rosac said:
Yeah, it was odd as I got very little advertising about JJ2 (which was really upsettingly bad in my eyes - just shows how good tennant really was) IF2 and DD3.
I am gutted, not going to lie. Both series ended on interesting notes, the iron fist looked poised to launch into one of my favourite arcs and Luke Cage's twist was.... excellent.
That said, Iron fist's casting (especially Danny Rand and Davos... how the hell is the dude meant to be intimidating), writing choices (the hand need to go away, they made everything terrible) and general lack of respect to the source material were probably more than enough to do it in after s1
I'm not sure JJ2 was about Kilgrave or Tennant, but an overall lack of a strong narrative or theme, and also in general the lack of an overall villain. no direction and no real big bad can be life sometimes, but it doesn't make for compelling TV. Jessica Jones was hard for me to watch because I've been raped before and dealt with the associated trauma and found myself hyperventilating at many points in S1, but at least the narrative was compelling.
I'm not sure what S2 had. I mean, other than more snarky Jessica. I could watch her be misanthropic all day.
I still haven't finished Iron Fist season 2, because I just don't like the lead. Almost everyone in the show outshines him and is more likable, which is a problem. I know what they're setting up and it could be good, but I found myself watching the Flash instead, nd then Daredevil came out.
Luke Cage does bum me out because that was a bad place to end the entire show. I wanted to see where that went.
Mr Sunday Movies covered this on one of the Weekly Planet Poidcasts, and possibly made it more depressing by noting that rather than doing a whole season of carious shows, they could be doing miniseries team-ups, and I'd really like to see that. Danny was most interesting when teamed up with Luke, and we already know a lot of people wanted Heroes for Hire. But it didnb't really have to stop there, either.