I am so sad that we'll never get to see Hardison fighting competently on Leverage.

In season 6...

Zen--what was up with the people on John's blog saying Parker and Hardison have no chemistry? Heresy!

Fuck if I know. Are they blind?

I realise I don't know how I feel about Nate/Sophie, because I feel Nate/Maggie is perfectly workable too, and I can't pick one over the other.

I think Nate/Maggie is essentially done. They care about each other and there's still a spark, but the relationship couldn't survive Sam's death and Nate's meltdown. (Maggie is stronger than Nate emotionally, which I think was well and subtly shown in every scene with the two of them dealing with Sam's death.) Maggie doesn't fit into Nate's new world. Sophie does. Sophie always fit a part of Nate, but their relationship couldn't go forward until he admitted that part of him existed. I'm happy to see what comes next for them. But by the end of the season they need to be either Together or definitively Not Together! I'm okay either way, but this part of the story needs to resolve. (And Tim Hutton needs to get lots more opportunities to kiss people, so I can watch.)

Fuck if I know. Are they blind?

Friend chemistry. The hell? That's what Eliot and Parker have, when I'm not wearing my OT3 hat. Stork Job sent my shippery heart crazy.

Tim Hutton needs to get lots more opportunities to kiss people

I swear I was anti-ship until the almost kiss...and then I was...whatever gets him to do that more. But consummation isn't important for me, though. I'm more invested in seeing Parker and Hardison move towards something.

My favorite little P/H moment was in The Ice Man Job, when she's just yanked him into the closet or whatever it was, out of the main vault, and they're standing pressed up against each other in that tiny space, with their foreheads resting together, and it was so sweet and tender and poignant. And then the det cord blew.

I'm saying this to John Rogers on Twitter:

ita and I have agreed that Tim Hutton needs to get lots more opportunities to kiss people. Can you make that happen, please?

unless you don't want me to. Think it'll work?

Heh. Go ahead. I'm willing to cosign that opinion.

with their foreheads resting together

Oh, that was a moment. There was a look. I don't know how anyone could have not seen that.

you need to add something about Aldis being shirtless, or dressed as a priest!

Don't forget the thigh holster!

We already got Aldis dressed as a priest! And shirtless.

Which is how we are sure we need more!!

I know Memphis Beat wasn't popular, but did anyone catch HawthoRNe with Jada Pinkett Smith? I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it. Not surprised that I continue to find Mrs. Smith made of Awesome. I'm going to make an effort to seek it out again.