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You would think that having only 8 episodes would mean they would skip all the bullshit and hit on all the important points, but no! This was the dullest and most meandering plot of all the series so far.

Less happens in 8 episodes of Defenders than in 2 episodes of Game of Thrones, and that's not an exaggeration. Shit that happened on episode 6 is what should have happened on episode 2. I can't believe how much time the writers devoted to the heroes standing around and deliberating. Deliberating about things that the audience already knows. I think I lost count over how many times they felt the need to reiterate that (minor spoilers) the Hand wants to kidnap Danny Rand, and they gotta do something about it! But throughout the show, and not until the very end, they do nothing except hide from the Hand. And the Hand are even worse than the heroes are in this respect. Every scene of theirs is boring and they're all inevitably about the same thing. They don't like what their leader is doing, and they super duper want the MacGuffin. We're told that they are working on something, but just about all we see them do is nag each other.

I can't believe that these are the same people that wrote Killgrave, Kingpin, and Punisher. In fact, I'm almost certain they aren't. I think the Iron Fist writers tied up all the writers from Daredevil and Jessica Jones and seized control of the entire project, because WOW these are the worst villains so far, and after Iron Fist, that's saying a lot.

And the action scenes suck. It may be because the guy who plays Daredevil is the only one of them who has any talent, but in Jessica Jones they still managed to make the fights exciting.

Lastly, the editing really sucks. Again no spoilers, but there's a scene near the end where Luke Cage stares down a bunch of SWAT officers with guns pointed at him. There's a cut to another scene, and when the scene cuts back to Luke, he's running with the gang to bring people to an ambulance, with police all around. So, did he not fight those cops? How'd he get away without any of the police giving a shit? Did he have a heartfelt conversation with the lot of them about how, even though they have every reason to believe he and his friends are committing a crime, they should just let bygones be bygones and let them go?

That's NOT the only time something like that happens, but it's just the most ridiculous example I can remember. Best-case scenario, the writers wrote themselves into a corner and hoped the audience wouldn't notice.

tl;dr: I'd skip it. What a waste of 8 hours of my life.
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