Octopus Overlords

Grifman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:05 pm Episode 8 kills it in so many ways. Damn that ending!

Newcastle wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:53 pm I actually really enjoy Foggy & Karen on DD. I think they bring a nice balance to the show. Dont get the foggy & Karen hate. Finished DD 3 the other day and I have to concur that it was pretty damn awesome. Kingpin is great. The actor's rendition is just amazing I find. The way he glares and just kind of grunts his way at times. There is the mixture of menace and tenderness sometimes is amazing. Really fantastic work. Hats off to the actor there.

Newcastle wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:53 pm I actually really enjoy Foggy & Karen on DD. I think they bring a nice balance to the show. Dont get the foggy & Karen hate. Finished DD 3 the other day and I have to concur that it was pretty damn awesome. Kingpin is great. The actor's rendition is just amazing I find. The way he glares and just kind of grunts his way at times. There is the mixture of menace and tenderness sometimes is amazing. Really fantastic work. Hats off to the actor there.

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:13 pm I like Foggy a great deal. Karen not so much.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:39 am On the whole, it was a good run. I do think we're completely saturated with TV options. I can't even keep up with the Marvel movies, much less these TV shows - as great as they (mostly) are. Sometimes it feels like if I spent 4 hours a day in front of a TV I might be able to catch up on everything in about a year. It feel odd to complain about the wealth of options we've had, but at some point there are only so many hours in a day.

msteelers wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:56 am I knew this was coming, so it’s not as much of a shock as the Iron Fist and Luke Cage cancellations. Plus, I’m fine with where Daredevil ended, as opposed to the endings for the other series. Especially Luke Cage.

Still, Charlie Cox was so good as Daredevil. It’s a shame to lose that.

Hyena wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 2:56 pm Disney is going to do one of two things: as posted earlier, they will be moved to the Disney stream, or they will be put into movies.

msteelers wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 5:58 pm But it’s also kind of the perfect ending for his character.

Spoiler:

Love is a prison.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:12 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:21 pmAnd I can find nothing to confirm that they are officially adopted by police or military units. At best, they're morale patches.

The most recent adoption by a police agency (that made the news and that I'm aware of) is here. Not surprisingly, once it went public they were ordered to remove it. You can read about the military's relationship with the Punisher here. It's also a logo that's seemingly been adopted by the Three Percenters as well, which is just gross.

As a fan of the comics, it's one of the reasons I wouldn't ever wear a shirt or hat with that logo - it's taken on a new meaning.

What are your thoughts on the Punisher symbol being co-opted by police or the military?

I've talked about this in other interviews. To me, it's disturbing whenever I see authority figures embracing Punisher iconography because the Punisher represents a failure of the Justice system. He's supposed to indict the collapse of social moral authority and the reality some people can't depend on institutions like the police or the military to act in a just and capable way.

The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice sysytem, an eample of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they're basically sides with an enemy of the system. They are embracing an outlaw mentality. Whether you think the Punisher is justified or not, whether you admire his code of ethics, he is an outlaw. He is a criminal. Police should not be embracing a criminal as their symbol.

It goes without saying. In a way, it's as offensive as putting a Confederate flag on a government building. My point of view is, the Punisher is an anti-hero, someone we might root for while remembering he's also an outlaw and criminal. If an officer of the law, representing the justice system puts a criminal's symbol on his police car, or shares challenge coins honoring a criminal he or she is making a very ill-advised statement about their understanding of the law.

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 8:23 am You could just skip JJ if you'd like. It really doesn't connect to any of the other shows in any meaningful way beyond the introduction of Luke Cage in season 1.

hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:58 pm I thought they’d cancelled JJ season 3, but I guess it made it in under the wire. I’m sure it will get axed before season 4 is announced though. I don’t think we’ll see any Marvel properties on Netflix in the future.

hepcat wrote:I don’t think it’s horrible. But it isn’t must see tv. I do love the action grunt from Bernthal in every fight.