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Marvel's The Defenders |OT| Featuring The Worst Iron Fist - August 18th on Netflix
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gundamkyoukai
Member
Have to say the show is not bad at all .
Having all the characters together was fun .
Nothing great but better than the last few Marvel\Netflix shows.
Having all the characters together was fun .
Nothing great but better than the last few Marvel\Netflix shows.
Only watched the 1st three before sleep, but I liked it. Each character felt like a continuation of their storyline from where they left off, and their crossing paths made sense.
Guess I was most disappointed in the episode runtimes. Think the 1st 2 episodes were 45 minutes or less.
Guess I was most disappointed in the episode runtimes. Think the 1st 2 episodes were 45 minutes or less.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Sigourney Weaver's character is boring as dirt, they should have just stuck with Gao.
broncobuster
Banned
One complaint I have so far, and it's more the culmination of all the Marvel Netflix shows, is how similar the style and look is among them. I dunno how to properly phrase it. Reckon it's for consistency sake but it's making this feel very plain.
Second complaint is the hip-hop following Luke Cage around. Like, why.
Second complaint is the hip-hop following Luke Cage around. Like, why.
Imagine Cage's life, hip hop following him wherever he goes. Dude must be depressed as fuck.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Is supersplaining an official term?
I feel Matt's conversation with the kid in the wheelchair should led off with "Now I'm going to give you advice seemingly based around how I overcame my disability through personal experience. Honestly though, it's superpowers motherfucker!"
Glass Rebel
Member
I laughed out loud in ep 3 when Luke and Danny fought back to back and they played RTJ.
Time to scrap this shit and have Feige make a Marvel Knights imprint for the MCU.
ambar_hitman
Member
Why are action scenes shot so badly? WTF? The first episode had terrible random camera cuts with shaky cam. 2nd episode also has it. How can there be a camera angle where the camera is tilted? Ugh.
Septimus Prime
Member
Guys, what if Mike Colter is actually just wearing an MP3 player that's playing hip-hop all the time?
Also, it's kind of weird to think that, with the city-smashing earthquake in New York, at least Spider-Man wouldn't take a look to see what's going on.
Also, it's kind of weird to think that, with the city-smashing earthquake in New York, at least Spider-Man wouldn't take a look to see what's going on.
The fight chronography and camera work is so so bad in this show. Often you don't know who is fighting who and where. Murdock will fight someone and suddenly it'll be a close up shot of someone picking up a brick but you don't know who it is, turns out it's Like Cage hitting someone else...but I don't know if he's the same guy Murdock was fighting.
Way too much shaky cam, way too many cuts and close ups Ugh ! Where's the guy who did fight scenes for Daredevil? It seems like it's the Iron Fist guy's handiwork.
Way too much shaky cam, way too many cuts and close ups Ugh ! Where's the guy who did fight scenes for Daredevil? It seems like it's the Iron Fist guy's handiwork.
ZackieChan
Member
Just finished episode 3. First couple were a little slow but this one hit on all cylinders. Digging it so far. Fight choreography is better than in everything but DD. Thank Christ it's only 8 episodes. Hope they stick with that.
While I do remember the Hip Hop beat sound intro when it switches to LC scenes, the thing that stood out to me more, was the yellow/orange color filter they went with in his scenes. It's pretty good, but mostly I remember the early scene of him on the bus, crossing the river. Just a fantastic shot scene of the city in that light.
NeoGold123
Member
I was just about to post about the character specific color filters. While the show has been alright thus far (halfway through ep 2) I constantly notice the filters and I find it annoying as hell. Purple for the Jessica's, yellow for the Luke's, green for the Fist's, so far it looks like Daredevil has the only normal colorization but I might just be blind to it. I'm kindof hoping they get rid of it once everyone is together.
pokeystaples
Banned
Oh lawd. Is it better or worse than Insecure?
ambar_hitman
Member
Yeah exactly my problem. Daredevil had nicely shot action scenes. They have dropped the ball on this one.
Marvel Executive: Yo, Siggy Weaves!
Sigourney Weaver: Sup!
Marvel Executive: We'll pay you a large sum of money to appear in The Defenders!
Sigourney Weaver: What will I have to do?
Marvel Executive: Stand around in fancy outfits in static locations whilst delivering endless reams of vague, expository dialogue whilst saying "My child" every twenty seconds.
Sigourney Weaver: Done!
Sigourney Weaver: Sup!
Marvel Executive: We'll pay you a large sum of money to appear in The Defenders!
Sigourney Weaver: What will I have to do?
Marvel Executive: Stand around in fancy outfits in static locations whilst delivering endless reams of vague, expository dialogue whilst saying "My child" every twenty seconds.
Sigourney Weaver: Done!
DeviantBoi
Member
Why is it only 8 episodes?!?!
Almost all of the recent Netflix shows are 8 or 10 episodes.
Ozark had 10.
Atypical had 8.
Defenders has 8.
No more 13-episode seasons?
Almost all of the recent Netflix shows are 8 or 10 episodes.
Ozark had 10.
Atypical had 8.
Defenders has 8.
No more 13-episode seasons?
Lmao this
Why are you saying it as if you're upset? It's great that it's much shorter.
Anyways they had a deal for like 60 episodes; the previous shows aside from DDS2 each had 13, so this was left with 8.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
The weirder part is that the kids mom just fucking vanishes for 4-5 minutes so that Matt could have his little cliche speech.
Kingpin and Kilgrave were superb, so I'm not sure where you're getting that idea.
It did 3 times tho
Kingpin, Killgrave, and Mariah/Cottonmouth are better than most of the villains in the MCU films.
Shit forgot Kingpin, 1 good villain isn't bad I guess. Cottonmouth was ok and I didn't like Kilgrave.
The Artisan
Member
comes out tonight right? hell yeah
release date?
Kilgrave was the best part of JJ and that is what makes it bad. Tennant didn't act well in it for me and hammed it up way too much for my liking. Having seen Tennant in a lot of other shows it is by far one of his worst parts. It's why I would only count DD 1 and 2 as the shows I can say I enjoyed watching ( and even they got a boring).
Didn't give one.
Haven't seen him in other stuff, so no comment there.
Everyone's gettin a S2, Daredevil's getting a S3, and Punisher is getting a show. No word on a Defenders S2.
Probably why you weren't as critical as me ha. He just seemed half assed which is a let down.Haven't seen him in other stuff, so no comment there.
Baroquemantic
Member
Episode 2
I've missed Matt and Jessica so much. Their scenes are the best parts of the show right now. Misty too. Lordt.
Also some nice transitions between scenes.
Man, between this and ep. 1, it's weird seeing Gao answer to someone else. I'm liking Alexandra so far, though.
I've missed Matt and Jessica so much. Their scenes are the best parts of the show right now. Misty too. Lordt.
Also some nice transitions between scenes.
Confirmed:
- Deadline: Netflix's 'Marvel's Luke Cage' Gets Season 2.
- Deadline: Iron Fist Renewed For Season 2 On Netflix.
- TVLine: 'Marvel's Jessica Jones' Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix.
- Twitter: Daredevil Season 3 is coming soon.
- Deadline: Netflix Orders The Punisher Marvel Series.
...should all lead to S2 of The Defenders.
Yeeeah, she's just nothing to me so far.
Episode 4:
Stick! The team getting to know each other & the banter was great. I like Luke & Danny's chemistry especially.
shadow_shogun
Member
This I agree with, she the only saving grace of this show. I'm on the 7th episode and I cannot wait for this to be over.