Xela Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Is Luke Cage set in Harlem? They only mention it every 3 minutes on the show so I might forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 9, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted October 9, 2016 The show's in love with its setting. Harlem is thet has going for it so they double down on it. Still not finished the series myself, which is unusual for me with anything Marvel. It's just not as engaging as the other series. There's some intrigue in its villains, but not as much Daredevil series 1 or Jessica Jones, and this Luke is a really fairly boring as a character. There's good stuff in there, but it's fleeting, and otherwise it's a slow jaunt through Harlem. I'd hoped for more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_c Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Best bit of Luke Cage so far for me. Spoiler The guys protest sign that read "The only Superfreak I like is Rick James" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wazzap24 Posted October 10, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2016 Blimey that 'The night of' was a bit good wasn't it. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Good news for fans of robot combat - Robot Wars has been commisioned for another series. No word yet on if it'll be more than 6 episodes, but I hope they extend the bracket and make it, say, 10 episodes. For anyone who is a fan and hasn't seen the two new series of Battlebots (US Robot Wars), they are a must - no house robots, no pits, only 1v1 battles, and way more OTT robots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Think I'm up to about episode 7 of Luke cage, it's ok, I like the use of music, agree with the comments about Harlem being overplayed, it's just missing something to make it special, I'm waiting for an action sequence and then so far at last have been disappointed every time there is, I think it's been done on purpose to avoid what DD did but the fights are a bit cardboardy, people are still just shooting him while he walks forward, choreography is boring and there isn't the violence of the others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 On 10/10/2016 at 18:19, wazzap24 said: Blimey that 'The night of' was a bit good wasn't it. Thought it was average at best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 11, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted October 11, 2016 2 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Think I'm up to about episode 7 of Luke cage, it's ok, I like the use of music, agree with the comments about Harlem being overplayed, it's just missing something to make it special, I'm waiting for an action sequence and then so far at last have been disappointed every time there is, I think it's been done on purpose to avoid what DD did but the fights are a bit cardboardy, people are still just shooting him while he walks forward, choreography is boring and there isn't the violence of the others I think the action problem is all down to the character of Cage and who he's taking on. Daredevil is in essence a ninja with a boxer's mindset and his fight style is interesting because of it. He fights hand to hand with anger and a little grace, and occasionally more elaborate moves. The second series exacerbates that with his new enemies. Cage is just a brawler with super strength fighting gang bangers with pistols. Every fight is him shrugging off bullets, because thats his special thing, and then completely plainly hitting someone or throwing them flying. Theres no drama to way he fights, he doesn't get hurt and he doesn't need any finesse because he's so strong and so invulnerable he doesn't need to be flashy. At first it's fun, almost funny, to see this enormous black fella walk towards a firing machine gun and then nonchalantly smack him across the room, but it quickly becomes pretty dull. It's an odd series. I've still not finished it, and it's bad at all. But it's all too boring. Slow and it doesn't have the engaging elements of the previous series - Daredevil's origin, Kingpin, the intrigue and sheer... skin crawling-ness of Kilgrave, the great performance of the Punisher... Cottonmouth is just another gangster (they try to develop more but they don't have the time and they smash every revelation of his character into 10 minutes of flashback in 1 episode), Mariah is just a corrupt politician, etc etc. Theres not enough to grab you. And then it pulls a move that immediately stinks of the writers going 'we can't do many more episodes like this, we have to do this' and it's all too dumb an answer to a genuine problem the character of Cage has, but theres 40 years of comics to rip better ideas than that from... It's not bad, it's still better than Arrow or Agents of Shield and so on, but it's clearly 4th in the Netflix Marvel run so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 24 minutes ago, Nicho said: Thought it was average at bes Started very well, ending was slightly underwhelming I thought. But, all in all, an excellent watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I gave up on daredevil ....just got fairly repetitive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 I used to listen quite a lot to "old school" east coast rap back in the day, other than that Luke Cage is not for me. It's just dull. Don't believe the hype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Jihad, A Story Of The Others. Absolutely superb, and also very moving. Huge respect for the people that managed to see the light and be good people by spreading the love. very powerful program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Started watching west world last night. Seems interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Just started ash vs evil dead...I love it!! So different and cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Planet earth 2 trailer released a couple of days a go, watch it, it's looking incredible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Ash vs Evil Dead season 2 is back and on form. The Morgue scene. Already renewed for season 3 Started something called Berlin Station which has promise, it's about a CIA whistleblower and how he is dropping their German office in the shit and their search for him. Quarry and the Exorcist are still going strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Looking forward to the new Adam Curtis film on iPlayer in 15 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Had to knock Designated Survivor on the head. Dialogue was offending my ears and the characterisatons were assailing my soul. Kiefer aside, far too weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 3 hours ago, V01 said: Ash vs Evil Dead season 2 is back and on form. The Morgue scene. Already renewed for season 3 Started something called Berlin Station which has promise, it's about a CIA whistleblower and how he is dropping their German office in the shit and their search for him. Quarry and the Exorcist are still going strong. Can't wait just finished season one, ending was silly but if they had to make a season 2 I guess they had to end in a way like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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