The Expired Marvel Netflix series

Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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Tets
One of Cottonmouth's flunkies seems to like The Legend of Zelda :monster:

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X-SOLDIER

X-SOLDIER

Harbinger O Great Justice
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X
Finished it. Liked it. Wanted to like it more.

Diamondback carried the intimidation but not the gravitas that he was built up to have, and him being Luke Cage's half-brother felt like it was too much of a coincidence that made an attempt to make things personal without actually doing it. He doesn't really have a connection to the community or anything else that would've helped to tie that together, & their last fight wasn't all I hoped it would be.

Loved all the other elements and villain development, but didn't know why Luke Cage would KO flunkies constantly but not Cottonmouth when they were face-to-face.

Also, the series ending with a total crippling gut punch was really rough, since there's no real victory despite everything that happened.

Nice intro to Night Nurse and tease at Iron Fist in the end.




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Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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Tets
I like that the word flunky was actually used in episode 12. :wackymonster:

Also, have a gif of Luke slapping a fool:

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Clement Rage

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Okay, done.

No JJ cameo. This makes me sad, although it's nice to see Kima Greggs and Levy again.

Is Misty actually clairvoyant or was that just good detective work with the pictures? I know nothing about her.

Cottonmouth very well acted, I was sad to see him go even though he had literally no way to harm Luke. Interestingly, with Pop he was held accountable for something he genuinely had nothing to do with and didn't want to happen.

They did keep the tension fairly well, even with almost nothing being able to hurt Luke and even then not really hurting him much (walking wounded after two shots and still kicking the shit out of people fairly easily.)

Diamondback didn't really have the impact he was meant to. What actually happened with the final fight, did the suit power itself by being hit or did Stryker just get tired?

Stupid complaint: I felt like the criminals killed too many of their own men for no reason. The guy tossed off the roof was fine, but these villains don't have vast swarms of henchmen, if they are in the habit of killing them for no reason, they will either run out of willing henchmen or face mutiny/desertion, very, very quickly. You can't go around shooting people for talking about hip hop and keep anyone's loyalty for long.

Edit: It's nice to see the
'the system is corrupt' speech get flipped for once, a witness gets killed because she was outside it.

Oh, and Luke really does need a lawyer
after all the stuff Seagate pulled. With that flash drive, he should be able to get serious compensation from Seagate. Torture, unethical experiments, illegal fighting ring...
 
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The Twilight Mexican

The Twilight Mexican

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TresDias
Finished this up the other night. It's definitely the weakest link in the Netflix shows so far, and -- if not for the existence of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." -- I'd say the overall weakest in the MCU as a whole. Even "Ant-Man" felt like it did what it was supposed to better most of the time.

I agree with pretty much every point made in this CBR article: "15 things that did (and didn't) work in Netflix's Luke Cage." As the article says, there were some great things here, such as the soundtrack, but the pacing was shit and
the romance subplot between Luke and Claire
felt both completely unnecessary and kinda dumb.

Overall, it was decent. Had some good, even great, things going for it; also had plenty of disappointment.
 
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Clement Rage

Pro Adventurer
It's not the length that's the problem, it's what you do with it. DD season 1 was well paced enough, JJ suffered from
too many lucky Kilgrave escapes
but that would be easily solved by having him show up later and run a longer arc about her detective agency stuff first. The ensemble show is one place I want to see more space, because you have more characters to play with, they need room to shine.

Luke Cage could have been tighter, but they also could have used their time differently. One review I saw mentioned that
Diamondback was given too much to do, he can't be both the crazy loose cannon and the super powerful gang leader arms supplier. There was a good plot there in having him be a professional killer that makes a play for power, with the hammertech connect being somebody else, a Madame Gau type figure that gives up and leaves at the end because it's not worth her time. Maybe it could even actually be Madame Gau, leaving a loose thread for Iron Fist

Or maybe I'm just being smug in hindsight.
 
Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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Tets
Yeah that was known from the beginning. I quoted in the OP when the Netflix deal was announced that Defenders would be a mini-series. :monster:
 
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