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13 Days of Daredevil: “New York’s Finest” (spoilers!)

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Please tell me I'm not the only one who was glad to see her again. © Marvel Studios/Netflix
Please tell me I’m not the only one who was glad to see her again. © Marvel Studios/Netflix

After a bit of a real life invasion and the fourth episode of “Jessica Jones” as an appetizer, I’m ready to settle in for my next episode of “Daredevil,” and judging from the preview image of Punisher chatting with a bound Daredevil alone, I hope I’m in for a real treat.

  • As a further bit of an appetizer, the thought that Marvel Studios is co-opting the “superhero team-up” name which is normally reserved for times when Batman meets Superman (and some of these are also available on Netflix) fills me with a bit of glee. I can only hope that this is as well scripted as the DCU animated adventures were.
  • Interesting insight as to what Daredevil dreams about and his super-hearing is on the fritz, where someone pouring water out of a thermos is likened to nuns wringing out a towel.
  • Also, yay for Claire! Dare I hope for a Claire/Foggy team-up?
  • Also, yay for Matt using his brain and not his fists!
  • What’s this new thing that Claire helped with? I’m assuming it’s something in a Jessica Jones episode, but I’m afraid to spoil myself and check. <checks anyway> Okay, nine episodes until I get to see her in JJ. I can wait.
  • You’d think I’d have more to say about Daredevil and Frank’s conversation, but I’m feeling very underwhelmed by it.
  • Daaaaang. That nameless poor D.A. is good. But nameless. Blake Tower (and your actor, Stephen Rider) you deserve better than that. (And I think I inadvertently spoiled myself on your story arc, too.)
  • I kinda want a Foggy spin-off now where he gets to be all awesome and lay the verbal smackdowns. But I think that this spin-off would only be for people like me who enjoy it when lawyers kick verbal ass.
  • Also, Karen? One moment of horror, and then she gets to work? Yeah, all the non-powered folks are really hitting my competency porn buttons.
  • Okay, so this hallway/stairwell fight is hitting my competency porn buttons, too.

Big talking heads scenes aside, I really don’t think that a lot changed for Matt in this episode. It doesn’t feel like he’s any closer to clarifying his stances as a hero and/or how that’s going to define his life and his friendships. Also, whatever inheritance he got from his father isn’t going to last forever, so he does need to get back to being an attorney and rustle up some real paying clients.

Sometimes I feel like there are two shows in this one, the superhero beat-em up that one half of my brain likes and the really intelligent law procedural that I enjoy as well. Let’s hope that my entire brain will be happy once I’m done watching this series.

13 Days of Daredevil: “Dogs to a Gunfight” (spoilers!)

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If anything had happened to this dog, the Internet would have fallen on their heads. © Marvel Studios/Netflix
If anything bad had happened to this dog, the Internet would have fallen on their heads. © Marvel Studios/Netflix

I know I skipped a day yesterday, but after the long day at the office, the last thing I wanted to do was to turn on a computer so that I could blog about a Netflix show. Perhaps this could be the only downside to not binge-watching a series, but hey! some of us nerds and geeks have day jobs now…

  • Of course, they’re not going to kill off the main character in first episode of a new season. But damn if this pre-credits scene where Foggy finds Matt trembling and injured on a rooftop makes you feel as if he’s really not going to make it.
  • “…and trust me to do mine, okay!” Yes, Foggy. I trust you implicitly. Too bad your buddy doesn’t.
  • For her first appearance as a no-nonsense D.A., Michelle Hurd is doing a very good job. Really, Foggy is the unsung hero of this show, and I’m glad we’re getting to see more of that this season. Oh, and I get to see this character again in “Jessica Jones”? Awesome. And of course, she’s got a Law & Order credit. What actor in New York City doesn’t, these days?
  • Yeah, that pawn shop dude really doesn’t know how to read a customer, does he?
  • Aw, dangit, I guess I can understand that being shot at would make Karen revert into her behavior after she killed Wesley. And in a similar way, it also makes sense that she’s a bit hyperfocused on the fact that he could be coming for her, because that’s pretty true to her character.
  • I also wonder what Karen thinks Matt’s problem is, like if maybe she thinks he’s an alcoholic or something like that. That would be another nice bit of irony.
  • More nitpicking: If it’s been a whole day since the Irish were gunned down, wouldn’t the blood on the teeth embedded in the bar have dried by now?
  • Even more nitpicking: Why wouldn’t the SWAT team have also scouted out the really high sniper perches? Best way to take out a guy whom you know is a) tactically aware and b) mostly known to be ground-based.

This is perhaps the first time I’m kicking myself in the shins for not watching these all at once because that preview image of Punisher and Daredevil getting a chance to talk to each other is great. Can’t wait to see how they pull it off.

13 Days of Daredevil: “Bang” (spoilers!)

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The irony being that this line could apply to either character in this scene. © Marvel Studios/Netflix
The irony being that this line could apply to either character in this scene. © Marvel Studios/Netflix

As every Marvel Cinematic Universe fan knows, the second season of Daredevil hit Netflix on Friday, driving many superhero fans indoors over the weekend. I really enjoyed watching the first season at a clip of one episode a day, so rather than binge-watching like many of my friends have decided to do, I’m going to go through these episodes one at a time and let you know my thoughts. And yes, there will definitely be spoilers, but there will also be some caveats as well.

Given that I still haven’t seen “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” Season 3 of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” or either season of “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” I’d appreciate it if any responses to rhetorical questions I have that can be answered by those shows be limited to a simple, “That’s answered elsewhere.” I am caught up on all the Marvel movies, but I haven’t read any of the corresponding comic books; same deal applies.

Enough with the blather, on with the show!

  • I appreciate the little recap before the episode started because it does hit all the high points from the season as well as reminding me of the awesome corridor fight from “Cut Man” which I am likely to go back and watch again. Also, I’m also very glad to know what “moodak” means in Russian.
  • I am not in love with the vocal song at the end of the recap, however. I hope it doesn’t stick around.
  • I like a good foot chase and establishing action scene as much as the next gal, but why didn’t these mooks have a getaway driver?
  • “That’s the tragedy of you being blind; you haven’t seen me dance.” I really hope that they pick this up somewhere in the season. Is there a TV Tropes listing for Chekov’s Artistic Ability yet?
  • Karen’s pause after the bar fight client calls her a badass? Nice bit of subtle acting there.
  • I’m so very glad that the curse word “shite” is finding its way into American vernacular through this scene. It definitely establishes the scene well. I’m wondering, however, if the plates of ham, potatoes, and cabbages I saw on the table were perhaps just a bit too stereotypical. Also, wasn’t it the Italian mafia who ran Hell’s Kitchen back in what Nesbitt’s day was, leading up to the rise of Wilson Fisk?
  • Karen is such a badass right now, spinning up that cover story like fine yarn. Evidently, whatever amount of time passed between the “Daredevil” episode and now was enough for her to come to grips with what she did to save herself in “The Path of the Righteous.”
  • And while we’re on the subject, I am metaphorically pouring one out for Toby Leonard Moore’s James Wesley. I hope there’s a new character this season who has a similar kind of rational evil.
  • Okay, so I’m not sure yet what Foggy’s got planned going into the Dogs of Hell’s club, but I love how this scene showcases that Foggy is just as much of a badass as Matt Murdock because he’s willing to go into dangerous situations without super powers because he knows it’s the right thing to do and he wants to protect someone he loves.
  • Maybe I have my critic’s brain screwed in a bit too tightly, but the dude who crossed the alley just before Karen and “Steve” burst out of the fire escape stairwell? The fact that he didn’t react to either the alarm or them bolting across the street is very shoddy extra directing.

So thanks to media, advertising, and the episode recaps on Netflix being what they are, I know that the mystery man who’s shooting up all the bad guys is none other than Frank Castle, aka the Punisher. And yet, this episode did an absolutely fabulous job of keeping it a bit of a mystery throughout this first episode. Also, I know that a confrontation with Elektra is in the future as well; I’m hoping that they treat that character’s arrival with as much delicacy.