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Season 2 features the addition of The Punisher and another vigilante I can't remember or be bothered to google. The opening episode begins with the mafias being gunned down by some rogue army, only for it to be unveiled that said army is one Frank Castle, whom comic book fans are well familiar with as The Punisher. This comic book character inspired two catastrophic cinematic failures, so I was nervous. However, the show took a completely unique turn by humanizing the character, thereby giving us something we could actually, you know, identify with. I already saw the franchise featuring a stoic and soulless killing machine when it was called The Terminator, so Jon Bernthal's rendition was refreshing by making him a ptsd ex-soldier with more or less a complete range of emotions.
Now, you would think the season would be filled with demonstrations of carnage by the Punisher, but no such carnage manifests. In fact, we are presented with countless episodes of him and Daredevil bitching about co-workers stealing their staplers, ninjas, some chick who may or many not have had a fling with Daredevil in the past, and then, finally, blessedly, we are presented with our trophy for sticking with the season to the very bitter end: Frank Castle finding himself in a shed with enough guns and ammunition to settle the Middle East crisis forever, incredibly awesome and portentous music, and Castle spray painting the Punisher emblem we all know and love onto his new armor. All the meanwhile, Daredevil is getting ready to meet certain doom in a showdown with an infinity number of ninjas who've figured out how to be invisible because now Daredevil no longer possesses echolocation but only super hearing, which apparently was decided in a meeting I was not invited to.
In other words, **** is about to get real. Daredevil is going to daredevil the crap out of those ninjas, and then, when he is outnumbered by eight hundred more ninjas and all hope is lost, The Punisher is going to suddenly appear and lay down a rain of murder that will by comparison make the Angel of Death look like a hippie trying to get out of the draft by claiming "conscientious objector."
It does not quite turn out that way.
Rather, we're treated to a display in which a couple dozen ninjas attack Daredevil one by one, the rest of them standing back because hey, fair fight, you know? Then one ninja is going to get the drop on Daredevil and that's when THE PUNISHER shows up. To take one shot and kill the ninja. He gives a thumbs up to Daredevil, and jumps into the air in a wacky freeze frame. Roll credits.
So I ask you: was this the most anticlimactic ending ever, or was it even more the most anticlimactic ending ever?
Oh, nearly forgot: spoiler alert.
Now, you would think the season would be filled with demonstrations of carnage by the Punisher, but no such carnage manifests. In fact, we are presented with countless episodes of him and Daredevil bitching about co-workers stealing their staplers, ninjas, some chick who may or many not have had a fling with Daredevil in the past, and then, finally, blessedly, we are presented with our trophy for sticking with the season to the very bitter end: Frank Castle finding himself in a shed with enough guns and ammunition to settle the Middle East crisis forever, incredibly awesome and portentous music, and Castle spray painting the Punisher emblem we all know and love onto his new armor. All the meanwhile, Daredevil is getting ready to meet certain doom in a showdown with an infinity number of ninjas who've figured out how to be invisible because now Daredevil no longer possesses echolocation but only super hearing, which apparently was decided in a meeting I was not invited to.
In other words, **** is about to get real. Daredevil is going to daredevil the crap out of those ninjas, and then, when he is outnumbered by eight hundred more ninjas and all hope is lost, The Punisher is going to suddenly appear and lay down a rain of murder that will by comparison make the Angel of Death look like a hippie trying to get out of the draft by claiming "conscientious objector."
It does not quite turn out that way.
Rather, we're treated to a display in which a couple dozen ninjas attack Daredevil one by one, the rest of them standing back because hey, fair fight, you know? Then one ninja is going to get the drop on Daredevil and that's when THE PUNISHER shows up. To take one shot and kill the ninja. He gives a thumbs up to Daredevil, and jumps into the air in a wacky freeze frame. Roll credits.
So I ask you: was this the most anticlimactic ending ever, or was it even more the most anticlimactic ending ever?
Oh, nearly forgot: spoiler alert.
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