I've watched all the Netflix Marvel shows, and this is bad... It is as slow and badly written as Iron Fist. Nothing happens, the whole 8 episodes spans over 2 or 3 days in real time, it's ridiculous. Villains come and go, don't make sense, the Hand feels more ridiculous now than ever because we've seen who's leading it... It's a succession of REALLY awful dialogues, cheesy line after cheesy line, and cheap fight scenes. Where is the Punisher fight scene ? The Daredevil corridor scene ? The Luke Cage invincible scene ? The Jessica Jones tortured manipulation ? There is 0 impact, it's so weak...
To go into detail : Weaver's character is poorly written, never really developed. Elektra is what we expect, puppet at first then remembers Matthew. 0 originality. And no explanation as to how she can take down Luke Cage... Matthew can fight Elektra, but Luke Cage can't ? Give me a break... Rand is annoying and weak as hell (he needs an hour to recharge before giving ONE punch...), Daredevil faces the same old problems. Only Luke Cage saves a bit of the show, but Misty is still awful and clueless, Stick a parody of himself, Claire has nothing new to say... All the budget was spent to pay the actors, clearly neither the writers nor the stunt guys...
Honestly, I thought 8 episodes was good. Afterall, we all said 11-13 episodes is way too long. But they managed to make us feel like the Defenders only needed 2 or 3 episodes to tell that awful story... The Hand tease, then leave, the Defenders hide, the Hand find them, they escape again etc... I mean Jessica Jones basically sums up the show herself in episode 7 "Oh my God, this is the dumbest...". Marvel can do no wrong ? Well that's two in a row...
To go into detail : Weaver's character is poorly written, never really developed. Elektra is what we expect, puppet at first then remembers Matthew. 0 originality. And no explanation as to how she can take down Luke Cage... Matthew can fight Elektra, but Luke Cage can't ? Give me a break... Rand is annoying and weak as hell (he needs an hour to recharge before giving ONE punch...), Daredevil faces the same old problems. Only Luke Cage saves a bit of the show, but Misty is still awful and clueless, Stick a parody of himself, Claire has nothing new to say... All the budget was spent to pay the actors, clearly neither the writers nor the stunt guys...
Honestly, I thought 8 episodes was good. Afterall, we all said 11-13 episodes is way too long. But they managed to make us feel like the Defenders only needed 2 or 3 episodes to tell that awful story... The Hand tease, then leave, the Defenders hide, the Hand find them, they escape again etc... I mean Jessica Jones basically sums up the show herself in episode 7 "Oh my God, this is the dumbest...". Marvel can do no wrong ? Well that's two in a row...