"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Dont you believe they are making it so damn slow with senseless drama and too much time on female characters that didnt even existed in the comics?

I find myself pushing the skip button more and more anytime they start with emotional talking and flashbacks of happy times, needless to say those parts have no role in the main storyline.

Talking about season 2, the first one was slightly better.
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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is the first season worth watching? i'm having a hard time finding anything to watch on netflix
 

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I haven't seen the second season yet, I imagine I'll get round to it eventually. I've become somewhat disenchanted with the Netflix Marvel series. I liked them at first, even Iron First, although Defenders was disappointing. They suffer from the same thing that early superhero movies suffered from. The idea that "No one would accept them in those silly costumes". So they just put them in their street clothes (except for Daredevil). That's okay for Jessica Jones, but Luke Cage and Iron Fist should have costumes IMO. Yeah, it's dumb, but it's part of the fun of genre. Without them, it's just a dumb series about people with abilities.

is the first season worth watching? i'm having a hard time finding anything to watch on netflix
Right now they've got a bunch of Monty Python stuff on, which is great. Trailer Park Boys is also good, if you like comedy.
The Punisher first appears in the second season of Daredevil, just FYI.
 

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is the first season worth watching? i'm having a hard time finding anything to watch on netflix
I would give it a 6.5 so if you have nothing else to watch do it, otherwise watch narcos or occupied where you will get great plots and decent action.
 

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Somehow I liked the second season better than the first one.

I like the violence and blood. I don't like the overacting. That Billy Russo actor is always overdoing it with the shouting and yelling, trying to look like a maniac. It's like they searched for maniacal traits and then told him "Do 5 extreme displays of those traits per minute!" No nuance...

Then there's Dina Madani. Jesus, always that look on her face and in her eyes.. She is simply ALWAYS in that frantic, about-to-have-a-nervous breakdown state. Look at the bytch from Homeland how to do it. She's a hysterical bytch too but she's not in that state 100% of the time, she can be calm too, which is how real humans behave. No one is in one state 100% of the time. It's like these actors got shown a stereotype and always try to show that stereotype in every second of every scene.

Punisher himself is funny at times too. "Whoooooouuuuuaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!" Always with the exaggerated yelling haha.

On the one hand, this is a show for grownups. On the other hand, it sometimes seems aimed at simple-minded teenagers.

Anyway, I liked it.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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I still haven't finished the first season.

I'll watch an episode, and then forget about the series.

He was more interesting on Daredevil.
 

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I haven't seen it, but I'll just say that it's a tough character to build a TV show or movie around and probably just works better in comics.
I haven't seen the second season yet, but what I've seen so far is miles above the movie versions.
 

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The problem is that with limited storyline its hard to fill so many episodes therefore they puts unnecessary characters and drama, which they also use to keep the women interested.

Personally the punisher I liked the most was the one from mid 00s, here.

Also that actor didnt really convinces me, he seems more like a dumb private rather than a hightly skilled intelligent operator unlike the one from the 2004 movie.


Character is better made and the actor fits much more in the role.
 

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Personally the punisher I liked the most was the one from mid 00s, here.
There's a vote for the movies.
Honestly, the Punisher as a character has never been a favorite. I mean his "super power" is that he shoots guns.
 

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There's a vote for the movies.
Honestly, the Punisher as a character has never been a favorite. I mean his "super power" is that he shoots guns.
True but he can count on special hardwares and guns that his tech friend provides him...the one they left on season 1 to be replaced on season 2 from the teenage girl.

After all is the same for superman unless being loaded with money is a special power, that guy that throws arrows too but cant remember the name.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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"Polar" is kind of the same type of scenario. Lots of gore. Predictable plot, but entertaining for what it is.
 

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After all is the same for superman unless being loaded with money is a special power, that guy that throws arrows too but cant remember the name.
I think you mean Batman, not Superman. Batman is Batman though, he's the James Bond of the superhero world.

Arrow guys are Green Arrow or Hawkeye, depending on which comic book company you're talking about. There are also some lesser heroes who shoot arrows: Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy (his "Robin" basically) is probably the most well known - he's also well known for doing heroin back in the 70s.
 

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I just can't get into it. I'll have it on, watch part of an episode, then it'll just be background noise.
 

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I think you mean Batman, not Superman. Batman is Batman though, he's the James Bond of the superhero world.

Arrow guys are Green Arrow or Hawkeye, depending on which comic book company you're talking about. There are also some lesser heroes who shoot arrows: Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy (his "Robin" basically) is probably the most well known - he's also well known for doing heroin back in the 70s.
Yeah you're right I meant batman not superman, regarding the arrow guy I mean that guy from marvel who throws arrows and happen to see very far or something like that, basically not your everyday superher who benchpress a ton or run like speed.


I just can't get into it. I'll have it on, watch part of an episode, then it'll just be background noise.
Same here, some scenes I just have it run then open firefox and check emails while they talk on the backround.

Certain series are more like a chore to finish rather than a pleasure or let alone a curiosity to see how it goes.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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