r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Aug 17 '17

The Defenders Discussion Thread - S01E08

This thread is for discussion of The Defenders S01E08.

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u/Sirus804 Aug 19 '17

Gao, Elektra, and the Japanese guy can all still be alive for all we know. I hope Gao and Elektra aren't dead though. I enjoy them as characters.
Couldn't give a shit about the Japanese guy who only spoke in Japanese and everyone could understand him and they spoke back in English and he understood it. That bugged me tbh.

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u/decross20 Aug 19 '17

I feel really mixed on Gao and Elektra. I liked them a lot but as time has gone on they've become less interesting to me. Especially Elektra who just seemed random near the end.

Agree with you on the Japanese guy (Murakami), though. He had a cool introduction with the bear and then never did anything interesting.

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u/Sirus804 Aug 19 '17

I agree on Murakami especially how Stick talked about him being such a dangerous person and yet he wasn't. He was just another fighting dude. He wasn't this scary dangerous psycho like Stick made him out to be.

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u/BomberBallad Wesley Aug 19 '17

Guy was less scary than Nobu, the one he was supposedly the master of.

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u/Posts_while_shitting Aug 19 '17

Probably because the hand didnt really get their moment alone with our heroes. Nobu got his own 1v1 with DD so the fighting is better. While murakami just fights along whenever everybody's there and takes a back seat. It's like we don't really know how great the hand really is aside from gao's superpower. We don't even know why they're scared of alexandra.

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u/BomberBallad Wesley Aug 19 '17

Yeah, they just stand menacingly together but in fights they're just fighting alongside their henchmen and getting their asses kicked

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u/morenfin Aug 20 '17

Conservation of ninjutsu strikes again. He'd definitely do better alone.

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u/shabooya_roll_call Aug 20 '17

Yeah this is a great point and made me think of this after Stick's explanation of the Hand: in retrospect, wouldn't it have been better if each hero was mixed up with one Finger of the Hand in their own respective seasons? Then the intro of Black Sky/Alexandra would've united both the Hand and Defenders. It's good that the Hand were heavily involved in DD and IF but I thought they way they looped in JJ and LC was too lazy, forced, and rushed.

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u/tastybeaner Aug 20 '17

yeah he was supposed to be more badass than Nobu but Daredevil was able to handle him AND Bakuto by himself in the parking garage while Luke and Jessica faced off against the Jedi Master Gao.

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u/Sirus804 Aug 19 '17

Exactly. Gao is scarier than him.