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I want to like Leverage, because I like John Rogers, but I'm thinking it isn't for me. For one thing, I feel like there are too many unintentionally absurd humans-don't-do-that moments (like the CNN reporter who gets on her cell phone to deliver a zinger while she's still standing in front of the suddenly disgraced Congressman that she's taping, or like the FBI agent who goes out into the crowd of businessmen to ask, hey, was anyone else here involved in the bribery?) in the context of something that, politically and technologically speaking, is supposed to be taking place in the actual world.
For another thing, in the pilot they explained every plot point like 75 times. I wasn't even paying that much attention when I watched the pilot, which presumably makes me the kind of viewer that they were doing all that overexplaining for, and I felt like they explained things too many times. Like, you just showed us that, you don't have to tell us what we just saw.
I guess what they're going for is a sort of '70s cool-gadgety-adventure-show feel--but with reality-based stories about callous insurance companies and crooked contractors in Iraq and such. So far I'm not sure that they've found a good place for those ideas to meet.
Anyone else watching this? What do you think?
For another thing, in the pilot they explained every plot point like 75 times. I wasn't even paying that much attention when I watched the pilot, which presumably makes me the kind of viewer that they were doing all that overexplaining for, and I felt like they explained things too many times. Like, you just showed us that, you don't have to tell us what we just saw.
I guess what they're going for is a sort of '70s cool-gadgety-adventure-show feel--but with reality-based stories about callous insurance companies and crooked contractors in Iraq and such. So far I'm not sure that they've found a good place for those ideas to meet.
Anyone else watching this? What do you think?