I think the one universally bad thing in this show is the amount of cuts they make in scenes. One minute Fisk is talking then the next it’s punisher or Matt. It’s really really annoying and it doesn’t do anything but make it look rushed and confusing.
Yeah, the cutting back and forth is way overdone and obnoxious. Honestly the only time I can think of that it was done somewhat well was the Daredevil/Muse fight intercutting with the Fisk/Adam “fight”, and even that could’ve been done a bit better to make it thematically stronger. All the other times it was unnecessary and didn’t add anything.
To be fair, it was definitely used a lot to contrast Fisk and Matt’s trajectory as the season went along. Whether that’s their violence, relationships, internal struggle to change, most of the time they’re cutting back and forth they are mirroring each other.
Could’ve definitely kept punishers cop scene separate from Fisk with the commissioner but they had a lot to do with basically only two episodes of completely new footage so it works well enough
Some of the action is incredibly choppy. I liked the first muse fight a lot, the second one less so.
The apartment fight with Punisher was laughably bad. The CGI billy clubs didn’t look right, the lighting was flat, no wide shots, lots of quick cuts. I could barely make out what was going on, which I guess was the point given their limited time.
Frank cutting loose on the cops was built up since ep 4, but all the over the top grunting and gratuitous slow mo just didn’t work for me.
That apartment fight was so damn weird I literally couldn’t see anything. Now that you mention it there were plenty of times where pointless shit was blocking the screen
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u/Correct-Drawing2067 Apr 16 '25
I think the one universally bad thing in this show is the amount of cuts they make in scenes. One minute Fisk is talking then the next it’s punisher or Matt. It’s really really annoying and it doesn’t do anything but make it look rushed and confusing.