The Defenders

It’s not bad for a single watch. I'm certainly not going to watch all the seasons of all the other shows. But from this Netflix collection, the Jessica Jones storyline is fine with me, and it's definitely enough. The other female characters are great too. Ripley herself, Daredevil's ex-girlfriend, and Trish Talk. And finally, Elektra has a fine reputation again, unlike in the movie. Yes, it’s good. When I have more time, I can come back to Jessica and look forward to it. (01.01.2019)

Everything I loved about the standalone series is present here in almost equal measure. The mystical battle surrounding Daredevil, the rough strength and equally rough lines delivered by Jessica, Luke and his sense of social significance, and last but not least, Iron Fist, repeatedly reminding everyone that he is... Iron Fist. In direct comparison, I have to give in whether I like it or not, and although I greatly enjoyed his series, among the four heroes, Danny is clearly the slowest, most delaying, and simply the weakest. Nevertheless, the jokes at his expense are logically the best. The fight against The Hand, the troubles with Elektra, or the chillingly charismatic Alexandra deserved more space as an intertwined central storyline. Marvel's Luke Cage suffered from a stretching of the thirteen episodes; many viewers criticized the same thing with Jessica Jones or Iron Fist. On the other hand, The Defenders suffers from a number of episodes that's too low. I barely have time to catch my breath, and every fight is a celebration worth the two-year wait, but I wanted more. More undeniable chemistry between any chosen pair of main characters and more interactions with beloved supporting characters (and I must say I love Misty and Colleen, and generally hated Karen the most). The most demanding TV crossover passed the test on its own, but I'm saddened that I won't get a denser addition (at least on Netflix). (14.10.2017)

An excellent continuation from the preceding series. It carries with it all its pluses and minuses, so while the Daredevil storyline is excellent, the others lag behind in terms of invention. At least Iron Fist comes across better than in his solo appearance (he’s still a jerk, but that’s just part of the story = villains often make fun of him for it). The action is well-managed, Sigourney unfortunately underused, while Elektra is just fantastic. Punisher was missing, despite being shown in the trailers, but otherwise I was content. P.S: The hip hop in the action scenes is greater evil than the Hand itself. (03.09.2017)

Still, exactly what you would expect. But from the end of the third episode and until then only in implied. The problem is not so much that at first each member plays on his own backyard, but rather that all those lines act as purely superfluous fourteenth and fifteenth episodes of their already finished thirteen-episode series and not as a regular follow-up of their life story. On top of that, the truth is that the quality of the individual segments exactly corresponds to the quality of the series of their main characters. So Murdock and Jessica are in terms of quality on a completely different level than Luke (at least that's where it´s based on Colter's charisma and Misty) or Danny Rand, who is clearly annoying. However, as soon as they get together, the Iron Fist suddenly works. It progresses in the style predetermined by the previous "episodes", namely good physical stunts inside the warehouses, a straightforwardly unnecessarily too talkative course of events, decent bad girls (although Sigourney has almost no room, so she has to get by only with a purely sinister frown) or= a not entirely consistent mix of "realistic "comic book approach with the excessive one. It's good and fun, no doubt about that, but inevitably it looks like a decent one-off special movie for fans rather than the regular outcome of several years of creating, towards which all previous series have headed, especially when it is game-changing only for one of the characters and the mystical supranational transnational super bad organization that has been built for centuries turns out to an inadvertently ridiculous equivalent of the villainous Kobra Kai division of Karate Kid in terms of its capabilities. (21.08.2017)