#leverage korea

Like, I never needed it to be a one for one of the American show. But… I loved the fact that not only are we shown how amazing each person was in their roles, we were also told they always worked alone.

Which isn’t exactly true. Eliot had Moreau (and the us military, I guess), Sophie had… well, Sophie kind of had a few different peeps, and Parker had Archie. Nate had his dad, I guess, and IYS.

I’d say the only one who worked alone is Hardison, if we don’t count his little interweb friends.

The point being, is while they weren’t all truly lone wolves, by the point Nate runs across them they basically were. And their previous “partners/associates” were basically different versions of their roles. Eliot wasn’t running around with grifters, Parker wasn’t working with hackers, Sophie didn’t need a thief because she always saw the grift as a play to facilitate the stealing, and Alec had probably never even known about hitters.

So I guess, I just would have preferred a storyline of Na Byul and Eui Sung both trying to steal the same item, and causing issues for the other with their skills. Say Na Byul was in the process of getting through the lasers and Eui Sung noticed and decided to make things difficult for her. And Na Byul, realizing that someone is sabotaging her proceeds to steal the Buddha painting(?) and somehow escaping the traps that Eui Sung was laying in hopes of preventing her success.

I would have liked that more than they were already teamed up for a job and then he cut and ran. Because enemies to allies is fun, allies where one abandoned the other and then they are forced to be teammates again is meh. Maybe for a later storyline (I mean Leverage kind of did something like that), but not for our first episode introducing the characters. I want to like the characters not sit here sneering at Eui Sung the entire time.

like they would have the same annoying vibe to eliot. to eliot, there is no difference between na byeol and roy and young parker and hardison.

but also, roy has a lot of fun making fun of eliot. eliot shows so much emotion--whether it's anger or whatever--his emotions are shown on his face. you know what he's feeling just by looking at him.

but with roy, it's so much harder to guess what he's feeling, and i think roy would have a lot of fun standing next to eliot being like 😐 while eliot is freaking out about whatever.

so it would look a little something like;

eliot: dAmMiT hArDiSoN 🤬😡😤

roy: 😐🧍🏻‍♂️

and then eliot would try to compose himself and be like;

eliot doesn't have to be told to flirt with women. he will do it and he will complain very little.

roy HATES it. he hates that he's being asked to do it, he hates that you would even suggest it, hey how about you try flirting with women and see how you like it? 😡

eui sung: 🙄😐😒

na byeol: oooh 😍 he’s my kind of guy ☺️🥰