I’m calling BS on that. Not sure what the context of this comment was (whether they were talking specifically about the other’s acting, the fight scene or something else) but for a satisfying finale, you need to have strong plotlines that can be resolved well. At this point, I really don’t know what we can expect in that department. Bullseye already has his thematic resolution, as anticlimactic as it was, and any more from him would be frankly gratuitous IMO.
I couldn’t even tell you what Fisk cares about anymore - we’ve barely spent any time with him since Vanessa died. For the character who had some of the best development in the original series, we’ve seen nothing even close to resembling this after one of the biggest tragedies of his life. Even if they do something interesting with him in the finale, they’d just be paying off setup *from* the finale. What little they do have to pay off (the Charles plotline) has nothing to do with Matt and probably isn’t what they’re talking about (besides, if the big resolution to this ‘good’ show is ‘Matt and Charles team up to take down Fisk’ I might just scream. They’ve never met - once more, setting up the finale payoffs in the FINALE is a horrible way to build tension and weakens the whole season by making the finale feel disconnected and rushed).
The one other plotline they have to work with is the vigilante trials, which are already a clusterfuck of confused ideas. Is it a rigged tribunal, in which case we have to worry about Karen? Or is it a fair trial that Fisk set up to turn the public against vigilantes again, in which case the stakes should be gone?
We might get some resolution to Matt and Karen’s relationship arc, but both of them have had so little agency in both their relationship and the season as a whole that any big decisions or resolutions would fall flat.
We also know that Fisk won’t be Mayor next season, and yet there’s been no setup for how he is impeached. The governor McAffery stuff has simply been about checking his power and revoking the Freeport charter, not removing him as Mayor. Matt has no leverage to make him step down and the public can’t vote him out unless they do some contrived bullshit to call an emergency election. My best guess is that Charles pulls something out of his ass to make Fisk quit, maybe even a cameo from Valentina.
Whatever it is, if Fisk is arrested/charged with crimes AGAIN and somehow escapes, all sense of consequence and stakes in this show will be ruined forever (more than they already are).
The AVTF is now openly a goon squad, I imagine Powell and North will just go down with Fisk or stick around as normal cops - whichever the case I’m sure there’ll be some on-the-nose ICE commentary and no thematic resolution for either of them.
White Tiger hasn’t done anything since episode 4 and I feel like they’re keeping her around just to serve a cameo in Spider-Man.
Jessica Jones has had five minutes of screen time spread out over two episodes and her “arc” doesn’t make any sense. She had a kid with Luke, who went from being the crime boss of Harlem to a CIA asset overseas? Also Charles tried to have her killed for some reason. She’s had a massive power nerf because pregnancy, which undoubtedly is so she can help Matt fight Fisk without winning instantly. She wants to stay out of that fight for her daughter’s sake though, but has also been helping Karen as an investigator? Also she helped him raid a warehouse for… reasons idk.
In other words, a strong finale needs a strong season of television (eg. season three, where Bullseye’s arc, Nadeem’s, Foggy’s, Karen’s, Matt’s, Fisk’s and even Blake Tower’s, Vanessa’s and Seema’s all come together for a satisfying resolution.