The failure of the Hand to appear like an indomitable evil, nay, to even seem like an ominous threat tells me that the mythology of this series isn’t revolving around the fight between the good and the evil. There really is no evil in this Marvel Universe. We could have gotten a really sick and interesting villain in…

Apropos of nothing I would also like to say that even if the comment sections kinks get worked out, Kinja’s “one column stream” format is completely antithetical to the way AVC has approached content. I say this as someone who’s lived through many Twitter design changes and know that most are ridden out and forgotten.…

Did anyone notice that the elevator never landed? Like, Jessica let go of the cable, and.... Even the Japanese dude landed after they threw him off the elevator, but it never landed on him? And Daredevil and Elektra never noticed a several-ton hunk of metal crashing down right next to them? WHERE DID IT GO

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.

Honestly thought the last episode was a mess, and a lot of that has to do with the decision to have Danny open up the tomb last episode so we could see what’s in it - the more effective, classic comic book / thriller plot structure would have the tomb opening concurrently with the rest of the team showing up to fight,…

I’m pretty sure any character who didn’t have their head lopped off is most likely not going to be dead for good.

Dragon graveyard, it’s the one place Simba isn’t allowed to go.

“What does it mean to be a hero?” — A third grade essay by Karen.

“Didn’t you hear me? I said the McGuffin is gonna McGuff!”

Elektra and Madame Gao both probably survived.

Shou-Lao’s bone marrow, apparently? Which is weird because the reason he’s immortal is because his molten heart exists outside of his body.

ok so people in the know. Is Elektra dead? Is My Queen, Elektra Natchios, first of her name,the baddest bitch, giver of no fucks, fucker of hos, rihanna if rihanna had super powers, dead? Is she? Cause if what you’re saying is that I have to endure Karen with no Elektra, then I don’t know if I can go on.

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…

They couldn’t quite tie off the story, could they?

Cool idea to have Matt sacrifice himself by keeping Elektra busy.
Not so cool to have them undo it all at the end of the episode.

Again, the MacGuffin: what’s the stuff that makes the Hand immortal?
The bones of the dragon? And did anybody get any of it down there?

Eps…

I loved the diversity of the show - both in the ratio of women to men (oftentimes the women in the opening credits outnumbered the men, which rarely happens in this genre) but also that we had so many people of color.

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,…

Trish: “What have you found out?”
Karen: “Nothing yet. I’m actually a terrible journalist. I just pinned these pictures to the wall because that’s what I’ve seen in movies.”
Trish: “How the hell did you win a Pulitzer?”

“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!!”

I still don’t think that’s the gate to K’un Lun, just a dragon repository.

ugh, I dont know how to change from my kinja account to my disqus account. they are both conected to my google acc.