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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 6906174" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>Okay I've just watched the series and wanted to gather your thoughts.</p><p></p><p>First thing to note is that this is not the Luke Cage of the comics. How he gets his powers is similar but modified and the characters are reimagined, this Luke is a lot more loquacious than the strong silent type of the comic and notably Not a Harlem native. Thats noteworthy as this story is very much about Harlem - a commentary on the nature of Blackness in modern America, so much so that its mix of Hip-Hop sensibilities, Black History and Bulletproof Blackman sometimes dominated the superhero story which was also being told. </p><p></p><p>Thats one of the hurdles of this story, it mixes its Black History with Origin Stories of the protagonist,Pops Harlem, Luke trying to live a normal life in extraordinary circumstances, the family/political drama between Cottonmouth and Mariah, the Misty Knights Police procedural and the debate between Superheroics and Vigilantism and doing right as a Black Man in a system that doesn't want you >Yo *FIST* Yo<.</p><p></p><p>For the first few episodes of the series, these weave and flow and I was satisfied. The acting is good and the story a lot more hopeful than the angst ridden Jessica Jones and sanguine grimness of Daredevil. Having already met Luke Cage was advantageous as we could dive more in to what he was doing as well as having time to get a lot of fun Easter-egg references.</p><p></p><p>However the second phase quickly began to drag and unravel. They introduce another villain (spoiler) who is too similar to Cottonmouth and given far too much to do. I personally would have dropped Cottonmouth from the story or at least given the second villain a more focused role as 'comic-book assasin/terrorist'</p><p></p><p>It makes me think that the 13 episode structure Netflix is imposing on these shows is too long and they should instead be confining them down to 10 episodes to get tighter narratives.</p><p></p><p>ANYWAY</p><p>I liked Luke Cage and Shades too (he gave me a Victor Zsasz vibe), and (SPOILER) I really liked the arc they gave to Night Nurse*. Also the set up for the Defenders was cool</p><p></p><p>Black Mariah was maybe a bit too understated for my liking and the other villains too predictable to the point of being cartoonish <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> </p><p></p><p>*thats not a spoiler is it, we all knew she was gonna be in the show</p><p></p><p>So what do you all think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 6906174, member: 1125"] Okay I've just watched the series and wanted to gather your thoughts. First thing to note is that this is not the Luke Cage of the comics. How he gets his powers is similar but modified and the characters are reimagined, this Luke is a lot more loquacious than the strong silent type of the comic and notably Not a Harlem native. Thats noteworthy as this story is very much about Harlem - a commentary on the nature of Blackness in modern America, so much so that its mix of Hip-Hop sensibilities, Black History and Bulletproof Blackman sometimes dominated the superhero story which was also being told. Thats one of the hurdles of this story, it mixes its Black History with Origin Stories of the protagonist,Pops Harlem, Luke trying to live a normal life in extraordinary circumstances, the family/political drama between Cottonmouth and Mariah, the Misty Knights Police procedural and the debate between Superheroics and Vigilantism and doing right as a Black Man in a system that doesn't want you >Yo *FIST* Yo<. For the first few episodes of the series, these weave and flow and I was satisfied. The acting is good and the story a lot more hopeful than the angst ridden Jessica Jones and sanguine grimness of Daredevil. Having already met Luke Cage was advantageous as we could dive more in to what he was doing as well as having time to get a lot of fun Easter-egg references. However the second phase quickly began to drag and unravel. They introduce another villain (spoiler) who is too similar to Cottonmouth and given far too much to do. I personally would have dropped Cottonmouth from the story or at least given the second villain a more focused role as 'comic-book assasin/terrorist' It makes me think that the 13 episode structure Netflix is imposing on these shows is too long and they should instead be confining them down to 10 episodes to get tighter narratives. ANYWAY I liked Luke Cage and Shades too (he gave me a Victor Zsasz vibe), and (SPOILER) I really liked the arc they gave to Night Nurse*. Also the set up for the Defenders was cool Black Mariah was maybe a bit too understated for my liking and the other villains too predictable to the point of being cartoonish :erm: *thats not a spoiler is it, we all knew she was gonna be in the show So what do you all think? [/QUOTE]
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