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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
I'm glad you're back.
#Daredevil Born Again#ddba spoilers#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#Karedevil#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#She made no promises.#Which worries me.#She didn't have time to quit her job and give notice to her landlord. She just jumped on a plane.#So is she BACK back? Or part time back? Is she going to commute between San Fran and New York?#She better not have a secret boyfriend who tags along. We don't need anything like that here. We have enough potentials.#Unfortunately we are not accepting anymore applicants at this time.#I like that he woke up disorientated and reaching for Karen at the start of the ep and once she is around she's reaching for him.#And then sort of regrets it. She wiped her hand on her coat!#I love her so much.#Ick. Matt germs.#And he's probably listening to her heartbeat again. Creeper that he is.#A very stupid part of me would like them to temporarily live together in S2 and it just be so messy.#Arguing over podcasts and where the coffee machine should live. Bench or cupboard.#Matt - somehow despite his super senses - tripping over her shoes or asking her where something is when it is where it ALWAYS IS.#But they'd be in hiding in S2 right? So she probably wouldn't be able to go back and get her stuff because Fisk knows who she is.#But that could still be fun. Like a sleepover that will not end. Broken up with recon and plotting to take back a city.#Also not for nothing but more Daredevil characters need to have birthdays that are celebrated. When is Karen's bday? (When is Frank's?)#I would die if Matt got her a little birthday balloon reminiscent of the get well monkey balloon.#That was an unbearably cute Karen moment.#(I would also die if Frank gave Karen a bday card. I have low expectations guys. Give me anything.)
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
Hey, this is it.
#Daredevil Born Again#Karedevil#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#ddba spoilers#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#SEE they really needed to indicate that what happened to Foggy wasn't just a way to f**k Matt up and make Karen move away.#Maybe spend a minute on paperwork submission shots. An email. A brief text. Have Foggy excitedly brag to Matt and Karen that he has#something to show them tomorrow morning that is going to blow their minds#But no. They just expected that people would hang in there waiting for a point.#I have always loved the mystery solving aspect of this show and so I personally felt very disconnected with everything#for most of this season. So to just bring this up in the last 2 episodes feels a bit late.#But I do love them getting their sleuth on together. And I guess it makes sense if things changed now because Karen's back.#Like her departure paused everything and her arrival back is just as everything hits a new gear.#Matt wasn't meant to work this all out on his own.#I still think it wasn't worth Foggy's life but it's an interesting plot piece.#And I like Matt hyping Karen up at the beginning. Like no duh she's good at finding things - she was a reporter.#Matt should really invest in a coat so he isn't wandering around dressed like Daredevil in places that likely have cameras.#I'd say he could have borrowed one from Frank but... now I'm picturing that conversation and that seems a little farfetched.#Frank has like two outfits I doubt he has a coat he can lend out.#(The new gif limits are crazy FYI. I haven't done much giffing in years so it's so weird not trying to keep everything to less than 3MBs.)
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
You know, back at his place, I heard your heartbeats.
#Daredevil Born Again#Karedevil#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#ddba spoilers#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Turnabout is fair play I guess.#But that was not the answer she was looking for.#This is what happens when your type is emotionally unavailable men.#I think it was deflection at first.#And she said it without thinking about how that would sound.#And then she couldn't take it back so she prompted him for an answer.#And I doubt she knew what the f**k she wanted him to say.#Because they tried... sort of... and it blew up and as if she'd want to go there again and he's seeing someone and it's fine.#There is something fun about two people having a conversation where the real conversation is between the lines.#Alot of Karen's scenes with Frank are very straightforward and direct and the complete opposite of this.#And I enjoy the idea that Karen and Matt have to find a way to be partners without Foggy there to make it platonic.#Because I don't think they're *in love* or anything but the connection is strong and their dynamic could turn into ANYTHING.#It's got no limits (maybe it should). And I think it catches them both off guard sometimes.#Also I think the writers like playing with the pairing. But they don't want to commit.#(I'm also 1000% fine that they didn't even let Frank and Karen touch hands. OR HUG. But Matt's getting forehead kisses.)#Also the subtitles say 'Yeah?' but I could almost swear she says 'And?'...
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
So... you talk to Frank a lot?
#Daredevil Born Again#ddba spoilers#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#Karedevil#Kastle#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#I want this to be a new thing for them - where she is actively aware of him listening in and tries to stop it.#Karen's talking to Frank on the phone and out of the corner of her eye sees Matt's head tilt. Her eyes narrow.#Fingers curling around the closest thing on the desk.#Matt snorts as a pen lid hits him in the side of the head.#I want her whispering things under her breath because she knows he's listening.#Matt's lips twitching as he shakes his head at her from across the room.#I do really love this side of them tho. It's dancing around something. But they also just seem to be happy#to be in each other's orbit again. She 100% did not expect to be called out like that tho.#And it was glorious. Her question about Frank's heartbeat was perfection.#And the way she caught herself when she realised she did NOT want to have this conversation with Matt of all people.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
Nothin' in this world a good cup of coffee can't fix.
#Daredevil Born Again#ddba spoilers#Frank Castle#Karen Page#Kastle#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Do we think it's the coffee or the handful of pills making you feel good Frank?#FFS. He's eating them like tictacs.#Hopefully that's not something we need to circle back around to later.#I can't imagine he'd let them send him to rehab.#She makes him nervous.#He can't be still with her there. He has to be doing something with his hands.#A decent amount of this scene is just Karen and Frank staring at each other and breathing.#And Matt's reaction to realising something is going on is VERY MATT.#I want (I need) Matt to question Frank on his *intentions* - so we get the parallel of that against his heartbeat conversation with Karen.#I think Matt could to get alot of stupid joy from having something to tease them both about.#I don't know how I expect him to actually feel about the possibility of whatever they have - but I think there are elements here that can b#fun and not serious and dark#I probably would have liked the flow of this season more if there had been framing around how Matt was working through his sh*t#Like each ep has a VO but it's just 20 secs of him talking to Karen's voicemail - keeping her updated. And she never responds but it's#just little thoughts he's had and things he'd say if she was actually there. And some of them are stupid or sarcastic but it's a ritual.#It's keeping him sane.#I read an article today about what they could do with these 3 in S2 and I don't know what to think. I want to have no expectations.#No expectations is safer. But I want more Kastle and as long as neither of them die I don't care how I get it.#(Just no more killing people I like. Writers you tried it. It wasn't great so don't do it again.)#Giffing in this lighting almost did my head in.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
You asked me for a favor. I did it.
#Daredevil Born Again#ddba spoilers#Frank Castle#Karen Page#Kastle#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#He blinked first.#(I JUST WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? Let them kiss.)#Credit where credit is due - I don't always agree with the creative choices or the writing but the actors all clearly love their characters#and put alot of time and energy into portraying them with a more realism (and sincerity) then you'd expect for a superhero show#And Deborah and Jon go above and beyond for Karen and Frank.#I did not mean to love either of them and I did not know either of these characters before Daredevil was on Netflix but they made me fall#in love with them as individuals AND as a pairing. That whole tortured we can't be happy in this life sh*t is always going to f**k me up.#She challenges him & he meets her beat for beat. He's attentive. Sweet. A little awkward. He's head over heels for this woman who's always#5 minutes from running into danger with little to no hesitance or self preservation. Which is ironic because he doesn't give a sh*t about#his own survival and is merely existing as a form of spiteful vengeance at this point. Hoping to take out as many people as he can on his#way out. And what strikes me about this scene is his need to keep his hands busy. The way he looks up and then away again before deciding#not to let her have the last word. Because letting her walk out - thinking he doesn't care about anyone - would be a mistake.#He never knows the last time he's going to see her. Not the way he lives his life. So it matters. SHE matters.#And she needs to know it.#(But seriously would it kill the writers to just let them makeout once? It's beyond teasing at this point. It's reached bullying.)
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DAREDEVIL 1.13 / DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
Avocados at law.
#Daredevil Born Again#Karedevil#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#Foggy Nelson#Daredevil OT3#ddba spoilers#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Ten years to find out why they keep calling themselves avocados.#This was incredibly sweet.#Remembering Foggy should make them happy.#Matt should start from the beginning and tell Karen everything about Foggy he can remember.#Give those memories life.#And she can tell him everything he was never around for when he was too busy fighting crime or angsting or pretending to be dead.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
You couldn't call me?
#Daredevil Born Again#Karedevil#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#ddba spoilers#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Shippers gonna ship#I find it really hard to express why I like this so much and yet STILL want Kastle#It's something about how Matt relaxes around her#He's so guarded 99% of the time. And he pushed her away HARD many MANY times over the years for whatever BS reason he could think of#and they've finally gotten to a place (and it's a year later than would have been better for everyone) where this is permanent.#This is safe. This is home. They're stuck with each other.#And I love the contrast between Matt anxiously trying to convince Kristen and his gf that there's a threat and he has to go DO STUFF and#how different the reaction is when he says the same things (albeit with more detail) to Frank and Karen. It's night and day.#He's only a real person with people who know his secret identity.#There's something delicious about a phone call being where Matt's stuck. As if he doesn't have a history of dodging her calls. And I get#that he would have welcomed calls now - or in the last year - but there are so many scenes were poor karen is just getting shutdown by Matt#and Foggy. Calls unanswered or ended quickly. Because they have other stuff going on and lying to her is hard so it's easier not to pick up#And then you have Frank who is like... a fugitive? A hermit basically. Someone off the grid. Living in a basement. Who has an active cell#plan and has made sure Karen has his number in case she needs it. And he clearly answers when she rings. And there's no one else ringing.#So it's basically a phone - maybe specifically so Karen can reach out.#AND I LOVE THE FRAMING OF THIS SHOT. I love how close Matt and Karen are sitting. I love that Frank is pretending to ignore them.#Coz there's no way he's okay with how close they are. But he's not going to make it weird because he's a good friend to Karen.#Maybe I should blame Karen for me shipping every ship that involves Karen.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
Karen arrives.
#Daredevil Born Again#ddba spoilers#Frank Castle#Matt Murdock#Karen Page#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Kastle#Karedevil#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#This show ACTIVELY fights me in photoshop#And I had to move them closer together in that 5th one because they were trying to not in the same frame and it was annoying.#I can understand they had limited time - limited budget - but STILL this scene and#the one preceding it with Frank and Matt fighting together... could there not have been more of THAT?#GIVE ME THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE (that you've not killed so you can continue to torture them) AND LET THEM HANGOUT FFS#I like that one swing from a building was the limit for Frank. Give him a gun. A knife. Something to hit people. He's awesome.#Throw him off a building so he can land on a nice soft car - no thanks.#And were they just going to walk home (to Franks's)? Or like steal a car?#And there was a guy in the car they landed on/next to and nothing happened there. Was he just a bystander?#Does Matt have insurance? And does it cover his secret lair/costume room?#Did Karen drive straight from the airport?#And Frank just STARING at Karen is perfection. Like he needs to drink her in.#And THIS is the moment I thought Matt first noticed something was up with their heartbeats - just the way he swung around to Frank#I'm picturing Karen moving her seat forward to give Frank some more leg room. Her eyes flicking up to the rear view mirror as she tries not#to grin. Coz they're injured. And on the run. She can enjoy being home later.#And I imagine Matt's slowly assembling some thoughts here about why Frank didn't say Karen called... when that would be obvious.#But also being slightly distracted about now being homeless.#And the relief of Karen being back.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
A Karen Page appreciation post
#Daredevil Born Again#Karen Page#Daredeviledit#Deborah Ann Woll#ddba spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Daredevil Spoilers#The person who Frank dresses up for#The one who increases his heart rate#The one he keeps his promises to#The one and only Karen Page#I'm probably going to over analyse every breath they took in the same scene#and I'm okay with that#I MISSED HER#I love her face#and her attitude#and that she finally got her sleuth on again#And that she immediately asked Frank if he was going with them#and she didn't lecture him - she expressed disappointment - and I LOVE that he didn't just let her walk out on that note#I'm going to die if there is no fic about WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN this season (I'm going to give it some weeks so I'm not disappointed)#I went from nothing to gif - to not know what to do first.#Don't even get me started on HOW Frank looks at her#It's making me want to watch The Punisher again.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
Is that a new costume? What do they call you now? "Nightgown man"?
#Daredevil Born Again#Frank Castle#Matt Murdock#ddba spoilers#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#I f**king love Frank#Kastle#This show is a tease.#They turned out all the lights (and YES Frank looks amazing in shadow - he's batmanning it up over there) and they spent 90%#of the show time on stuff that I'm not going to remember next week but they feed me little tiny scraps of things#to keep me hungry#and the whole beard/getting pretty thing is giving that scene in one of the X Files movies where Scully mentions she doesn't like the beard#and Mulder just shaves it off#WAS IT A VIDEO CALL?#Did Karen call him and cut off her greeting as she took in his hair and his whole basement look?#And Frank felt self conscious and somehow managed to give himself a $300 haircut over the sink before running off to save Matt?#HE'S WEARING AFTERSHAVE#FFS FRANK you should have hugged her. YOU MADE EFFORT. YOU deserved a hug. SHE deserved a hug.#EVERYONE WATCHING THIS SHOW DESERVED A HUG.#Please don't make me watch S2 of this show.#And then do more of the same. Can Frank come back properly? Can Karen? S1 felt like a little bit of a promise not kept.#But maybe I read into it what I wanted to see and it's sort of my fault.#I don't know what it is - but whenever Matt interacts with Karen or Frank it hits different than when he talks to anyone else.#Like when you're listening to a song and it's good... and then the chorus hits and it's like *_* okay now I get it.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
Frank's entrance.
#Daredevil Born Again#Frank Castle#Matt Murdock#ddba spoilers#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#Mine#GIF set#I f**king love Frank#They made me watch a whole pointless episode about a bank robbery and I'm still not over it#and it kind of killed my buzz#and they could have had Frank and Karen for more episodes and chose not to AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT?#If I had to recap this season it's - Fisk becomes mayor. Matt pretends he doesn't want to be Daredevil (again). Frank and Karen show up#just when all hope is gone that this season had a point#I think they really should have kept Foggy around at least 3 episodes (this show didn't make me cry and it should have). He should have#started to recover or looked okay and THEN BAM he's gone and Karen and Matt drift apart and a year passes and then we can roll into whateve#the rest of this was#If you compare it to the original show it's missing heart and soul and... IMO a point... a reason for being that expands Matt's character#that expands the universe and builds on what came before#This was a foundation season. And I did read that it was supposed to be that before I started watching but still.#ANYWAY. I love this entrance by Frank. I LOVE that KAREN SENT HIM. I LOVE THAT HE SHAVED.#Matt knows where he lives. He knows where Matt lives and Karen has everyone's numbers in case of emergency.#AND FRANK ANSWERS HIS DAMN PHONE UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE.#I doubt he has voicemail. And I wish we could have seen that conversation. Him rubbing a hand over his chin as Karen asks if he has plans.#Peering into the smudged reflective surface of the nearest metal object and grimacing as he raises a hand to his head.#“What time is your flight?”
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.04
How 'bout that friend of yours? You save his life? You lost him, didn't you, Red?
#Daredevil Born Again#Frank Castle#Matt Murdock#ddba spoilers#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Permission to treat the witness as hostile#I f**king love Frank#He made Matt cry#And yell. And feel sh*t.#Maybe this is Matt's type of therapy - tough love#People shouting in his face#telling him it's okay to have feelings and that it makes him human and it's okay to be sad and he can feel like sh*t and that's fine#but he needs to save the BS for the people he lies to every day and not Frank. Frank would like the BS left at the door.#And Frank's not going to hold it against you if you attack him. People attack him everyday. He's used to it.#And his services are free.#I squealed a little bit... when he appeared on screen. I was so f**king happy. This is what Matt needs. He doesn't have anyone#to push away right now - which is part of his whole 'I'm quitting Daredevil for real this time... JK I'm an addict' thing. He has a process#I can't BELIEVE that Frank is still living in NY. In a freaking basement and Matt knows he's there. AND WHY does he know?#And has he dropped by before? Like what is this? Does Frank just kill low level randoms now? Is he in hiding?#He needs to take better care of himself. His hair looks great... greasy but curly... Maybe I just like listening to him talk.#He's insightful and gruff. And it's working for me.#I don't wanna say I feel like he should plot his murders in something better ventilated with natural light but... like yeh.#Get that man some sun.#This is the highpoint of the new series so far.#(Now give me Foggy flashbacks. Or Ghost Foggy hallucinations/dreams)#This show is the devil to colour.
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DAREDEVIL | 1.01
Our practice is relatively young, Miss Page, and we are aggressively pursing new clientele.
#Daredeviledit#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#Foggy Nelson#Deborah Ann Woll#Charlie Cox#Elden Henson#Daredevil#DD 1.01#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Daredevil OT3#Somehow I erased like a bunch of this show from my memory - maybe because I haven't properly watched it for 9 years#But I've just spent the week going through S1 of DD and the original season had so much heart and everyone cried#Everyone had a breakdown#They got overwhelmed and disappointed and angry with each other#and it slides so effortlessly into a slow build as they start introducing all the characters AND I FORGOT KAREN WAS THEIR FIRST CLIENT#And that Foggy bribed Brett for a heads up if 'something interesting' walked into the precinct.#And they just sort of adopt her#This is our Karen now#Please stop trying to arrest her for murder#It's sort of a person version of a foster fail. She's just going to stay at Matt's house for one night. And then maybe work at the office.#And okay now she's buying office equipment and helping us investigate and being a drinking buddy.#And she's making friends with a reporter and being a translator. But it's nothing serious. She hasn't accidentally become very important#to our mental health. She'll go back to her regular life when the case is over. This is all very normal.#Except for all the murders that keep happening.#And oh no - we've accidentally become a crime fighting team... WHOOPS.#Off Topic: I wish DDBA was on at the end of the week rather than the middle. It gives me way too much time to think between episodes.#And what is with the colouring in this show? There's no need for this much yellow.
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.01, 1.02 & 1.03
I'm not him anymore. And, I won't let myself be.
#Daredevil Born Again#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#Daredeviledit#Karedevil#ddba spoilers#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#I'm aware the show's called Daredevil: Born Again and Matt Murdock is Daredevil. But he's not my fav character by a long shot.#I like Matt. His MO is a push-pull relationship. He doesn't trust easily. He's very self involved and he's naturally self destructive.#But currently there is too much Matt and not enough Other People. I'm missing my warm fuzzys. I'm missing the emotional element.#(I do not miss the ninjas. Do not bring back the ninjas.) I'm cautiously interested in the idea of Frank having#a f**ked up fanclub - who he has no interaction with and who are co-opting his symbol for bad. If that's what's even happening?#I'm curious about Matt and Fisk both falling into old patterns and mirroring each other. I like the tense undercurrent between Fisk and#Vanessa. I don't know where that's going but I'm happy to wait and see. I just need something to care about? I'm not sure what the goal is#Matt's life is too easy. He became a successful lawyer with a proper office with no effort and barely an inconvenience.#He now has the perfect law partner who keeps the office running and has no personal issues and never questions him. She even found him a gf#Now it's a little messed up that his gf is a therapist coz boy does he need some therapy but she is also not very interesting.#I want to see Karen's apartment in San Francisco. I want her to have a cat. I want her to be a reporter or an#investigator? Maybe she just comes back to NY on her own. Matt screws up BIG and she shows up. Because he needs family and#she's all the family he has left. I want bickering. I want laughter. I want tears. And glaring and eye rolls.#I did not sign up for a show where Matt pretends he wants to be a lawyer for 9 episodes.#If the original version of this show was 'Matt pretends he wants to be a lawyer for 18 episodes' I can see why they changed it.#(This is the least spoilery post ever... but better to be safe than sorry)
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DAREDEVIL | 1.02
We must band together. We must never sleep. We must remain vigilant. Here in the lights of Hell's Kitchen. Never sleep!
#Daredeviledit#Karen Page#Foggy Nelson#Deborah Ann Woll#Elden Henson#Daredevil#DD 1.02#Not Revolution#Mine#GIF set#This was impossible to colour#But I've worked out how I'm going to watch DDBA... I think. I'm going to sweeten it with the original.#I did what I said I should have done and went back... and holy sh*t they were so cute and everyone was interesting#and I've forgotten so much#The writers broke a social contract by removing Foggy from the show so I'm going to spend some time in the before.#I forgot how brilliantly chaotic the friendships were.#This is episode 2 and Foggy is just perfect.#Karen's traumatised and he just stays up all night with her getting drunk and plotting to go to the fish market.#(The new size limits for gifs are maybe giving me too much freedom but idc)
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.01
You tell me, Karen, what do you expect me to do here?
#Daredevil Born Again#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#Daredeviledit#Karedevil#Deborah Ann Woll#Charlie Cox#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#ddba spoilers#Daredevil Spoilers#I really wish we'd seen more of the aftermath#I was disappointed that they didn't give us more time#Not even a whole episode of everything's fine#It would have had more impact - I think - if they'd let us really revel in how in sync and happy the three of them were before they#took a hatchet to it#I want it to be cathartic. That silence - that moment - as it hits him that she needed him and he was too busy f**king around doing#Matt things. I want more of that. He needs to earn her friendship back. Also I would like some personal growth for this ridiculous man.#This pain should bring them closer... after they've said some hurtful things and picked at each other for a bit.#Maybe we can have some flashback scenes?#Grave side. Karen sitting in an empty office. Karen packing up Foggy's apartment/the office. Karen sitting outside Matt's apartment.#Karen shoving a goodbye note under his door and leaving for the airport.
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