AsianTrumpSupporter
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I loved seasons 1 and 2 of Daredevil, but I mainly loved it due to how grounded it felt. For the most part, there were no super powers except a bit from the bad guys, but that felt more like the paranormal and the occult. The Hand seemed more like R'as al Ghul and the League of Shadows in Batman.
I only watched 1 episode of Jessica Jones, none of Luke Cage, and I caught one of the later episodes of Iron Fist when I was at a friend's house. I wasn't really interested in those shows, because the characters were so strong in terms of super powers. I prefer the toned down blind man with heightened senses theme of Daredevil.
I also refused to watch Iron Fist, because it's basically yet another White person playing what could have been an Asian character (Marvel does a lot of that).
Luckily, Iron Fist wasn't in episode 1 enough to annoy me too much. The episode as a whole was ok, but I still prefer the Daredevil characters over Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. Jessica Jones is a bit better in this opening episode.
The strongest addition in terms of acting is definitely Sigourney Weaver. Not much is revealed about her in this opening episode, but you can tell she's a bad ass. I do look forward to finding out more about her character.
In the last 5-10 minutes of the episode, the show starts to build up to what looks like a big, epic cliffhanger. But then they cut it off right before they even give a hint of what's going on in terms of what the team is going up against this season.
Overall, I give this episode a 7/10. I might've bumped it up to 8/10 if it had a better cliffhanger, but it didn't. I do intend to keep watching.