Overall I enjoyed season 2, but it’s true that it doesn’t really hang together too well. I liked most of the characters - Bullseye was good, the main task force cop was a good level of detestable, Matthew Lillard was fun, etc. There were some nice scenes and some good action.
I think the whole point of that was just to turn MCU Punisher, who had a self contained revenge story that was already finished, into regular comics Punisher who kills all criminals whether they messed with his family or not. I liked the Daredevil season just fine, I hate making actual scary and competent villains into Trump stand ins, because all it does is make him seem scarier and less pathetic than he really is. I just needed one scene of Milana Vayntrub babysitting Jessica Jones kid.
I was hoping there’d at least be a throwaway line where Doreen was mentioned.
I guess I’m the outlier; I really enjoyed this season. Charlie Cox has become the definitive Daredevil to me (okay, his opponents for that title were Ben Affleck and Rex Smith). I thought the acting was good, the storyline held together better than season 1 did, and Vincent D’Onofrio was excellent as Fisk
Not saying it couldn’t have benefited from the addition or removal of arts, but I thought it was damn good tv.
The acting was indeed good. The writing and editing was what stunk. The entire second half of the season seemed to take place over the span of one day which was ludicrous. Entire plotlines went nowhere (BB and Jessica Jones for example). They wasted Daniel’s story which was probably the best thing in the season. And they simultaneously seemed to be both pro and anti January 6. Very sloppy and amateurish story telling that completely let down good actors.
As written and originally filmed, Buck let Daniel live. It wasn’t until later that the gunshot was added. I’m not sure which ending I would have preferred. I think it works well enough to have Daniel as Icarus, flying too close to the sun and finding out there are certain mistakes he absolutely cannot make no matter how much Buck or Fisk like him.
I found that weird as well. Vanessa dies, her funeral is on the same day (Daniel’s birthday) and the sympathy crowd turns into a riot by the evening. Things in this season happened because it was time for them to happen, not because it made sense for them to happen. I have a feeling some of this was due to choppy editing.
I had read about that change to Daniel’s story. What it seemed like would happen with him was one of two things: he would die saving someone and be a hero (which I guess technically is what happened but the way they did it was very flat) or he would fall deeper into darkness and become The Rose. The Rose is a Daredevil villain from the comics that is Kingpin’s son.
It seemed like Daniel was his metaphorical son and there had been a ton of rose imagery this season so I thought this might be the way they went.