Thing is, they're usually very good movies - until you see them roped into the ever-expanding Marvel Movie Universe Chain, @jeffmc2000:disqus .

I dunno, @jeffmc2000:disqus - my wife watches television while reading on her iPad.

You forgot the endless, rambling thought panels Bendis loves so much, @darthkidriss:disqus.

That's television's fault, @dylancheely:disqus - people are so used to talking over movies and television shows that they do the same thing in theaters.

I resent that scurrilous assessment, @avclub-96f15daceb6669363fbf7f762ed57703:disqus !

Did you use your AARP Card to do it, @ObjectivelyBiased:disqus ?

The movie faked MedievalWorld with a castle interior, @spuddie:disqus . Admittedly if that were a television series it would have to go a bit further than that, but there are, or were, medieval backlots and standing sets in Hollywood, and swashbucklers during the Golden Age used the same forests and clearings Westerns…

For Gods' Sake, @spuddie:disqus - Get Smart utilized the climax of Citizen Kane as a punchline in the Sixties! They had Sigfried ranting about how he became a KAOS Agent because his parents wouldn't get him a sled - and when Max asked why, Sigfried responded, "Would you believe - We lived in Florida?"

"Oh, king, eh - very nice. And how'd you get that, then? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress -"

Yeah, I kept seeing it advertised on El Rey Network, @avclub-ca6738c0c4522487f0183a57c4b9b115:disqus .

It might be more that Peter Facinelli, who played Maxwell Lord, didn't really want to go to Vancouver, @avclub-fdc210e25c7a92f3f1df16696893896a:disqus. It might also be that he wanted to be brought on as a regular if he did make the move, and the producers may have decided he wasn't worth the expense.

@drbootslist:disqus - maybe it doesn't hold up now, but at the time the CGI work looked a whole lot better than George Reeves waving his arms in front of the same few rearscreen projection shots, or showing his strength by lifting the back end of a car! Thanks to CGI Superman could be seen actually performing…

Depends on who's writing him, @itbegins2005:disqus - for a while there, Luke was as big a Tomcat as Matt Murdock! He'd slept his way through most of the non-major female characters in the Marvel-616 Universe, and with a lot less guilt over it than Mopey Matt ever had….

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus - I would disagree only insofar as what makes Luke Cage work is less "gloriously over the top Blaxploitation homages" as working within the tropes they're paying homage to to give us (mostly) fully-developed and compelling characters.

I said it in the comments for the previous episode, but I swear Luke Cage feels like it started out as a tight six-parter, and they added the other seven episodes (with both the character depth for Mariah and Cottonmouth and the meandering) later, @disqus_t62jyiJBrU:disqus .

Though my wife reminded me that Episode 7, "Manifest", does have some really good filling in of Cottonmouth's and Mariah's teen years and what motivated them to be the people they are now, as well as Shades stepping up while getting Mariah to do the same, @domshakal:disqus .

Got it in one, @harrydeanstockwell:disqus !

Guys, we can have both - or let Shades tangle with Daredevil or Kingpin next time, or bring back one of the many many White Tigers in the Marvel Universe for Shades to have fun with!

I kind of get the feeling that the real Luke Cage story was the first six episodes, @avclub-c701a997d9bef627835b036efb4eca63:disqus - and the writers had to scramble to come up with a story for the seven episodes following it. We really thought the first season ended with Cottonmouth's arrest, Mariah's political…

Worse, @avclub-e89ba7ae41a663d8243cdc95b0990027:disqus - Diamondback is written and played like a sub-Tarantino homage to a Blaxploitation Walking Stereotype! You're right about every other character having depth and dimension, even the bad guys (okay, especially the bad guys - I kind of don't think I'm supposed to…