone, resigned to carrying the burden of their pain and responsibilities by themselves without really intending to live a life. Then, they met each other.
Fighting together against Kepler and the acolytes lit a spark in these two (and my heart). They obviously didn’t consider the possiblity of ever finding love again, much less finding it in each other. But they felt something when they met.
Memory wipe, sexual tension so heavy they needed to jump each other’s bones, Rogwan, a mutual respect for the other and finding solace in a physical relationship with each other later, and these two began to care for each other. They supported each other when their respective “sides” were against them.
Hamish has a pack, a family, but as their leader, he’s still an outsider. The other wolves, while they supported and followed him, didn’t really underatand him. They didn’t recognize his struggle and pain. Vera does. Vera understands him because they are cut from the same cloth. With Vera, he also receives care (pillow under his head anyone) instead of him being the caregiver (as he is with the Knights). Hamish STOPPED DRINKING. I will say it again. The fact that he stopped drinking means he want to live. Hamish is no longer resigning himself to “short is the life” He wants a future
with Vera.Vera tried her damnest to push Hamish away. She didn’t have anyone for the longest time. No one understood her – until Hamish. He saw Vera for who she really is, cared about her and slowly chipped away at the walls she’s built around herself. She REACHED FOR HIS HAND. She’s not pushing Hamish away. She’s not even just passively accepting his affection. She is actively asking him to be with her.
This is their starting point. “I can’t imagine being in a relationship with someone on the opposite side.” Both broken and alone. They see themselves as intruments to their cause.
At the end of the series, they have both come full circle. Two broken individuals who are slowly helping each other become whole together.
And, I mean, if this last shot of them does not convey ENDGAME, I don’t know what does.
You know those restaurants that have virtually no clients, the staff isn’t particularly friendly, the few patrons seem really surly, and the food is amazing but the place absolutely should NOT be open and running for as long as it is? And then you’re like oh okay this is a mob restaurant. This is 100% a front for the mob.
Anyway, Sophie’s theater and Eliot’s restaurant. She’s the worst actress they’ve ever seen and Eliot makes zero effort to hide his knife skills and attitude. So many shady dealings go on in those places and there seems to be an… understanding with the fbi?
Locals think the leverage crew is the mob (they don’t care too much, it seems to keep trouble away and the productions/food are fantastic and cheaper than they should be). Parker and Eliot catch and absolutely lean into the rumors.
via @leverage-ot3
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data is such a bitch
He seriously said “fuck around and find out”.
Data is great because he’s such a cold bastard (affectionately!) in this moments.
Like, in The Most Toys, the guy who kidnapped him has just murdered one of Data’s friends with a weapon designed to hurt horribly while it kills you. Data has the weapon, and is aiming it at the kidnapper. The kidnapper is like “bullshit, you can’t kill, you’re a robot. You’re not even sad or angry I killed that woman, you have no emotions.”
And data is like “logically if I let you live, you will go on to kill more people, so by killing you now the total number of hurt people will be lowered. Eat trolley problem, bitch.”
And the kidnapper looks terrified for a moment, then relieved because the Enterprise shows up right then and teleports Data away. Data reappears on the Enterprise, and says “Thanks for saving me. This is an illegal weapon. Please lock it up”. Riker goes “hey the transporter detected a power surge while we were bringing you over here, did you fire this thing at that fucker?” and Data just goes “hmm. Perhaps the transporter beam interfered with the device.” and walks out, while Riker makes this face:
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i feel like ive seen some criticism of redemption eliot undoing character growth from the original five seasons and i …..dont think thats true?
the way i kind of read things is seasons 1-5 eliot was, as he says, working through his anger issues. learning that he could start to care again. start doing good. but he was already resigned to going to hell, so as he learns to care he also learns that his place is as a protector to his family, to people he doesn’t know. i think seasons 1-5 is about eliot learning about who he is, really. because eliot went from a “normal” small town country jock to joining the military to black ops to assassin for hire, and somewhere along the way he lost his soul (again in his own words). so where we see him, at the end of season five, when he says he doesn’t have to search anymore, yes it is about hardison and parker but i dont think its just about their relationship i think it’s also about who he is within that relationship; a protector, someone who is dedicated to doing something good.
and i feel like in redemption in the second episode we have eliot talking to hardison about hardison doing this huge move away from crime for good and into being a white hat all the time and eliot jokes “i achieved perfection pretty early huh”. which i feel like is just. setting us up for big character changes for him. because redemption isnt just bonus episodes of leverage its going to have its own arc and i think it would be boring if the main cast didn’t grow and change? and then through the rest of redemption we see eliot grappling with the effects of PTSD, and attempting to reconnect with his father, which are bits and pieces of the original five seasons that i dont think actually got wrapped up for him at the end of season 5, to say nothing of the part where eliot is also trying to have a long term romantic relationship outside of hardison and parker (and listen this is separate from my feelings about maria) whereas we kind of only saw him have flings with people outside the team before.
so that moment in the hurricane job where maria says “you don’t think you deserve to be happy” i think that thats a really poignant moment because??? he doesn’t. eliot is used as an example of hardison’s framing of redemption for harry because eliot doesn’t think hes achieved redemption. hes still doing the work every day. and i feel like its really telling that hardison uses eliot as this example, when hardison could have used any one of the others. he used eliot because eliot is still very entrenched in the process, because of his core beliefs about himself. idk like i get that its called leverage redemption because it’s about harry redeeming himself from his previous choices as a lawyer, but given that eliot is used in the framing of redemption, given that he is being given a lot more of the big emotional moments so far, i do find myself asking if that is eliot’s arc, if leverage redemption is actually going to be about eliot believing he can be redeemed