13 – The Big Choice
Punisher pulled out an incendiary grenade. It was sleek black matte one, with no identifying marks on it. He’d probably made it himself. It was likely immensely powerful. “No. Damn it, do not do this,” Mockingbird hissed at him, dragging her badly bleeding hand into her chest, hoping to staunch the flow. “Not in here, […]
14 – Finale 1
Desperately, Mockingbird leapt towards it… Despite the blood, the pain, her hand reached out…and caught the bottom of the grenade right at the end of her leap. She went headfirst over the railing, tumbling towards the ground but she managed to weakly bat the grenade back at Punisher as she fell. Spinning in mid air […]
15 – Finale 2
Desperately, Mockingbird leapt towards it… And slashed out with her remaining baton as she went head first over the railing, tumbling and spinning to land on the hard floor below. One knee flexed till it touched the ground. Super hero landing, she cheered to herself. She felt the baton make contact with the grenade, sending […]
16 – Finale 3
Desperately, Mockingbird leapt towards it… She dropped her remaining batons, grabbed the railing with her right hand and pivoted up, her combat boot making contact squarely with the center of the canister. To her utter horror some errant combination of angular momentum and trajectory sent the grenade spinning downwards, towards the table and the bad […]
2- Mockingbird Makes A Mistake
“Are the rest of the savior scouts around here or am I actually going to have a good day?” Bobbi clamped her mouth shut, staring at Castle. She wished, desperately, that she’d called for backup before going in on this situation. But, at the same time, she was really really glad Cap and the team […]
30 Seconds of Wick: On Va Voir (11:11-12:25)
Hey. Sorry to be away so long. It’s been an astonishingly bad year for me personally, in the midst of a bad year for the planet in general. I’ll probably post about it soonish — it’s a story that needs to be told — but all the matters right now is I’m back, the blog […]
Interlude: 30 Seconds Without Fear (Daredevil Season 3, Episode 6 “The Devil You Know”)
Streamed on Netflix Canada 41:00-47:05 Before I move on to my next long form break down (Atomic Blonde #30AtomicSeconds) I wanted to pop in a slightly longer post about one of the best fight scenes in superhero media, from Season 3 of the Netflix Daredevil series. All my blog posts will carry the hashtag #30SecondsOfWick […]
30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 23: This Isn’t A Fight (1:29:30-1:31:00 plus a bit more)
This last fight isn’t really a fight. It’s a Shakespearean tragedy played out in minutes of screen time. So I’m going to do the whole thing in one post. There isn’t a great deal about it that’s interesting or sophisticated fighting, not like Wick’s desperate war with Perkins or his slaying of Kirill. This isn’t […]
30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 22: Short and Sweet (1:12:00-1:12:35)
Ninety five seconds. That’s how much screen time the second best fight of the movie takes up (I mean, give or take — that’s just my timing). This is a short, sharp, brutal battle — and as a consequence remains the most realistic of the fights, only edging the Perkins battle out because they literally […]
30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 21: The Last Range is the Ground (1:11:30-1:12:00)
(Author’s Note: I’m going to try to get several chapters posted today, for release once a day for the next while, then move onto my interim one-off post 30 Seconds Without Fear about one of the most interesting fights in the Netflix Daredevil) My title for this chapter is a bit of an inside joke […]