by Hanley! » Dec 04, '16, 3:27 pm
I thought Daredevil had potential, but ultimately it was pretty bad. It ended up being all style and no substance whatsoever. I've never seen a show try so hard to NOT deliver on its potential. It was frustrating. That being said, I only watched Season 1. But everyone who's told me about Season 2 says its worse than the first.
I liked the idea of it being a mix between a superhero show and a lawyer show, but we almost never see Daredevil acting as lawyer in the show. I thought it would be cool to watch a hero who had an obvious vulnerability (blindness), but it didn't effect him in any way throughout the entire season. I was even interested in seeing a hero who was torn between three codes of morality: Christianity, the law, and vigilantism. But this wasn't really explored either.
Hell, I even thought the main cast had a lot of chemistry with each other and they capitalised on it by barely having them in scenes together. There was so much waste in this show. Often an episode would end and I'd find myself wondering where the time had gone; wondering what they had actually managed to accomplish in that episode.
I just wanted the show to be more than a series of long, pretty, highly choreographed fight scenes that look extremely impressive without actually being engaging at all.
Jessica Jones is another story. I wasn't excited about watching the rest of these Marvel shows, but I was sold on giving Jessica Jones a shot due to the concept behind it. The idea of a former superhero being broken and scared and barely keeping a roof over her head as a private investigator was automatically engaging. This wasn't a show that was simply selling itself on name value. There was an immediate hook.
Kilgrave was such a great villain. He's creepy as fuck. The flashbacks in the show were all great at creating atmosphere and making Kilgrave even more terrifying. The show continuously made me wonder how the heroes could possibly deal with this guy. Which is a great and rare thing to establish in one of these superhero shows. I thought Tennant was great in the role too - as were most of the rest of the cast.
I thought the show was the opposite of Daredevil too in one way. Daredevil stretched the shit out of absolutely nothing plot points, while Jessica Jones would have episodes around interesting plot developments that could have been drawn out for half a season if they had wanted to go that way. It always had me guessing.
So I was a big fan of Jessica Jones and look forward to hopefully seeing more of it. Though I'm not too interested in checking out Luke cage, even though he was good in Jessica Jones. There's not that same hook there to draw me in, and I've heard mixed things about it so far.
Not sure what to think about the Defenders either. I mean, I already don't much like the Avengers because I don't think the characters all work together. I don't see how the show version would be any better.