2. "interesting, it seems like all websites that did a 'best marvel netflix ..." In response to Reply # 0
all have Luke Cage as the best? i haven't watched it though, but this post has me reconsidering watching daredevil. Maybe superhero stories work better for me in comic or movie formats, because I got bored by both Jessica Jones and Punisher, i couldnt make it through
3. "JJ S1 was nearly prestige TV in my eyes." In response to Reply # 0
I didn't watch Luke Cage, Punisher, Iron Fist or Defenders. I really enjoyed most of Daredevil S1 but found the Foggy character insufferable (even more than I did in the first season) and fell off after three or four episodes of S2. I'd like to go back to it, I like Charlie Cox a lot, but the rest of the trappings of that show just kind of lost it for me without the come up story and D'Onofrio's fun ticks.
If Legion were lumped into this poll, I might've gone that way because that series had higher lows than JJ did, but I just thought thematically the Jones show was doing something you'd never have expected something rooted in comic books to approach and handle smartly even a five years before it aired.
16. "You just touched on my biggest problem with Luke Cage....." In response to Reply # 12
>Plu watching this swaggerless luke supposedly capture the >hearts of Harlem is just weird.
Aside from the fact that the show switched villains (Cottonmouth is arguably the GOAT MCU villain so far), I never could buy that all of these people in Harlem would be cool with Luke Cage. The showrunners seem to want Luke Cage to be seen as the man in Harlem but there's a level of authenticity that's just not there. Hopefully it gets better but I doubt it.
That was my worry about the character from his introduction in Jessica Jones season 1. Dude is devoid of charisma and swagger. I didn't see how he could carry a whole show.
He warmed up on me, but still, he's a little lacking to be the heart and soul of Harlem.
And to be honest, there's a small part of his character in Jessica Jones that is totally missing from his own show. It's in the scene where JJ gets into a fight at Cage's bar. She starts breaking tables and throwing folks out windows and whatnot, and you see Cage with this look on his face like "Woman, the fuck is wrong with you?!?"
He wasn't so much irritated by the fight as he was about his property getting damaged.
For some reason, that was funny to me. It's a small, amusing nuance that you almost never see in action shows/movies. But they didn't touch on it at all with his own show.
22. "He'd be perfect for the old Marvel One-Shot joints." In response to Reply # 21
All the contract shit and the "movie studio doesn't wanna work with the TV studio" shit kills fun shit like that. Dude is 100% the type of person Spider-Man would come across.
23. "YO...i was saying the SAME thing to my wife!" In response to Reply # 21
>RE: Am I the only one who'd enjoy more Turk story lines?>
i forgot to mention that in the other thread reviewing JJ season 2....one of the highlights for me was seeing Turk. Everytime he comes on the screen in any series he pops up in i find myself yelling out loud "TURRRRk!!!" and grinning until his scene is over....dude is killing i as Turk, and yeah i said the same thing...that he'd be a great character to do a bunch of those little one-shots that they use to do on BluRays (why did they stop? That's probably a good way to get a few more people to pick up a blu-ray if (instead of just waiting to stream) if they knew there were gonna be a few exclusive to blu-ray only one shots)...
but yeah...Turks always good. Kudos to the actor playing him too...Rob Morgan. Dude is NAILING it!!!
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