This is the worst Marvel series to date
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footnotegirl — 9 years ago(September 23, 2016 10:05 AM)
"The critics are generally positive and it had really good ratings and imdb stars. But my three friends and I didn't like it, so all those other factors must be a lie and the majority hated it."
Seriously Occam's Razor time. Either there's a vast media conspiracy to make a show look popular (to what ends? Why would Netflix fake results and pour money into further series of a product that is not being watched?) or your small, opposite-of-diverse friendship circle are just not the people that it's being made for. -
sdego092 — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 08:59 PM)
I can kinda agree with that.
Daredevil seems like it's slowly becoming Arrow tier, which is anything but a compliment. Too much crying between Karen, Foggy, and now making Elektra some secret weapon that people have been fighting over for a long time? That never happened in The Man Without Fear which is what the show is supposed to be based on. If anything, the Director's Cut with Ben Affleck was closer to nailing the aspects of the universe and the character more than the Netflix series has so far.
Arrow and the other CW garbage is nothing more than a soap opera still trying to convince its audience to take it seriously as a comicbook show when it's far from it. Season 1 of the Flash was pretty solid, but season two stumbled way too much and became too predicable. There were too many signs for me that the show is going to be ruled by what killed Arrow, the tumblr fanfiction shipbase.
Jessica Jones was a breath of fresh air in a time where most of the Comicbook adaptations try their hardest to shoehorn in too many jokes to remove any sense of risk, or seriousness. It's nice to finally get a Superhero medium with a hard boiled detective show that's in similar style and tone as Sin City. Luke Cage looks pretty promising as well, and I can't wait for that to come out next Friday. -
Overlord-317 — 9 years ago(September 23, 2016 12:42 AM)
It's regarded as such by everyone other than the feminist circles. There's a reason why Daredevil and Punisher got fast-tracked seasons whilst this was put on a three year hiatus.
The show had so much potential however the awful writing, direction and casting let it down completely. A shame as if done right it would have been much bigger. Luke Cage looks so much better and on par with Daredevil.
Still lightyears ahead of Feige's dumbed down rubbish nonetheless. -
footnotegirl — 9 years ago(September 23, 2016 10:12 AM)
If you knew anything about Marvel Comics or the MCU, you would be aware that they can't use X-23 or Psylocke because they are Mutants and they don't have the rights to use the X-Men or Mutants, and they won't use Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman because the Spiderverse falls under Sony and while they are willing to go through the work and expenditures to get Spidey in the movies, they are not going to put their legal forces to work to deal with getting a show for Jessica Drew.
Jessica Jones is a fairly well known character (she's had several series and they have all sold well, BEFORE the show was even announced, both Alias and The Pulse) and her connection to Luke Cage (and in the future, the Avengers if they go that way) makes her a shoe in for part of the Defender's facet of the world that Netflix is dealing in. ALSO her powers are fairly cheap to do, special effects wise, unlike the characters you named, and her story has the 'gritty street level drama' that Netflix has been going for with all of their Marvel series.
BTW, Squirrel Girl is probably going to be in an upcoming animated series "New Warriors" so, all your nightmares are coming true.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/08/30/squirrel-girl-might-be-coming-to-the-small-screen-with-new-warriors-tv-show/ -
killakippa — 9 years ago(September 23, 2016 04:27 PM)
It's complicated. Half of the show looks like a WB series yes, and is pretty god awful, but the other half, specifically episodes 7 to 10, is probably the best work Marvel has done or anybody. The rest of Marvel's work, all films included, are actually kind of lame in comparison. Killgrave's story arc, specifically Dave Tennant's work is masterful, Breaking Bad was the best thing Krysten has been on but I think David and Krysten's work here, the writing, beats even that. It's bloody brilliant.
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tamaresque — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 05:27 AM)
I agree but for a different reason; she's a whiney bitch and never stops moaning. I watched the first six episodes because others I know kept telling me how good it is, so I kept waiting for it to improve but . . . it didn't.
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dmcreif — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 10:00 PM)
To quote someone from earlier in the page, I'm guessing that you don't like the series because you were expecting this to be more in the traditional superhero genre, given that across this show, Luke Cage, and Daredevil, the protagonists act more like they're antiheroes in traditional detective-film noir works (Luke Cage, for instance, is basically an MCU version of
The Wire
). They are deeply flawed and neurotic, rather than pure-hearted and godlike. And superpowers are more of a liability than a benefit. That is best shown in
Jessica Jones
: Simpson's Reds make him stronger but also cause him to go psychotic. Kilgrave's mind control turns him into a sadistic predator. Jessica and Luke, at least when we first meet them, are so broken that they need all the strength they can get just to make it through a normal day, Jessica because of the traumas from her time with Kilgrave, and Luke because he's on the run from the law and his wife died due to Kilgrave.