It’s still fun to watch everything come together, mind you, and they payoff indeed feels worthy.
With The Defenders, though, it’s the fourth episode that changes the game, as this is where the four vigilantes at last come together as a fully-formed (if initially dubious) team of badasses.
I just wish we’d done all the meet-cute stuff already.
But if I’m going to knock the series for one element harder than any other one, it’s that fans have waiting for over two years (and five different TV seasons) knowing that The Defenders was on the way, so it’s almost unforgivably aggravating that all the necessary seeds for eventual togetherness weren’t already planted in each solo show’s respective finale.