Finished it last night, the overall feeling is, it was fine.
I was cool with the slow burn set up.
I liked the characters having their color tints in their individual scenes.
Actionwise the show probably peaked with that middle hallway fight of course.
Thought some of the camera work was a bit extra. They were trying WAY too hard with that revolving door shot.
Didn't watch Iron Fist, but yeah, Danny's super gruf, "I have to take on this burden alone" mindset was eye rolling, but he had a few moments. But yeah he takes himself way too seriously, that stupid speech when he walked into the board room. I like Colleen.
Wish they did more with the side characters (like having them talk more instead of sitting in a room staying with the people from their show).
Elektra was more likeable this time around, but because she was so unhinged in DD Season 2 it was hard to see why Matt was so crazy for her which made him really frustrating to watch as he made bad decisions for her sake. Also, all that Black Sky hype. That phrase still means nothing to me.
Surprisingly one of my biggest problems with this series was Matt. I mainly came into this for Matt Murdoch, but yeah he was kind of hard to like in this series. I liked where he started, not wanting to put on the suit and having to resist the urge, but dude does not play nice with others. He was on his season 2 bullshit for most of the runtime. Yeah, he pissed off all of his friends then also, but it was easy to feel for him because he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. This time I just felt like he was creating his own problems by not sharing with everyone and sort of being a dick about it. The final fight is him beating the shit out of his ex, them saying I love you, then going back to fighting and then making out and I had no idea how I was supposed to feel about that. Also, they criticized him everytime the team had a plan Matt just ran off to fight Elektra and then he goes and does the exact same thing in the finale once again. Also, he seems like he would be a pretty possessive boyfriend.
Character wise, Luke, Jessica and Claire carried this for me being the most rational and grounded. Though one dumb moment in Episode 1, Jessica definitely would NOT have taken that case if dude didn't call her so ... that was dumb on his part. Unless that was some brilliant reverse psychology shit.
Misty was less annoying and at least came off as a competent cop this time (but still not a very good one).
Alexandra was cool in parts.
I liked Sowande.
That fight at the end of episode 7 was NOT very good. Those cuts were awful.
The musical choice in the episode 8 fight was pretty jarring.
The blueprints are IN the piano. Ha!
Overall, it was a nice team up, I just wanted/expected more, wish they took another 6 months to develop this. There are some problems that need to be addressed as these shows continue.