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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It should’ve been Castle, period. If I came away with anything from seeing much of Season 2 years ago, Castle was the better part of that season.
Seriously, that actor was “ ballin’ ”, as the young ones say.
And his attempted prison assassination...oof. At one point, it wasn’t a fight, it was butchery.
Edited by fredhot16 on Jul 26th 2019 at 8:37:33 AM
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.I actually liked that they split the season in two — Castle during the first half and the Hand during the second. The first season felt, at times, like it was dragging things out, so breaking it up into two arcs instead of one was a good idea.
The problem, however, was that the Hand are terrible bad guys. They are generic, anonymous ninjas that are mainly used for canon fodder whenever you want to see Wolverine slaughter a bunch of dudes but don't want to give them all distinct appearances or powers.
Instead of using the Hand like that, they should have instead chosen one person as the main bad guy. Someone who was distinctive in personality and in looks. I would have gone with Gorgon
, who is a High Priest of the Hand. Heck, they don't even have to give him the mutant powers (he can turn people to stone by looking them in the eyes), but they could make him blind as a kind of dark counterpart to Daredevil himself.
Edited by alliterator on Jul 26th 2019 at 9:14:25 AM
For me, it's like this: Daredevil season 1 is one of the best comic book adaptations ever made and a work of art, and one of the the best superhero tv shows ever made. Season 3 isn't one of the best, it is the best comic book adaptation ever made, the best thing in the entire MCU, one of the greatest accomplishments of our age regarding filmmaking in a televized format plus the absolute peak the character of Daredevil can reach in any medium (at least so far). Nothing is flawless, but Daredevil season 3 gets dangerously close.
Season 2, by contrast, is just pretty good (compared to the stratospheric quality in seasons 1 and 3) and has some gargantuan problems with Asian representation. It lags behind a lot (though I'd still contend that it is head and shoulders above most superhero tv) compared to the other two, namely in the matter of villains.
Edited by Gaon on Jul 26th 2019 at 9:31:51 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I’d even go as far to say that the early Elektra stuff is alright for the most part, but once the Hand start appearing in earnest...eesh.
Oh God! Natural light!It would have been a lot better if Nobu wasn't just a combat drone for Daredevil to fight. There's no personality, backstory, nothing. He's just there to punch Daredevil and get punched by Daredevil, and while that makes for good fight scenes it makes for a dull story.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Yes. Everything except the Netflix and Hulu shows. The only one I'm not sure about is Agents of SHIELD — they currently have a deal where it's get put on Netflix after the season airs, but Disney might be changing that after the current season ends.
Edited by alliterator on Jul 27th 2019 at 1:46:28 AM
Ah if they own it, then it would make sense to keep them on there. What would make them try to revamp Hulu into being international though? (By that I mean, if they already are gonna have Disney + what financial gain do they have of Hulu going international?)
(BTW I did have specifically Runaways in mind when asking
)
Disney+ will roll out internationally later on (probably through 2020 and 2021) and Disney can use Hulu as a test market to see the places where Disney+ will work best. Also, they probably want more subscribers to Hulu, too.
Edited by alliterator on Jul 27th 2019 at 3:28:41 AM
I didn't notice before just how flawless the C Gi for Professor Hulk is:
Though now that I stop to think about it, he never got to fight much, did he?
Anyway, while I agree that The Hand was pretty sunpar, c'mon, Elektra and Matt had so much chimestry together it's a damn shame we're never seeing these two together again.
Still better than Foggy and Karen searching for clues of Fisk and wasting our time because they're always several steps behind Matt, anyway.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jul 27th 2019 at 4:30:57 PM

I disagree because the Hand plotline was much worse than anything in s1. It should have either been Castle or the Hand, not both.