What is your point here? Yes, 124 pounds at 5'7" is "slight". Ronda Rousey's weigh-in weight is 11 pounds more than that—that's a lot of weight. Further, weigh-in weights are artificially low, because fighters intentionally starve and dehydrate ahead of the weigh in. When Ronda's weighing in at 135, she's probably…

Is that how soldiers who are in hardened vehicles hit by IEDs get traumatic brain injury? Because I'm pretty sure the shockwave is the culprit there, not acceleration of the brain into the skull wall.

For fucks sake. Momentum is conserved. MV - mv = 0. Even a very fast moving 1 oz. slug is not going to give him whiplash. His head is a couple of orders of magnitude more massive than the slug, so the speed his head is accelerated to to has to be a couple of orders of magnitude lower. We're talking like a…

First of all, force is force, so what I wrote is correct and the force is (roughly) equal. What you're saying is that it's more complicated than that, because you have to think about other effects in collisions, like pressure/penetration. That's correct, but you have ignored that Luke Cage has bulletproof skin. The…

No, I am not overlooking that. I am taking into account that the target does not deform, because the target has unbreakable skin. Without penetration, bullets do not do a lot of damage. This is how bulletproof vests work. Luke Cage has bulletproof skin.

There was way more than 3 episodes worth of fat in the season that could have been cut.

This really isn't on Ritter, as far as I can tell. It's about how it's filmed and choreographed. From the entire show I can remember one moment where I thought "wow, that looked like some superhero stuff," and that's the imaginary moment where she jumps off a roof in a yellow dress and lands lightly on the street. …

I'm not saying the burning would hurt him, but the amount of force from the explosion was clearly more than the force involved in a shotgun slug. It tore the front of the building off.

I'm not going to argue physics in a comic book story all night, but if shotguns give Luke Cage brain swelling, he's not really that invincible. A 12-gauge slug has about the same amount of energy as a swung baseball bat, and significantly less than something like a car, which would be pretty easy to hit him with.

It's been a while, and I didn't read the whole run, but there is some fighting. This is not a quantity complaint, it's a quality complaint. And, to be clear, the quality I'm looking for is not martial arts/stylized fighting—it's fights that don't pull me out of the story with their fakeness and lack of adherence to…

You don't get more energy out than you put in. You're talking a few grams of gunpowder, albeit concentrated, versus probably hundreds of cubic meters of gas. The explosion is more likely to give you a concussion, or other kind of traumatic brain injury, than a bullet to the throat that fails to penetrate.

I don't know enough physics to tell you, but it seems to stand to reason that a large room completely filled with gas to the point where ignition causes a shockwave that blows out the front of a building is going to impart a lot of energy on everything in the room. Significantly more than the couple of grams of…

Also: that's not what I meant by choreography. Re-watch the part of this episode where Jessica knocks four crates over on Cage. It is high-school drama club level fake looking. You need to film these things to look like they have weight; hits need to look and sound forceful; some casual property destruction can go…

Point taken, though a roomful of gas is functionally virtually identical, and the way it was depicted in the show was as a violent explosion that blew out the storefront.

Great example. Lazy plotting, without any payoff to show for the fudging.

It's basic physics that the force out the front of the shotgun is equal to the force at the back of the shotgun. Equal and opposite reactions and all that. The bomb, by contrast, is clearly putting out a lot more energy, which makes sense because there's a lot more boom fuel in a bomb than in a shotgun cartridge.

Right, but can you think of any instance where her resistance to harm was a plot point? I'll give you the fast healing, but everyone on shows heals unrealistically fast. I don't think I've ever seen someone crack their ribs on a TV show and then be shown still injured a month or two later. It's usually forgotten…

I second that. I really like Ritter and Colter, and Tennant's casting and performance give me hope for the villains, but the show needs to find the fun in the universe. The whole concept works because of the juxtaposition of the noirish, realist(ist) stories with the four-color setting. Take that away, and it's…

Her powers are wildly inconsistent. I honestly can't think of any instance where she's shown to be more resistant to harm than a normal person that's easily distinguishable from regular plot armor. Patsy is roughly as physically tough as Jessica in the show, albeit not as strong.

I can see this criticism, but I disagree with it. Part of Jones's character is that she's a fairly slight woman who is way stronger than you expect her to be—it's a problem of effects and choreography. For what it's worth, I think Colter's strength also looks pretty chintzy and fake in the few scenes where they…