It sucks that Kinja always puts these troll posts at the top of pages. They say the gray system is designed to fight trolls, but the fact that posts with the most responses, instead of most likes, get promoted to the top seems to directly contradict this.

wait wait wait - we can’t block people on Kinja? Too bad, this tool would have an excellent one to start with.

His Green Lantern run was (along with GI Joe) my first exposure to truly serialized storytelling in comics. It may not have been quite as good as the Steve Englehart run that came immediately afterward, but it laid the groundwork. He was a solid writer, and was good at making his characters seem like relatable human…

I know Kinja considers the number of replies to a comment as an indication of quality, but this comment is an example of why that metric is so flawed. I can’t believe this drivel is the first comment to appear on the article.

If all he had done was co-create Wolverine, far and away the most successful character from the big 2 post-1960's, he’d be among the 5-10 most influential creators of the last 50 years. To have also had a tangential hand in Watchmen, a half-dozen X-Men stalwarts, Swamp Thing, and a dozen others — There’s a case to be…

Nobody who is happy with their life posts a poorly-informed attack on a popular writer who just died. PonyBoyMF is clearly just a depressed ignoramus who is desperate for attention of any kind. Just pretend he doesn’t exist.

Jessica so very much does not want to be in a comic book, it’s hilarious watching her forced to be in one anyway. She seems completely contemptuous of the names, the powers, the suits, and the story lines.

I wish that was the case but earlier on in the series Alexandria brags about still having armies, and enormous ones at that, so I don’t know why they suddenly wouldn’t have. Despite The Hand’s issues with “The Substance” surely they’d still have their day to day drug running / human trafficking / weapons dealing…

Despite knowing that no way would he actually die the moment still worked for me because Foggy and Karen do believe he’s gone. That moment when everyone else’s person comes back but theirs did make me sad for them. Foggy especially because he brought him the suit and told him to go save the city.

Kinjamprove extension helps a little (Chrome).

I did find it weird that there wasn’t a moment where Claire walks into the police station and goes, ‘Hi Guys’ and the main four heroes all have that moment of ‘wait, you know her?, why didn’t you clue us in sooner, then we might not have had to throw-down with one another anywhere near as much?’

Thoughts:

So confused by this one. Why was it left so vague? Did the gate bring them to some underground portion of K’un Lun? Or some place in between?

I thought it was pretty absurd that the NYPD would let a couple civilians hang around by themselves in a station and just wander around doing whatever they wanted, including looking at crime scene photos and stealing C4 from the evidence room.

Last episode I compared this show to a badly run D&D campaign, and this episode really drove it home. You’ve got four player characters, none with any real ties to one another, each with wildly different character motivations for moving through the story (and alignments, as the case may be - JJ is basically the one…

Thinking on it, I feel like a lot of these plot issues come down to (primarily) the show lacking confidence in its own storytelling devices and (secondarily) needing to service several plotlines.

Am I the only one who didn’t like how they handled Alexandra? I wanted to see her fight. Sigourney Weaver did a great job but the story failed her character. Electra killed her with a whimper, and it didn’t change anything since Electra just continued the same plan.

On the whole, The Defenders worked best when the characters were acknowledging their connections to one another. Luke and Jessica at the bar, Claire talking to Foggy about Matt, Matt and Elektra’s fight at the end were perfect example of that. The epilogues to the characters’ experiences were all pretty strong. The…

Foggy: “We just heard someone call in an All Units, to someplace called Midland Circle.”
Trish: “Did you say Midland Circle?”
Malcolm: “Yeah, do you know it?”
Trish: “That was the epicenter.”
Foggy: “Of what?”
Trish: “Of everything.”
Foggy: “...”
Karen: “...”
Malcolm: “So, what, like... the Big Bang, or...?”
Trish: “Sorry, no,…

“Once we start that timer, there’s no turning back.”
“Actually, if we really needed to abort we could just pull the detonators out of the C4. It’s a remarkably stable explos—”
“I SAID THERE’S NO TURNING BACK!!”