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Heather writing rant incoming…

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! They’ve officially given Heather the annoyingly irrational girlfriend trope role😭 😭 😭

Absolutely nothing she’s said in this episode is even remotely reasonable help. I refuse to believe this woman is meant to be that stupid, she deserves better.

Why is she acting like Matt being upset about her connection to the convicted mob boss who framed him is irrational and aggressive? Why is she not worried about the reveal two seconds later that Fisk is surveilling her and/or Matt? Why is she concerned about vigilantes (who saved her) when that swell guy Fisk just deputized a gang (which is already out of control and being sued to shit)? You can be reasonably concerned about the latter or both, but just the former makes no sense.

And none of this info is stuff that 'Matt hasn't told her'; it's stuff that's 'matter of public record'. all of this was in the news, loudly, currently and in the past.

And if not, whatever, let's go with this: why is she telling Matt—guy who, as far as she knows, would have been killed along with his friend if it weren’t for Daredevil—that DD is exactly the same as Muse, serial killer who serial kills?

I’m not even holding the Muse trauma throwdown rewrite against her, do whatcha gotta do, power to you, but the rest is just ridiculous.

And then Matt’s like, no, I don’t wanna go to Fisk’s—aka convicted mob boss who terrorized me personally—little gala and I don't think you should either, and she’s insulted. and then later, at the gala, she has the gall to call him and be like 😕 the least you could have done is tell me you weren’t going to show 😕 😕 😕 like a formal declining RSVP was in order??? did she miss the part about that invitation being mortally insulting to his being or something?

idk Heather, you want to go to Muse’s Bday party? It's BYO blood bags!

And then she gets annoyed at him for not listening to her talk about her feelings…immediately after she literally said she didn’t care about Dex contacting him…you know. that guy who murdered his friend and was stopped by Daredevil, who’s definitely the same as that blood-stealing serial killer, totes. dex, who also worked for Fisk, the guy who’s party you’re choosing as a great place to confront Matt about your relationship problems for some reason? again: public record, things matt's verified as having told her, or her ass was literally there.

And then she starts in on implying he's being clinically paranoid or something -- not that there's been a miscommunication or a chosen lack of it, nope. He is displaying Worrying Signs.

And then she shares that with her patient, aka the guy who's stalking him. She's seriously walking the line of gaslighting here and uuuuughh!

This isn't even characterization! She's just written this way to introduce needless interpersonal drama and tension and to make Matt's choices seem like they were worse than they were so they can have their not-that-bad vigilante guy and judge him too.

It's lazy and it's cheap and it's fucking SEXIST. And this show actually has been better than that so far.

Write the lady love interest as an actual person challenge!

At this point I'm almost hoping that she's a nefarious plot plant from Vanessa or something, just to make her make sense, but I can't even see that working believably with Matt's senses. Elektra was under very specific circumstances to make that work, I just don' see buying it here.

I’m going to try just ignore every second of Heather in this episode and go back to liking her for the little nonshittily written parts of her we’ve seen. She’s been in this series so little, but she still deserved better than this slop.

idk why it's pissing me off so bad, I guess I actually did expect better for her from the previous eps. it really did seem like they were going to have her be upset with him about grounded things in a grounded way, be it grounded in characterization or in reason. I was excited to see that conversation go down, even if it was her breaking things off, especially as she is, ostensibly, someone with emotional intelligence and awareness.

but no.

alas.

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[guy with the Cant Focus Disorder] why the fuck can't I focus

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My favorite sex position is any of them. I’m just glad to be involved

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I don't necessarily ship karedevil, as a matter of fact I ship Matt and therapy with a side of a nap, but to say that Karen and Matt wouldn't make sense because Matt told Heather he loves her is, in my opinion, coming out of the episode taking things at face value.

Matt is putting on a show, far more than he's done in Daredevil. We may think that because he's putting on the suit that suddenly everything is working out dandy but that's not the truth.

Charlie's acting shows exactly that, and even the writing does. Matt is not acting out of character, he's doing the same bs he did in season 2 and 3, but he's doing with more finesse.

Him telling Heather he loves her in a conversation where he tells her "all of this feels fake" is not good. He does care for Heather but I don't think he's being honest with her and with himself, because Matt is coming off as incredibly contained. I wouldn't call him an unreliable narrator just yet, but he feels like one.

All of this to say that he couldn't be honest with Heather like he was with Karen or even Frank. That he can't even take off his glasses in front of her, he can't allow himself to be vulnerable, to be honest, the little he offer was in what I believe to be an attempt to get her off his back.

And the truth is that Karen gets Matt, we can't deny that. Matt tells Karen stuff he doesn't tell anyone else and that should tell us all something.

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DDBA

Ive been holding off making a judgement but gotta be honest, this is not a good show. Im not even comparing it to the original when I say that, on its own DDBA isnt a good show. Which when actually compared to the og show, its just disappointing. Its entertaining at times and tbh I could watch Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in anything, hes phenomenal. But the writing for born again is bad.

I think theres one basic rule of writing that everyone knows: show dont tell. Yet, every episode we get scene after scene of characters telling us about stuff that happened instead of watching it.

Now im actually gonna compare BA and the OG. Take muse - all over the promos and dead in 2 eps.

We're told he does taikwondo, we never see him use it as far as I could tell. Unlike in DD where characters who are skilled fighters get to show off their skills in well choreographed fights (Nobu) or were shown their training (electra)

We are told he killed his instructor and he didnt like his family. Unlike in DD where we are shown Fisks childhood and the murder of his father by his own hand.

Muse tells us hes been to some therapy sessions with Heather, and this unlocked something in him. Unlike in DD where we are SHOWN Dex's therapy sessions and the impact it had on him (That sounds very hard). In between the overwhelmingly skippable marital drama therapy sessions they couldn't have squeezed in one session with Muse? They couldn't have shown him sketching her? Maybe after he kidnapped someone?

In one of my favourite scenes in the show (Karen come back the kids miss you) Karen tells us about Matt withdrawing for weeks leading to her running away to san fran. In DD after Electras death (2), we watch Matt do this for half a season, we see Karen debating leaving. If they didn't wanna rehash old plot points they shouldn't have rehashed old plots! (The death of an important figure in Matts life, foggy/electra) Because if thats what happened they needed to SHOW IT.

We are told cherry came to Matt for help. Unlike in DD where we WATCH Brett and Matts relationship develop. They couldn't have included a flashback or two???

Theres more examples but honestly if I think about it anymore Ill get annoyed. Ugh. I get that there were rewrites but honestly for a show with a fanbase this large and the kinda budget disney has theres just no excuse. They can afford good writers. What happened??? Where did the creative team for the original go? This particular gripe aside the story feels sp disconnected, even less that DD s2 which lets be real is the weakest of the og but blows the reboot out of the water.

And dont even talk to me about the colour grading.

Or the hand painting thing, as someone who has a degree in fine art I can confidently say: Not possible. Not even with magic fingers. Matt essentially 'see's' in 3D he wouldn't be able to recognise a flattened version of his gf's face, not even if the paint had a bit more texture to it. Plus he cant tell which paints are dark or light, even if he could tell how would he - omg no I need to stop.

TLDR: I wasnt a fan of this weeks episode bc I think it highlighted the issue BA has been having where the audience is told and not shown key info

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anyone else catch that reference to officer Morales?

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who are your parasocial enemies, like mine are andrew lloyd webber and butch hartman

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turning off your computer by clicking the digital shut down button = softly kissing it goodnight

turning off your computer by holding down the physical power button = strangling her to death

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slightly punk-looking teenager on a cop show: i wont talk. i know my rights

cops behind interrogation room glass: damn. this one teenager won’t cooperate. now we’ll never catch Fuckhands the Baby Murderer. and it’s all because the police doesn’t have absolute authority. this is terrible

grandmas across the world: damn, good point

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i love words like “acquire” and “acquit” etc… it’s such a treat to see c and q together like that. they’re such an odd couple. it’s like if you were in high school¹ and one day you saw the blonde overachiever valedictorian² hanging out with the weird friendless goth girl with the siouxsie sioux³ hair and you realized they’d been childhood friends all along

¹ stage of education in the united states, commonly portrayed in a romanticized manner in films and tv shows. ² untranslatable; a type of warrior-priest. ³ english singer who was an important figure in the emergence of the gothic rock genre in the late 1970s.

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i do this to u

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it is truly astounding how unembarrassed people are to have less basic curiosity about the world than a rural peasant from the 1400s

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There is a voice in your head that wants you to prove that you're actually the smartest person in the room. That voice is the devil, and it will make you chronically unfuckable.

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Birds of the Russian Woods. Written by Ghennady Snegiryov. Illustrated by Valentin Fedotov. 1970.

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