if the goal was redemption for IF then they succeeded as he was basically front and centre. To the actor and writers credit he was much improved here than 3months ago.
Unfortunately as a whole I was thoroughly disappointed, Netflix marvel has been losing a lot of traction in relevance and this was sadly no help. Taking 3 episodes to get going on With 5 to spare should have been a red flag. Overall it just didn't feel epic or like the culmination of something eventful. For starters Sigourney weaver, wtf she was useless, took up screen time for what?waste of money.
Speaking of which the budget per episode that is supposedly meant to be in the 4millions just doesn't show and it really hurt this. So many fight scenes were shot like a Nolan movie clearly to cut costs.
Another egregious error was the use of Luke and JJ, these are 2 popular characters that serve a particular demo as well and they were bit players for the most of it. Krysten Ritter has too good screen presence to be sidelined
Was surprised at the end when they showed DD, thought they were going to pull a BvS
All in all this was suppose to be the one we had all been waiting for the money shot and to be honest aside from ep6 and 8 it was pretty forgettable. If they never did another defenders would you lose sleep? That's not a good sign. Who is going to be excited about any upcoming series after consecutive mediocre outings
at them wanting Matt to take the scarf off
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