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Daredevil

^It's atually going to be on Netflix on March 18th, Wacky.

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That Punisher!
 
Ok, so, I really liked the first season, except for several episodes I found myself wondering, "Where the hell is Daredevil"? He wasn't in the episodes quite enough for my tastes. I actually liked Jessica Jones ever so slightly better.

HOWEVER: Season two of DD looks bananas! Jon Berenthal seems to be the perfect Punisher. I can't wait.
 
I liked Jessica Jones more as well because Daredevil kind of ran out of steam a bit halfway through, but season one was still very good and it looks like A LOT is going to happen in seaosn two so it shouldn't have a "running out of steam" problem.
 
That episode three! It was like they said "remember the corridor fight from season one? Yeah while now it's on stairs with a bigass chain!"

And now Datak Tarr's just shown up as a crazy Irishman.
 
Only seen episode one so far.

Difficult to sympathise with crims, but watching the trio's friendship is always nice.
 
Soooo I finished it. Here are some of my thoughts about the whole thing that contain spoilers about the whole thing okay:

The thing this season did really well was the characters. Both Punisher and Elektra were done really well, with Punisher getting a really good origin story that actually felt natural. Plus he cooled really cool when he finally wore the skull on his chest.

The plot started well - the initial Punisher stuff, and his trial, were really good. Put I felt pretty much all of the stuff with The Hand was a bit weak, with an endless supply of faceless ninjas and the reveal that Elektra is their super warrior although it's not exactly clear why she is or what that even really means. I was really annoyed that they killed her off, especially when they really ham-fistedly foreshadowed it with the scene where she and Matt talk about running away, which might as well have had the words "ELEKTRA IS GOING TO DIE IN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES" flashing on the screen. But then they just as ham-fistedly foreshadowed that she was going to come back to life, so whatever.

I also liked that they gave Karen a lot to do, and really progressed her character.

Punisher's story also ended weak, with the big conspiracy plot (that lasted basically the whole season!) boiling down to "Clancy Brown wanted to kill Frank's family because reasons", and is never actually explained more than that.

I think the main problem with this season is that it had no real focus in it's plot. Unlike the first season, which had a clear villain, and a cleat plot, this instead has two plots that never really interact with each other and a total lack of clear villain. Is it The Punisher? Is it Stick? Is it Elektra? Is it that Ninja guy who died last year? Is it Fisk? Is it the DEA? Is it Clancy Brown? Maybe!
 
HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS. SPOILERS.

I generally agree with things Tomtrek said. The character work was good. Punisher was very well done and Shane from The Walking Dead did a great job. Elektra was good too and I'm glad she's getting resurrected (that's her thing anyway.) Foggy's acting was a bit better than season one and I was surprised he didn't make up with Matt by the end and went to work with Cameo-Anne Moss instead. Same with Karen going to become a journalist and even Claire got a good story arc while only being in three episodes.

It did lack a villain or the finale didn't justify all the time spent on the Hand. I like episode 12 where it revealed Elektra's backstory and the "SHE IS BLACK SKY" thing but then they dind't reveal what that actually meant in the finale. Nobu didn't get enough screentime to be an effective villain, Fisk was great in his two episodes but just a sidestory. I did enjoy the ninja fights mostly but yeah there were a lot of them.

As I rewatched season one before it I did notice some differences. This one felt more comic book-y, which isn't a bad thing really as the first season got a bit bogged down by Karen and Ben investigating Fisk and learning stuff we already knew. But on the downside some things felt a bit sillier this year, like the way Fisk was completely running a prsion and managed to get the Punisher out so easily. And I missed the scenes of Fisk and the other villians and their infighting and Owlsley's sarcasm.

But it was a good season of television I enjoyed it!

SKYE ALREADY MENTIONED MICRO IN SHIELD THEY BETTER STICK TO THAT CONTINUITY.
 
Not reading this thread because I decided to jump on the bandwagon after hearing plenty good about this. I'm 5 episodes into Season 1 and really liking it. Won't be long before I'm up to date I don't think!
 
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