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late to the party doing some catch up drinking.
ok . . . i finished season 1 a few weeks ago and i feel kinda the same as @"Gaith". i mean, it's a fun show and refreshing for the Marvel live-action 'verse. but it still doesn't hold a candle to Banshee. i have several complaints . . maybe complaint is to strong because i still enjoyed watching the show start to finish and look forward to more. but here we go...
1) not nearly enough joints being broken. these are BAD GUYS DD is fighting. he's looking to clean up his streets and he's going to face and torso punch everyone down. if you get in a fight with a roomfull of dudes and you're looking to win, you break as many elbows as you can to start with then go for knees next. not punch them in the face hoping you knock them out eventually. plus a criminal with a limp or a weak grip on a gun is not an effective criminal anymore.
2) i know this is a tv show without near the budget of a big box office popcorn bowl, but there are a lot of cool and subtle ways to highlight DD's powers. i had to remind myself he's got powers a number of times. now we can't get the "world on fire" every episode and that would lose it's appeal quickly, but a small audio queue of what he's hearing would be nice. lets not forget his sense of smell, which got zero mention (that i remember). gun oil i guess is usually the only ever used. but he could be sniffing the air a lot more. he mentioned he can feel slight variations in air pressure which helps him identify room position, but he can feel heat too. let's get some predator vision flashed in a few times. that last episode of him tracking KP's truck was probably the best highlight of his powers.
3) only a small nitpick, but Charlie Cox needs to study more blind people and their mannerisms. this one only sticks out for me because my wife has a sister who is blind from birth. (but Matt lost his sight later on, blah blah, yeah i know. i'm just giving my experience.)
4) KP's backstory of the abused kid. eff, which chapter of the big book of chiches was this written from? i don't really feel the abused kid would grow up to be a brilliant and ruthless crime boss. especially when that abuse stopped after he killed his father. here's a better story: his family was just poor, but doing their best every day. but every day the neighborhood or dad's boss or life just shit on them. eventually to get by little Fisk has to get a job, and this made his school suffer and his life got shit on even more. so he found a way out by joining a local crime family and working his way up the ranks (did they not bother watching Goodfellas... ignore the child abuse in that). but i get it, the abused kid angle is easier for the idiot masses to follow.
5) like @"Gaith" mentioned too . . . the vague writing and story telling. the business is suffering, Fisk needs to get his business together, i've got big plans for the city, the business is growing out of control, we gotta expose Fisk. this show has a whole lot of dialog without saying anything. we all assume the business they're in, drug trafficking and selling, human trafficking, protection, whatever else gangster movies has taught us to expect from inner cities. but we see none of it and we don't even really hear about any of it. some white power packets in the factory and a single shipping crate of girls. but they have enough time to drag out trust and vigilante issues saying the same thing over and over and over. we get to see more actual crime on Law & Order and they manage to also fit in a court case (well, they used too.)
ok, i'm done. i'll say again, i still enjoy the show. sometimes it just feels like more of the same hollywood telling how stupid we are.
ok . . . i finished season 1 a few weeks ago and i feel kinda the same as @"Gaith". i mean, it's a fun show and refreshing for the Marvel live-action 'verse. but it still doesn't hold a candle to Banshee. i have several complaints . . maybe complaint is to strong because i still enjoyed watching the show start to finish and look forward to more. but here we go...
1) not nearly enough joints being broken. these are BAD GUYS DD is fighting. he's looking to clean up his streets and he's going to face and torso punch everyone down. if you get in a fight with a roomfull of dudes and you're looking to win, you break as many elbows as you can to start with then go for knees next. not punch them in the face hoping you knock them out eventually. plus a criminal with a limp or a weak grip on a gun is not an effective criminal anymore.
2) i know this is a tv show without near the budget of a big box office popcorn bowl, but there are a lot of cool and subtle ways to highlight DD's powers. i had to remind myself he's got powers a number of times. now we can't get the "world on fire" every episode and that would lose it's appeal quickly, but a small audio queue of what he's hearing would be nice. lets not forget his sense of smell, which got zero mention (that i remember). gun oil i guess is usually the only ever used. but he could be sniffing the air a lot more. he mentioned he can feel slight variations in air pressure which helps him identify room position, but he can feel heat too. let's get some predator vision flashed in a few times. that last episode of him tracking KP's truck was probably the best highlight of his powers.
3) only a small nitpick, but Charlie Cox needs to study more blind people and their mannerisms. this one only sticks out for me because my wife has a sister who is blind from birth. (but Matt lost his sight later on, blah blah, yeah i know. i'm just giving my experience.)
4) KP's backstory of the abused kid. eff, which chapter of the big book of chiches was this written from? i don't really feel the abused kid would grow up to be a brilliant and ruthless crime boss. especially when that abuse stopped after he killed his father. here's a better story: his family was just poor, but doing their best every day. but every day the neighborhood or dad's boss or life just shit on them. eventually to get by little Fisk has to get a job, and this made his school suffer and his life got shit on even more. so he found a way out by joining a local crime family and working his way up the ranks (did they not bother watching Goodfellas... ignore the child abuse in that). but i get it, the abused kid angle is easier for the idiot masses to follow.
5) like @"Gaith" mentioned too . . . the vague writing and story telling. the business is suffering, Fisk needs to get his business together, i've got big plans for the city, the business is growing out of control, we gotta expose Fisk. this show has a whole lot of dialog without saying anything. we all assume the business they're in, drug trafficking and selling, human trafficking, protection, whatever else gangster movies has taught us to expect from inner cities. but we see none of it and we don't even really hear about any of it. some white power packets in the factory and a single shipping crate of girls. but they have enough time to drag out trust and vigilante issues saying the same thing over and over and over. we get to see more actual crime on Law & Order and they manage to also fit in a court case (well, they used too.)
ok, i'm done. i'll say again, i still enjoy the show. sometimes it just feels like more of the same hollywood telling how stupid we are.