Shonuff
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Marvel's Luke Cage
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Shonuff
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Very cool that the soundtrack was done by Ali Shaheed from A Tribe Called Quest. I saw that in the credits and flipped out.
I liked the first half a lot better than the second, but overall it was pretty enjoyable. All the references were pretty well done. Misty is doing her vision thing and Scarfe interrupts her and she says, "Dammit, you broke my concentration." He was Brad in Pulp Fiction.
I thought it was pretty good overall, but rate it last out of the marvel netflix ones - the bad guys just weren't compelling compared to the ones from previous installments. David Tenant made up for a lot of the shit in Jessica Jones, as the incredible fight sequences did for Daredevil, where Luke Cage really didn't have any particular standout features.
Cottonmouth seemed mostly plausible, but Diamondback was way too crazy to ever be successful at anything, he was way more of a cartoon villain than I was expecting.
Cottonmouth seemed mostly plausible, but Diamondback was way too crazy to ever be successful at anything, he was way more of a cartoon villain than I was expecting.
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Fyff
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I really enjoyed it and rank it best out of the marvel stuff so far. I actually liked the main character better then the villains and side characters. That's how it's supposed to be. You aren't supposed to like a comic book because the villain is cool because villains rotate in and out.
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Aldarion
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OK so I have a dumb question. Before I get into this: everybody's raving about the music. Am I safe in assuming its a bunch of rap shit? I liked Luke Cage's character on Jessica Jones but find all forms of rap intolerable. How much will the music make me hate this show?
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I'm not a huge rap fan (I was into some in the 90's but that was long ago), but that Jidenna song that opened Episode 5, Long Live the Chief, is just mesmerizing for some reason.
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Cybsled
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Got done watching the series. It was good, although the 2nd half fell a bit flat.
Diamondback was too fucking cartoony. The Cottonmouth death mid-season was a shock, but they could have capitalized on it a bit more villain wise with just Mariah turning into Mama Mabel 2.0. Cottonmouth's tragic backstory was a little too similar to Fisk's (both folks who were meant for something else, but ended up in crime because of bad adult influence), so I can see why they didn't go all the way down that path. The Judas bullets also make him too vulnerable physically, but they painted themselves into a corner unless they can make some type of healing vat lair that he can go to whenever he wants to recuperate. I think it would have been better if they had explored the ways he is vulnerable to add risk rather than bring out "Kryptonite bullets" midway through the show
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TJT
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So. The characters and storyline of Luke Cage are quite good. But the real genius is in the pacing. The slower burn of this show worked really really well. Cottonmouth, Shades and Diamondback were all excellent villains compared to the dumpster fire of season one Kingpin in Daredevil.
Of the Netflix superhero series I rate them like this:
1.) Daredevil Season 2/AKA Punisher season 1
2.) Luke Cage
3.) Jessica Jones
4.) Daredevil Season 1
Of the Netflix superhero series I rate them like this:
1.) Daredevil Season 2/AKA Punisher season 1
2.) Luke Cage
3.) Jessica Jones
4.) Daredevil Season 1
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i liked cottonmouth and shades WAY better than diamondback, no way in hell diamondback was a "boss of bosses" boy was just cray cray...shades now....shades imo was the boss of it all, but in the background- let diamondback be the figurehead....
i actually never finished JJ or DD2- i should one of these days.
the one thing that got me though, i liked all the characters in LC better than the other two, both have cringe worthy "main" characters, while luke cage really only had diamondback as the cringeworthy bit, and that was towards the end, initially he was ok.
i actually never finished JJ or DD2- i should one of these days.
the one thing that got me though, i liked all the characters in LC better than the other two, both have cringe worthy "main" characters, while luke cage really only had diamondback as the cringeworthy bit, and that was towards the end, initially he was ok.
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