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The Defenders (2017)

Watched all 8 episodes last night and came away feeling... underwhelmed. I liked the slow build-up; the fact that each character got some time to him and herself was actually a nice touch. And the story for the first six episodes was fine - a bit predictable, but fine.

But something felt off with the last two. Perhaps it was just too much of a build-up, perhaps I expected too much, but I felt let-down and when I finished watching I sat there thinking: Meh.

I won't go into details yet or discuss specifics, not until after the weekend, so as not to spoil it for people who are still going to watch it. I'll just say the way I feel now I score it 6/10, even though I really liked the first six episodes.
 
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Readsalot said:
The Defenders (2017)

Watched all 8 episodes last night and came away feeling... underwhelmed. I liked the slow build-up; the fact that each character got some time to him and herself was actually a nice touch. And the story for the first six episodes was fine - a bit predictable, but fine.

But something felt off with the last two. Perhaps it was just too much of a build-up, perhaps I expected too much, but I felt let-down and when I finished watching I sat there thinking: Meh.

I won't go into details yet or discuss specifics, not until after the weekend, so as not to spoil it for people who are still going to watch it. I'll just say the way I feel now I score it 6/10, even though I really liked the first six episodes.
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I was underwhelmed by the concept of this series already...so I wont even bother watching it. All the pieces that make up this "series" were schite on their own as it was...
 
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MightyQuin said:
I was underwhelmed by the concept of this series already...so I wont even bother watching it. All the pieces that make up this "series" were schite on their own as it was...
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pretty much this

/inb4 fanie is all superhero'ed out

looks like "superheroes" is the new "procedural" tv show
 
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I loved Daredevil 1 and 2 and Jessica Jones. As usual, no matter what the genre, it really depends on the directors and the writers. Although, there's only so much you can do with Finn Jones. As I've said before, he's a decent Danny Rand but a really crap Iron Fist. FFS, he doesn't even have any muscle tone! Kung fu master my ass.
 
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The Defenders concept can't work because each franchise has a different tone so which one do you follow?
Only DD was interesting for me so I get a feeling I won't like this.
 
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I was all superhero'd out until I saw what Netflix did with DD. I feel that it is more real and gritty. Little to no romance. Excellent fight choreography.
I can't even watch the DC shows, it's all garbage. Of all the Netflix Marvel shows the only one I disliked was Iron Fist.
As for The Defenders, I totally enjoyed it. Having watched the previous shows, you don't rely on character build up and it felt like it just continued from the last of each shows season.
 
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/four-book-series-that-are-shaping-the-future-of-science-fiction-on-television/

If recent Hollywood deals are any indication, science fiction on TV is about to get even more interesting and complex. The trend started with the surprising announcement in late 2016 that Lin Manuel-Miranda's next project—after completing his run on Hamilton and writing the music for Moana—would be to adapt Patrick Rothfuss' cult fantasy series The Kingkiller Chronicle for TV and film. Just in the past two months, three more gamechanging options were announced: HBO will adapt Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death, award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay is working on a TV adaptation of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, and TNT has snapped up N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy. All of these books represented major shifts for the science fiction genre and, until recently, would probably have been considered unfilmable.

To understand the magnitude of this change, consider the Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavia Butler published these cerebral alien invasion novels in the 1980s, shortly before she became the first science fiction author ever to win a prestigious MacArthur "genius grant." The books follow three generations of people after an advanced alien civilization of three-gendered, tentacle-covered creatures has created hybrid children with the dying, post-nuclear remnants of humanity. It's a multi-layered story about colonialism and survival, and it includes surreal scenes in which we enter the minds of aliens to experience their unique sensorium. Though critically acclaimed and widely read, the novels never made it to the screen.
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Anyone watched Trial and Error? Caught a couple of episodes by accident and it was very funny.
 
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Readsalot said:
I won't go into details yet or discuss specifics, not until after the weekend, so as not to spoil it for people who are still going to watch it. I'll just say the way I feel now I score it 6/10, even though I really liked the first six episodes.
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Not ever, at least not in this thread please.
 
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Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams - Trailer

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Spizz said:
Anyone watched Trial and Error? Caught a couple of episodes by accident and it was very funny.
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Yeah I enjoyed it found it funny as well, there is going to be a second season
 
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