This episode lived up to my none-expectations at this point. The only thing it did right is set-up the next seasons of the individual character. This made me think that we will have a Marvel phase 2 problem - when the individual shows will return, we will all wonder why are the defenders are not teaming up again to solve their problems.
Now back to the episode, the last group fight made me cringe in a way that almost no show made me. Probably because Marvel-Netflix decided to save money and make a cheap show. The camera work wasn’t good, the song choice – I couldn’t think of anything worse to put in that fight scene and the chorography wasn’t impressive at all. It felt so unrelated to the rest of the show that it was distracting. Also, there was some huge inconsistences in the powers of our four heroes from the previous episode, that it was really annoying.
The best thing about this show was Luke Cage, Claire, Jessica Jones, Matt Murdock, Nelson and Karen. That’s it. At the end I couldn’t connect with Electra as the villain and didn’t understand her plan. The Hand was super disappointing after all this build up in Daredevil. They didn’t feel menacing or threatening. The Kingpin and Killgrave are way better villains.
I’m a bit biased in stating that Jessica Jones is my favorite character, but I basically watched this show to see Jessica Jones laugh at the other heroes and the unyielding woman did not disappoint. She has great chemistry with everyone and she got to kick ass her own way.
Matt Murdock made this show. The Hand felt like his fight a lot more than it felt like Danny Rand’s fight. His feelings towards Electra is the only thing that made me care on this show. That and how his friends love him.
Luke Cage and Claire felt like the heart of the show. Claire knows everyone, and Luke Cage is motivated by caring too much and yet being rational at the same time.
Danny Rand is just a plot device and doesn’t even feel like real character. I cared more about Misty Knight than I did about him.
But, the show did have a really good ending. So, I was left sort of satisfied with that.
You can skip this one. Although it might be difficult to understand the next seasons of each character as they will probably refer to the events happened in this show.
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