Why Defenders Was Brilliant !!SPOILERS!!

Yeah I pretty much disagree with your entire initial post. The last couple episodes of the season I felt were good but getting there was just so boring because I have no real reason to care about any of these characters. The Alexandra character didn't really mesh with me and nor does The Hand. I just don't give a crap about their plan or any of their characters so pretty much I wasn't invested in the story that the show was telling me. Elektra being this killing machine I enjoyed just was bored completely by the story around it.

In regards to The Defenders themselves, wow I now understand why a bunch of people hated on Iron Fist. That was awful and the fact that the story was very centered around him was not something for me to be interested. I skipped his show because nothing about it seemed appealing to me and none of The Defenders changed my mind into going back and watching it. He's just such a lame character in here and none of his scenes captured my interest it was just so, lack of a better word, boring. I honestly am surprised I managed to finish the show.

Luke Cage I seemed to have an issue with. Does the show know how his powers work or not? Because this show had me all sorts of confused. When Luke and Danny first met Danny was fighting him and Luke was no selling all of his moves until Danny used his super fist. Later in the show Luke is having issues with The Hand while they're kicking and chopping and what not as if it's all the sudden now hurting him. Also, he's fire proof now or something? Where did that come from? His skin is bullet proof but what he can't catch on fire either?

I also felt like there needed to be more stakes to it to really bring them all together instead of just hey, Claire happens to know all these guys and I just didn't feel like they really had a great reason to come together and be a unit. To me the stakes never really hit until the last couple episodes with the deaths of Stick, Alexandra, and Misty getting her arm chopped off. Before that to me it just felt bleak and not what was going to catch my interest as "brilliant" as you put it. I just get the feeling like this would of been a perfect time for Claire to have bitten it because she was put in danger that she should never have been put in. There for it leads to The Defenders joining together in order to make sure no more innocent lives get taken by The Hand. Something to that affect because what they did do didn't work for me.

I also hated how the whole ending was just swept under the rug because, reasons. Yeah Foggy works for some powerful lawyers that's enough to just ignore the fact that these super powered people and Claire of all people blow up a massive building and kill people inside. Nope but don't worry because they're the heroes here we're just going to make sure there are no repercussions right away. I actually enjoyed the conflict they were having with the police force and now that's all just seemingly ignored. Screw that crap. I would of liked it a hell of a lot more had they been arrested and they broke out and became like an A-Team type of deal. Continue this conflict with the police don't just sweep it under the rug. Have Misty still be a bit of an ally to them but have it indeed cost her her job or have her feel conflicted on whether or not she feels she needs to arrest these people if she see's them in the future shows which I'm sure she will.

One more thing, I HATED that they needed to confirm and show everybody that Matt was still alive. I liked that ending so much that it now feels tainted because they blew that load too quickly. I didn't want to know that he was still alive. Let me think that he's actually dead and make a story about it going into the next Daredevil season and then show us he's not still dead. I mean yeah them doing another season of Daredevil tells you that he's not dead but this show didn't need to confirm that to me. It would of been a far better and more satisfying ending had we the viewers been left to believe he died alongside Elektra because I personally felt that was the most emotionally impactful part of the entire series was him and Elektra fighting and how Elektra is now making sure that they'll be together forever in death. It was very well done only for them to screw that up in my mind. It would of just been more satisfying in my mind if that was truly the end of those two characters.

Matt, Jessica, and Elektra were pretty much the only real highlights for me character wise.