this is the first thing i saw this morning, tumblr mom, and before my first cup of coffee i was overcome with a wall of roaring half-focused Feelings about Leverage (The Perfect TV Show) and Discworld (the Perfect Books)
(oh i know i’m a halfawake MESS but)
Leverage will be the thing I binge-watch when I need comfort when I’m eighty, probably, just like Terry Pratchett will be the thing I reread for comfort until I’m dead, and I just realized it’s because they’re both *funny*, genuinely funny, but they are fictional worlds written by people with a finely-tuned sense of *justice*.
i don’t really know how to express what i mean but. um.
like, with any other Robin-Hood style show with 50+ episodes, I feel like almost any other team would’ve eventually said “eh, we keep writing stories about how the rich and powerful abuse ordinary citizens. we should SWITCH IT UP with a TWIST about how this time, it is the ordinary citizens taking advantage of the rich and powerful!”
nope. never. the writing team kept the faith for five years: the bad guys were almost *always* the rich white men. (occasionally a rich white woman was evil!) there was no victim-blaming: over and over, in the fictional universe, whenever the writers had a chance, they went with: no, you trusted the system, you paid your taxes, you worked hard, they screwed you. they abused your trust. they conned you, and we’re going to fix it.
(via dizzy-redhead)
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