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Second sEason was pretty meh without the punisher but yeah. He's the best of a meh crop. Plus I liked all of his support g cast. Though I loathed elecktra.

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I'll agree with you there - I wasn't a fan of the actress or the portrayal either...

   
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Yeah I didn't like Elektra at all either.. glad the gave the punnisher a show instead of her, that's one I'd skip

 
   
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Wow. Really gotta disagree about Elektra. I thought she seemed right out of the Miller books.

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Wow. Really gotta disagree about Elektra. I thought she seemed right out of the Miller books.

Agree 100%. Really liked her and immediately thought of her in the Miller DD books. Sexy, dangerous, plus a little bit of the WTF? crazy showing through.

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OK, I am about halfway through IF and do see the issues already mentioned, but i am intrigued and entertained, nonetheless. Totally agree that some better scripting on motivation and background would go a LONG way in getting the meandering Danny character explained.

DD - eagerly awwaiting the next season. Great performances and robust fight scenes. When you have to occupy dozens of hours of airtime with plot, sure it can get slow at times, but very happy with the DD series, characters and portrayals.

LC was good because of all that is going on around him. Let's admit, the series was watchable because of the cast supporting him (Two recent Academy Award winners!!!)

JJ - I got through three episodes and stopped. So slow and it never really motivated me to keep going. Should I forge through it? If there are some great episodes with fight scenes, can anyone let me know what they are so I can skip to them??

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 gorgon wrote:
Wow. Really gotta disagree about Elektra. I thought she seemed right out of the Miller books.

Agree 100%. Really liked her and immediately thought of her in the Miller DD books. Sexy, dangerous, plus a little bit of the WTF? crazy showing through.


Yep...crazy/sexy/deadly. I thought she was great. Light years from the Jennifer Garner casting and performance.

Now, Elektra didn't have much agency in the show, being just a pawn used by Stick. So I guess I get that complaint. But I thought the character seemed very much like the Miller Elektra.


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OK, I am about halfway through IF and do see the issues already mentioned, but i am intrigued and entertained, nonetheless. Totally agree that some better scripting on motivation and background would go a LONG way in getting the meandering Danny character explained.


Yeah, I was still entertained by it on a brain candy level. It's not much different in that regard than most Marvel feature films. I think season 2 has the potential to be really good if they can iron some things out.

I'll probably watch Defenders, but IF could have used another season first, since they left him as such a hero-in-progress.

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I finally got to watch them all in a few days time....

Iron Fists meandering and psychology makes total sense to me as part of his arc is to go from being basically a man child to an actual adult.

The show seemed to have a lot of themes around Destiny vs. Free-choice. The choice to be Danny represented free-will, while Iron Fist was destiny. The character was then consistently put in situations where he had to chose which he wanted to follow.

Lastly, it seems like each of the "Hands" leaders has a different methodolgy they use to achieve their goals. The Hand itself seems more like a loose affiliation of powerful leaders and their pet causes. That makes them a useful villain as they can do whatever the script needs to challenge the hero

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We'll find out soon enough eh.

Aye Easy E that was my impression of the show as well. I don't get why it's had so much gak thrown at it compared to the other Netflix shows, it didn't seem to have any more or fewer issues than the other shows and to my eye it was just as watchable and enjoyable.

It seemed more like it was getting criticism for not living up to unrealistic expectations rather than for being objectively worse than the other Marvel Netflix shows.

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