Chula Vista

I've seen the commercials. Great cast! Big fan of Chris O'Dowd. And always love when Romano steps out of his comfort zone.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chula Vista

Watched the first few episodes of the Defenders but just can't get into it. Too many primary characters and too much damn stuff going on all at once to be able to follow everything.

Between Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Daredevil, The Defenders features at least 14 primary characters from those shows. Plus they've added Sigourny Weaver and a few other new primary characters.

Just too much for a 45 minute show.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

Too much in general, or too much for non-comic fan, unwoke mother****ers? I'm not that big into team **** in general, so that might turn me off anyway, but assuming one were used to reading Justice League and Avengers comics do you think it would be easier to take? I've been very lazy about keeping up with the Netflix Marvel shows TBH, and have only seen the first and half of the second seasons of Daredevil and the first season of Jessica Jones. I really need to get on that ****.

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Chula Vista

I haven't read many comics but was able to follow Watchmen just fine. I think it's just too much in general. Plus they aren't fleshing the stories out enough because they have to squeeze so much in and make sure the 4 main characters each get featured. In the last episode Luke and Iron Fist finally had a sit down as did Jessica and Daredevil so maybe they are going to team up and be on the screen more as a group. That would definitely help.

I'm going to hang with it a few episodes and will let you know. Finish up Daredevil. The Season two ending is great.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

That sounds like a lot of my issues with team comics in general: not enough time to focus on the actual characters so everything often feels flat and boring. Watchmen is not a good representation of team books in general, as it is masterfully written and not really about any team, whereas any given Justice League book is probably not going to be written by a genius like Alan Moore.

And I have no good reason for not finishing DD season 2. The Punisher arc was amazing and I'm totally into seeing how they handled Elektra. BTW if you're ever interested in more comics then I highly rec Elektra's solo mini-series from the 80s, Elektra: Assassin. It's pretty ****ing cool, surreal, and bat**** insane. I actually went out of my way to collect all six vintage issues because it was too cool to not do so.

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Chula Vista

Sigorney Weaver resurrects Elektra towards the end of episode 3 of Defenders.
Actually a very cool and well done sequence.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

**** YOU, YOU SPOILERING BITCH ****!!! Eat ****.

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Chula Vista

If you actually get around to watching TD you'll be so muddled by the end of episode 2 you'll have forgotten about it.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

Yeah, not the point really. I agree: you are a spoilering bitch. BAD Chula!

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grindy

Iron Fist is such a ****ty, annoying character.

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