Over in Alan Sepinwall's blog, "What's Alan Watching?" (see the link to the left), a commenter named Andrew needed a place to vent about 'Leverage', and no 'Leverage' post to do so:
Andrew said...
I just needed to post this somewhere: On this week's "Leverage" they made the whole mission a metaphor for chess (or chess was a metaphor for the mission) and their opponent said that she can see every angle and plans for every contingency. As if this metaphor wasn't lazy enough, she has a chessboard just sitting on the table nearby.
But then they have her randomly come up to the board, ponder a moment, and then move a pawn diagonally into an empty square. This is not how pawns move. Ever. I am not a fanboy nitpicker, but if you are going to beat the viewer over the head with chess as a metaphor, you'd think someone would have caught that, no?
Andrew is right; that's why they have continuity people and script supervisors. But since it wasn't caught, we have to come up with a reason why it happened within the reality of the show itself.
And my thinkin' is that Lauren Holly's character really didn't know chess at all; she was a poseur. And also so powerful that if anybody standing there with her saw it happen, they'd be too afraid for their jobs to mention it.
BCnU!
Toby O'B
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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