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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 325883" data-attributes="member: 23">The Defenders Season One (2017) <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmarvelll.fr%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F08%2Fmarvel-netflix-the-defenders-saison-1-poster-officiel.jpg&f=1&nofb=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 516px" /> The H Word / Mean Right Hook For whatever reason, I’d expected The Defenders to be fully formed by the end of the of the first episode. Silly, really, when all four solo series have spent much time to set up the characters and situations.I’m enjoying the episodes so far, don’t get me wrong, but they’ve also felt rather choppy. As though new episodes of the solo series have been cut up and stitched together without actually blending. This is no doubt by necessity. The settings, personas and players all need to be (re)established as we’ve known them before bringing them together.The series has done a good job of capturing the tone of each series, helped by familiar settings such as Matt’s apartment and the Alias Investigations office and its surrounds. Luke leaves Seagate and arrives back in Harlem which fits him like a glove. The only character who lacks this sense of place is Danny who feels even more aimless here than he did in his own series. He just wanders around, jaw clenched being grim and serious over nothing in particular.There is also a bit of an irritant with the soundtrack, in that many of the Luke scenes are introduced or accompanied by a booming hip hop soundtrack. This, of course, was that series’ thing, but it stands out here and feels a little forced - arguably even stereotypical.It was particularly good to see Jessica Jones. Since we last caught up with her there have been three entire seasons (a solo season for each of the guys). I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed her attitude.With the characters not interacting greatly immediately, there’s still come crossover fun to be had. The series opened with Danny and Colleen battling Elektra and there’s been a Jessica/Elektra face-off and - most exciting of all for those who know their comics - a Power Man/Iron Fist face-off. Episode Two closed with Matt meeting Jessica. But equally, if not more, exciting have been the crossovers involving supporting (that is, non-title) characters. Foggy and Hogarth have interacted again as they did briefly in Season Two of Daredevil. Hogarth is emerging as a favourite of mine, so I’m very happy about this. Misty and Jessica’s Clash Of The Attitudes was great fun.Madame Gao is back - again - which is great. Stick’s present and correct. Claire, of course is here. Malcolm is right at Jessica’s side. I’m rather less enthused about Trish, but she’s been reasonable enough here.It was a really nice surprise to see Sigourney Weaver’s name at the beginning. I had no idea she was in this. I don’t know the character, so I’m intrigued to see where her story goes. I’m getting the feeling she’s offering herself to The Hand to be given the treatment, which would be interesting. Whichever direction it goes, I’m confident she’ll give a standout performance.At the moment there’s a fair bit of “who the hell are you?” going on in these first time Defenders encounters. Novel as it is, I’m very curious to see how the chemistry will work when the dust settles.</blockquote>

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