Airing on Netflix's streaming service in the future, four street-level heroes will fight crime in a quartet of thirteen episode series that will tie into a mini-event known as The Defenders.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/07/daredevil-luke-cage-iron-fist-jessica-jones-tv-series-coming-to-netflix-leading-into-the-defenders-miniseries
So I did a bit of research (i.e. went to Wikipedia... and then TV Tropes, since they do a better job at catching you up to speed on what they're about), and while I was vaguely familiar with Luke Cage (black guy, has super-strength and bullet-proof skin, "Hero for Hire") and Iron Fist (wealthy American businessman, knows Kung-Fu, friends with Luke Cage), and I of course knew about Daredevil (blind guy, has super-heightened other senses, has a movie with Ben Affleck that a lot of people hated but I thought was... okay?), I STILL don't know if I fully "get" who Jessica Jones is.
Reading about the Defenders, though, I like to call them "Avengers rejects", since the original members who joined (the Hulk, Doctor Strange, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and the Silver Surfer) joined because they weren't "officially" associated with any particular group, and were all loners by nature anyway. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out... I mean, it's worked for movies, can it work for TV?
Speaking of which, is this part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? I kind of assumed not because I thought Fox still owned the movie-making rights to Daredevil (and also Fantastic Four, to which there's a reboot planned for 2015), so how would they incorporate Daredevil into that continuity while keeping him out of the movies... And if this IS a separate continuity from the movies plus Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., well, that'll just make things confusing for people who are fans of those movies. I already have a hard time explaining how The Amazing Spider-Man and the new X-Men movies are not associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe as it is, but bringing this in will make things even MORE of a mess...
This also leads me to wonder just how popular will these shows be if they're only going to be on Netflix... though then again, is Netflix becoming more popular then live TV? I'm not entirely sure myself...
Regardless, I'm at LEAST interested in seeing the Luke Cage and perhaps the Iron Fist show.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/07/daredevil-luke-cage-iron-fist-jessica-jones-tv-series-coming-to-netflix-leading-into-the-defenders-miniseries
So I did a bit of research (i.e. went to Wikipedia... and then TV Tropes, since they do a better job at catching you up to speed on what they're about), and while I was vaguely familiar with Luke Cage (black guy, has super-strength and bullet-proof skin, "Hero for Hire") and Iron Fist (wealthy American businessman, knows Kung-Fu, friends with Luke Cage), and I of course knew about Daredevil (blind guy, has super-heightened other senses, has a movie with Ben Affleck that a lot of people hated but I thought was... okay?), I STILL don't know if I fully "get" who Jessica Jones is.
Reading about the Defenders, though, I like to call them "Avengers rejects", since the original members who joined (the Hulk, Doctor Strange, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and the Silver Surfer) joined because they weren't "officially" associated with any particular group, and were all loners by nature anyway. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out... I mean, it's worked for movies, can it work for TV?
Speaking of which, is this part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? I kind of assumed not because I thought Fox still owned the movie-making rights to Daredevil (and also Fantastic Four, to which there's a reboot planned for 2015), so how would they incorporate Daredevil into that continuity while keeping him out of the movies... And if this IS a separate continuity from the movies plus Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., well, that'll just make things confusing for people who are fans of those movies. I already have a hard time explaining how The Amazing Spider-Man and the new X-Men movies are not associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe as it is, but bringing this in will make things even MORE of a mess...
This also leads me to wonder just how popular will these shows be if they're only going to be on Netflix... though then again, is Netflix becoming more popular then live TV? I'm not entirely sure myself...
Regardless, I'm at LEAST interested in seeing the Luke Cage and perhaps the Iron Fist show.
