Finished the double D.
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I didn't like it nearly as much as season 1 or JJ.
The confrontations with Frank felt mistimed to me, like they didn't happen at the right moment compared to the stuff that went on just before, like their place in the timeline were switched around. When Matt was chained, he was acting like he was distraught all the time, talking about saving what little good there was right from the start, before knowing anything about him, he nearly sounded like a bad preacher. And then Karen uncovers everything about his past, but she goes all "if you do this, you're the monster they say you are" - after everything he's already done, really ? When he's right in front of the one guy who started it all, the guy Frank wants to kill the most (and we know killing one person is the least of his worries) ? What would anyone expect to happen ?
It was nice to follow Frank the second time, it worked better at making him relatable, but... that's still after he went shooting up a hospital. At the end of the series, he's still a bad guy that you'd know would need to be stopped if you met him again, regardless of what crusade he might be on this time.
And seriously, we're back at everyone in the prison being corrupt and playing in Fisk's hand (or the other guy before him all the same), why are they still letting this fly. Season 1 was resolved with showing that "hell yeah, there are some people that won't be corrupted, so now that he's out, his days of controlling everything with money and power are over" yeah right, same shit different place.
The whole black sky thing was just super weird. The Hand was there to serve the Black Sky, and if they had the Black Sky with them they'd be invincible, but what IS the Black Sky supposed to do ? Elektra goes all emo teen "you knew it from the start and you never told me" "I always felt I was different" and all that stuff just because Nobu says "you're the Black Sky" and she doesn't even know what it means to be the Black Sky beside having everyone treat you like a thing and calling you "it". She just kept jumping back and forth like a goddamn girouette, not knowing which side to stay at, and somehow still hoping to be trusted - I wouldn't think Matt "trusts" her at the end when he offers that they stay together or tell her to do this their own way, so much as he trusts her to be herself and simply adapt to it because she's still helpful and he knows her well enough at this point.
And then even at the end, Stick still ups and leaves just like that but he never actually gave us any answer either, we just know that there's the Hand and they want the Black Sky and there's an eternal war going on. We get a better view at the very end when the Hand put Elektra's body in that jar they've been loading up with blood for a few episodes that turned out to be empty all along, so we can understand that there really is something supernatural that's going to throw everything to shit real soon, but because of all that, this is just flying way above Matt's head. And Matt's obtuse denial that there was something really bad brewing up was just terrible too. Not only he's just denying that it was real, but he rejected the very good point that Elektra was making about how it still got the Hand preparing something really bad. That's not just a lack of foresight, that's way more than being blind. He's just discarding everything they've come across until then, the sand, the hole, the "blood donors", he's just writing it off at them being crazy and putting on blinders.
The really good thing was Cox. Maybe it went way too far in the emotional stuff, but Cox acted it like a boss, his every reaction was very realistic. Too bad he's turning into a complete fool.
And then there was Nelson and Karen, they were actually doing a great job each on their own, that's nice, and it's nice that it showed the lawyer and the investigative reporter sections under a good light.
If I struggled to the end of my determination, to the end of my way of life with my followers, if the result is ruin, then this ruin is inevitable. Grieve. Shed tears. But you cannot regret.
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March 19, 2016, 09:23:13 pm by Byakko
