When I say Marvel's Netflix Shows I'm talking about Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher. Which I binged in February when it was announced they were leaving Netflix. Three days after I finished all of them it was announced they will be moving to Disney+. Which I already assumed might happen, but I am overly paranoid and was afraid Disney might edit them so I wanted to get through a watching before Disney could mess with them. Which, I am not saying that will happen. I am saying I am weird and think of all sorts of worst-case scenarios for everything.
I was going to do a detailed summary of each season of each show in order with thoughts and opinions, but… Well, I binged them all and they’ve all smooshed together in my head. So instead, I’m going to do just a list of random thoughts and feelings about the entire series of shows. Spoilers for all, obviously. Also, fair warning, I had very little previous knowledge of any of these characters. I knew the most about Danny Rand and Luke Cage and just cause they were both in a Spider-Man cartoon that was on Disney a few years ago. Oh, and I knew a little about Daredevil from the Ben Affleck movie… But… Yeah… Here we go.
Not a huge fan of The Punisher. I don’t hate him or anything. I just don’t really dig him. Both seasons of the show were pretty good and worth the watch. But I’m not gonna run out and start reading all the comics.
Jessica Jones is fantastic and I will be running out and reading all the comics about her.
Claire Temple is a goddess and deserves much praise.
When Colleen told Danny that he was sleeping in the corner of her dojo, I automatically sent him to the corner anytime I thought he was doing something stupid. This carried over to all the characters. Anytime someone did something stupid I would send them to Danny's Corner. But by the end, it was no longer Danny’s corner. It was Trish’s corner cause she did some of the stupidest fucking shit out of all the shows.
Seriously, though. What the fuck, Trish?
I really wish we got another season of Iron Fist. Mostly I just wanted to see Ward and Danny off on an adventure and finding themselves and being bros.
Also want a Misty and Colleen show.
I really wanted Vanessa to turn on Fisk. Sad it never happened.
Why do the psychopaths in these shows end up with smart, beautiful women? I mean, it only happened twice, but that is still two times too many… Especially since none of the "heroes" got a relationship happy ending.
At the end of Punisher season one, Frank fucking destroys Billy’s face. Destroys it. I was very angry about the lack of scarring on Billy in season two. Yes, there was scarring, but, in my opinion, not enough for what was done to him. Or for him to fucking whine about it for half a godsdamn season.
Fucking Turk, man. Every time I started a new season of one of the shows I was immediately thinking “Wonder what Turk will be doing this time.” My favorite was in the first season of Luke Cage when he was “Where’s my money” at the fucking worst time possible. Second was playing golf by the river.
Danny could have been better written, at least in season one. He was naïve to a point of it being annoying. I expected him to be a little too trusting and naïve after returning from K’un-Lun, which he was and it worked. But sometimes he acted like a little kid and that didn’t work for me.
Hogarth went off the fucking rails, didn’t she? She started out as a stereotypical slimy lawyer, but by the end, I was just sitting here shocked at the shit she was doing.
I really wanted Jessica and Luke to get together and have their daughter, like in the comics. And for the third season of Jessica Jones I just wanted it to be them doing some crime-solving or something while the rest of the regulars from all the shows come in to baby-sit. And all the episodes just be focused on that. Come on. Picture Matt Murdock with a baby in a pouch and walking through the city. Misty panicking because she has no idea how to deal with babies. Danny trying to get little Dani to meditate. Just fantastic.
I really did not like the series finales for Luke Cage or Iron Fist. I think if there were another season for each show I would have been fine, but the endings I got were shitty. I feel like while the Daredevil finale left some questions unanswered and things were a little open-ended, it was still a satisfying enough ending to please me.
I thought Danny and Colleen were an adorable couple. I loved the scene where they’re trying to cook dinner and are both just confused and making it up as they go along.
Loved when Danny showed up in Luke Cage. Their team-up was just fantastic. I wished they would have done more team-ups or other appearances from each other in the shows after The Defenders. Even something small like when Luke showed up in Jessica Jones, season three. I would have even been happy with some name-dropping. Like, that scene where Hogarth tells Jessica that Trish will need a new lawyer since Trish doesn’t want Hogarth’s firm to represent her anymore. I would have loved for Jessica to make some comment about calling Nelson & Murdock or something.
David Tennant was fantastic as Kilgrave. Actually, all of the actors playing villains were fantastic. Vincent D’onofrio gave off such fantastic serial killer vibes. All the actors were great, really. I can’t think of a single actor that made me go “really? Couldn’t have cast someone better?” Also, I am aware of the complaints that Finn Jones was cast as Danny Rand, that an Asian or Asian-American actor would have been better. Which, yes. Okay. I can agree with that. But Finn Jones did a good job as Danny Rand, in my opinion. I’m just talking about the acting skills of those involved.
These shows did a good job at making their villains sympathetic. I didn’t agree with them, but shit I felt bad for the shit they had gone through.
I almost felt bad for Shades. Dude just wanted to help run a nice little criminal empire and he surrounded himself with people that have major family problems. And those family problems just keep causing trouble.
Was it just me or did Frank Castle’s voice have a Christan Bale as Batman vibe?
I really liked Micro in season one of Punisher. Was pretty sad that he didn’t return for season two.
Aside from my previous issue with season one Danny Rand, the characters were all well written.
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