Stick wasn't a particularly likable person in s.1, but that's when he was written the best.
Season one: Stick comes to Matt's orphanage, trains him, gets attached to him, and abandons him after a simple gesture. Refusing to take Matt as a soldier may or may not be an act of protection. Then he comes back, ropes Matt in into his fight, introduces the concept of a Black Sky, spills a bit of bullshit about himself and the Chaste (he claims that he was the child that started it, and also that no one knows how old the Chaste is), kills a child, fights with Matt and leaves that bracelet behind when he walks out.
It's not perfectly consistent, but almost. It works.
Season two: Stick adopts and trains the young Black Sky in some place full of Chaste members. Kinda strange considering everything he said about Black Sky in s.1, and that he killed one without remorse. Also stupid to take her to a Chaste place, and kinda strange considering he never did that with Matt. Why the change? Then he gives her up for adoption, abandoning her just like Matt. Okay. Then he comes back and gets her to spy on Matt and rope him back in. Strange, but okay. Then a few more years pass, and he sends her to Matt one more time. He saves her life, then tries to kill her, then gives a fierce talk about how dangerous and not-human she is (which he knew all along, particularly when she was dying and he was saving her life like days before), then goes to fight the Hand, then buries Elektra and walks out of the cementary, the end.
Okay, so consistency is shot to hell now. You don't train a kid that you know is inhumanly dangerous *and will have to die by your hand one day*. You don't give them to normal people afterwards. You don't save a life of someone you're planning to kill. You don't come back as you please after abandoning someone. You don't leave your students only to come back and manipulate them into working for you. I can buy this as a sort of emergency tactic once, but this is, what, four times? Seriously, does the Chaste not have any actual soldiers Stick can use? Where *is* the Chaste, actually?
The Defenders: Apparently Stick walked out Matt's life, which seems kinda strange after all the effort he put into pulling him back into his orbit, and with Black Sky and the Hand both in New York, no less. We get one more dramatic reunion. Then Stick... talks a lot, and sits a lot. He *doesn't* kill Elektra, which considering that he was willing to when she had still been herself, and he kept talking about how she isn't anymore, is kinda strange. Then he falls onto his back, and there's a lot of tense staring for a while, and then he dies.
So nothing much happens, nothing much is done by Stick, nothing much is the reason why he dies, and nothing much is explained about how all of the Chaste is suddenly dead, conveniently except for Stick (for a while, at least).
Re: Bad writing in the Defenders
Season one: Stick comes to Matt's orphanage, trains him, gets attached to him, and abandons him after a simple gesture. Refusing to take Matt as a soldier may or may not be an act of protection. Then he comes back, ropes Matt in into his fight, introduces the concept of a Black Sky, spills a bit of bullshit about himself and the Chaste (he claims that he was the child that started it, and also that no one knows how old the Chaste is), kills a child, fights with Matt and leaves that bracelet behind when he walks out.
It's not perfectly consistent, but almost. It works.
Season two: Stick adopts and trains the young Black Sky in some place full of Chaste members. Kinda strange considering everything he said about Black Sky in s.1, and that he killed one without remorse. Also stupid to take her to a Chaste place, and kinda strange considering he never did that with Matt. Why the change? Then he gives her up for adoption, abandoning her just like Matt. Okay. Then he comes back and gets her to spy on Matt and rope him back in. Strange, but okay. Then a few more years pass, and he sends her to Matt one more time. He saves her life, then tries to kill her, then gives a fierce talk about how dangerous and not-human she is (which he knew all along, particularly when she was dying and he was saving her life like days before), then goes to fight the Hand, then buries Elektra and walks out of the cementary, the end.
Okay, so consistency is shot to hell now. You don't train a kid that you know is inhumanly dangerous *and will have to die by your hand one day*. You don't give them to normal people afterwards. You don't save a life of someone you're planning to kill. You don't come back as you please after abandoning someone. You don't leave your students only to come back and manipulate them into working for you. I can buy this as a sort of emergency tactic once, but this is, what, four times? Seriously, does the Chaste not have any actual soldiers Stick can use? Where *is* the Chaste, actually?
The Defenders: Apparently Stick walked out Matt's life, which seems kinda strange after all the effort he put into pulling him back into his orbit, and with Black Sky and the Hand both in New York, no less. We get one more dramatic reunion. Then Stick... talks a lot, and sits a lot. He *doesn't* kill Elektra, which considering that he was willing to when she had still been herself, and he kept talking about how she isn't anymore, is kinda strange. Then he falls onto his back, and there's a lot of tense staring for a while, and then he dies.
So nothing much happens, nothing much is done by Stick, nothing much is the reason why he dies, and nothing much is explained about how all of the Chaste is suddenly dead, conveniently except for Stick (for a while, at least).