I don't really see why being White affords any more or any less opportunity for character development than any other skin colour. But I think what Thundercant was pointing out was that the reviewer was affected in their judgement by the fact that Danny is White - as demonstrated by the way they talk about it and go…

I'm not familiar with the comics and perfectly happy to take your word for it. I'm fine with him being watered down as I have no attachment to the comics though of course I respect that it can bother others. I don't want JJ to be the weak one of the team, though. A scene where Luke Cage asks JJ to bend some bars for…

Nepal is next to Tibet. They're both cover parts of the Himalayas and culturally you'll find massive overlap. If you want Tibetan people or culture but you can't use Tibet, walk South for half an hour and just don't look at your map.

I would characterise Jessica Jones as "a barfighter". She's a pick up a puncher and a hit you with a barstool (or juke box) fighter. Cage's fighting is actually one of the few things I really like from his series - he never blocks or throws up a guard, he knows he can't be hurt. He just focuses on hitting people and…

But in his defense, he's a lot less wordy and all over the place than I am! :)

I had one particular pet peeve with Luke Cage which was that made him super-strong. My impression from Jessica Jones was that she was unnaturally strong and he was semi-invulnerable. That made a nice complement to each other. But then in the Luke Cage series he's ripping thick iron bars out of concrete they are…

Ha! Another pet peeve of mine. The way Americans always refer to people as "Asian." Look, if you can't be bothered differentiating between Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Malaysian, Indian et al. then you might as well just wear a t-shirt saying "you all look alike to me". Makes me want to gnash my teeth most times I hear…

If someone tried to drive off with my car when I had the option of getting in and trying to stop them, I would. I base this on my behaviour with a break-in to my home years ago which confirms that I am willing to put aggression ahead of intelligence and thinking things through. So I can certainly believe a character…

Green & Blacks do a very nice Madagascan Vanilla ice-cream. I don't know if the USA has Green & Blacks or if it's just a British company. But they are the gold standard of perfect, simple, delicious vanilla ice-cream, imo.

This is the Internet. That's not allowed here.

Do you consider it fair to evaluate this show based on the the old comics, or assess it as it's own thing? That's a side question but you raise the question of when Iron Fist came out and so I mention it. For my part, I assess this show entirely as its own thing so we may be starting from slightly different positions.…

There is a LOT offensive about Will and Grace. Someone said that in forty years time we'll look back at Will and Grace the same way we look back at Black Face. Whilst that's a comic exaggeration, I totally get what the point they're making. "Ooh - you're gay. Let's do a comic exaggeration of what we consider gay…

Maybe. Like pretto above, I don't usually like to tell specific people what they should and shouldn't be offended by (I have no problem expressing my general views, though as above). But I would have no more or less compunction about saying it because they were from an Asian background than any other. I'd also, based…

Daredevil has probably the best TV fights I've seen. Outside of movies like John Wick, I'd say it actually has the best fight scenes of a lot of movies, too.

Well I can't fully help with lowered expectations as though it's a bit hokey in places I am enjoying it. However as regards the fight scenes, I've just finished episode three and we haven't yet had our Daredevil S1 corridor fight, yet. By which I don't literally mean he hasn't fought anyone in a corridor, I mean we…

It's great that there are 31 flavours of ice-cream ("32 flavours!" interjects The Question), but it's still okay to enjoy vanilla sometimes. A classic formua done well can be very enjoyable.

Danny Rand isn't rich. He doesn't even have shoes. He might be supposed to be rich if he gets his company back, but he hasn't been rich since he was ten years old is what I got from this episode. Also, I don't think anything has shown that Daredevil is better than Danny, yet. Danny only fought some security guards -…

I actually don't think they did. I liked the fight scenes as I said in my own little review further up. (down? Guess it depends how you sort 'em). The first and second episode is light on fighting, but it's fast, elegant and graceful. Whereas Daredevil fights are brutal, Danny Rand fights are beautiful. And I think…

Expectations, in a word. There's a high expectation with this series for the fight coreography, the effects, the sets, everything. What Arrow can get away with, Iron Fist can't. I'm not exactly sure why that is - I think it's multiple combining factors. That it's Netflix, that it follows on from the ground-breaking…

Okay. Let's get this out of the way. The fantasy of going to a different people / culture and learning special skills or being accepted is standard pre-adolescent fantasy #4. It's common, it's based on the desire to be special and there's nothing inherently offensive about looking at another culture and thinking it's…