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Ooooh, interesting.

Typhoid Mary... from Iron Fist? That's on brand for Netflix Daredevil. Makes me want to go watch Iron Fist to figure out how they would have worked those stories together.

I thought the Bullseye / Lord Dark Wind was going to be Season 4, based off the end scene. But Season 5 makes more sense, gives him some time to heal, and to establish Oyama.

The way I am still actively in mourning for the season four we never got 😭

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Heya!

What are your current thoughts on bullseye and what would you like to see him do in season 2?

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On the one hand, I am glad to see him again. Wilson Bethel is doing a phenomenal job, and I like the new 'blue world' visuals they're doing with him.

I also really like him using his prison transfer to break out and go after the Kingpin. I've been desperate for any character that will stand up against the Fisks, and I love seeing him tear through buildings to reach his target. It just felt so Dex.

Unfortunately, everything else he does is tied to the Foggy scene. And the Foggy scene makes no sense for the characters and their lore. Bullseye being the hitman was bizarre enough, but it being ordered by a Fisk was even worse. So my opinion of him is soured by his inclusion in that plot point.

In terms of the future episodes, I want to see him struggling with a lack of purpose. Trying to mimic good people, failing to find a community like he had before, giving into his murderous urges. Maybe he finds a calling, or maybe he snaps and goes full sadist.

For smaller-scale stuff, I'd like to see him interacting with Frank, I'm curious about that dynamic. I'd also like a scene where Dex has to take his shirt off in front of another character. That way, I can see if they're going to bring up his surgery, and I can watch the Dex simps/shippers go crazy on my dash :]

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When I first saw this comic issue in person, I misread the front page as saying "The Purple Guy" instead of "The Purple Man", and for a split second, I thought he was fighting William Afton.

So I've only recently started reading daredevil comics and at one point in my reading killgrave showed up!

You know that creepy guy from the Jessica Jones show played by David Tennant. In the comics he goes by purple man I think it was, and he is literally purple. His skin is purple. Pretty sure he also dresses in purple.

And this is hilarious. Daredevil has no vision. He can't see it. Purple man gets lost in a crowd commanding people to throw themselves at daredevil and the man literally can't find him. It's so obvious to everyone else. He is literally PURPLE.

At one point he meets his kids, also purple, and has a conversation with them. He thinks they are just regular weird kids. They are not. I am thriving. It's just too good 😂

Only thing sad is that we'll never get that joke in the show. David Tennant acting against Charlie Cox would've been really cool though.

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I also read that run before season 3, but I had a different perspective on that scene. I spoilered this so my yapping doesn't flood the screen, so be warned, ye who click more.

For one, I adore Karen in comics and show. So I wasn't itching for her to die, I was fearing it.

For the other, I never thought that scene was going to go down the same way it did in the comics. I knew they had been hitting the basic plot points, but a lot of the details were different. Karen's backstory and her relationship to Matt are very different. Bullseye is ordered to kill Karen for Kingpin, not paid to kidnap a baby for Mysterio. The lack of said baby and the presence of Father Lantom was also a changed variable.

So I came into that scene knowing Bullseye was going to kill, and Matt was going to try and stop him, but that was about it. The only person I knew would be safe was Matt, because we had three more episodes.

And I think most of what happens makes sense with what they set up beforehand, while following the basic beats from Guardian Devil.

Just like in the comics, Bullseye is told to go into Clinton Church on a mission while Karen considers the point of her life. Matt and Karen enter the church to find Bullseye, killing everyone in his path until he gets what he wants. Karen tries to give him what he wants, Daredevil tries to fight him off. Then, Bullseye throws Daredevil's billyclub, and it misses its target, because of a noble sacrifice. Daredevil is shattered, and it sets him up to go after the real big bad and meet with Maggie again.

But the context is different. Guardian Devil Karen comes into that church devoted to Matt above all else, in a comic that wants Matt to suffer as much as possible. So her dying for him fulfills her goals, and the story's goals.

After the flashbacks in the TV show, Lantom and Karen talk, and both express how much they want to redeem themselves from their past mistakes. If Karen had died there, it would have been like if Matt died in Guardian Devil while Karen watched. No redemption, just Bullseye getting what he wants.

But when Lantom dies for Karen, he's proving to her that she's not beyond redemption, and letting her live to see it. He's also protecting Matt's friend, giving Matt an ally to fight Bullseye with, and thwarting the Kingpin. With his dying breath, he's helping the boy he regrets not doing more for.

So after the first watch, I thought it made a lot of sense as an adaptation. Still a tense scene and emotional loss, but played out in a universe with different stories to tell.

I have a question for people who read the Daredevil comics and then watched the original Daredevil show

What was your reaction to season 3 episode 10?

After I first watched the show I later learned that in the comics Karen dies to Bullseye in that church. If I had known that beforehand I think I would’ve been shaking with adrenaline and screaming at my screen. Especially since it starts off with Karen backstory like they absolutely set that up

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do I hate fisk? yes. am I also #1 fisk & vanessa supporter? hell yes.

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Dex and Dex-related thoughts I had during the latest episode of DDBA.

1. I like that we're continuing with giving him a unique inner world. But the blue color scheme is... interesting. It reminds me of the first few episodes of Defenders, but even more obvious. I can't tell if the blue roses are a flaw in his perception, the camera warping the world for the viewer, or if the show thinks blue roses actually exist and threw some in. Why is his world blue? What happened between now and Season 3 that would make his world go blue, when it used to be greyscaled and insect-buzzing? (I might give them the benefit of the doubt and say it's the blue of Julie's body and the surgery lights)

2. Speaking of his spinal surgery, glad it went well for him. Sad that we never got any plot points / dialogue mentioning it, though.

3. Still don't know why he called Matt, or why he killed Foggy. If his plan was to escape, why didn't he just do it himself? If his plan was to get assistance, why didn't he call anyone else?

4. The meeting between Dex and Matt.... ooh, the simps and shippers are already going feral. And I support them 100%, keep up the good work ya'll.

5. This show's got me yelling "TAKE THE SHOT, DEX!!!" at my screen. I'm so desperate to have anyone make a real stand against the Kingpin. You have no idea.

6. We are almost done with season one and I still don't know who put Dex up to it. We don't even have any red herrings, just wrong answers.

7. Matt jumped in front of Fisk to take that shot. Didn't push him out of the way, got between him and the bullet. So... Dex the ex-FBI, brutal murderer, who has worked with Fisk before, only had one pathetic bullet? No second shot, no throwing knife to finish the job, nothing strong enough to go through Fisk and any armor he had on (or in this case, through Matt into Fisk)? Sorry to compare, but if Frank wanted that job done, he could have yanked something out of a pawn shop, and Fisk still would have been more metal than man in under a minute.

So either the show is going full in on writing Dex as just a 'stupid, crazy, assassin guy' (possible), or... he pulled his punches. Maybe for a fight next episode, but if not... why? Fisk is the man who used him, paralyzed him, killed an innocent woman just to corrupt him. Fisk is his greatest enemy in this universe. Why would he show him any mercy?

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Karen when she hears Matt took a bullet for FISK

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They're eating good this week

Matt/Dex shippers. Idk what you call yourselves but you seem to be having fun with DDBA and tbh I can see why

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He forgot /hj

Okay, but whatever happened to...

Fisk didn't exactly hold up his end either...

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Just finished the rewatch of Daredevil. And Pointdexter killing Foggy is crazyyyy. It was Fisk who fucked up his life, manipulated him, AND killed Julie aka his North Star.

Like. Why are you so mad at Matt? Why do you blame him? This was all Fisk AND you know it.

If anything, he should have killed Vanessa. idk.

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the pacing of daredevil born again has been genuinely psychotic lol wtf is going on

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All the hostages were talking SO MUCH. I thought someone was going to go out like Harry Ellis in Die Hard

Matt talking to actual bank robbers like he's in court with him 💀

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I started watching Born Again hoping I'd love it the way I love the Netflix shows.

Now I do love it: the way I love the movie.

I lean in, taking in a poignant, reflective story beat. Only to be slapped across the face with something so wacky I giggle-cringe onto the floor.

It's perfect.

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If you value your sanity, do not watch the last season of Daredevil before watching Born Again. My brain is filled with whispers of "plotholeplotholeplothole"

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Daredevil: Born Again Eps. 1 + 2 First Thoughts:

1. I didn't like it.

2. I think Foggy is still alive because they cited Brubaker's run as an inspiration for this season. It was also so heavily telegraphed in interviews and marketing that it FEELS like a misdirect-or Marvel has gotten REALLY shitty with keeping things surprising and unexpected.

3. I think they needed to find a way to work around the original scripts which excluded Karen and Foggy without completely rewriting them and this is what they came up with. Doesn't hurt any less.

4. I can't see a world where Matt gives up being Daredevil because of Foggy's supposed death. The Matt I invision would go into overdrive, feeling like he has nothing to lose, completely succumbing to his persona of vegence and retribution. It feels out of character for him to just give up-even with the reason given.

5. These new characters are poor replacements for Karen and Foggy, I want to see THEM, not these people I don't know (I like Kirsten in the comics so I have nothing against her inclusion in theory.)

5. This didn't FEEL like Daredevil. It's not Daredevil without Foggy and Karen. I feel like I'm watching an imitation of the show I loved. The heart and soul are gone and whether or not they comes back is completely up to the writers.

6. Marvel was shitty for using the original cast in marketing only to do what they did with them. Which was A. Ship them to San Francisco and B. "Kill" them. And then they weren't even mentioned in the second episode to my recollection.

I couldn't even give these episodes my full attention. I'm pissed I'll have to wait weeks potentially to find out if Foggy is alive or not. I'm pissed they used the fan's love for these characters to emotionally exploit them and keep us watching. I'm pissed they didn't just give the fans what they wanted from the start so we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit to work around the original scripts.

I'm not happy.