You're a mess too after defenders? Good lord I was bawling at the end. What are your thoughts in general?
Tumblr won’t let me tag this with DEFENDERS SPOILERS, so don’t read on if you don’t want anything ruined for you!
I was definitely crying for the last 15 minutes. I kept pausing to see how much more time we had, lol.
I think the Defenders was pretty damn good. My ONE problem was Karen and Foggy trying to help Matt “stop” or whatever. Karen seemed to be on DD’s side in the diner and then I feel like she did a 180 when she talked to him in his office (because she knew he was lying) and when she spoke with Foggy about “helping” him stop. It just fuels the fire for the haters, and they really didn’t need more lighter fluid (though with Karen, I feel like it is pretty unwarranted.)
Don’t get me wrong, I love them both. But man, I hope they realize they were so much less supportive than all of the other friends of the super-friends. And I highly doubt that is going to happen after thinking he was dead.
The ending really had me. I was 90% positive Matt was going to come out of it (I don’t know how in the hell he did), but I was was also worried they were going to recast Daredevil and make a new series or something (that is the negative anxious part of me who always thinks the worst.)
Pros of the show:
The music - Every piece of music, whether it was score or soundtrack was pretty damn wonderful. I don’t always notice score when I’m watching a show for the first time (especially because action score can be really bad in TV), but I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Matt was actually a decent lawyer - I feel like that was my only real wish for this show, and I got it. He’s a good lawyer in the comics, and season 2 had me wondering.
The fight scenes were amazing. You could tell they put a lot of effort into choreographing them and everyone looked like a badass.
The rapport between all four of the Defenders was wonderful. I loved how reticent Matt was at first (although the lying, man. That kid has got to get it through that thick bullet-proof skull-piece that it DOESN’T go over well). I loved each of the interactions between the Defenders, I laughed a lot, I smiled a lot. I was begging for them to hug each other!
Elektra was freaking awesome. I teared up a couple times when she was struggling with her humanity and her feelings for Matt (despite the Karedevil lover side of me.) I feel like they did a really good job of bringing them back together and showing their inner turmoil. They’ve always had great chemistry and I loved their scenes together.
The five fingers of the hand - I thought they were all pretty awesome and I loved seeing the in-fighting. Madame Gao continued to be a badass, and I just stared at Alexandra in every scene she was in.
They even made me like Danny Rand. I don’t know how they did it - maybe it was because he wanted what we all wanted - the super-friends to band together. Or the fact that he got tied up after being an idiot. Or the white privilege comments and jokes at his expense. Either way, he was much less annoying.
I’m about to rewatch (like a crazy person) because my husband had to sleep last night and I wasn’t about to wait to watch some of them at midnight. I’ll see if my perspective changes.