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Mattafett
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@JazzyRandy if you are not watching The Punisher, you should. Two episodes in, and it is excellent!
I noticed it, but I am embarrassingly behind on my comic book TV shows. Now that I've gotten the Netflix bug, I thought I would fall right in line with these Netflix-produced Marvel shows. I want to start at the beginning with Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, but I also want to catch Iron Fist and Defenders. And Daredevil's great reviews has me itching to catch that. I watched the first episode of Luke Cage and want to binge through it ... and the others.
EDIT: I can hear Shallowgal saying "I tol'ja so" about Netflix.
Person Of Interest
During my hiatus from the trust MG, I binged out on this show. I'd never heard about it, but during the summer, I stumbled across syndicated reruns on some cable channel, watched a couple of episodes (well, one really, and a small part of another) and found myself oddly intrigued. After I finished Criminal Minds, I was thinking of where to go next and started on PoI.
This show turned out to be 180 degrees different from the procedural cop show I thought it was. In my opinion, this might just be the best comic book show that doesn't feature comic book characters. It doesn't even feature super powers and that sort of thing. However, this is what Heroes should have been, could have been before it disintegrated into runon gobblygook. And 4.5 seasons proved to be just the right length to tell this story.
Coincidentally, I award this series 4.5 stars.
Show description (via Wikipedia) spoilered below...
During my hiatus from the trust MG, I binged out on this show. I'd never heard about it, but during the summer, I stumbled across syndicated reruns on some cable channel, watched a couple of episodes (well, one really, and a small part of another) and found myself oddly intrigued. After I finished Criminal Minds, I was thinking of where to go next and started on PoI.
This show turned out to be 180 degrees different from the procedural cop show I thought it was. In my opinion, this might just be the best comic book show that doesn't feature comic book characters. It doesn't even feature super powers and that sort of thing. However, this is what Heroes should have been, could have been before it disintegrated into runon gobblygook. And 4.5 seasons proved to be just the right length to tell this story.
Coincidentally, I award this series 4.5 stars.
Show description (via Wikipedia) spoilered below...
Person of Interest centers on a mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer named Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), who develops a supercomputer system (known as "The Machine") for the federal government of the United States that is capable of collating all sources of information to predict and identify—in advance—people planning terrorist acts. He finds that the Machine also identifies other perpetrators and victims of premeditated deadly intentions, but as these are considered "irrelevant" by the government, he programs it to delete this information each night. He soon realizes the Machine has developed into a sentient superintelligent artificial intelligence, leaving him wrestling with questions of human control and other moral and ethical issues resulting from the situation. His backdoor into the Machine allows him to act covertly on the non-terrorism cases, but to prevent abuse of information, he directs the Machine to provide no details beyond an identity to be investigated. He recruits John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a presumed-dead former CIA agent, and later others, to investigate and act on the information it provides.
The series received a highly positive reception from some critics when the series introduced more serialized story lines and deepened its exploration of the varied implications of super intelligent artificial intelligence in later seasons.
A 2016 critique of the series on Gizmodo stated that by the end of its first season, Person of Interest had transformed from a "crime fighting show" with a plot twist, to "one of the best science fiction series ever broadcast", a change said to be due to the series "put[ting] the Machine, its intelligence, and the ethics of [..] using it, at the center of an ideological battle", and an unintended consequence of giving the Machine a voice, compared to its initial presence as a simple background plot device.[4]
The series received a highly positive reception from some critics when the series introduced more serialized story lines and deepened its exploration of the varied implications of super intelligent artificial intelligence in later seasons.
A 2016 critique of the series on Gizmodo stated that by the end of its first season, Person of Interest had transformed from a "crime fighting show" with a plot twist, to "one of the best science fiction series ever broadcast", a change said to be due to the series "put[ting] the Machine, its intelligence, and the ethics of [..] using it, at the center of an ideological battle", and an unintended consequence of giving the Machine a voice, compared to its initial presence as a simple background plot device.[4]
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Crossing Lines
A procedural/action cop show that has the twist of being set in the Hague's International Criminal Court, but basically featuring all of Europe as its setting.
This quickly let me down by giving in a little too much to LCD choices in many areas. For instance, having a female cop fighting crime while prancing around braless in low-cut tops and high heels. And also by never having the primaries wear bullet-proof vests. I downgraded my expectations and decided the show is just good enough to justify me sticking with it for its 34-episode 3-year run.
Now on the third season and I have to say it's not bad. It's just a little disappointing that it had the potential to be consistently great, instead of alternating from meh to good to intermittently very good. Still, there is a place for almost-mindless viewing. I'm glad I watched it, but I'm also glad it'll all be over in a few more episodes.
With the caveat that I haven't quite finished the series, I'll give this one 3.25 stars. Enjoyable, but not memorable.
A procedural/action cop show that has the twist of being set in the Hague's International Criminal Court, but basically featuring all of Europe as its setting.
This quickly let me down by giving in a little too much to LCD choices in many areas. For instance, having a female cop fighting crime while prancing around braless in low-cut tops and high heels. And also by never having the primaries wear bullet-proof vests. I downgraded my expectations and decided the show is just good enough to justify me sticking with it for its 34-episode 3-year run.
Now on the third season and I have to say it's not bad. It's just a little disappointing that it had the potential to be consistently great, instead of alternating from meh to good to intermittently very good. Still, there is a place for almost-mindless viewing. I'm glad I watched it, but I'm also glad it'll all be over in a few more episodes.
With the caveat that I haven't quite finished the series, I'll give this one 3.25 stars. Enjoyable, but not memorable.
They've kept things interesting with better than average twists along the way. Like, killing key characters every season. Unfortunately, the series also includes many more "twists" that don't quite work.
You know, I think I'm at the point of saying "fuck continuity concerns!" I'll start on Punisher as soon as I finish Crossing Lines. That'll probable be later this week or early next week. Can't wait.
Mattafett
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Watch Daredevil first. Definitely.
I liked Luke Cage more than others.
Iron Fist was awful.
I just don't care about Defenders or Jessica Jones.
Just completed the first season of Daredevil.
WOW!
Let's just say that hit my sweet spot almost dead bullseye. (speaking of Bullseye, I wonder if he'll ever make an appearance?) Daredevil was one of my favorite heroes as a youth, and this adaptation just seems so right on virtually every note. Yes, some things were changed, but not in such a way that made this fanboy cringe or roll my eyes.
I don't think I'll jump right into season 2. There are currently only two seasons and it seems a waste to burn through it so quickly. I think I'll revisit Luke Cage and see if it keeps my interest better than the first 1.5 episodes did the first time around. I'll also try the first episode of Jessica Jones.
Jessica Jones - Season 1
Nearing the final episode on the anti-binge stroll through this series. After the first episode, I didn't think I would complete this series. I gave it another shot, and felt the same, and watched the third episode, and felt the same. I didn't like it enough to be excited about it, but I didn't dislike it enough to stop watching. There were always at least one or two things in each episode to keep me going. In the middle, I stuck with it because I figured if I made it that far, I might as well see how it ends. And somewhere after the middle, I started liking the series. Parts of the storyline are too soap-opera-y, and the whole back-and-forth will-she-or-won't-she-do-what-it-takes part of the story seems like filler and dragging out the running time to fill 13 episodes.
But, it's not bad. It's pretty good. Not nearly as good as Daredevil, but I don't feel like I wasted my time.
Nearing the final episode on the anti-binge stroll through this series. After the first episode, I didn't think I would complete this series. I gave it another shot, and felt the same, and watched the third episode, and felt the same. I didn't like it enough to be excited about it, but I didn't dislike it enough to stop watching. There were always at least one or two things in each episode to keep me going. In the middle, I stuck with it because I figured if I made it that far, I might as well see how it ends. And somewhere after the middle, I started liking the series. Parts of the storyline are too soap-opera-y, and the whole back-and-forth will-she-or-won't-she-do-what-it-takes part of the story seems like filler and dragging out the running time to fill 13 episodes.
But, it's not bad. It's pretty good. Not nearly as good as Daredevil, but I don't feel like I wasted my time.
