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Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:20 pm Just finished Luke Cage. Liked it much better than season 1. The villains were more interesting and the last episode really sets up the next season (assuming there is one). I agree that the actor playing Shades is pretty bad in this role. Mariah has grown on me, though; I think the actress is intentionally playing her super campy.

One thing I must have missed though:

Spoiler:

what happens to Bushmaster at the end? He just seemed to disappear. I think there was a scene that alluded to it, but I was playing Scrabble on my phone... either way, seems a bit odd how he just wasn’t there or mentioned anymore.

Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:14 am I'm late to the show, but started watching Agents of SHIELD a couple weeks ago. I'm up to Season 1 Episode 18, and am really enjoying it. I like how it syncs in with the movies.

msteelers wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:43 am

Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:14 am I'm late to the show, but started watching Agents of SHIELD a couple weeks ago. I'm up to Season 1 Episode 18, and am really enjoying it. I like how it syncs in with the movies.

I hated the early part of the season, but after the Winter Soldier tie in it became my favorite show on TV.

msteelers wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:02 am

Spoiler:

I must have missed something at the end. The lawyer asked Luke if he even wanted the club, and I thought Luke said to burn it to the ground. Then the next shot, the place is up and running and he is in full on crime boss mode.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:

msteelers wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:02 am

Spoiler:

I must have missed something at the end. The lawyer asked Luke if he even wanted the club, and I thought Luke said to burn it to the ground. Then the next shot, the place is up and running and he is in full on crime boss mode.

Spoiler:

You didn't miss anything. I think Luke Cage's initial reaction was to burn it down; if this had been the first season with the straight and narrow Cage, he likely would have followed through with that decision. But then the trappings of having the club and the power that would come from running Harlem was too tempting.

msteelers wrote:I might be the only one here excited for that.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:37 pm I can't stand Claire. She's the Dale of the Netflix Marvel universe.

Hrothgar wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:29 pm Cloak and Dagger finally referenced the MCU, specifically Misty Knight and the Defenders. It was also renewed for season 2. I have enjoyed the first season so far. I am biased. I remember reading Cloak and Dagger back when I was the character's ages. I might have even run a Marvel RPG campaign featuring them.

MonkeyFinger wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:53 am

Hrothgar wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:29 pm Cloak and Dagger finally referenced the MCU, specifically Misty Knight and the Defenders. It was also renewed for season 2. I have enjoyed the first season so far. I am biased. I remember reading Cloak and Dagger back when I was the character's ages. I might have even run a Marvel RPG campaign featuring them.

Hmmm... I'm current on the season, just watched the most recent episode last night and I must have missed this. Can you spoiler me some specifics about this, please?

Hrothgar wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 12:23 am

MonkeyFinger wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:53 am

Hrothgar wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:29 pm Cloak and Dagger finally referenced the MCU, specifically Misty Knight and the Defenders. It was also renewed for season 2. I have enjoyed the first season so far. I am biased. I remember reading Cloak and Dagger back when I was the character's ages. I might have even run a Marvel RPG campaign featuring them.

Hmmm... I'm current on the season, just watched the most recent episode last night and I must have missed this. Can you spoiler me some specifics about this, please?

Sure.

Spoiler:

After Cloak 'haunts' Connors, Officer Pancakes asks Detective O'Reilly about Cloak's powers. He seems amazed that someone could do that. O'Reilly just laughs, reminds him she's from New York and to ask her about her friend Misty sometime. The clear implication is that she's seen powered people firsthand.

[W]e've known for some time that Iron Fist Season 2 is on the way this fall.
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Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos .... confirm[ed] that new episodes of Daredevil will hit the streaming service before the year is out.
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So each member of the Defenders will have new episodes of their solo series on Netflix at some point in 2018. The only Marvel/Netflix show that hasn't been confirmed for a release this year is The Punisher, starring Jon Bernthal. A second season of the series has been ordered, and is currently being filmed in New York, but no release date has been announced. Those new episodes, along with the third season of Jessica Jones, will probably debut in 2019.

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:38 pm I just received a promotional email from Netflix telling me that Iron Fist season 2 is coming September 7th.

...why is Netflix threatening me?

hepcat wrote:I just received a promotional email from Netflix telling me that Iron Fist season 2 is coming September 7th.

...why is Netflix threatening me?

$iljanus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:58 pm And just for you... More appearances from the Night Nurse!

JCC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:34 pm And, I really liked the fight scenes and don't really get the hatred for them. (Shrugs.)

Moliere wrote: ↑Fri Sep 07, 2018 8:07 pm Iron Fist season 2 is out today. Who's going to take one for the team?

Newcastle wrote:So at 7 episodes in on Luke Cage, and I am enjoying it. I really like the stakes that Cage is going up against and they feel well tailored to Cage(its a micro scale and not a MEGA the world is gonna go BOOM that seems the norm with all the marvel movies nowadays; fyi i am sick and tired of the marvel movies right now) . I like the storylines overall. The villains seems appropriate and to scale. They do have some drop ins of characters from the Defenders universe which feel welcome and not a distraction. I also like the feel and vibe of the show; ie its drapped in Luke's yello hued colors; the intersplicing of musicians is still pretty cool: the blues dude in episode 3 (i think) is awesome. He's the chubby guy; awesome musician though.

Also - quick spoiler with a more serious spoiler at the bottom

Spoiler:

-claire disappears after episode 3, so that's good (she's overused right now)

- i am having a hard time w/ Shades. the character seems interesting, but the actor (Juice from Sons of anarchy) seems miscast. The character seems as if they should be oozing a type of charisma, but Rossi cant seem to hit those notes. There are times when he almost captures the character but most often I think its a miss. His rendering makes Shades a lot more wooden than I think he should be. I mean with a name like Shades, you should be oozing cool right? I have no experience with the comics, just my interpretation. I like the actor, but the character seems a bit wooden at times. I also really dont buy the love affair between Shades & Alfre Woodward (Mariah i think). I just dont buy into it.

-am enjoying Misty's evolution as a character.

- I felt the show really hit its groove when Cage rescues Piranha at the night club and they go on the run.

For reference I rank the shows the following

SOLID & MUST SEE
- Daredevil
-Luke Cage

Can do without
-jesssica Jones & Iron Fist

Today Netflix announced the upcoming launch of "NX" which (as you can see in the video above) is the streaming services' new geek-friendly division of genre content, from superheroes to sci-fi, anime, and everything in between. Well, in launching "NX" across all of its relevant platforms and social media pages, Netflix made a quiet, yet significant, change:



What you see above is a pretty big indicator that Netflix is done with The Defenders as one of its original series. These kind of Facebook page changes aren't done lightly - especially if a show is planning to release a new season of content anytime in the foreseeable future. The implication is that The Defenders IP is no longer something that Netflix is pursuing - and that could be a decision that was born of several good reasons.

For one thing, The Defenders was a mini-series event that was never treated as a full series, so there was never a prerequisite for season 2 to happen. Ironically enough, The Defenders also had the lowest premiere viewership of any Marvel Netflix series, despite bringing the characters of four popular series together for a big Marvel Cinematic Universe event. Finally, there's no really mandate to continue the Defenders franchise - not when Marvel Studios could launch a different property with a much different stigma attached to it.

It’s been widely reported that Netflix plans to spend a staggering $8 billion on its content this year, with the company’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, saying that a full 85 percent of that spend will be on original offerings. Today, Netflix announced the existence of NX, a new social channel that will promote the service’s science fiction and fantasy titles. In design, NX appears to be like @strongblacklead, a Twitter account that highlights diversity across the subscription service’s television shows and films — it’s a kind of sub-channel, breaking out specific types of Netflix content for a splintered audience with specific preferences.

The NX announcement coincided with the reveal of Netflix’s specific plans for titles involving or adapting comic book writer Mark Millar. Netflix bought the rights to Millar’s publishing house Millarworld in 2017, and published an initial comic book in June. Today’s announcement provided new details about Netflix’s Millarworld-related content.
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For TV, that includes Jupiter’s Legacy, which appears to be about millennial superheroes living in the shadow of their superpowered elders, based on Millar’s comic books of the same name. American Jesus, another comic book adaptation, follows a 12-year-old boy who realizes he’s been reincarnated as Jesus Christ. Millar is also involved in three planned Netflix original films: Empress, Huck, and Sharkey The Bounty Hunter. (Those are about a queen on the run through space, a boy named Huck who uses his special abilities to do good, and a space bounty hunter named... Sharkey.)