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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Although dragging Urich to the retirement home under false pretenses was a really dick move.
Matt's awesome. He's just better off alone, beating on bad guys, rather than trying to have "friends" or anything silly like that.
edited 6th Apr '17 2:31:26 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Thing is I really liked Wesley and Ben...I know, I shouldn't blame her, but damn, I do, she always gets my favourite characters killed! Plus, the lowest point in ALL the Netflix shows is her little article at the end of season 2. For god's sake, she is living in New York, not in Aleppo! And not even the New York of the 1980s, which did suck, but the modern, kind of cleaned up version (incident or not). Everything about the text is terrible and awkward!
Yeah, Iron Fist doesn't really explain what the Hand wants, but it at least lays down some ground rules for the zombies, which is worth a lot in my book.
It would be nice if they got on with whatever it is they've got planned for Karen. Just so long as it doesn't involve killing her.
Really wish Ben was still around. He and Karen handled the investigative portion of the show that Matt doesn't bother with because he can tell when people are telling the truth, but you still really need that in a show like this. Even without the killing, this is what separates Daredevil from the Punisher, and Batman from Red Hood or Azrael. The investigation needs to happen, since that's the part that makes it seem like the vigilante is justified. Batman does it on his own. For Daredevil, that was Karen and Ben. Season 2 is much weaker for dividing up the main cast.
They really missed a golden opportunity with Nobu. Peter Shinkoda had an intensity I liked, and if they had just given him some material, I think they really could taken the Hand from retrograde pastiche to the smart, modern operation we see in Iron Fist, and, as it turns out, the one that Fisk was so afraid of. Nobu's not a guy who cackles in the shadows, he was one of the few people in the show who could take on Matt singlehanded. Lean on that, show another shadow archetype for Matt, a different path in the same vein as Frank Castle. Because leading the Hand is something Matt could easily do. Their extremism matches his own desire for a more just world all too well.
...Bakuto would've made a better villain for Daredevil than Iron Fist. I just feel like they would've had more to say to each other.
edited 6th Apr '17 3:04:51 PM by Unsung
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It was close, but that was more an eye-rolling moment for me. The article...that is the stuff which makes my blood boil. On a professional level, since it is really badly written, and on a "is she serious?????" level. I know she is pretty much the mouth piece of the show runners, but the whole content smacks of "narrow minded American world view".
Really? I mean, I thought it was stupid too, but I don't believe I ever thought of it like that (then again, I am an American). What exactly do you mean?
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Let's put it this way: I once watched a documentary about jobs in New York...and every single person featured explained how his job is "one of the most dangerous" (without prompting)...and that included the freaking street cleaner. Because, you know, you could be totally stupid and stick your hand into the wrong place of your cleaning equipment. It's something I observed quite often, that US Americans have the tendency to be melodramatic over more or less everything. And way too many of them have zero understanding for everything which happens outside of their little bubble.
I think Jessica Jones would a great place to introduce him. Eventually.
edited 6th Apr '17 4:56:29 PM by Swanpride
I'm not sure Moon Knight would work very well as a supporting character in someone else's show. Without the audience really spending the time to get inside his head, where half of his character resides, he's just sort of a crazy Batman wannabe who talks to himself.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Only if you already knew who he was. For someone who has no knowledge of the character, it wouldn't be hard to be left going, "Wait, who is this shitty Dare Devil knockoff in an ugly costume and why am I supposed to care? And why isn't he just Dare Devil?"
And then we don't get to delve into his head because he wasn't popular enough to spin off.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub....so he's not running around as Photo-Negative Batman and we aren't watching his personalities duke it out as the central focus of the series?
What's left to like about his character?
edited 6th Apr '17 5:37:27 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Start him out on Punisher, as mercenary CIA scumbag Marc Spector. His psychological problems start there. Have his split personalities show up on Jessica Jones, where she eventually realizes that the cab driver, the homeless guy, and the 'millionaire'? All the same guy. Then have him guest on Iron Fist, where he fully embraces his destiny as the avatar of Khonshu.
Then have this nutcase in a cape keep running into the Defenders once a season or show, offending Matt with his brutality, Luke with his absurdity. I'm really not sure if Moon Knight could sustain a full series of his own at first, but I feel like he could grow on people, like cancer/Deadpool/cancer on Deadpool if you make him something like the anti-Claire of the Netflix MCU.
The success of Legion makes me think there is an audience there, but he feels to me like a character who needs to be the protagonist to really work. A lot of his best attributes - struggling with his perception of reality, wrestling with the different facets of himself that are all competing for control, deceiving the audience as an Unreliable Narrator and forcing them to question how much of what they're seeing is even real - it's all main character stuff.
He's a character who is only really strong when he's the focus of the story. When he shows up in other people's stories, he's just some shitty C-lister you got stuck with 'cause a better character wasn't available.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

Agreed
Forever liveblogging the Avengers