#leverage 2009

I think one of the reasons Elliot and Sophie have such an interesting dynamic to me is the dichotomy between Elliot, who has always used his name and has it connected to everything he’s ever done and all the people he’s ever known, and Sophie, whose real name and story is a mystery and who lives full lives in her mind for every one of her grifts

i think one writing tenant leverage writers understood so so well is that overexplaining is the bane of fiction. for many reasons. you’ll bog down your audience with details that don’t matter, making it hard to suspend disbelief because that attitude encourages nitpicking. you leave no room for people to make their own observations and connections (because art is inherently collaborative). you also, very importantly, make it excruciatingly hard to make your plot lines and histories line up and everything tends to end up tripping on its own lore. and i genuinely think they did really well with this in leverage. they left things to the imagination, gave us the details we needed, explored the characters as they are now without showing us every inch of their past. all that being said i do really want to know how nate got into insurance.

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