The candidates are not as engaging to me as Killgrave was. I love that Killgrave is more of a psychological villain instead the whole ''I have influence and matching strength'' thing. If I recall correctly, he's the only one who wasn't a gangster or part of a shady organization. sip
I get your point, its understandable. Lots of peoples loved Killgrave and i agree the actor did a great job. Its just a matter of personal tastes. Personally i just couldn't really invest myself into it. Also there was not that many fights and it played a part for me.
As for Luke Cage, being set where it was and all, i understand they had to go that route. Im not super fond on gangsta rap black culture either, but i enjoyed Cottonmouth as a bad guy and Luke as a main character. Actually until the mid season i loved the show, i just felt the second half felt flat when Diamondback was revealed (wich i expected to be some huge crime boss or something) . He ended up being pretty underwhelming.
Its true that world domination may be a trop, but i dunno, its always effective for me, it really depend on how its presented. The Hand was great at first, they just turned out to be disapointing in the end cause i feel the "fingers" where really not the huge threat/warriors i expected. Sigourney Weaver was good in playing that pumpous vilainess but ultimately she was wasted. Baku was a good warrior but his look/attitude made him too much casual. The guy who only speaked Chinese was decent but got his ass kicked a lot and was never really developed. Of the hand the best developed character was Nobu... he was the kind of bad ass vilain i was expecting.
As for Bond the only movie i saw of the Craig era is Casino Royal and i didn't liked it that much. Craig just does not do it for me in term of Bond. Call me a goldeneye on N64 kid but for me Bond will always be Brosnan. I plan on eventually seing them but i dunno when... So i can't really comment on them much.
Iron Fist the problem is there was not enough fighting, i enjoyed the series personally but i understand the complaints peoples had with it. And it bother me he barely can use the iron fist power once then it goes into recharge or something... lol.
As for Punisher, there is a lot they could had do beside origin story 2.0. They could have move the character to a different city like Chicago, have Billy Russo be a crime boss and build from that. I wouldn't had mind 3-4 episodes being strickly "bad guy of the week" punishing. You have a very easy motivation for Franck, he hate criminals. So he will purposely goes against criminals for no personal reasons in his full Punisher persona. So he could had took on "the wrong guy" and it could had been built from there.
But ill admit i always had a soft spot for "monster of the week" independant episodes. Big story arcs and contious story make a show more engaging to tune in next week to see where its going so i understand networks to do that, but i enjoy a good old self contain episode a lot. Thats why shows like Angel and Supernatural actually the season 1 has a special place in my heart.
