[Slow Ben]

 Abyss, on 16 January 2025 - 04:08 PM, said:

 Slow Ben, on 16 January 2025 - 03:06 PM, said:

 Abyss, on 16 January 2025 - 02:24 PM, said:

i didn't even like the tv show and i'm excited about this.

Not even Season 2 with the Punisher?


"Only I do the one thing you cant. You hit'em, and they get back up. I hit'em, and they stay down!"

Too much Karen and Foggy, too much Kingpin's tragic love story, too much Matt existential angst, not nearly enough Daredevil doing Daredevilish stuff. The Punny addition was fun but didn't do anything to cut back all of that. By the end I was ff'ing more than watching.

I ack there are budget and production reasons why we can't get 44 minutes of Daredevil punching baddies, it's just what they gave us instead was basic tv soap drama 101 - and borderline completely separate from or irrelevant to Daredevil's story - and however great D'Onofrio is, it just doesn't hold my attention.

I dont disagree with any of that.

I think I enjoyed the Punisher parts enough the other stuff didn’t seem as bad.

[Tiste Simeon]

Those Netflix marvel shows were weird. They all seemed to start really well and just be quite boring by the end of the season.

Like almost without fail.

Abyss covers the Daredevil stuff well but I always felt Fisk was the best part of the show.

Jessica Jones, similarly, had an incredible bad guy (thank you David Tennant!) but by the second half of the series I was just fed up with how whiny and dark and "edgy" she was. It was grating.

Luke Cage was one of the better ones but again he had a phenomenal bad guy - who they then killed off half way through and the series just got messy.

Iron Fist was just awful. I gave up on that collaborative show (Defenders?) about 2 episodes in and haven't watched any of the others since.

The potential for all of them to be incredible shows was there each time and they all just failed to meet it IMO.