Kin posted:

Hmm, maybe it'll look better in motion.

I've always seen DD's costume as a really simple unarmoured deal. Like if they were gonna replace spandex, they'd use long sleeved red t-shirt kind of deal and the mask is basically a modified balaclava/bandana or something.

I guess it's just my (albeit limited) impression of who Daredevil is. Like, he's not some super rich dude able to pull together some expensive looking modified body armour in order to look like he's out of something like Kickass, and is instead just a guy (with powers) chucking on some red poo poo and beating the tar out of the lowlifes ruining his street to gently caress up the plans of the guy running the show.

Deadpool posted:

I don't keep a subscription to Netflix no. I sign up for a month here and there when there's something exclusive I want to watch. I have no need for it otherwise. Like I signed up for Kimmy Schmidt after the initial good buzz and then let it lapse after that month. I did the same for Daredevil. I probably won't sign up for another month until there's something else I want to see. I mean it's only eight bucks but it's eight bucks wasted if I don't use for anything.

The way I figure it is that I pay 10 bucks for a movie ticket and get maybe two and a half hours out of it. I pay less for a month of Netflix and with this show I'll get somewhere between 10 and 13 hours. Pretty good deal.

Stunt Rock posted:

I'm just glad it's a Marvel thing with a really good villain for a change.

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

His speech seemed like just rhetoric, like Healy thought, but it actually exhorted the jury to think for themselves. The hung jury shows that they're not a lost cause, I think.

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

I remember that, but I guess I misread the scene because I forgot how American justice system works. Like juries need unanimous verdicts.

therobotking posted:

I don't take issue with the lack of subtitles. They're pretty consistent on having another character translate when it's something important being said and I enjoy the unpredictability that comes from the bad guys saying general stuff in another language that I don't understand.

Sorvah posted:

An now we're back to an episode with a huge chunk in Spanish.

This is ridiculous.

I don't understand why some people seem to have subtitles for the foreign parts, some people have some subtitles and I have none.

Sorvah posted:

so in 1x7 when Karen and the old lady are talking in spanish did you get any subs?

Desperado Bones posted:

The translation Matt and Karen are doing is actually correct, just so you know, still I understand the frustration. For example, a Russian or Chinese character says something, is translated by another character, but then I'm left with the wonder if they translated everything they said. But this is just a complain that doesn't rest quality in the series. Which is awesome. So loving drat awesome.

Gyges posted:

1X08

How a Senator was going to help with zoning and permitting makes no drat sense though. That's local poo poo, and he was implied to be a US Senator. Unless Hell's Kitchen is part of DC, Congress has dick all to do with clearing the way to rebuild the city.

AllTerrineVehicle posted:

I found it.

1x13
stilts!

Hollismason posted:

Vincent D'onfrio's performance was excellent. I think just the nuanced parts of his behavior are just incredibly interesting potrayal. He's not like hand wringing evil. He's actually got legitimate reasons, he genuinely cares about people.

Hollismason posted:

I'm kind of curious as to what the budget was for the series.

quote:

Marvel and Disney are not messing around when it comes to their four upcoming TV shows and one miniseries headed to Netflix, loosely known as the “Marvel Defenders project.” The five properties together will break down into 60 episodes, costing an impressive $200 million, according to Variety.

XboxPants posted:

Goddamn it's gonna be good seeing Daredevil keep up with a bunch of super-strength heavyweights and see what he contributes to a fight and how he makes up for not being able to throw cars or crush steel with better combat awareness and tactics. I wonder if he'll be the leader instead of Cage.

feedmyleg posted:

Anything more specific, like issue numbers or trade names? I find superhero comics to be wildly confusing if they're not stand-alone books, I wouldn't even know what to search on Comixology.

Xtanstic posted:

Since all of my DD knowledge stems from the crappy Affleck movie and bits and pieces from the Fox Spidey cartoon in the 90s, can some comic guys shed light on what they've been foreshadowing and alluding to? I'm gonna go back and reread the thread and see if anyone has explained it already. I seem to have grasped that Stick and the shirtless guy is an Iron Fist reference, Nobu seems Hand affiliated and the Creel easter egg. What's the deal with Gao and her 'I'm going home farther than China' talk? Alternate dimension? Also what's the deal with the kid in the container that Stick killed? Some martial art prodigy meant to be molded into a weapon? Or was he like carrying some sort of bioweapon inside of him or something?

PaganGoatPants posted:

Rosario Dawnson should fill this role because she's

Wolpertinger posted:

As far as Karen goes 1x13+comics In the comics she moves out to start an acting career, gets addicted to heroin, becomes a porn star to keep getting fixes, and sells out Daredevil's identity to get another hit, gets convinced she's HIV positive, and then gets killed. I REALLY hope they don't do any bullshit like that to her character, but I have this terrible feeling they might fridge her in Season 2 because it's a 'defining aspect' of Daredevil or something to have all his girlfriends evil/crazy/dead. Still, by making her and foggy be a thing instead of him, maybe she might get spared.

Robutt posted:

The series was good overall.

1x13

One more thing can anyone with comic book knowledge please explain [spoiler]what the gently caress the "Black Sky" kid was? Because I have no clue.

Raserys posted:

That'd be handwriting.

Srice posted:

So I am tired of Marvel movies what with how incredibly safe they play everything, how the third act is always the same and they manage to all blend into a generic style and etc etc. And I'm also tired of origin stories. I mean, hearing that this serves as an origin story for both Daredevil and the Kingpin already makes me wary about it!.

So instead of just jumping into Daredevil, I'm just wondering if anyone is in the same boat as me and if so, did you enjoy it or not?

e X posted:

Just finished episode 13 and honestly, I think the series peaked in the middle. The third arc just isn't as strong as the second one, mostly because I think the weird double final was unnecessary. There was no need for Matt and Fisk to face off after his empire was more or less dismantled.

It was also weirdly anticlimactic. To elaborate, I feel that scene in the truck was a mistake. 'We have people everywhere' is generally overused and while I can accept a local crimelord, and that is what Fisk is at this point, buying of local law enforcement and officials, but literally having enough power to have a small army break him out in the middle of New York and holding off any reenforcement was just too much. It also doesn't really make sense given the plot of the series. It was repeatedly shown that while he had influence, but also limits. For example, I really liked that it was the secretary, not the EiC in the end who was the mole. He wasn't all powerful, he couldn't do it all on his own, he needed allies and could be thwarted. But that last scene basically made him the Joker in Dark Knight, a guy who literally ones everyone everywhere. Having him then go down in a fistfight in an alley, only too be re-arrested was kind of a letdown.I also think it would have mashed better with the rest of the series if it actually was conventional method that brought him down in the end, that Daredevil was only one gear in the process, if a necessary and important one, but that the real victors were Matt, Foggy, Karen and ultimately Ben. It would have given the series a theme different from the Big Man narrative that basically every other Superhero story has.

Kurtofan posted:

Holy poo poo at the Russian barging in during Fisk's date, the guy is so dead

seaborgium posted:

Spoilers for most of the series I think, though surprisingly related to the subtitles: I thought the subtitles were related to what the characters believed people knew. Anytime people thought they needed a translator, no subtitles. You had to rely on a translator. As soon as the characters knew that they didn't need a translator, they got subtitles. Gao and Kubo initially didn't get subtitles as Fisk said he needed a translator, same with the scenes with Elena and Foggy in them. He needed a translator so no subtitles. Later, we got subtitles when it was just Karen and Elena, they both knew spanish. As soon as Fisk and Gao revealed they knew each others native tongue we got subtitles, there was no perceived need for a translator. Could be wrong, but that's how my subtitles seemed to be working.

Robutt posted:

1x11

Bah, I guess I'm just upset about Wesley - looking back at the whole series I do think he was my favourite character. I'm just confused how Karen can be seen as justified or likeable after the brutality of Wesley's murder. I accept that she felt she had no choice in killing him, but emptying his gun into his chest? Not cool, Karen.

dj_clawson posted:

Yeah that's true but like ALL the other blind actors, of which there are a lot, are wearing heavy contacts. And they're doing a hell of a better job of acting blind, which is something Murdock would do if other people were around (depending on who was writing the comic and how interested they were in accuracy).

ChickenMedium posted:

I hope someday superhero show/movie writers will realize that finding out that your best friend has a secret life as a superpowered superhero is a completely awesome thing to happen and no one should get lovely about it.

mr.capps posted:

They still kinda have a newspaper character, with Ben's boss. I doubt they will use him, but I guess the option is there.

Though nobody can replace Ben

old dog child posted:

I want Netflix to make every show. They have got to have more hits than busts at this point.

So I haven't read the comics. Was this an origin story for Fisk or is his arc finished? Will Daredevil use new villains next season? I am just curious because I want to start mindlessly speculating about next season but the series wrapped up pretty neatly so I don't have much to use.


P.S.

I will miss you Ben Urlich.

Valeyard posted:

dj_clawson posted:

Naw, probably a Chipotle.


Also how does Matt tell the difference between them? That was my question.