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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Okay, 'cause he should be an unbreakable bag of slurry if he's punching concrete walls.
My various fanfics.![]()
I mean, he's still probably more durable than most, but still...
edited 27th Nov '15 1:50:07 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
That it is just getting better and better....even the Superhero roundup says that it is currently the best Superhero show on TV, and they were all over Flash last season and very hard on Agent of Shield.
Personally I think that the current season is blowing everything else out of the water (and I say that as someone who binge-watched the first season because, well, it started very weak). If they keep it up until the end, they will have made up for the slow start tenfold, and I will fight everyone who claims that it doesn't deserve to be spoken of with the same reverence which is usually reserved for Agent Carter and the Netflix shows.
I think the first season was given way more flack than it deserves. It wasn't anything special, and it had some particularly cringeworthy episodes ("The Hub" and "Yes Men" especially tuned me out), but compared to say, Arrow, a show that I have hated pretty much every step of the way for its tone and characterization, I thought it was at least passable for the first nine episodes, after which it got genuinely good, and aroudn episode 16 it became FUCKING HARDCORE!
Season Two was overall on par with the back half of season one, though a few subplots were resolved kind of unsatisfactorily to me. Season Three has been similarly amazing, but the latest attempt at tying all of its subplots together has me very worried, because it's the sort of far-reaching thing that could make or break the series in terms of its connection to the MCU if they don't handle it well.
All in all, definitely worth checking out. I don't necessarily think it's on par with Agent Carter, but it's also nowhere near as bad as the detractors say.
"Yes Men" sounds...insensitive, to say the least, especially after Jessica Jones.
The first half of Season One was really So Okay, It's Average. I think the reason it gets so much hate is because the show had a huge amount of Hype Backlash against it when it first premiered.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say their hatred probably stems from the pitiful writing quality and excessive melodrama.

edited 27th Nov '15 1:36:00 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!