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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 331505" data-attributes="member: 5079">Your reviews continue to remind me just how little I recall of these Netflix shows; at best, I have general impressions.&nbsp;&nbsp; THE PUNISHER was about mid-tier for me among these shows, despite the fact that I am pretty indifferent to the character.&nbsp; The Punisher is an extremely limited concept as characters go: an aggressive force of violence and a riff on those Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood violent movies from the 70s.&nbsp;&nbsp; The TV series tried hard to provide the character a humanizing backstory and justifications, but the end result was incongruous to me; that level of gratuitous violence undermined the character development.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to care about someone&#039;s backstory and growth when he himself is basically a monster.I&#039;ve avoided talking about any of the pending Marvel projects until you get around to them, but I&#039;ll give you a word of caution (which I suspect you&#039;ll ignore lol): unless you&#039;re a completist bordering on masochism, I suggest skipping THOR: LOVE &amp; THUNDER.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s everything you hated about RANGNOROK dialed up 150%, and with absolutely no other qualities.&nbsp;&nbsp; As much as I loved RAGNAROK, it occasionally shot itself in the foot with cheap gags for easy laughs.&nbsp; L&amp;T is nothing but cheap gags for easy laughs.&nbsp;&nbsp; I found it exhaustingly glib.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 331505, member: 5079"] Your reviews continue to remind me just how little I recall of these Netflix shows; at best, I have general impressions. THE PUNISHER was about mid-tier for me among these shows, despite the fact that I am pretty indifferent to the character. The Punisher is an extremely limited concept as characters go: an aggressive force of violence and a riff on those Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood violent movies from the 70s. The TV series tried hard to provide the character a humanizing backstory and justifications, but the end result was incongruous to me; that level of gratuitous violence undermined the character development. It's hard to care about someone's backstory and growth when he himself is basically a monster. I've avoided talking about any of the pending Marvel projects until you get around to them, but I'll give you a word of caution (which I suspect you'll ignore lol): unless you're a completist bordering on masochism, I suggest skipping THOR: LOVE & THUNDER. It's everything you hated about RANGNOROK dialed up 150%, and with absolutely no other qualities. As much as I loved RAGNAROK, it occasionally shot itself in the foot with cheap gags for easy laughs. L&T is nothing but cheap gags for easy laughs. I found it exhaustingly glib. [/QUOTE]

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