There are different levels of realism. There's the nominal realism, which is reflecting things in art exactly as they are in the real world. And then there's functional realism, which means if you make changes within your portrayed reality, you stick to them and let the consequences play out.
Then there's the background realism: considering that this is New York, not Middle Earth we're talking about, there are some basic rules that need to be followed, unless you explicitly break them. The fact that people can fly in your universe doesn't change the fact that unless you create a rule saying otherwise, they still need to eat.
In Marvel movies, there's an implicit rule that money is almost never an issue, because the character that's playing host to the other characters is ridiculously rich, some of the characters are of the spy-assassin variety that have well-stocked accounts laying around and quick but shady ways to make new money should the accounts fail, and they also all have stable if secret jobs that may or may be paying them in big bucks. So it works.
In Marvel tv, it doesn't work. In fact, there's an explicit rule here that these people - except maybe for Danny - are all everyday citizens who are, among other things, struggling to pay their bills. Except now suddenly they don't, and there's no actual reason for the change.
Re: Bad writing in the Defenders
Then there's the background realism: considering that this is New York, not Middle Earth we're talking about, there are some basic rules that need to be followed, unless you explicitly break them. The fact that people can fly in your universe doesn't change the fact that unless you create a rule saying otherwise, they still need to eat.
In Marvel movies, there's an implicit rule that money is almost never an issue, because the character that's playing host to the other characters is ridiculously rich, some of the characters are of the spy-assassin variety that have well-stocked accounts laying around and quick but shady ways to make new money should the accounts fail, and they also all have stable if secret jobs that may or may be paying them in big bucks. So it works.
In Marvel tv, it doesn't work. In fact, there's an explicit rule here that these people - except maybe for Danny - are all everyday citizens who are, among other things, struggling to pay their bills. Except now suddenly they don't, and there's no actual reason for the change.
Just saying.