Daredevil

yes bring it!

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23 minutes ago, (HP) said: yes bring it!

That scene is fucking epic! I'm at episode 3 right now.

I just watched episode seven and I can quite confidently say I've enjoyed this more than the first season so far. They've really nailed the pacing and it doesn't have as linear a 'taking down the bad guy' narrative like before, more twisting and complexity involved. Also the action is ridiculously well executed as always.

Spoiler I love the contrast between the 'relentless serious killing machine' and 'I don't give a shit' vigilante styles of The Punisher and Elektra. I guess that Daredevil is meant to sit somewhere in-between and they represent how you can go too far in either direction. I also wasn't expecting The Punisher to be taken off the streets as the main threat so quickly, so it suddenly going all 'Elektra and Yakuza' was a refreshing change of direction after all that fury.

Episode six really made me think of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for some reason. I think it was the music and sneaking around the big high-tech building. Makes me want to dig it out and play it.

The gore in episode nine. Jesus!

When the Punisher kills all the prisoners.

I'm still in s2ep2 so i'll be staying away from this thread for a while, but so far so awesome! The actor that plays the Punisher is a natural born badass.

Yeah man, these shows are good. I can only hope for a standalone Punisher show. But more of all, I hope Netflix will pick up Dredd. That last movie was fucking awesome!

Yeah guys, didn't you read it? The Punisher stand-alone show is already approved, even before the Daredevil S2 came out.

First Luke Cage in September tho.

PS: there's another show planned as well, something like Iron Fist? A guy in yellow suit, I think friend with Luke Cage. It's gonna be portrayed by the gay knight from Game Of Thrones, the blonde that Sansa was hoping to marry to get away from King's Landing.

If you are interested in little details, tidbits, rumours, I suggest following Emergency Awesome on YT, I quite like it. He condenses a lot information on things like origin stories and powers that you would have otherwise to read on Wikipedia. He also often suggests the best comic book version to read to get a background on that certain character/movie.

I'd love to see more of The Punisher but I'm not convinced a show that's purely his will happen. Netflix is clearly OK with its heroes being killers but The Punisher takes it to the extreme — he's effective but arguably out of control. I think it's more likely he'll appear in another character's series again. It's unclear which way it'll go from the rumours AFAIK.

Holy shit was season two of Daredevil good overall though, just finished it tonight. Admittedly I was expecting a slightly more intense fight scene in the finale, but it was still a satisfying conclusion and there's a lot of excellent material for season three. I also enjoyed the increasing number of characters, locations, and references from Jessica Jones. Presumably these series are all going to get more and more intertwined. Netflix is sitting on serious gold with this TV universe.

Really looking forward to Luke Cage. We've already seen him go through a lot in Jessica Jones so it'll be really interesting to see where they take him in his own series. There weren't really any clues about that from what I saw.

You're right Thrik, thought was confirmed but can't find articles. Everyone (critics/commenters/viewers) seem to give it for granted now, since was portrayed so well.

There were interesting speculation from the nerds about Punisher, in the sense that he has a lot to do with Deadpool as well in the comics, and I think another character, suggesting that a show could be sort of a shared space for two (anti)heroes.

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On 4/5/2016 at 1:17 PM, Thrik said: The gore in episode nine. Jesus!

http://# Reveal hidden contents When the Punisher kills all the prisoners.

Probably my favorite scene in the whole season. Reminded me of some of Daredevil's really brutal fights from the first season, where he is just barely able to hold them off. I felt that was kind of missing for him this season, he was just a little too competent.

Still a great season though, couldn't stop watching till it was over, just like the last one.

So I finally caught up on Season 2, was excellent!!

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On 11-4-2016 at 6:15 AM, jakuza said: Probably my favorite scene in the whole season. Reminded me of some of Daredevil's really brutal fights from the first season, where he is just barely able to hold them off. I felt that was kind of missing for him this season, he was just a little too competent.

Still a great season though, couldn't stop watching till it was over, just like the last one.

This was indeed excellent. I love it how they've portrayed The Punisher. I'm at EP 10 now. I'm expecting a big finale

But that like, 7 minute fight in EP 3/4 or something was even more bad ass. So well shot.

Season two was fantastic. I love how the show makes you feel the bones crack in the fighting scenes.

Shit is real nau

https://youtu.be/HXK2uzOdXXA

Season 2 of Daredevil was amazing! I fucking loved every second of it. The Punisher was done just the way he should be. I'm really looking forward to his series as well. Btw, Karl Urban said that he was in talks with Netflix for Dredd. How sick would that be? Man, television has gotten to a point that's it's so good that I never watch regular programming anymore. Why sit through endless commercials when you can watch quality stuff on Netflix?

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On 5/2/2016 at 4:22 PM, blackdog said: Shit is real nau

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some speculations for those who are interested

https://youtu.be/HXK2uzOdXXA

Saw this and the commentary, got interested and went to watch some of the daredevil stuff with punisher. Got a bit disappointed, didn't feel very punisher at all, was more just random kills without meaning or intent. Yeah yeah punisher kills people, but IMO he's one of the best examples of a guy that kills for a reason. here it just seemed more like killing for the sake of killing, and that feels like its betraying the depth of the character in favor of a shallow bloodbath.Plus, in the scene in the prison with kingpin it felt like both characters were reading from a script. I'll try watching it when it comes out but I'm not holding my breath for it being good.

I wouldn't agree with that, I thought the series did a pretty good job of opening the window into The Punisher and revealing why he has the mentality that he does. It was made clear exactly why he was killing these people and what they did to earn their death sentences, and honestly it was very difficult to disagree with his motivation — which was one of the central points of the season, contrasting with Daredevil's approach of never killing anybody no matter what the circumstances (which he was forced to reconsider).

Edit: One thing I just remembered is that if you only watched scenes involving The Punisher himself you might have missed out on a lot of the context because it's through Karen and her investigation into his former life that a lot of his story is told. For example, she's the one who uncovers what set his broken life into motion, explores his old family home, etc.

Yeah I'll cede that I only watched a few scenes, but even so because of the acting it just made me not care about it. I always feel subject matter related to comic books should be treated with the best acting possible to counteract the inherent tackiness that comic book lore offers.