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Started watching The Defenders last night, which has been a major letdown on every front. The first episode and a half so far have been jumping between five separate story threads (one for each Defender, plus another for Sigourney Weaver's character) at a pace that might give me whiplash. Even more annoyingly, it glossed over some of the big semi-cliffhangers from the ends of the individual seasons (such as Karen's reaction to Matt revealing that he's DD and, less significantly, Luke Cage just leaving prison -- I'm going to be all kinds of pissed if DD s3 doesn't either pick up or flashback to the reveal since that's not the kind of shit you just gloss over).

A large part of that is likely due to the sheer stupidity of not building the set-up to some extent *directly* into any of the four shows so instead of pairing at least two characters right off the bat we have all four acting separately. Plus there's a LOT of build for a 8-episode season. The first episode is mostly shadowy conspiracy/intrigue leading up to the "earthquake"

That said, I really should have waited to start it until *this* weekend so I could have just binged the episodes straight. On the plus side, seeing Jess and Trisha together again has got me a little hyped for JJ s2 which, assuming I finish the Defenders by the weekend, I'll likely binge then.
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