I don't think of Parker as having enough understanding of social interactions to come up with something like that. Sophie's character seemed a little off too.

Well, it had been six months, shouldn't they have changed somehow?

And just because they're crooks, it doesn't mean that they know how to launder money. And the way that the O'Haras were doing it is new and different.

It still struck me as not being very Parker like somehow.

It seemed like something she had been thinking about while she was stealing the Hope diamond and so forth.

It was pretty absurd that Nate had to explain how to launder money to a bunch of career criminals.

Having rewatched the episode, I don't think he was telling them anything they didn't know--they were all smirky and smug the whole way through. I think they just wanted him to talk his way into it.

Leverage!!! Oh, show.

It was great to see everyone back together, and the getting-back-together scenes were adorable.

Hardison and Parker took their aliases from The Departed, heeeeee.

There was a lot of "Let's make sure a new audience can jump right in," but I will forgive it.

That girl was a good actress, I thought.

Also, the bank guy was the guy from Drive !

Leverage, yay!

Okay, so I caved and ahemmed. It had been, like, twenty four hours, man. Anyway, I love this show! I missed it so much! I missed the characters. I missed the cons. I missed the lighthearted caper background music.

I am happy to have them on my teevee is what I am saying.

I was totally confused, so I don't mind the captain exposition stuff. I feel like they did a fairly large amount of stuff with show as well as the initial tell. I think if I were tuning in to a heavily advertised new show and knew it was the first ep of the season, I would expect a little explication and I think they did a good job with it considering.

I like the new set and enjoyed it, but think that I hope they settle down with the WHEEE cameras in new places angles shortly.

Also, the bank guy was the guy from Drive !

Who was also the director of a few season 1 Buffys.

We watched Leverage last night, and I loved the fact that they all showed up for the play knowing it would be terrible.

The reaction when she said that her acting was better than her singing was priceless.

LEVERAGELEVERAGELEVERAGE!!

Yes, I watched threefour and about a third times last night. What?

Exploding crotch! Hope diamond! Hacking the white house! I did the finger thing! People like locks! Nate getting totally conned by the team! Landlords!

SOPHIE AND ELIOT not CHECKING OUT NATE'S KINK STASH WTF???!!?

I NEED AT LEAST FOUR MORE VIEWINGS. NOT BECAUSE I AM CONFUSED. BECAUSE IT IS, umm, FRIDAY.

Finally, in case anyone's interested: Jon Rogers is doing fun post-show wrapups at the blog, apparently after each ep. It's a fun blog anyway.

I love that blog. This comment made me laugh (whitefonted, because I'm not sure if he's kidding or not):

Although we haven't done a proper wheelchair fight yet. I think we just shot the meat cvleaver fight last week ...