I know what you mean and I'd have loved to see him go out in glorious battle, but idk if i'm saying this right but the series was really pushing a lot of themes in variations, like family and sacrifice and love. Stick had the chance to kill Elektra in that scene, he holds the blade to her neck and freezes, and that's what killed him: love. That's a crappy way to put it but lol that's the theme. And it's the same thing that 'kills' Matt later. In DD s1 I hated Stick so much and I'm still angry about so many of his actions, but the idea that for the majority of his life he was this terrible human being who only cared about war and spent a long time killing (sounds like a beta vers of Frank Castle), it's oddly comforting and painful that he finally figured out what it's like to have family. It's like he finally understood what it is to have kids and love them and want them to survive and succeed. He came to care about Matt and Elektra more than he did his damn war, and his death is so frustrating to me, but it's meaningful too.
Re: Bad writing in the Defenders
I know what you mean and I'd have loved to see him go out in glorious battle, but idk if i'm saying this right but the series was really pushing a lot of themes in variations, like family and sacrifice and love. Stick had the chance to kill Elektra in that scene, he holds the blade to her neck and freezes, and that's what killed him: love. That's a crappy way to put it but lol that's the theme. And it's the same thing that 'kills' Matt later. In DD s1 I hated Stick so much and I'm still angry about so many of his actions, but the idea that for the majority of his life he was this terrible human being who only cared about war and spent a long time killing (sounds like a beta vers of Frank Castle), it's oddly comforting and painful that he finally figured out what it's like to have family. It's like he finally understood what it is to have kids and love them and want them to survive and succeed. He came to care about Matt and Elektra more than he did his damn war, and his death is so frustrating to me, but it's meaningful too.