It could very well be she and Fisk were working together but I think it was ambiguous for now.
Tonight’s episode was a pretty good one. One episode left in the season, and I’m wondering how all of those variables and moving parts are going to fit together.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by this season. I wasn’t that they’d be able to recapture a lot of the magic that the Netflix show created, but this has been a very, very solid season, despite the occasional misstep.
I’ve very much enjoyed this seasons plot, but the way that last episode ended pretty much ends any chance of getting any Daredevil action. We got more Daredevil in Echo and She-Hulk than we’ve had so far in his own show.
That’s a quite good final episode. Pushing Disney’s morality limits too.
I assume the random guy called into the office is responsible for the blackout, I didn’t recognize the job title, but something public works it seems.
The pre-hospital scene at the beginning was a “will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” moment.
Not sure that I would be ready to fight off a dozen dirty cops and then jump off the building a day after being shot in the shoulder. Even with Frank’s help.
One thing I wondered in the penultimate episode, did Matt expect Poindexter to escape? Was he, in fact, enabling it? The ‘thanks, counselor’ seemed sort of pointed…
I took it that he was thanking Matt for unwittingly knocking out the tooth that Poindexter then used to escape. So yes, Matt did in effect enable it.
If it was that easy Poindexter could have escaped at any point. I think he honestly wanted help from Matt, the loose tooth was improvisation.
I know that Mayor Fisk has been an obvious stand-in for Trump 47, but goddamn did they reinforce that notion in the last episode.
I hate that. Trump is not Kingpin, he is not Homelander. At best he is Gollum.
He thinks he’s Homelander. I think stupid people think he’s as smooth and smart as Kingpin.
He’s more like, as John Oliver says, “Stupid Hitler.”
They specifically said he was from Con Ed (NYC’s Electric Company), but one worker wouldn’t be able to shut down the city.
I liked this restart a lot better than the first series. I think it is the pacing, I’m not sure.
OK, I can buy that Red Hook isn’t technically part of NYC, and maybe the state of NY, but out of the US? Maybe some sort of duty-free zone, but with no laws?
I assume the Con Ed person didn’t shut down power alone - but know enough coworkers to pull it off. Don’t hospitals typically have more backup power than depicted? I suppose it normally does but didn’t due to budget issues.
Brian
I think it’s better not to overthink that.
Same applies to the mayor of NYC decreeing martial law, is it even among his enumerated powers? what does the NY State government think about it? not to mention the U.S. government.
But for narrative purposes we need to allow those things as a sort of poetic license, if the series/movie is good enough it can be done, and I think in this case it is.
No, Kingpin declaring Martial Law and an 8pm curfew in NYC was way too much to believe. So much wrong with that, it really broke my disbelief. But toss it up to stupid comic book drama device and move on was my attitude.
Exactly.
I think part of the issue is it is New York and not Gotham or Metropolis.(can’t think of any Marvel fictional cities)
The martial law/curfew didn’t actually bother me as much as Red Hook.
Again, I’m actually ok that this outside of NYC and possibly NY, but outside US?
I guess it could be some weird place like the Idaho section of Yellowstone Park*
When it’s status is revealed (ex: as soon as some authority tries to arrest for gambling), I expect Doctors Octopus and Doom to swoop in.
I can buy the martial law thing more than I can buy it being dark enough to see the Milky Way from Manhattan (hello, lights of New Jersey) or a blind dude being able to feel the layers of paint to recognize a face in a painting. FFS, they couldn’t have had it be a sculpture, do some Lionel Richie thing?
Well, that was a big nothingburger of a half-season. And now we have to wait another two years for even a shred of resolution? Blech. Marvel TV still fails to justify its continued existence.
I felt the same way. It’s okay to end the season with more story to tell, but at least finish telling one story.