Comment on repairing the world

  1. yuripuppies Wed 14 Jul 2021 12:17AM UTC

    I went through the entire spectrum of emotions here. Hardison is loved! And he belongs!! I'm not crying!

    Maybe that was why he kept saying it, to street preachers, to random cops, to Nate, like a kid poking at an achy tooth with his tongue. Feeling the disbelief, feeling the ache, waiting for the person who would finally take him at his word.

    I feel this so much.

    The entirety of his Yom Kippur conversation with Eliot.

    “You need me to cook kosher for you?”

    alasndjfksjadk

    “The gates of repentance, huh? And they’re only open for one day a year?”

    ALSJDJALAKFSK

    And the enormity of Eliot 'my love language is acts of service but also food' Spencer offering to make the brewpub Kosher certified. He's a good Southern boy! They cook with lard!! “It tastes like you love Hardison.” ALSJDKAALSKALDSM

    Nana Hardison, queen of radical acceptance, what a legend.

    And just when I thought I'd made it thru the fic without crying I read the words "Bar Mitzvah" and just lost it. Just! Using his mama's bat mitzvah and then his own as bookends hits me right in the legacy and continuity and intergenerational transmission feels! And his portion is such a good fit, too! [insert sidetrack about my Rabbi's very incorrect opinions about that portion and my very correct opinions that I apparently share with Hardison]

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    1. Poetry Thu 15 Jul 2021 07:19AM UTC

      A big reason I got so excited about Hardison's speech on teshuvah in Leverage: Redemption is that it turned Hardison's jokes about being Jewish from something uncomfortable, like "haha isn't it silly that Hardison would say he's Jewish" into this very canny and deliberate move on Hardison's part where he plays with people's expectations of his identity. Those jokes never sat well with me, but through the lens of him actually being Jewish, I now really enjoy them.

      Omg, I'm so glad you are fired up about that parshah too. I have a lot of feelings about Moses and Aaron! I feel like there are a lot of moments in Leverage where Hardison is the Aaron to Parker's Moses - he enables this translation between Parker-speak and the rest of the world.

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