On March 28 2017 08:06 Spyridon wrote:
I believe the first half of Luke Cage was great, but the 2nd half was horrible.
Diamondback had absolutely no qualities that made him a sufficient villain. He was campy as hell, he was not intimidating, he was not entertaining, his fight scenes were the worst ones in the entire show, and the whole mech suit thing was beyond retarded. He was not sufficiently developed, and he was a "token villain" - meaning there was no gray area's. The best villains are the ones who have gray area's and you can relate to in some sort of way. (For example, Fisk in DD, or Cottonmouth in the first half of LC seemed like they were approaching that kind of character development, but then the "plot twist"...
I believe first half of LC was better than IF, but IF was far better than 2nd half of LC.
The rest sounds, to me, like you weren't really familiar with Iron Fist (or Luke Cage) in the first place. Because he acted quite like the character. It's easy to mistake it for bad acting if you aren't familiar with the character. And if you were familiar, you likely wouldn't think of them as "boring" heroes.
I believe the first half of Luke Cage was great, but the 2nd half was horrible.
Diamondback had absolutely no qualities that made him a sufficient villain. He was campy as hell, he was not intimidating, he was not entertaining, his fight scenes were the worst ones in the entire show, and the whole mech suit thing was beyond retarded. He was not sufficiently developed, and he was a "token villain" - meaning there was no gray area's. The best villains are the ones who have gray area's and you can relate to in some sort of way. (For example, Fisk in DD, or Cottonmouth in the first half of LC seemed like they were approaching that kind of character development, but then the "plot twist"...
I believe first half of LC was better than IF, but IF was far better than 2nd half of LC.
The rest sounds, to me, like you weren't really familiar with Iron Fist (or Luke Cage) in the first place. Because he acted quite like the character. It's easy to mistake it for bad acting if you aren't familiar with the character. And if you were familiar, you likely wouldn't think of them as "boring" heroes.
I agree, Diamondback was a pretty weak character. He would have worked better as a secret weapon of Cottonmouth to take down LC in last episode than as a villain himself.