I get about the same feeling from this show as I do the other Defenders characters. I feel the Marvel brand is so diverse in how it chooses to tell stories, people have wanted to see an extra "it" factor in this that they presume Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, or Daredevil already have. In reality, you get the nitty-gritty details of the daily lives of singular heroes that will inevitably feel like it plods along unless you give yourself over to the world they're depicting. Sure, the bad guys are a bit one-dimensional and there are fight scenes that are less than wildly impressive, but the series doesn't feel lazy or haphazard no matter how unfamiliar you might think the writers are with the source material. Marvel transcends itself by tapping into an ethos of the times, often what we need to see or get better at. This story unfolds slowly as a lost and foreign element fights his way back into a familiar world corrupted by enemies old and new. The series doesn't think too big of itself, like the main character, and as it explores his relationship to friends and family let alone his moral responsibilities, you walk the tension that comes with asserting your name across worlds designed and bent to repel you.
Review by dogg724VIP 3BlockedParent2017-03-19T03:51:22Z
I get about the same feeling from this show as I do the other Defenders characters. I feel the Marvel brand is so diverse in how it chooses to tell stories, people have wanted to see an extra "it" factor in this that they presume Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, or Daredevil already have. In reality, you get the nitty-gritty details of the daily lives of singular heroes that will inevitably feel like it plods along unless you give yourself over to the world they're depicting. Sure, the bad guys are a bit one-dimensional and there are fight scenes that are less than wildly impressive, but the series doesn't feel lazy or haphazard no matter how unfamiliar you might think the writers are with the source material. Marvel transcends itself by tapping into an ethos of the times, often what we need to see or get better at. This story unfolds slowly as a lost and foreign element fights his way back into a familiar world corrupted by enemies old and new. The series doesn't think too big of itself, like the main character, and as it explores his relationship to friends and family let alone his moral responsibilities, you walk the tension that comes with asserting your name across worlds designed and bent to repel you.