Daredevil season 2

Daredevil S2 Freakout Thread!

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Re: Daredevil S2 Freakout Thread!

I've never seen her before! I won't lie, I'm a little nervous about how they are gonna handle Elektra, but if you say she is good I'll trust your judgement. Fingers crossed! I'm about to take the binge-dive!

 

Re: Daredevil S2 Freakout Thread!

Before I get into the topic, you don't like Marvel movies? Damn, talk about an unpopular opinion.

Regarding your concerns tho, I can at least reassure you that the series are nothing like the movies. They exist within the same universe, meaning all of Marvel's movie and TV properties are connected, but the TV shows are mostly divorced from whatever it's going on in the movie-verse. Every once in a while they will throw out a reference to the movies, but that's mostly it.

I can't vouch for Agents of SHIELD, but the Netflix shows in particular have taken advantage of the content-on-demand model to tell more mature (and actually pretty dark) stories—as opposed to the more lighthearted, gung ho tone of the movies. If they were on a network, there is no way Daredevil and Jessica Jones would get away with half of the stuff they pull off, but since they are not beholden to the expectation that they have to appeal to an audience of all ages they get to take more risks and deliver more adult stories as a result. None of this I mean as a jab to the Marvel movies, since I love them, they are just catering to a much broader audience—with all the restrictions that entails. Not to mention, Daredevil and Jessica Jones are very low-key superheroes. Their abilities and powers don't lend themselves to kind of bombastic spectacle the movies have us used to (although the fighting choreography in Daredevil is still best in class).

So, If what you are looking is something different from what you've seen in the movies, this is it.

I see you have Puck, from Berserk, as your avatar so I asume you enjoy the manga. For whatever it's worth, as a fellow Berserk fan, I stand by DD and JJ. I hate every other superhero show I've tried (Smallville, Arrow, Agents of SHIELD, Gotham, Constantine...) so I had zero hope for these being any good when I went into DD S1 last year, but boy did it prove my preconceptions wrong. And then JJ followed suit. So far they are the only two superhero shows you'll see me recommend. I hope that counts for something.

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For me it's the other way around, but Jessica Jones is still preeetty good. If you are looking for a gritty action drama, I think Daredevil wins out, but if you are looking for a more character-driven thriller (yeah, I think JJ is a thriller) with higher emotional stakes, Jessica gets the edge.

 

Not to toot my own horn (HA!), buuuut, for the sake of not overflowing this section with threads about the same thing, maybe head over here for Daredevil S2 discussion.

 

Also, I'm on episode 8, and I don't know if you know something I don't, but so far Matty has been kicking some serious arse! I mean, did you see the stairway sequence at the end of EP03? That is not at all what I would call losing one's skill. Hell, I would argue kicking ass is the only thing Matty is doing right at the moment lol.

 

Duuuuuuude! I'm ahead of all my fellow binge-watching friends, but after Ep. 8 ended I couldn't help myself and immediately texted all of them blurting something like "the ending of EP08 HOLYSHITWTFMINDBLOWNWHUUUT." They hate me for it, because now they are expecting a surprise, but I don't care, because there is no way they are gonna see that coming—even if they know in advance that something big (HA!) is in store.

And then EP09 took that surprise and ran all the way to Home with it! That was... All my hype was warranted. This is the tits.

 

I have so much to say, not enough energy to say it. Sleep. Need. So good tho. SO good.

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Please. Although it wouldn't surprise me if they were avoiding the threads to avoid spoilers