Amph Marvel's The Punisher

I like it, but boy it sure has some serious brutal, gory, graphic scenes.

 

I was a little late getting off the mark, but I finally watched this, and it’s great!

It’s a real return to form, and in many ways better than the previous high mark of DDS1, and it’s no coincidence that the good half of DDS2 involved Frank.

It’s a great turnaround after IF and The Defenders.

And I am looking forward to The Revenge of Billy Mangle Face.

 

Finished the first 5 episodes and they've been a chore to get through. I thought Iron Fist was slow...

 

Yeah, I think most of the Netflix Marvel shows would be better served if their seasons were only eight episodes long. It's been awhile since I've seen The Punisher, but the season does get better.

 

Just watched it over the past week. I've never seen any other Marvel shows but enjoyed this one.

Certainly the pacing could have been better, seemed like a real slow burn.

I never expected to see the villains go down quite so....graphically.

 

Finished this a few days ago, not really built for binge-watching cuz it's really dark. I think the closest the show gets to a joke is when Frank says his beard makes him look like a hipster or when Mirco had a really nice sandwhich in the van while Frank was having canned rations. (Also they may not call him Mirco as far as I can remember or it's the Battle Van but that's definitely Mirco and they have a Battle Van).



Mirco's family subplot had heart but it was... pretty long. But paid off in the end. The agent sleeping with Billy Russo, and the reveal of how nasty Russo was and their confrontation (and when Russo takes out her partner!) definitely worked.

Did anyone notice with all the violence, there's still no f-bombs? like eyes getting gouged out but nobody can say the F-word. Well, I kinda take it back, I thought I heard Mirco say one under his breath and I even turned on the subtitles for that bit and he definitely did but seems more like an improv that slipped through than being scripted.

Mild continuity gripe: at the start of the season, everyone thinks Frank Castle is dead but he did have a very public trial with Karen, Matt and Foggy. Did Kingpin make it look like Frank died in the Prison Riot? I think it was that but I clearly forgot. Anyway, moot point by the end of the season but the whole 1st half "Frank Castle is alive?!" moments always bumped up against me thinking "Yeah, he was on TV!"

Anyway, cool progression to the show with some standout moments, the Karen Pagie in the hotel was a highlight for me and the final moment when Billy Russo meets his Jigsaw destiny is very messy. But it's mostly about loss and dealing with it. I don't think Frank really changes over the course of the show but that's okay, he is what he is, it's more about him realizing it. But they eventually get to the dark core of Frank Castle in a dream / death's door moment when he's being beaten and his wife appears to him and tells him to come home and he says "I'm already home." and then returns to the land of the living to do unholy violence. He is broken at his core, sadly, and would even turn away from eternal happiness with his family to punish. Dark moment but really great.

 

Micro. Micro. Micro. MICRO.

It's short for "Microchip".

 

I just saw Mirco and I'm not surprised he ****ed it up.

@Diggy

 

yeah I know, mistyped it as Mirco. Oh well.

 

Closest thing to a joke in the entire Season 1. But pretty darn funny



I know I'm only 3 eps into Daredevil Season 3 but where's Punisher Season 2 release date dangit!

 

The anticipation of season two of The Punisher is probably at the same level for season two of Iron Fist. I think most people forget that there was a season one of The Punisher.

The problem with the first season of The Punisher is that they tried to recreate his origin story, rather than just pick up where he left off from season two of Daredevil. Season one could have been about punishing people like John Wick, it would have been so much better. Probably should have given Frank Castle a dog and have someone kill it. Instead, they decided to have Castle end his time at the Punisher and dig into his past.


I mean, imagine season one of The Punisher occurred between the ending of season two of Daredevil and this opening scene of first episode of The Punisher.

 

Karen Page was in Punisher S1, spinning off from his introduction in Daredevil, and in Daredevil season 3, only about 4 eps in, but while she hasn't mentioned Frank Castle yet there is a scene where she's waving around a firearm to get some punk crooks out of her face. Now, in the context of the episode, it's ostensibly about that she's mad at Matt Murdock and taking it out on crooks but the way I sees it, her being gun handy and smack talking punks into running away seemed very much like an offshoot of her time with Frank Castle.

 

THE PUNISHER SEASON 2 PREMIERING ON NETFLIX IN JANUARY

Which means it will be cancelled before February.

 

Cool. That means Frank can be in Spider-Man: Homeward Bound.

 

Great, now I'm craving Spider-Man: Homeward Bound, with Peter thinking he's going crazy as he can now hear cats and dogs talk.

 

Over under days on Punisher being cancelled after it hits. I'm putting the line at 40 days and taking the under on that.

 

OKay, I’m taking a million days, and the under that, and also -30 days and the over on that.

 

Loved season 1 (still patiently waiting for the BluRey release in the uk)
Looking forward to season 2 hopefully it won’t get cancelled after.

 

I believe I saw on Twitter that Season 2 will be out January 18th.

 

So will Karen still be a globe reporter in S2 Punisher or be freelancing? She didn't seem to be in the Globe's good graces at the end of Daredevil S3 and they proposed a new firm with her on it as a lead investigator. ("More stable than Jessica Jones!" Matt said)