moonshine71

Not to doubt your son's powers of speculation, but all this( leaked a while ago. And by the end of last week's episode, it was pretty clear the leak was accurate. He may have stumbled across it on social media somewhere.

I very much doubt Jed and Maurissa knew what was going to happen in Endgame. Not sure what would lead you to believe otherwise.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person put off by the Theo/basketball story. Yes, the team was a bag of dicks to Susie/then Theo. And the coach was inexplicably a prick about it, instead of just letting her(as I believe she was still identifying as at the time) try out and promptly cutting her as would have been completely warranted. But was I supposed to feel bad when she got bounced off a hard pick? That's part of the game. Should she have been taken seriously when it was clear that she not just simply couldn't play, but didn't even appear to have any experience or knowledge of the game or to have ever put in any previous work learning the game? If they wanted to tell this storyline effectively, they could have first cast a transgender or non-binary actor with at least an ounce of believable athletic ability(and I don't care much about Theo's height, this is not the NCAA , there are plenty of capable short kids playing high school basketball across the country) and then portrayed them as someone who was capable of performing at a competitive level during tryouts but was non the less being shut out and overlooked because of their gender status. Sabrina could have then used "magic" to give them a hot hand during the tryout, simply making them impossible to overlook, though even without the help they would still be a capable player. Instead, we got Theo making the team because he made some uncontested shots(in a tryout that consisted entirely of, err, one scrimmage) despite not having any ability to play defense, rebound, dribble or anything else of any substance. I had a feeling the anything to do with the "basketball" storyline was going to be bad as soon as Harvey mentioned he was going to try out... well after Christmas(and judging by further episodes appeared to be a week or two before Valentine's day).

Title IX doesn't require the existence of corresponding teams for boys and girls, but it does require an equal amount of opportunities(in proportion to male/female enrollment). It is exceedingly rare to find a school that fields a boys basketball team but not a girls one, considering first that until recently girls basketball was that most popular girls sport nationwide(and now is still at number two), and second that so many schools have traditionally "boys only" sports like football and wrestling with large rosters already needing to be counter-balanced by other girls sports that not fielding both a boys and a girls team in a sport like basketball that has long history of participation across gender makes little sense.

Didn't bother me at all. The children may have been taught to refer to each other as brother and sister, but they aren't related and the circumstances of their upbringing felt more like a boarding school than an actual family. If anything, I think it would have been strange if none of them developed romantic feelings towards the only members of the opposite sex they ever interacted with during their adolescence.

Also, so many questions that were never even touched on being answered(in addition to the slightly annoying cliffhanger ending). Like how freaking old was Reginald when he died? He must have been at least 130 years old, judging by the flashbacks. And wtf was that glowy stuff he released into the air?

Add the three nannies Vanya killed to that, i thought it was weird how they were treated in that scene, it was almost played for humor w/ Reginald's reactions. Had no problem w/ Reginald suppressing Vanya's powers. How many innocent people does a 4 year old need to kill before you go to that option. Not sure if i was supposed to be rooting for Hazel and his girlfriend, but i want that bastard to die after his brutal torture and murder of three innocent tow truck driver. Fuck him. There was no reason to kill that guy at all. Such a weird vibe overall that's never mentioned, placing it in a fictional 2019 where computers and cell phones don't exist. I see the comic was set in 1977, so they had to choose either setting it in that era(probably increasing the budget to make many things period accurate), setting it in this alternate universe 2019, or making some big story changes to accommodate for technology.

It's not Madani's case. Her boss doesn't want her anywhere near it. The medical examiner and detectives on the case haven't even looked at the bodies yet, other parties can't just have a look at them first. I assume they are working on the assumption that Frank wouldn't just intentionally execute a few innocent women at point blank range, which is what the evidence points to.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing since they showed us the film canisters. Why? The film itself requires whatever spy cam they used to be much larger and more noticeable than a digital one. Makes zero sense. The outfit quick change was pretty smooth, but A.not single one of those school girls bats an eye at Amy doing that in their midst. B.Amy managed to find a reversible, Velcro, quick-change skirt that perfectly matches the school uniform AND the waitress uniform on very short notice.

Alexa Davalos in the Marvel universe is something I needed to see! She was my early on hope for an Electra casting, but this will do( I know opinions are mixed, but I love Elodie as Electra). And, as much as I love TMITHC, and despite her small number of appearances, she'll always be Gwen from Angel to me.

Three months into No Man's Land and Jim knows where to find a dry cleaner that is still up and running. That was so silly. Yeah, Bruce just traded the lives of three innocent people for Selina walking again. That's on him, and it really doesn't do much for my opinion of him.

Bit of an accent? It felt like they just dropped out of a Charles Dickens' story between the accent and their outfits. They could have just saved money and edited in footage from the witch scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

At this point, I'm thinking I'm going to start waiting for a few shows I'm interested in watching to drop, pay for a month and binge them, then unsubscribe until something else is released. I've been planning to do that when the full season of Titans is available on DC. Nothing announced for Disney has me super excited at this point, but I'll probably do the same with that if I hear good things about any of the shows, doing it for Netflix too would make sense. Definitely not just going to pile up a bunch of streaming services on top of each other, but as long as no commitment, month to month payments are the standard I'll rotate them to whichever has more unseen content i want to check out at the time.

This is really on Netflix, not Disney. Netflix doesn't want to air shows that are de facto advertisements for a competing service. I don't believe Disney/Marvel is in the least bit worried about watering anything down, any exposure to a corner of the MCU can be seen as a gateway to draw interest in their service. I know it goes against the common assumptions, but this is more about a Netflix choice than Disney trying to kill these shows. https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2018/11/30/the-real-reasons-netflix-is-cancelling-their-marvel-shows/#723c606a196c

They still had good viewership, and calling season 2 not well received is big overstatement(78% from critics, 94% from fans on Rotten Tomatoes).

Sorry, never bought into Fisk's bullshit about "making Hell's Kitchen a better place", that was just a bunch nonsense rationalization. His version of making it a better place somehow includes putting heroin on the streets, trading humans as sex slaves, killing whoever when the mood strikes him, and just coincidentally making hundreds of millions of dollars off of all his plans. That's not a different approach, that's crap. He was just justifying his lust for power and money.

Why? Simply because she's his girlfriend/wife? Lots of organized crime figures have significant others, very few step into their partners roles when they go down. Why would they have any reason to believe she is capable of continuing his work with him gone? Even as viewers, why on earth should we believe that she could run Fisk's organization with him dead? She's an art gallery manager. She was fully taken into his confidence on his business for all of 24 hours. She has no idea how everything works. Her order to go after Ray would have carried no weight without Fisk behind it. Why would anyone even follow her w/ Fisk gone? She's a nasty, greedy, cold person. That's a long way from being an untouchable criminal mastermind that's above the law.

Another little oddity, earlier in that episode Ray mentions that he had known her for ten years, then later she tells Ray that she had two children and one died/was killed, as if he had no idea about that. How long has she been in Fisk's pocket? I'm not sure how you could work with someone and not know about that, i have coworkers I barely know and never interact with, but that would be something I would here about and over them condolences for.

Now, my real take away on season 3. Jfc, are they ever gonna let Matt get laid? Three seasons, 3 love interests, and approximately 3 years of in-show time, and he can't get past first base(Electra was a flashback from 10 years prior).Every other hero does, Luke Cage sleeps with every women he is alone with for more than 5 minutes. And Karen? I think it's official that Matt and Karen are the only multi-season regulars on any of the shows that haven't gotten laid. No wonder they are so glum and depressed all the time. Jebus, let those two knock one out together. Even if you can't stand them together, maybe Karen can get cozy with Ellison's nephew for a while(no, not Frank, he's the Punisher, he'll never be over his wife). And after rewatching the Defenders, I'm convinced that when Trish asked Karen what was up with her and that lawyer, she was asking because she was checking Matt out. I could go for a little Hellcat/Daredevil as a stand in for the comics Black Widow/Daredevil relationship, prowling around rooftops together.

I don't consider it a full 2 year wait, since the Defenders came in the middle of that, and also wouldn't expect that much time if a season 4 is greenlit, since there are no plans for another Defenders season.

My thoughts about the killing issue and Fisk after a rewatch. At this point, Matt's moral dilemma makes little sense to me. Especially his blocking of Dex's baton thrown at Fisk, that could have ended things right there. 1. Matt took part in the bombing of Midland Circle, he was the first of the "Defenders" to buy into the plan, in which blew up a building on top of dozens of Hand agents who they had rendered unconscious and/or trapped and surely consigned them to death. 2. In season 2, he clearly dropped his "no killing" demand of Electra from the point they rescued Stick and onward. At one point on the rooftop, she kills a ninja right in front of him and they then smile and banter together for a moment. 3. Also in season 2, he was prepared to go that route with Frank, before Frank threw him off the boat he was accepting that one time they could do things Frank's way. That said, I think the real killing dilemma for him should still be what it makes him, a full on criminal. He still enjoys, barring the attempted frame up, some level of acceptance from the police(especially Brett). That goes away if he starts killing people, especially executing them when they are subdued(as Fisk was to some degree). There is really no way to have him killing people and have the police look the other way, even if he's doing it in heated combat and self defense. He'd still be obligated to turn himself in and defend his actions legally. So I'm still in the corner of not killing. Stopping Dex, though, eh, can't really come up with a good reason. I can still find it interesting to some degree. And I thought it presented some interesting contrast and comparisons. Specifically with Jessica Jones, who did cross that line with her villain and we saw her attempts to cope with it in season 2(and not having a secret identity, she could accept police scrutiny into the matter; although, like DD, the lives taken at Midland Circle don't seem to concern her). And also we saw Karen basically give him the same talk Frank did in the boat, there was no doing it "one time", there was no going back from crossing that line. Which was a nice quiet nod to why those two "get" each other(but god no, I don't want too see anything romantic between Frank and Karen).

Season 3 show runner Erik Oleson has made it pretty obvious in interviews that making Trump/Fisk analogous was intentional.

Really, that most comically and easily swayed protesters ever. Dozens of signs, booing, basically burn in hell Fisk. "I was framed!" Oh, really? We didn't know that! That is certainly not something anyone would lie about, tell us more...

They really needed to give us some reason as to why that wasn't proven at trial, though. There was literally live video of a private army mowing down dozens of cops as Fisk escaped custody.

Just an observation after rewatching, how in the hell does Fisk learn about the episode at the suicide prevention hotline when reading Dex's file? This took place well after his therapist dies, and even if he found a new one I really doubt he would share with them that he was about to encourage a caller to shoot their stepfather until Julie could hear his conversation. In general, the flashback/voices in people's heads scenes were something I was a little iffy on this season. They accomplished what they needed to do, I guess, but some of them were a little off to me.