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As I recall one of the big things from JJ season 2 was that Jessica isn't a particularly good PI and doesn't prioritize it and this causes her problems.
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Oasx posted:I don't really like Misty, she is not as annoying as in Luke Cage, but I still wouldn't mind if the character just got written out. I don't know anything about the actual comic book character but I wish her robo arm had the strength comparable to the Thunder character in Black Lighting. Like, I don't even remember what her limits are with the arm but it obviously doesn't account to being the level of a superpower if it's barely used as such. It's too bad. e: looking at the Wikipedia entry for Misty Knight, it looks like her arm does have other powers they haven't really gotten into yet
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Sep 14, 2018 21:53
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Joe Mama Poonana posted:e: looking at the Wikipedia entry for Misty Knight, it looks like her arm does have other powers they haven't really gotten into yet Probably has something to do with her wanting to bling out her arm after the last fight. I guess some of those extra powers will be seen next time we see her in the Defenders or Luke Cage 3. Compared to the hunk of poo poo that season 1 was I was legitimately pleasantly surprised by season 2. Joy and Ward continue to completely kill it, there's no giant Hand conspiracy to poo poo things up, they actually took the threads advice and pared it down to 10 episodes, and the whole thing was generally better written as a whole. I still wouldn't put it up there with DD s1 or JJ s1 or Punisher, but I feel it's better than either LC or DD s2. I don't think I quite follow the cliffhanger though. They showed Colleen with the glowing Chi sword and then in the next scene showed Danny dual fisting guns. Until I read the spoilers upthread I thought that the implication was that Danny got his powers back over time. The second implication in my minds eye being that Davos was going to get his angry red fist powers back over time as well and we'd see a 3 way showdown between him, Gun-fu Danny, and Colleen in season 3.
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I'm halfway through, and it's an enormous step up from the first season, and so far it's better than the weak parts of the best of the shows without reaching the peaks that Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage have hit at times. Pretty solid. Edit: And by the beginning third of episode six I want to strangle Danny again. Edit 2: Ward is priceless. In between his flower order and "No. I don't. No one wants their teeth pulled out" I sometimes wonder if there was a great writer in the office who just didn't have enough pull. tetrapyloctomy fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Nephthys posted:As I recall one of the big things from JJ season 2 was that Jessica isn't a particularly good PI and doesn't prioritize it and this causes her problems. Jessica’s good at lateral thinking on a shoestring budget, which makes it surprising when this tiny drunk actually does her job well without you expecting it and then oh yeah hoists your car over her head. She’s not bringing down Roxxon or anything, she snaps photos of cheating spouses for a living. Although Walker did kind of clown in her this series but she also has a built in impenetrable disguise.
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Sep 15, 2018 06:08
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I was really digging Davos' plan until I realized it just makes him The Shredder with less interesting heroes to fight.
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Sep 15, 2018 06:22
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The kid kept me awake, so I finished it. If Colleen doesn't get two fists too I'm gonna be pissed.
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Inkspot posted:I was really digging Davos' plan until I realized it just makes him The Shredder with less interesting heroes to fight. Shredder was always just a crime lord, you're misremembering his motivations.
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Lurdiak posted:Shredder was always just a crime lord, you're misremembering his motivations. True. He just wanted to be the Mafia, but with ninjas.
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Sep 15, 2018 14:42
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I thought he wanted to build Krang a body and open a portal to the Terror dimension so Krang's armies could come through.
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It's called Dimension X, and he deliberately put off building Krang a body so he could control Krang better. God it's like you didn't even go to college.
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I’ve never really been invested in Iron Fist in the comics but I’m surprised how much I enjoyed this season. Typhoid Mary was good, Ward was really good, and goddamn do I want a Daughters of the Dragon series, Colleen and Misty are so enjoyable to watch together.
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Finished it. Danny continues to be the weakest part of his own show. I guess he's better than in S1 but I just can't understand why anyone keeps this irritating poo poo around. I wanna see Coleen and Misti team up and fight nega iron fist Davos as the bad guy, Danny can be in charge of getting coffee. Twice he pulled the "Okay I won't run off half cocked I guess. Now please be distracted for a moment." *runs off and does something half cocked* thing. I'm still kind of mad that he's hasn't really acknowledge just how badly he hosed over Kun Lun and Davos. He took the Iron Fist out of, I don't know, competitiveness I guess, from Davos who spent his entire life training for it, and then right after he got the fist he got bored and left, leaving the entire city to be destroyed. That's an astoundingly huge dick move and closest thing to remorse he ever expresses is like the occasional 'lol my bad'. The wannabe gang didn't have much of a payoff. Their first few scenes all end with "We see everything!" But I guess that doesn't matter in the least, they're just here for a training montage and then the whole gang gets schooled at once by 1 person without powers. Coleen's sword fist glow is kinda cool and feels at least a little consistent. Danny, who has no powers currently, dual wielding pistols and using them both to shoot 2 magic bullets at once that can hit another bullet and make it disappear without even shrapnel is the dumbest, most inconsistent eye rolling thing in the entire season. Even with the gripes it was still pretty good though, carried entirely by an amazing supporting cast. I actually put off starting Bojack to finish it, which is a pretty big deal considering I didn't even bother finished the last two installments of the NetflixMCU. Speaking of which, where was Claire? Did she bug out or quit or something in a recent series? Floors everywhere are the natural enemies of the Iron Fist and will be destroyed at every opportunity.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Even with the gripes it was still pretty good though, carried entirely by an amazing supporting cast. I actually put off starting Bojack to finish it, which is a pretty big deal considering I didn't even bother finished the last two installments of the NetflixMCU. Speaking of which, where was Claire? Did she bug out or quit or something in a recent series? Watch Luke Cage S2.
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Man, season 2 of Iron Fist was better than season 1 but its real sin was making season 3 look like it has so much drat potential.
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Sep 16, 2018 22:08
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I know this is a comic book super hero show full of zombie ninjas... but robot arms don't work that way. If Misty tries to lift a car with her robot arm, or punch through a brick wall or some poo poo, she'd just blow her entire prosthesis out of her still human shoulder socket. The only for that limb to provide super strength would be if they also mechanically augmented and integrated it into her shoulders, back, spine, and thighs.
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Sep 17, 2018 00:40
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Bust Rodd posted:I know this is a comic book super hero show full of zombie ninjas... but robot arms don't work that way.
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Sep 17, 2018 00:59
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Bust Rodd posted:I know this is a comic book super hero show full of zombie ninjas... but robot arms don't work that way. 
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Sep 17, 2018 01:01
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Bust Rodd posted:I know this is a comic book super hero show full of zombie ninjas... but It's easy to go down this path. be careful
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Bust Rodd posted:If Misty tries to lift a car with her robot arm, or punch through a brick wall or some poo poo, she'd just blow her entire prosthesis out of her still human shoulder socket. The only for that limb to provide super strength would be if they also mechanically augmented and integrated it into her shoulders, back, spine, and thighs. Having read a bunch of cyberpunk over the years, you aren't wrong and this bugged me too. But movies and TV shows have generally ignored this (and injury recovery times) for so many years that it's best not to dwell on if you want to enjoy any of this. Just enjoy the fiction.
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Sep 17, 2018 01:20
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It's a goddamn superhero show, none of the physics are gonna make sense. Everyone Luke ever punched should be dead.
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Sep 17, 2018 02:11
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Bust Rodd posted:I know this is a comic book super hero show full of zombie ninjas... but robot arms don't work that way. Pretend I repeated all this out loud with a really nasally, lispy voice, like I was mocking you.
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Sep 17, 2018 13:40
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It’s my curse to bear. I am basically Luke Cage, except instead of comically dismissing dragons as absurd, I cannot acknowledge robot limbs as anything other than STRAIGHT UP MALARKY
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Sep 17, 2018 14:17
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Let me tell you about a little show called the Six Million Dollar Man.
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Actually Misty Knight possesses low-level tactile telekinesis, and furthermore, ..
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The TV IV › Netflix Marvel: STRAIGHT UP MALARKEY
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Sep 17, 2018 15:02
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Omnomnomnivore posted:Let me tell you about a little show called the Six Million Dollar Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WPn_D-cl4k
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Sep 17, 2018 15:28
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Omnomnomnivore posted:Let me tell you about a little show called the Six Million Dollar Man.  In which the novel that it was based on , Cyborg by Martin Caidin, described how they had reinforced Austin's skeleton, tendons, and ligaments.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:
Which would CLEARLY push them over the budget of six million.
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Bust Rodd posted:I know this is a comic book super hero show full of zombie ninjas... but robot arms don't work that way. The arm is a character and Misty is attached prosthetic. The arm has super strength because its made of Mythril.
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Did she even do anything with her arm that would put stress on her body? All I remember is her punching the wall a bunch, and even this she mostly used robot fingers to wriggle her way through. I guess punching a wall can be hard on your shoulder, but it's not as egregious as lifting a car or something.
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Sep 17, 2018 18:34
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Misty needs a Rand Corporation army base
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Netflix has shut down the Facebook page for Defenders and merged (?) it with NX, their general FB page for sci-fi/fantasy content, so it seems they're serious about not doing another season anytime soon, if ever. As for IF S2: watched the first episode and it did nothing for me, so I haven't bothered with the rest, aside from a few highlights and the ending of the season finale. The ending at least hints that S3 might finally properly explore the IF mythos and attempt to be the show I wanted it to be from the beginning, but I'm sure they'll find a way to keep it boringly grounded and street-level instead. No place for any physical powers beyond variations on "can punch things really hard" in the gritty, realistic Netflix Marvel Universe, after all.
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Sep 17, 2018 19:39
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We get it, this is only the 8,000th time you've complained about it
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Sep 17, 2018 19:42
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I made it two episodes into IF S1. I'm five episodes into IF S2. Danny is a less grating person to look at (lost the goofy moptop, has the mask now, put on what looks to be some muscle mass) and I have enjoyed the fight scenes. I just don't care about any of the characters (I understand this might be different if I could have forced myself to finish S1) and I am not at all invested. I dunno if I'm going to finish. I think Danny is best cameo'ing with Luke Cage when needed than being a stand alone character. I thought he was good in LC S2.
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Bust Rodd posted:I cannot acknowledge robot limbs as anything other than STRAIGHT UP MALARKY Robot limbs do exist.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Robot limbs do exist. Yeah but my entire point is that they don’t give you any super powers.
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Sep 18, 2018 04:36
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Bust Rodd posted:Yeah but my entire point is that they don’t give you any super powers. And neither has any spider bite in the history of ever, nor has any liquid submersion resulted in a bulletproof black man. Even if we accepted the existence of the latter, Luke Cage still would have died from a traumatic aortic rupture from rapid deceleration, or asphyxiation from being in the middle of an oxygen-consuming explosion, or any of a number of etiologies not covered by "super-tough skin" many explosions ago. So maybe it is not internally consistent to perseverate on the unrealistic depiction of the mechanics of a prosthetic limb when it's among the least egregious of the physiologic falsehoods depicted in the series.
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I think they've been pretty upfront about not doing another Defenders or like if anyone asks about it the actors/showrunners etc are always very evasive. Suspect if they do another crossover show they'd just call it something else since it's not like that was a particularly important thing.
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