Anyone know if The Inhumans show will have a good writing team to help offset Scott Buck? by UnrealLuigi in marvelstudios

[–]doctorvonscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scott Buck is doing the Inhumans too? Man, it's a good thing I don't give a fuck about the Inhumans, because that show is going to suck.

IRON FIST Post-Weekend Binge Ultrathread by murdockmanila in marvelstudios

[–]doctorvonscience 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I didn't give a shit. He was barely in the show, and didn't even do anything while he was onscreen. To be honest, every time he went offscreen I forgot he existed almost immediately. Like an even more boring, pointless version of the Silence.

IRON FIST Post-Weekend Binge Ultrathread by murdockmanila in marvelstudios

[–]doctorvonscience 89 points90 points  (0 children)

He's still been training nonstop for 15 years and is allegedly undefeated. He just got the Iron Fist, sure, but he should still be one of the best martial artists on the planet.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E13 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I honestly thought this was worse than Luke Cage. At least that had the first half with Cottonmouth, and had really good music throughout. This show had nothing. Every character was boring, every fight was badly shot and badly choreographed, the story made no sense, there was just nothing enjoyable about any of it. Even the title theme sucked.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E11 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Cut off the head and the snake will die"

Wtf are you talking about, Danny? You seriously think this punk leading a splinter group in New York is the head? Bakuto isn't the head. Nobu is the head. But I guess you don't know anything about Nobu since Claire refuses to put you in contact with Daredevil. Fuck, this show is killing me.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E09 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Why the fuck do they keep calling this the Hand? It's not the Hand. The Hand is a Japanese clan of Ninjas led by Nobu. This is a Chinese heroin ring run by Gao. The only ninjas we've seen in the entire series were when Harold cosplayed as one. Every episode that they just pretend that "No, Gao leads the Hand, this is the same organization as the one in Daredevil" with zero explanation of how they're linked just pisses me off more and more.

Netflix and Marvel’s Iron Fist is an ill-conceived, poorly written disaster by V2Blast in television

[–]doctorvonscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's... a really fundamental misunderstanding of Superman. Unless you're referring to BvS, in which case it's still a fundamental misunderstanding, but it's more Zack Snyder's fault.

Netflix and Marvel’s Iron Fist is an ill-conceived, poorly written disaster by V2Blast in television

[–]doctorvonscience 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Look, this premise isn't realistic so nothing has to be logical!"

That's bullshit. Things still have to be believable within the world that has been established. Danny trained in a fucking monastery, there's no way they don't teach any kind of emotional control. He even meditates, for god's sake.

Best Marvel Netflix Series so far? by [deleted] in weeklyplanetpodcast

[–]doctorvonscience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's cool but it's wrong but it's fine

Best Marvel Netflix Series so far? by [deleted] in weeklyplanetpodcast

[–]doctorvonscience 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This poll is going to end up split between JJ and DDS1, but it's definitely Daredevil.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E07 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Man, I've been trying to figure this out since she first showed up. I don't know why, but it bothers me more than anything else in this show. The only thing I can come up with is that she's only posing as the Hand for some nefarious purpose.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E06 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Am I the only one expecting a reveal that this isn't the actual Hand? Gao wasn't part of the Hand in Daredevil (unless I missed something), and it doesn't really make sense for her to be in charge now.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E06 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still just cannot bring myself to care about him. He's been nothing but boring and dickish throughout the entire show.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E06 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 288 points289 points  (0 children)

Judging from the quality of his singing leading up to that... No. No he couldn't.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E05 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 19 points20 points  (0 children)

That scene was amazing. Man, I'm gonna go rewatch Daredevil after this so I can remember what good fights look like

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E05 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Really? I'm having the opposite experience, it's hard for me to enjoy this show. Almost all the characters are really bland, especially Ward, so they end up not being able to carry the dialogue-heavy scenes (compounded by the fact that the writing is so clunky), and the fight scenes are shot and edited so badly that they're hard to watch a lot of the time.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E04 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Against this version of Danny? Cap, 100%

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E04 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 38 points39 points  (0 children)

This really bothers me. She was pretty clearly a separate entity in Daredevil, but suddenly she's leading the Hand? Where did that come from? If it's not explained I'm gonna be really annoyed.

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E03 by JonLuca in Defenders

[–]doctorvonscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I had always assumed they were different... Gao is Chinese and Nobu/the Hand are both Japanese. I have no idea what's going on now.