Because the Marvel shows - Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher and The Defenders - are leaving Netflix as of the end of this month, I dipped into some of them to rewatch some favourite scenes or episodes and found that several years later, my basic opinions on their virtues and flaws haven't changed. This includes: Luke ( Read more... )

Daredevil:

Exile Vilify: post season 3 fanfiction which follows up on what happened to the terrified woman Fisk had on monitoring duty and provides me with the Matt Murdock & Jessica Jones interaction I’ve been craving.

Better Call Saul

The Winner Takes It All: neat meta about why that particular ABBA song was such a good choice for the s4 ( Read more... )

Not having watched Iron Fist yet, I have no feelings one way or the other about its cancellation. Luke Cage getting cancelled, otoh, had me torn; it was an intriguing series, but I felt for all reasons except its central character, whom I took to far more in shows not his own (i.e. Jessica Jones and Defenders). After all, it’s easy to read the two ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer ( Read more... )

Dear Brits, I would say you have my sympathy for the Orange Menace landing on your shores in a few days, except that you actually just had his spiritual twin resigning, whereas in our current political grotesque the German equivalent of Johnson in selfishness and destroying-the-country-for-career-purposes resigned from his resignation and wasn’t ( Read more... )

The Americans:

While pondering whether or not to volunteer for The Americans this Yuletide, I checked whether there were new stories since last year, and indeed there were. I especially liked:

It's never over: a look at Oleg in season 5.

My last night: Philip and Elizabeth post Martha.

The Defenders:

Saints in Effigy a Claire pov on ( Read more... )

Defenders: all spoilery, hence a ( protective cut )

Defenders:

Gone for Soldiers: Claire and Jessica at a certain memorial service post show. In which two backstories the series left out are addressed. Excellent Claire and Jessica voices.

Above, but undermined: neat missing scene between Matt and Jessica.

Orphan Black:

The sun that's setting in the east: what Rachel did next.

Tatiana ( Read more... )

Reader, I marathoned it. It being shorter than any previous Marvel Netflix series, this didn’t take that long. (No filler episodes.) Above cut judgment: overall plot meh, worth watching for the character interaction, with my particular highlights being Jessica & Matt, Luke & Jessica, Luke & Danny (I haven’t watched Iron Fist, nor do I intend to ( Read more... )

Which I finished marathoning. Unspoilery summation: acting good, new characters impressive, plots headscratchey, show continues to want to have it both ways re: violence and death, it did some of my least favourite tropes only to turn them around by the follow up, and I continue to like but not love parts of it while remaining unfannish about it.

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