Fandom-Related Shower Thoughts

Whatever happens to Brilliant Minds, if Zachary Quinto has the time either way to guest star on an episode of Elsbeth (as if god forbid we can't save Brilliant Minds Zachary Quinto being Zachary Quinto could just get a new gig right away), I'd want him to but not as a murderer-of-the-week (as Ioan Gruffudd is the show's best example of how The Big Guest Star doesn't have to be that). Specifically I'd want an episode where some aspect of the murder-of-the-week leads Elsbeth to visit Marissa at Gracie Mansion in-whatever-role-she's-now-doing-for-now-mayor-Alec-Bloom and Zachary Quinto's character was a coworker of hers (as I loved Zachary Quinto and Sarah Steele's chemistry at the beginning of S2B, we need a taste of more when her character's actually fucking real but maybe they throw in a little reference to what depth we got on Sofia when we were being led to believe she was real by giving Marissa one of the interests that Sofia was said to have that'd be in character for Marissa too (unlikely-but-possible she'd share the chemistry thing but maybe she's also, like, a writer or a "plant mom" or a party girl or a fan of certain recreational substances)) and maybe how they're connected to the case is the victim worked for Mayor Bloom too and Elsbeth needs their help not just for background yada-yada on the victim that might tell if this was something personal or not but also to figure out if the murderer might have some sort of political motive and want to indirectly hurt the mayor via his staff and therefore if Marissa or Quinto's-hypothetical-character could potentially be next in the killer's crosshairs

rewatching Hamilton proshot and had the brainspark to try and pull up an inflation calculator that goes before 1900 and according to inflation from 1791 to now, the 30 bucks that Hamilton gave Maria to help in her apparent time of need would be worth $1,062.83 and while in "We Know" Madison says that the "hush money" (in today's terms) Hamilton paid was almost a thousand dollars so how much it'd be worth today would be somewhat less than this figure, $1000 in 1791 would be $35,427.66 today

Well, where that gets crossover-y is to take a crossover idea I had before I heard Redemption was ending and use it for this spinoff. After watching the High Potential two-parter "The One That Got Away" (S2 E7-8), I got very much the vibe from Rhys/"Jean-Baptiste" that he could fit in with that kind of crew and maybe help facilitate some High Potential/Leverage crossovers if a network show and streaming show could as, like, it's not all that unreasonable something could lure him back to America that wasn't just Morgan. So maybe my crazy idea is that this new Leverage show could connect to High Potential (if his actor's available) through him being one of the formative members of this new crew and perhaps there's another member who could also have a more American High Potential connection if that makes the crossing easier (like if we're truly being misled about Roman being a bad guy and he's just Chaotic-Neutral-at-worst (or maybe if he is a bad guy needing some, well, redemption) and he's not gonna be a regular presence once found, maybe he could be a part of this too albeit him and Rhys on the same team making for awkward times, y'know, is this a crew or Morgan's League Of Not-So-Evil Exes). And maybe even this new Leverage show connecting in this way to High Potential and in a TL:TNC-esque way to the original shows means original Leverage people could even guest star on High Potential if the story be right.

I think some of the criticisms I've seen are from people who really need to reread that one post about watching The Thing and asking why people are shooting at the dog or w/e as they're critiquing things for seemingly leading to nothing because they didn't lead to anything in that same episode

Sure he may be less of a bad guy than Victor Ochoa but Wish feels like he's almost as much of a narcissist sometimes (e.g. him framing his assumption that RJ had accepted Victor's offer as a perceived slight of him not being invited to celebrate the cleaning of RJ's record)

If a potential character death is used as a cliffhanger 9 times out of 10 if not 10 times out of 10 the character ain't gonna die as that takes all the tension away that the cliffhanger of if they're gonna make it or not is supposed to impart

My thoughts based on where characters currently are up-to-hiatus (as I can say that without metaphorical-venom in my words because we would have had some degree of hiatus anyway because of the Olympics) is that Charco (who in the event of the show going beyond this because I feel like no matter what happens romantically it's at least setting them up after so much buildup to be enough of a platonic duo that the parallel I'm about to make works have got to get a better ship name if what I've heard is right about what charco means in Spanish) would be the Mad Hatter and March Hare, Dana would be the Cheshire Cat and maybe Ericka would be the Caterpillar (there's an argument that Nichols might work for that role but even if you have to delve into deep-cut Wonderland characters (like how if Carol was included in this parallel despite the obvious ironic race joke you could make the first thing that jumped to mind was the White Queen (if you've seen the Tim Burton AIW movies (which were one of the many spins on that story to conflate the Red Queen and Queen Of Hearts despite them originally being two different characters and if this symbolism would do the same I think you can guess who'd be that) the White Queen was Anne Hathaway's character and kinda the good-queen dramatic-foil to the other queen) it's much easier to find something else that could work for him if Ericka's in that role than something else that could work for her if Nichols was

What if the narrative (not necessarily Doylist but Watsonian doesn't apply here) reason we don't know Randy's last name if it's different from Bobby's is because it's a spoiler as he has been seemingly getting more and more focus in the narrative (at least compared to the other supports) so maybe his family would have some kind of mythology connection that Colter would end up discovering later like maybe one of Randy's parents was mixed up in the same shit Ashton Shaw was or w/e

the fact that they're diverse supporting characters to a white male lead isn't evidence of show/writer bigotry

Doylistically the Copilot thing was just product placement and Watsonianly it is kinda easy to fall into the trap of using AI for stuff even when you're as tech-y as S1 at least (S2 leaned into it less) implied Daphne was and everyone makes mistakes. But whatever perspective you view it from it's certainly not a reason to want to quit the show and think its credibility is undermined any more than the Amazon Prime product placement undermines its leftism and lbr, A. the episode was all kinda about trusting what you shouldn't and moral ambiguity and stuff and B. if they had a later season have her very obviously bringing up and bashing her mistake or w/e people would get just as mad.

Be it Morgan, Karadec and Wagner throuple, Morgan, Karadec and Lucia throuple or just taking the semi-established-but-I'd-believe-it-if-it-was-in-more-actual-fanworks polycrimes ship of all five of the squad and adding Wagner into the mix now that we've determined he seems to be a good guy (and he even fits with the unintentional-Power-Rangers-y color symbolism applicable to the group, y'know, Black Ranger (to Morgan's pink, Karadec's blue, Soto's red, Daphne's yellow and Oz's green))

though for those that still ship them that wouldn't have to mean there isn't feelings mom had some doubts on if the kiss in the elevator really happened or it was just in Morgan's head (perhaps if that was because of feelings remembering the almost-kiss from earlier) because she thought there was some weird camera angles during that scene and then when it was done Wagner was just kinda gone