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The Defenders Prompt Post

Talk about the Defenders! Speculate, discuss, squee and debate. There's a thread for each episode so you can discuss what you've watched so far without being spoiled for future episodes - click on top level view to see only the first comment in each thread and stay spoiler-free.

Anon commenting is not mandatory for this post. Playing nice is always mandatory.

Comments

Re: Bad writing in the Defenders

[(Anonymous)]

That's what you're supposed to assume. But the problem is, a man dead, or at least missing. Sure, police is not always a clean organisation, and police in USA even less so. They've been known to cover up murders in the past. But first of all, those are usually within the unofficial "code of conduct" among the officers, and secondly, even then there's a procedure to be followed.

Defenders aren't police officers, they are outside the "buddy conduct", there's a dead man that people will be asking about, and there's just literally no reason not to investigate what happened.

Re: Bad writing in the Defenders

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think the Defenders are inside the thin blue line - I think Misty, shouty guy, and whoever else filed the report are. It's not even that complex a cover up - Misty and co. filed a bogus report based on their best assessment of a situation where we almost lost New York City instead of just Matt, and the other cops shrugged and assumed they knew what they were doing. Which happens.

Re: Bad writing in the Defenders

[(Anonymous)]

I think I'm going to abandon this thread now.

As a parting note: it's perfectly fine for you to buy the plot. Personally, I think it's also fine for me to say I've seen more believable Tom and Jerry plots.

As of now, bye.

Re: Bad writing in the Defenders

[(Anonymous)]

...yes, it's fine for both of us to have opinions on a discussion thread. That's what I thought we were doing, cordially having opinions. Not sure how I earned the passive-aggressiveness.

Re: Bad writing in the Defenders

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow, I didn't even cotton to the idea that that's what the police were doing until I read this. But you're right, they were pushing really hard and trying to pin a lot of shit on Luke and Jessica, and that's why Matt trotted out the lawyer and their civil rights. Wow wow wow

Shouty guy? I laughed. It's the perfect name for him.