Just read the Christian Kane article.

If it wasn’t in my contract that [LEVERAGE executive producer] Dean [Devlin] had Eliot Spencer’s tear ducts sautered, I’d probably cry a little bit I’m so fortunate now.

sautered?

iF Magazine, I think you meant soldered. ::cringe::

Maybe he meant sauteed?

::runs::

Or sutured?

Ha! Whatever's going on with Eliot's tear ducts, it sounds unpleasant.

Watching the WC finale again, because I can't help myself.

I don't think we're supposed to like Kate. It's canon that she's Neal's Achilles' heel. He may be smart, charming, lovely, can forge bonds and paintings, sculpt (half-naked, yay!), escape from a supermax prison, crack a safe, and so on, but Peter can always see through his lies, and he always makes stupid decisions when it comes to Kate.

Moz: "Happily ever after isn't for guys like us."

Peter: "You're fooling yourself if you think Kate's on your side." (Also Kate pulled a gun on Peter! Neal hates guns. That's a significant reveal, when they go to such great pains to show how much Neal hates guns and violence.)

Alex: "I hope that Kate's still the same girl you think she is."

El: "I think there's a difference between loving an idea of someone and actually loving who they really are."

What's interesting is that if she's actually dead, they've pretty much eliminated his main weakness, other than Peter.

Yeah, i read Kate fridged comments but I just didn't care. In the pilot, which i rewatched yesterday, Neal talks convincingly about his love for Kate. Bt as the season went on, I felt like she did nothng to ever show that she still loved him and thus Neal's devotion to her got both annoying and stupid. I suppose she was his blindspot.

As to the LJ post linked to above, I get the "no stupid lies/misunderstandings" thing. This is one of the reasons I dislike so many sitcoms-they are based on stupid misunderstandings.

But I do think the writer might be right about the no lies thing. I say this because I saw a copy of a script page in which Neal misleads Peter with the truth. There was a not on the script about checking to make sure Neal wasn't lying and the way it was written made me think that they have written on the wall intheir writer's room a giant "Neal never lies to Peter."

Just off the top of my head, Neal said he was going to a champagne brunch of Junes's. He lies to Peter.

Another: Neal lied and said that he forgot he wasn't wearing the anklet and went home in Front Man.

I guess since Neal never really gets away with anything major with Peter, that all the lies Neal tells him seem inconsequential to the plot. But he lies a lot.

Actually, the champagne brunch was the script example. He just says that she's having one, not the he's going. Definite desception but not a lie.

Watching the scene at the airport again. I could seriously do this every day.

I rewatched three episodes yesterday while cooking. It's addictive. I'm actually really enjoying watching the relationships develop over the season.