Although The Defenders spend the majority of Royal Dragon barricaded in a Chinese restaurant, it’s unquestionably the most enjoyable and engrossing episode of the season so far.
Why? Because we simply get to spend time with them together, in one place, and explore the different dynamics and tensions that exists between them, flirt with where these relationships will go, and see their reaction to Stick elaborating the threat they will face. After spending the first three episodes largely isolated, it’s a brilliant use of what is essentially a bottle episode to make up for all that lost time.
Structurally, my favourite thing about the episode is how the show tackles the hero shot of them as a team. When they first walk into the Royal Dragon, they’re on the run from The Hand – confused and overwhelmed by this powerful threat – and as they line-up side-by-side it almost plays as a sardonic parody of the iconic shot in The Avengers. Here, our heroes aren’t united – frankly, they look uncomfortable and a bit pissed-off at each other. But by the very end of the episode, they take another shot at it, and they suddenly feel like a team – a team with problems and tensions, but they have each other’s backs. That’s a quick reversal in roughly 50 minutes of television, but again, it’s down to some focused, well-written and economical scenes and the pressure that comes from having a single-location set-up. In fact, I would've preferred if the action never cut away from the confides of the restaurant.
from IGN Reviews http://ift.tt/2wVvEEs
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