Yeah, I went there

[laceblade]

In comparing the first two episodes (all I've seen) of Leverage to the first two episodes of Burn Notice, I'm going to go ahead and say that:

--Burn Notice is more believable, most especially in getting its characters to continue to "play along" against their will.

--Burn Notice has more interesting episodic plots.

--Michael, Fee, and Sam do a much better job of changing accents/personas to do jobs.

--Michael Weston and Fiona are much more fuckin' bad-ass than any of the characters on Leverage.

--Burn Notice is funnier, IMO - the cheese gets laid on a little too thick for me in Leverage.

--Annnnd, Burn Notice came first, so I feel like Leverage is a little derivative, considering how similar they are.



I'll keep watching Leverage, so don't freak out.
And I usually don't like making posts like these, it's just that I see posts/fic/etc. about leverage all over my flist on the interwebs, but not a lot of love for Burn Notice. WATCH THAT SHIT. Guns, bombs, sexiness, and Fiona gets turned on by beating Michael up. It is totally hot.

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[meganbmoore]

Leverage is also ensemble and starts delving into non-Nate characters pretty quickly, whereas I seem to remember Burn Notice (I watched half a season 2 years ago, I think? And couldn't get into it, so I'm not exactly reliable here.) as being all about the main guy, with other characters contributing to the plot in terms of how they could contribute to whatever was going on with him at the time. It also does that awesome bit where the frontman who sometimes has a private agenda for the cons and the asocial, borderline-amoral character that would usually be fandoms woobies (and the writers have to know what characters the fans will usually go nuts over) are women.