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Finally, a release date. I was worried they were gonna delay it to next year.
Probably the most fitting song you could pick for The Punisher.
I feel like the whole premise of this Punisher just doesn't fit with the Punishers theme, or at least his origins.
To me it just looks like another 'Gov't shady lots dun killed my fam, let's get revenge' which is fairly generic.
[QUOTE=Jake Nukem;52800395]I feel like the whole premise of this Punisher just doesn't fit with the Punishers theme, or at least his origins.
To me it just looks like another 'Gov't shady lots dun killed my fam, let's get revenge' which is fairly generic.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. I'm excited to see the show, but damn this is probably the worst point in modern history for the punisher to reinforce people's "evil deep state!!!" beliefs.
The trailers are giving me the impression that it's going to be another generic revenge Punisher plot, like the 2008 film, and not actually go into the more deranged, angry and unsympathetic aspects which some writers put on the character. I'm still feeling blue balled over the fact that we'll never get a series rooted in Punisher MAX.
[QUOTE=Jake Nukem;52800395]I feel like the whole premise of this Punisher just doesn't fit with the Punishers theme, or at least his origins.
To me it just looks like another 'Gov't shady lots dun killed my fam, let's get revenge' which is fairly generic.[/QUOTE]
Honestly I feel like it's a very common mistake with the Punisher to try to make him seem like the good guy. The Punisher isn't someone you're supposed to admire or look up to. He's supposed to be someone that you can sometimes sympathize with, sure, but you're not supposed to look at him and think "hero."
One of the biggest strengths of the Punisher is that he really shows why vigilantism is horrible in a genre that almost always just accepts it and displays opposition to the idea as misguided or even comical. That was one thing I really appreciated in Daredevil, they made an effort to show this angle of the Punisher story, to the point that they had to actually pull a lot of rhetorical punches because if the Punisher had actually pushed every line of reasoning to it's logical conclusion, he could have completely fucking destroyed Daredevil's entire philosophy.
I think the worst uses of the Punisher are when the writer either tries to make him seem entirely justified in all his actions, or when they just use him as a clearly evil character that the hero can deride to make themselves look more morally superior.
It's really ironic to me when people criticize the Punisher for glorifying violence when he in fact does the exact opposite when he's written correctly, he challenges the superhero genre that [i]actually[/i] glorifies violence and vigilantism in a way that is more palatable. "I'm a hero because I don't kill people, you're evil Punisher because you kill people without giving them due process" "Yeah, you're a real hero, you just beat, cripple, and torture people without giving them due process." etc.
Reminder that trailers don't carry the tone the writers often go for. I'm hopeful they won't glorify him too much.
Yo Netflix hook me up with that version of One please.
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