Thoughts and whatnot
I turned 41 yesterday. I celebrated by working like a Botard. Not a big deal. I'm not one for making a big deal out of it. I did get several nice wishes from folks, so that's gratifying.
Today's the day off. And the last one until March 2, owing to vacations and whatnot. At least they're all opening shifts. I've been doing mostly closing shifts since late summer. It sucks. Not only do you not get weekends or holidays off, you also don't get evenings. Now that we have a fourth MoD (we've been essentially short for about a year), I'd like to see that schedule change a bit. We haven't been able to do anything regularly since the summer. And that makes me easily aggravated.
Spending the morning finishing up the Defenders series on Netflix. Part of it was the move, and not having decent internet until the fall, but I keep noticing how much Iron Fist really took me out of the whole little pocket of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that Netflix has created. I never finished Iron Fist. It was bad. It was boring. It had little of the humor or action and none of the direction of purpose that the first seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage have. And while I won't comment on the second season of Daredevil, which turded it up a bit, owing to this constant need to put The Punisher into things.
Defenders itself isn't bad, but it feels bland, compared to the others. It feels too much like Iron Fist, if you wanna know the truth. And while I like the Elektra aspect, I felt like it needed a bigger bad. Maybe I'm just so enfatuated with Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin that I want to see him at every turn.
(A sidebar....during last year's Spider-Man: Homecoming, I was sitting next to a guy who was geeking out for every part of the flick. During the mid-credits sting scene, you hear somebody offscreen yell to Michael Keaton's Vulture, and this guy next to me jumps for joy And then out of the corner of my eye, you see him visible deflate. "I was hoping it was the Kingpin," he says to himself. I laughed, because that possiblity had occurred to me right about the time that he started getting excited).
Anyway, Defenders isn't bad. I just wasn't as excited for it as the other Marvel Netflix offerings. Punisher is out already, but I'm just not all that interested. A boring character with no arc that I'm interested in. If I hear enough positive, I may give it a try down the road, but right now, I'll pass....
Today's the day off. And the last one until March 2, owing to vacations and whatnot. At least they're all opening shifts. I've been doing mostly closing shifts since late summer. It sucks. Not only do you not get weekends or holidays off, you also don't get evenings. Now that we have a fourth MoD (we've been essentially short for about a year), I'd like to see that schedule change a bit. We haven't been able to do anything regularly since the summer. And that makes me easily aggravated.
Spending the morning finishing up the Defenders series on Netflix. Part of it was the move, and not having decent internet until the fall, but I keep noticing how much Iron Fist really took me out of the whole little pocket of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that Netflix has created. I never finished Iron Fist. It was bad. It was boring. It had little of the humor or action and none of the direction of purpose that the first seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage have. And while I won't comment on the second season of Daredevil, which turded it up a bit, owing to this constant need to put The Punisher into things.
Defenders itself isn't bad, but it feels bland, compared to the others. It feels too much like Iron Fist, if you wanna know the truth. And while I like the Elektra aspect, I felt like it needed a bigger bad. Maybe I'm just so enfatuated with Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin that I want to see him at every turn.
(A sidebar....during last year's Spider-Man: Homecoming, I was sitting next to a guy who was geeking out for every part of the flick. During the mid-credits sting scene, you hear somebody offscreen yell to Michael Keaton's Vulture, and this guy next to me jumps for joy And then out of the corner of my eye, you see him visible deflate. "I was hoping it was the Kingpin," he says to himself. I laughed, because that possiblity had occurred to me right about the time that he started getting excited).
Anyway, Defenders isn't bad. I just wasn't as excited for it as the other Marvel Netflix offerings. Punisher is out already, but I'm just not all that interested. A boring character with no arc that I'm interested in. If I hear enough positive, I may give it a try down the road, but right now, I'll pass....
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