Did anyone notice “Battling” Murdock beat "Crusher’ Creel in the ring? “Crusher” Creel, the future Absorbing Man. Also, the office opposite Nelson and Murdock is Atlas, the predecessor of Marvel comics.
I mentioned that to my wife, but I was not 100% sure on Absorbing Man’s name.
Caught that too, and totally nerded out in front of my less comic-aware friends.
Creel was in a SHIELD (not even doing the thing with the periods, nobody’s got time for that) episode recently also, which was a helpful reminder, because I don’t know that I would have remembered him otherwise.
Random totally not important question - did Murdock the elder regularly throw fights to make money, or did he just usually lose naturally?
I got the sense (which may be tainted by familiarity with the comic) that he was regularly throwing fights for the money. He just refused to lose them by knockout. There was a scene where, after losing another fight, he came home with a large sum of cash which Matt considered unusual.
Yeah, that’s why actually getting knocked out was going to make the crooked guys so much money.
I watched the first three episodes this weekend. I’m enjoying it. I did have to laugh at the shout-out to The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. Or at least the similarity of the costumes.
Actually the costume dates to a Frank Miller re-telling of Daredevil’s origin story. Has nothing to do with the Trial of the Incredible Hulk.
I like the version in my head better.
Well, I’ve seen to the end now.
[spoiler]Boy, it sucks to be just honest enough that you stay bought. Nothing less than a gun to their families’ heads ought to have convinced those guys to cover Fisk’s escape, especially those guys on the bridge who were basically ordered to sacrifice themselves to buy Fisk time. And those guys who stayed behind to hold guns to families’ heads?
Also: Beeeeeeeeen![/spoiler]
They did mention a couple of times he uses hand waving Meditation magic to heal quicker so at least there is that.
Loved this series. I really don’t want to wait two years plus for a season 2. I hope they do one before they roll out the other 4 series.
Am still digesting everything but as a DD fan for going-on 30 years now, I am very happy. I had my doubts about Charlie Cox (who still doesn’t look much like Matt from the comics), but he won me over. He’s chill on the surface but underneath it all incredibly tightly coiled, so you believe it when he occasionally goes off his head, does something stupid and nearly gets himself killed; that’s Matt in a nutshell. And D’Onofrio nails Fisk so perfectly that it was positively eerie. It’s like all the artists drawing Kingpin for all those years were somehow prognostically channeling him.
The fight choreography was amazing. The casting was great: I thought everybody did a bang-up job (I even liked Elden Henson, who seems to be getting the most divided notices). Direction and cinematography: top-notch. And some reviewer somewhere said that if Daredevil doesn’t win an Emmy for sound design, it’ll be an outrage. I didn’t think you could satisfyingly portray Matt’s powers without some kind of “radar vision,” but they pulled it off. (Except for that one time they went there, which actually kind of sucked.)
The episodes were, on average, a little too long. Scenes went on longer than they needed to, while we never saw other things we should have, like Foggy working with Theresa in the last two episodes. (And I mean working, not “working.” We don’t need to see Foggy Bear and Salon Blowout going to town.) There are loose ends — presumably to be picked up by the other series — and Rosario Dawson was sadly underused.
Still, this was a terrific story, told well. Given all the positive buzz I can’t imagine they won’t do another series. It’s gonna be a long wait. At least we’ll have The Defenders to tide us over.
I think they did a pretty good job of using suggestion rather than special effects to convince me that I was seeing super senses in action. Just a quirk of the head and some a quick cut or some audio cue and I felt like I was seeing super powers in action in a way that computer effects would actually have made less believable. It was an excellent decision to stick to grounding the action in a down-to-earth sense of physical action. Daredevil was an excellent franchise from among the Marvel properties to do this with, though it’s easy to say that after seeing how they handled it. I myself would have assumed they’d constantly been switching to a computer-generated Radar Sense view.
I notice that at one point they have him actually hearing the radio, without a radio shown as playing nearby. I think he may have been able to actually listen to radio waves at some point in the comics, but I may be confusing this with such a premise having been introduced and later dropped in Spider-Man. Anybody want to clear this up for nerd points?
I’m 4 episodes in and the show is improving. I like Wilson Fisk as a character and I think they are developing the storyline in a pretty interesting way.
I hoe it keeps improving.
The only thing that reminds me of is that Spider-Man used to carry a receiver to keep track of his spider-tracers. At some point in the 70s or 80s, he learned to tune them so he could follow them with his spider-sense. That’s all I got.
Am I the only one who thought that apart from the reporter and Wilson Fisk that most of the actors were not that interesting?
Loved the show, but Daredevil himself was a pretty boring dude.
overall the show was good and i give it very high marks for production values. the scenery and mood were done well.
Totally disagree. Charlie Cox did a great job as Matt Murdock and the guy who played Foggy was excellent. I also thought that the guy who played Wesley was very intense in a businesslike way. The only flat note for me was the girl who played Karen Paige. She was a bit too one-dimensional.
Agreed. I touched on this in The Flash thread - IMO even Karen is better than all but a few female characters in comic book series, and she was the weakest series regular or recurring character in Daredevil.
I know not everyone agrees with me, but I feel it’s the villain that makes or breaks super hero series and movies, and D’Onofrio brings it. Again IMO, but I feel that the lack of a commanding villainous presence is hurting Arrow - I just don’t feel the menace from the actor portraying Ra’s al-Ghul, and it seems SHIELD doesn’t have a big bad right now. On the other hand, the actors portraying Harrison Wells and Cobblepot (but not Fish) are doing fine jobs and those series are benefitting.
I’m kind of back and forth on this show. I like it, I like the characters but boy is it dark – both the tone of the show as well as the visuals. Daredevil has a few “I’m Batman” moments and it seems to be taking some cues from Dark Knight. I’m only watching it one show a night and I’m 4 eps in.
I like the characters and the actors are all doing a fine job.
I’m wondering at what point he starts calling himself Daredevil, they seem to be falling into the same trap that Smallville, Arrow, and The Flash have been in where they’re trying to have the character without calling him that character. Right now he’s “The man in the black mask.” I hope he gets to be called his name soon and I hope it’s organic to the story as well. I had the feeling that when he was fighting the Russians in the garage that someone would call him “the Devil” or something. Maybe I’m glad that they didn’t.