Iron Fist (Netflix)

Just got through watching episode one of season two.  It's definitely a step up from season one.  The number of action sequences has been significantly increased, and Danny isn't whining or acting like a child anymore.  The quality of the fight scenes in improved as well.  Sadly, Ward and Joy are still around, but that's not really surprising.  There are people who actually liked season one, so I suppose they had to be kept around to make those folks with terrible taste happy.  It's still too early to tell if the series is going to be any good, but I never once found myself yelling at the screen to, "DO SOMETHING!" like I did almost non-stop in the first episode of season one.

I love this season.

And I was one of the few that enjoyed Season 1. Better than Jessica Jones, which took me forever to even finish season 1 of.

I'm seriously digging all the actions this time around, its like hes now an actual fighter.

Don’t worry, everyone who hated or disliked season 1 is really enjoying this as well.

I never thought season 1 of daredevil could be topped, but my gosh this is easily the best thing Marvel TV/Netflix has made.

Well, for the most part, he's wearing a "mask" and a hoodie. It makes it easier to put in a trained double for most of those scenes. But, the overall writing and tone are much better, for sure.

I thought season one was okay. Loved Colleen, and some of the final episodes were pretty cool.

But then again I thought Inhumans was mostly fine as well, and apparently that's a far greater sin than liking season one of Iron Fist. So take what I say with a grain of salt. I just like my superhero shit.

Cloak & Dagger is pretty decent. The issue I'm having is that Marvel's slow burn format really wears you down when they have twenty goddamn shows with it. Sometimes I feel my anticipation of Agents of SHIELD mostly resides in that it's so much faster paced than the other Marvel shows.

I don't know Scott Buck much outside of his Marvel work myself, though there always seemed to be a sense of dread from people with him touching something. I saw why people disliked Inhumans, but I thought it was featherweight entertainment myself. These characters would have been better off in a feature film format, where you can give them a far grander scale. Turning it into a TV show will always be one of those big studio fuck ups.

I don't mind slow burn, but when it's in every series I start to crave diversity. The Runaways didn't actually run away until the final episode of the first season, while I'm on episode six of Cloak & Dagger and they're still hesitant about each other and getting emo without really...doing anything, honestly.

Of course the alternatives is that you slide them really quickly into their hero role in forty minutes, like a lot of superhero shows do (watch the first episodes of Arrow and Supergirl, boy are they shit). It just feels to me as if there should be an in-between, not do everything immediately or do everything at the end.

I agree 100% on Black Lightning. One of the smartest things they did was not squeeze his origin into the episode and make it a return of a hero story instead. The Flash worked pretty well all things considered. That first episode of Arrow on the other hand had so many bizarre pacing issues that by the end I was laughing at how absurdly condensed it was. Honestly I hold it as a golden standard of how to not make a pilot. Luckily the show evened out after that.

But that's just me.

New MST3K star Hampton Yaunt just posted his grades for Marvel TV on Facebook. I laughed, so I thought I'd share.

He will if it makes it to MST.

Oh I know. I was just making a funny. Trust me, following MST on DVD for nearly 20 years has taught me a thing or two about movie rights and who may or may not budge (fuck you, Susan Hart).

Though if I were to realistically anticipate what might come up next season, there are some juicy titles that Shout has licensed from MGM (who were big providers for season 11) for blu-ray. I'd melt a little inside if they put forward 90's Captain America and RoboCop 3 on the show.

I'm convinced you guys are just masochists. Forcing yourselves to watch all this shit.

I'm just two episodes into Iron Fist Season 2, but already, I'm way more into it than Luke Cage Season 2.