• MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
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    7 days ago

    So first off. Judging this as exactly what it is, a Punisher one shot story, I enjoyed it. I think the idea of Frank killing off most of a crime family, leaving behind one person, and that person feeling the same way Frank does and taking revenge. That works well.

    Frank is his own worst enemy. Everything that happens is Frank’s “fault”.

    I also think that Frank basically being unsure what is real but making the choice to save the little girl and her family shows that while Frank may seem out of it and unsure what is real… When it comes down to it he knows what he needs to do. If Frank were just a killing machine with no thoughts, he would have killed Ma Gnucci. His choice to save shows his humanity. Frank knows what he’s doing.

    Second. Why was Ma Gnucci injured? I figured we would have seen Frank at least accidentally injure her. I would have liked an extra bit of story where Frank creates the monster that is Ma Gnucci. He doesn’t have to be solely responsible, I think it’s clear she has a warped sense of reality. She ignores her husbands deeds, she ignores her youngest child’s likely crimes. There is at least something I would have liked to see play out.

    Third. This was a weird one off. It doesn’t feel like a continuation of Daredevil Born Again season 1. This feels like a story that exists between Daredevil and Daredevil Born Again.

    Also last we saw Frank at the end of Daredevil Born Again he killed a dude and broke out. After breaking out he was absent from all of Daredevil season 2, and this is where he is? It doesn’t really seem to fit.

    While I can only judge Frank from the trailers, his next appearance is Spider-Man? I have Ma Gnucci questions. Is Ma Gnucci in Spider-Man? Tonally that looks like a very different Frank Castle compared to the one I just watched.

    That felt like the pilot episode to a show that isn’t going to exist. Alternatively… New Punisher TV show to be announced soon?

    • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website
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      7 days ago

      I too really enjoyed this one-off. It really feels like Feige is keeping hands off these projects, letting the Daredevil producers in Born Again, and letting Bernthal and Green, tell the stories that they want to tell and not make it about the ‘story’ of the MCU.
      I agree with you though this really feels like a restart of the character from the end of his last show and where we see Frank at the beginning of Born Again.
      I disagree about Ma Gnucci though. I love Judith Light in the part but I got enough to understand everything she’s going through. Yeah Frank killing her family has given her PTSD and she’s going to hurt everybody in the fucking city to lash out. I don’t need to know why her body is rotting out (it’s the hate she carries) I get that she thinks she’s going to punish him because that’s all she’s got.
      Hurt people hurt people - that’s the whole story of The Punisher. It that last minute choice Frank makes to save the Donut family (by hurting people still) rather than focusing on revenge so much stronger.
      Honestly the one-off is great and the only problem I have really on my end. It’s not a coda to Born Again, in fact it’s got nothing to do with Born Again at all and I’m still a little bit grumpy about how that ended.