Ultimately, I think I would gripe about it less if they did as you said, and introduced him earlier. It just feels out of left field for me.

Again, the glaring example for me is Sandman from the Raimi films. For two films, we've been presented a very clear narrative - and then, What a twist! We found out that it was wrong all along, because we need an excuse for Parker to have a vendetta against whatshername.

There's a difference between criminal, and omnipresent crime lord whom everyone speaks of in hushed whispers. It'd be like Wilson Fisk apparently being the one who caused Daredevil's accident because he's an acquaintance with a grudge, amd oh, whaddya know, he's also the big bad who operates a large scale criminal…

Fair enough. I think the "He's really his brother!" Seemed too gratuitious and twisty on top of the someone from his past/crime boss.

I'm conflicted with the mystery box. I think the premise of the show is relatively straightforward, so to add layer upon layer seems a little much. I never got into Lost, and after being spoiled, I rather got tired of the way BSG got mired in the back half of the third season.

Yeah, I agree with you. I can handle one big coincidence, but this felt like three: 1. Diamondback is his brother, 2. Diamondback has a personal vendetta against him, 3. Diamondback is a criminal boss.

I mean, I understand that, but it's something that sticks in my craw execution wise. If his original origin was kept, it might not seem so out of left field. Or if there was something more earlier in the season.

So wounded.

Is this the right thread to discuss the contrivance that Diamondback is Luke Cage 's childhoodfriend and half brother, who is also this criminal mastermind responsible for framing him, and the mess in Harlem?

Can't wait for the rape scene!…oh, sorry, the sex that eventually turns consensual.

Dawson and Bassett, I want to believe.

Yeah, in this episode, I noticed that there definitely seemed a designed "out" point for the Wyatt narrative, and assumed that was built in for that expressed purpose - of the difficulty was too hard, they can opt out.

There goes my money. :P

We did see the two female guests go on about the "bad boy" vs Marsden in the first? Episode.

I do think that Coven was a series low re: narrative cohesion and quality, and that attempts since then have steadily increased in quality, but I don't think it'll ever hit the bug-fuck nuts and thematic power of Asylum.

He suffers from "The Blacksmith" syndrome from DD S2

The weakest part of Luke Cage was that Michael K. Williams somehow never appeared on the show. You had one job, Marvel/Netflix!

Wasn't his origin in the comics a former gang member - where I'm the show he's a former cop/military?

Let me clarify a touch - we do see the Chens as normal people in the Blind Man's Bluff scene, but as Matt V/Oed about the ghosts corralling them because the ghosts were afraid of the Butcher, one of the Chen girls reverted to the Ju-On type ghost as part of that endeavor.

I'd argue that kind of ghost is kind of ubiquitous in lots of Asian ghost related horror, though J-Horror is the one to make the biggest cross over.