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    Just finished it. I liked it. I didn't love it. There were a lot of great moments. Really like the theme song. Glad to see some minor characters such as Turk and such popping up and make it feel like it's all going on in the same place. I know they're trying to keep shows separate more or less until The Defenders, but man there were a lot of great opportunities to include some of the other characters from shows.

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    alfre woodard's character is awful...i dont know if it's just her acting or how she was written or what but goddamn it's bad

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elestial View Post
    Another issue I'm having with this show... somebody on /r/Defenders said:

    "The show does a really good job of making a culture I'm not a part of feel relatable. You can put yourself in the characters' shoes."

    I really disagree with that statement.
    I think it came closest to that with the assertion that Pop's place was akin to Switzerland for kids. But even then, you still had... well, niggas being niggas. The attempt at politics in the latter half going on to somewhat mirror the BLM movement just kinda had me shaking my head.

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    The bullets getting approved also seemed like a hell of a plot convenience. If we're to presume any link to reality, arming the cops with expensive exploding ammunition would be the utmost disaster, especially given it's all in response to one guy linked to 3 incidents, and 2 of the more by hearsay and super grainy camera footage (that they refused to acknowledge once cleaned up with regard to Striker). I also find it curious they seem to ignore the reality that Luke shielded the one cop from that hail of bullets from his partner. So, either that video was doctored or that report was wrong/ignored.

    Essentially, this plays into my earlier critique about the series trying to be too many things and not really exceeding at any of them. If a fair chunk of the show is gonna be cop drama, cops actually need to behave like cops and not just convenient plot devices when you need to push something. When something like Law and Order or NCIS can do a better job of this, the writing needs some work.

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    Misty Knight character is also p bad. Her interactions with the other detective at the office are often cringeworthy bad.

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    I'm enjoying how many actors from The Wire were used in the series.

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    Just finished the first episode. Is this shit a prequal?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xno Kappa View Post
    Is this shit a prequal?
    No, it's post DD & JJ. Rosario's character brings them up a few episodes in.

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    I think the way that the Netflix shows work chronologically is that the last episode happens (timeline wise) on the day that the series hits Netflix same way that all the movies are considered to conclude on the day they premiere in theaters.

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    Finish it also, and like everyone else, liked it, but definitely not my favorite. Is it sad that I really only watched in hopes of seeing some Danny Rand teasing for IF show? Followed up by severe disappointment.

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    Why the fuck would you make all that fuss over Misty almost losing her arm and not follow through you teasing assholes?

    Show really started going down hill once Diamondback was introduced. I had about all I can take of villains whose driving motivation is that daddy loved their bother more.

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    Second episode and I'm already getting annoyed at the telegraphed stuff happening. Overly long pauses, cheesy dialogue now and it's getting worse.

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    the writing is bad, it doesn't get any better throughout the season

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    Episode 3
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    This latin dude in the hospital should be fucking slapped for being such a shitty actor. Holy fucking fuck

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    Daredevil+JJ were not actually that great, both series were carried by fantastic villain performances.
    There's no redeeming performance to save Luke Cage.

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    So contrarian up in here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kuronosan View Post
    So contrarian up in here.
    Let me contribute more:

    Quote Originally Posted by Gryffes View Post
    Daredevil+JJ were not actually that great, both series were carried by fantastic villain performances.
    There's no redeeming performance to save Luke Cage.
    Daredevil S1 had a shit villain. Kingpin was dreadfully boring, and D'Onofrio just made him seem like a fat autistic manchild. DD was good because of its tone, choreography, set design, cinematography, etc.

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    My biggest beef with this series is how each episode ended. Unlike other shows, this was almost always ended on an open and shut case. Only a few episodes had a cliffhangy feel to them.

    Every time an episode ended like that, I would go "Oh, that's it?" and then check which episode it was and be surprised there was more. It felt very disjointed to me.

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    I've watched plenty of shitty shows in my life that now and than had that one good episode or that one good moment you remembered. To me this show had not one fight, conversation, or any particular instance at all that I'd care to remember.

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    Yeah I gave up.

    Episode 7?

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    Are people fucking retarded? Talking about Hell's Kitchen like it's another fucking world. It's literally 15 minutes away. The writing is garbage, the villain is garbage. Luke is a fucking Mary Sue. Fuck this show.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrbeansman View Post
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    Show really started going down hill once Diamondback was introduced.
    This is pretty much how I felt.
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    I really don't understand killing off Cottonmouth how and when they did. They had just given us his backstory and he had finally come up with an intelligent plan for dealing with Luke. Then suddenly he's dead and we've got his much less interesting cousin and Diamondback. Why not spend the season building up Diamondback and tease him for S2? Maybe that would have given the writers enough time to come up with something more interesting than "DAD LIKED YOU BEST" for a motivation.

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