Just finished the defenders and it doesn't feel earned liked Avengers coming together. I liked how the subplots brought them together but the Chinese food restaurant scene was sad. Glad Jessica bailed out on them when she did, totally within character and her coming back was as well.
The hand.....the hand.....not as bad as hydra even Agents of Shield hydra. Sowade, Gao and Murakami were the standouts. Gao or Sowade should have been the leader and Murakami should have been as fierce as Nobu. Bokuto and Alexandria were piss poor bad. Having Elektra as the Black sky was dumb and what is the black sky? what does it suppose to do. In that one Daredevil episode Stick made it seem they were the anti-Christ or something. The Hand wasn't as bad and the whole show made them out to be.
Also i thought the defenders show was going to answer this question:
Who is Stick talking to at the end of Episode 7 of Season 1 of Daredevil ?
As the heroes the standouts were Jessica and Luke, both MVPs of the show, Daredevil a bit behind due to the Elektra crap and far at the bottom is the worse iron fist ever. The man spent most of his youth and adulthood in a monastery and he cannot even calm down, wow.
As for the side characters. Stick was awesome as ever. I love the cut the bullshit attitude with him. Claire and Malcolm were nice background characters. Foggy and whatsherface were ok. Coleen Wing really needs to calm down too, Though I'd kill to see a spin off with Coleen and Misty. The NYPD and Misty felt forced but in a way that they had to be there. This isn't the averages, the police don't casually stand by, they have huge shitty egos.
Wouldn't make sense, considering DD S3 is a thing...
Iron fist should have taken up Daredevil's mantle and worn the suit at the end of the show.