The Ripper Best fight in the series so far. Seeing Matt get tired and having to catch a breather was a refreshing moment in my eyes. That's when I knew I was watching pure gold.
The Ripper Really solid scene, although if I hadn't have watched The Raid 1 + 2, it would be much higher. This series is miles better than any superhero stuff done so far when it comes to gritty.
The crazy thing is, I've watched this show through twice and I never noticed the subtle color change of the kingpin throughout the show. I love it when shows do that, it really signifys how well it was worked on.
I was wondering what you thought of Fisk's monologue in the back of the police van during ep 13. Personally, I thought it was the highlight of the character's portrayal and, at least for me, one of the most chilling monologues I've heard in a while simply due to the almost quietly intense and matter of fact nature of it.
jkdjr25 It was absolutely stunning. I really, really disagree with reviewers who claimed the series ran out of steam in the final episodes. the climax was highly satisfying. Kingpin planned a PERFECT escape... that was only foiled by Daredevil rising to a new level (with a badass new suit). I can't envision a way it could have been handled better. d'Onofrio and Cox knocked it out of the park.
Imagine if these guys made an adaptation of The Shadow in this style, using some of the best stories from the Pulps and Radios: That series would ROCK THE EARTH!!
I got a little irate at your Phantom Pain review, but once I pulled my head out of my rectum and allowed myself to accept that people have different opinions, I rekindled my love for this channel. Plus, your vernacular is to die for. You put the successes of this show in such a way that I would never have been able to explain without a week of writing revision and consulting a thesaurus.
@@aldente3868 i’m conflicted tbh. He’s awesome, and obviously well educated, but he is also a self-righteous, insufferable douchebag when he decides to shit on something. He really takes things he has a problem with to the cleaners, which is fine, commendable even... it’s just that I feel he goes a little _too hard_ even when some of his targets really don’t deserve utter annihilation.
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged while that is true u have to remember people nowadays think something being bad is a 7/10(looking at u IGN) so seeing MGSV being called the perfect stealth action game 10/10 masterpiece needs to be called out on it's flaws and a lot of the time Razorfist doesn't pull his punches and deservedly knocks it down a few pegs
This series is crack. I binge-watched the season in one day. And after reading Guardian Devil recently, I think Daredevil is becoming one of my favorite characters. Your Daredevil recommendations are much appreciated!
About the Power Rangers thing, I've gotta add my two cents. Super Sentai started off as a pretty blatant take off on western superheroes, but it wasn't successful originally. What happened to make it all work was Marvel getting directly involved. While simultaneously doing a version of Spider-Man that was incredibly goofy and prominently featured the wallcrawler piloting a giant robot, because Japan, Toei created a third group of Power Rangers that was in effect their version of Captain America, co-produced by Marvel themselves. Featuring a team of international heroes, that show was Battle Fever J, and it was the ratings bonanza that launched the series into long-term success and eventually causing a later entry in the series to be adapted into Power Rangers. Odds are, none of that would have happened if Marvel hadn't gotten involved.
Like I've asked before, would you like to do a Rageaholic Cinema: The Raid 1 and 2? By that I mean the Indonesian films that gave Hollywood some much-needed shock therapy. The films that set a new bar in action movies that Captain America: The Winter Soldier, John Wick, and numerous others, including the Daredevil TV series, aspired to reach. The films that I think deserve much more attention than they had gotten in their brief stint in US theaters. I also think that The Raid 2's car chase deserves 10 David Carradines out of 5 in the scale of 1 to Death Race. [I know I'm not the kind of guy who hypes a film like this, but I think it deserves a bigger audience!]
As a reader of Spiderman as kid, Daredevil was unimpressive. They always used him as a middle-ground between Spiderman and whatever psycho killer vigilante (almost always Punisher) Spidey had to work with. Between the spoiler free section of this and your comic review, I am discovering a hero I should have loved for years. Thank you and keep up the great work you do on RUclips! I'll be back to see the rest of this video when I finish the series.
slayerming1 Neither do I. The actor who plays Foggy seemed a _little_ stiff in the first couple episodes... but after he settled in, I thought he was perfect.
***** What did you think of Wesley? For me, with what little knowledge I have of Daredevil, he came out of nowhere, and I was really disappointed with his seemingly out-of-character conclusion.
great first season, i just wished we got a little more Wesley, i wanted to see his backstory and how he met Fisk and how they formed their relationship, i wanna know how he is so loyal and Fisk sees him as a friend instead of just an employee
Man, your words on the Daredevil origin missing the gangster and the separation of the character from the Punisher are hilarious in hindsight here now with the second season.
I was a bit hesitant going in, but after the first episode I was hooked. I can't think of a bad performance by anyone with the stand out being Vincent D'Onofrio being a favorite for me. Every scene he's in you're just waiting for shit to go down. I can't imagine anyone else doing this role this much justice.
I shudder to think what Mark Waid has done. I just got blocked by him on Twitter when I criticized him for his position on the Calgary Expo/Honey Badger fiasco. He called me a "sick fuck". I shall wear that title with pride.
I don't know. I honestly share a lot of their views but I'm not an asshole about it. Blocking people, calling GG a hate movement, completely fucking up Daredevil and having SJW's fawn over it, and just being a prick to his fans online is about as much as I can take. I used to be a comic book nerd since I was 5 years old, I'm 32 now. But since this influx of progressive types, the industry just feels like it's alienating its older readers and catering to the SJW brigade. I can't can;t pick up a comic book anymore without getting annoyed. Sigh, I really do miss good comics.
I JUST finished the last episode, having never been much of a fan of comics myself, I feel inclined to go and checkout everything in your wonderful '10 Essential Daredevil Comics' Thanks a lot Razor, new content from you is always appreciated.
Good review Razor. This is for sure in my top 5 shows on air right now. And thank you for ripping Devin Faraci a new one. That man is a biased contrarian asshole of the highest order. With Daredevil, he was already hating on the show on Twitter beforehand because it was based off Frank Miller's work on the character (he hates Miller and dark and gritty superhero stuff) and he grew up with Stan Lee's run.
Daredevil in this show is a better Green Arrow than the one from Arrow. Arrow pretty much dropped the 'looking out for the little guy' subtext after season 1, and Daredevil is doing it better than Arrow ever did.
I would have liked for the fight scenes to be shot better, but that’s something that afflicts live action Marvel media at large, and one of the few areas where live action DC reigns supreme. Most of the fights in this season were poorly lit (which understandable but still kind of a problem), full of cuts, and sort of...zoomed in? Like I’m pretty sure there blows that we only half got to see. I liked it overall, eager to start season 2 now that I’m several years behind, lol.
EXCELLENT review! Dude you are KILLING it! Every video you put out is excellent, even on the rare occasion I mildly disagree on points you are still entertaining and insanely well worded and researched. Keep up the great content dude!
Great review. One of the biggest things that I love about this show is that they have taken the side characters such as Foggy and Karen and made them more than just dependents waiting around when Daredevil is not kicking ass or needing to be saved all the time. Everyone in this show feels like a person that you could write a Champions character on complete with loads of disadvantages. I had to watch the Fisk episode three times with the superb writing of DeKnight in showing us the man rising out of the shadows and the great parallels to Murdock. One thing that I think I would love to see is Punisher get this kind of treatment and intersect well with butting heads with Daredevil.
I just discovered you right now for the first time and all I can say is WOW! Sometimes, you go onto short burst of bigger english words than my eleventh grade AP english teacher ever said in class. hahaha. Sorry if that doesn't make complete sense. I'm sure you understood what I meant. Immediately subscribed btw.
Loving the hell out of this review! I'm currently in the middle of my own episode-by-episode review of the series and I must say, your eloquence shames me just a tad. One thing I wanted to comment on, in your complaint about why Matt never goes after the Fixer's crew, the only thing I could think of is, maybe they weren't comfortable with 12 year old Matt tearing through the Fixer's gang... but they might be okay with a 16 year old Matt doing it. In Man Without Fear, Matt & Foggy are in college 2 years after his ill-fated revenge mission. Sure, season 1 says that Matt first decided to become a vigilante after leaving L&Z, but that doesn't preclude him finding the Fixer during his hormonal teens and taking care of business. Sure, we won't get Stick admonishing him for his actions, but it might actually be better if Matt takes himself to task in that moment and chooses never to kill. I could easily see that as being a relevant flashback in a storyline that deals with him flirting with the dark side (aka, Elektra), PLUS they could use the flashback of the hooker falling to her death as an origin point to bring Typhoid Mary into the series (since, y'know, that was her).
what really drew me into Matt Murdock / daredevil is that in a way he is a sadist constantly trying to convince himself that he doesn't do this for pleasure and he doesn't but deep down there is that feeling that he can't stay away from that's never really been there before I like it in fact I love it
I actually thought about this show the day after watching it. The Kingpin was the finest performance I have seen for a long time. I remember saying to my housemate "mate, that was good, no that was 'the Wire' good.
Personally, I don't think the fights were as good as people are saying they are (mainly to do with shit like him being clearly exhausted, then doing a ridiculous flip off a wall instead of just punching the guy next to him), and I'm still getting used to Kingpin who seems more like a big manchild than who I was expecting to find (and while that's all well and good, he's a bit too emotional about his decisions throughout). I think that last point would have benefitted from us seeing a bit of Wilson's life before he met Vanessa, as all of his "coworkers" say he's slipping but we don't actually see what he was like before. I mean, his downfall was pretty much that he chose emotion over logic when confronted by that one guy, when a criminal mastermind like him should have been able to think of another way out of it. I'm also not sold on the suit yet (seems a bit plump, though it might be the height of the actor himself giving that impression). Really good show though and those are pretty much my only big-ish problems with it, so I'm looking forward to how the next season does. It is a Netflix show after all so I wasn't expecting it's first season to be absolutely perfect anyway.
But it didn't make any sense during the scene. Doing flips is one thing, but having a guy right next to you and being exhausted and then choosing to do a flip off the wall that's further away to do the same thing doesn't make any sense. I'm referring to the hallway scene.
Mustering the strength to do something incredible even when exhausted isn't as uncommon as you think, especially in moments of high octane action where an individual's adrenaline level can be at an all time high.
Jonah Drake My point isn't the effects of adrenaline, it's the functionality of the attacks he does. They don't make any sense for what he wants to do in the fight. If someone's standing in front of you and you want to hit them, you don't take a step back and jump off the wall to do it, no matter how sick it looks. ***** You gotta stop man, you're obliterating my sides.
Ty Razorfist, i was Very hesitant to check this out in the day and age of everything having to revolve around "the something" and i am sure you know which "the something" i am talking about. But i just started the series, see you back in 13 hours.
Thanks for the recommendation. I hadn't gone with Netflix for a while, but I resubscribed to give the show a shot and it did not disappoint. Second time you've recommended something I've thoroughly enjoyed (the first being Thief 2).
For anyone who does in fact bitch about the black and red suit in this show, they made it pretty clear that the suit wasn't finished, but that Matt needed it early. I assume that's why it has so much black in it. I assume when he takes it back and gets it completed, it'll look like a comic perfect representation of itself.
First of all, Razorfist, I just rediscovered you, and I don't know why I ever stopped watching. You're reviews are great. Second, It seems that that Farazi guy has never heard of Star Trek: TNG or DS9, or even the x-files. Those shows had 45 minute episodes but with 25 episodes a season. 13 episodes is peanuts, but I'm assuming that Farazi is used to HBO and its 10 eps a season.
Deadwood had good dialogue writing for one reason. Deadwood actually followed the real history of Deadwood so it left lots of extra time to work on the Dark Wit delivered by Ian McShane. Damned good show!
Well, I'm someone who never followed the Daredevil series of Marvel but has only seen the Ben Affleck movie as well finishing Daredevil Season 1 mainly on your recommendation and after your Top 10 Daredevil stories a few months ago. Though I would agree to his resolve to not killing, I felt they've at least put in the effort of why he doesn't due to him being constantly ridiculed by his mentor, Sticks. "I wanted a soldier. You wanted a father." That line alone was strong enough for this origin story. After watching and what I'm getting from your view on the reviewers, it feels as if everyone was expecting Matt Murdok and Wilson Fisk to be their respective alter egos by the end of Episode 1 or Episode 2 with following episodes to be Daredevil teaming up with Spider-Man and Episode 4 and 5 has him dealing with Elektra and Bulls-eye. As if he's tackling on "villains-of-the-day". I liked the well-paced episodes that delve into everyone's moral ambiguity, emotional context, and resolve to fight against something bigger than them. I miss Ben. I liked the contrast you've made how Matt started off alone then ended up with "everything" while Wilson started off with "everything" and was left alone. I loved that every villain or ally were competent and not just "canon-fodder" to sit on the side-lines. Enemies fought very well against Matt/Daredevil, allies of Matt or Wilson went out on their own to find out what's going on that could make or break them. I miss Ben. All around, my interest was to watch how the martial arts was in this Season. After watching good series such as this; I feel seasons should build up all the way on the events happening and end on that note (be it a full closure or a cliffhanger segwaying into the next Season). Effectively creating a story arc(s). Heavy focus was on Matt and Wilson and every episode truly showed their character evolution or degradation. What really pulls me in with a story like this is when you have two characters "argue" their conflicting views and I mean a valid argument but morals are called into question. "Am I right for doing this? Is he really our savior? Am I just like him? Am I really the savior?" Combined with the narrative, martial arts, atmosphere, and characters brings this Daredevil to life for me. R.I.P. Ben
As much as I’m hating Netflix right now and have even cancelled my over decade long subscription because of the kiddie porn they uploaded in even more pissed at marvel for taking away the rights to the marvel shows.
Really good review Razorfist thanks on the stick in i always wondered why he doesn't kill nobody which i do have a gripe with him and Batman for that same reasoning too but I still like these kind of characters. U also like his friend Fogg too which i an surprised because those kind of characters sometimes fall flat but everything they did on thatcshow was top notched especially that old boy reference lol.
Alright, so I watched this the other day and checked out at the spoilers. Now I'm back, and holy shit. Yeah, it was damn good. I'm not a cape fan, or comic fan for that matter. I know next to nothing about this, and the spoiler train didn't run me over since I ignored pretty much everything. I hadn't even planned on watching this. Imagine my surprise when fucking Gomer Pyle was the Kingpin. And you know, I think he really was the best thing about this. I'm a sucker for villains, and he played it damn well. All I remember of the Kingpin was the guy I would occasionally see in the cartoons bear hugging Spiderman to death. The way he always had that concerned/sad look when he was doing things. Plus, he was intimidating. As a 5' 6" guy you tend to notice when the bigger fellas move their weight around. Even growing up with constant self defense classes and techniques, and knowing how to handle myself in most situations, it was still unsettling to see him just fucking man handle damn near everyone. And I liked that. That's good television. On the costume. I'm probably way the hell off base here, but it kinda reminded me of the Dark Brotherhood outfit from Skyrim. Tight suit, black with muted red/almost burgundy patches on the shoulders. I dunno. Fucking great show, though. Best stuff I've seen in a long time.
It only took me one look at the panel shown at 0:51 and I immediately cringed. I'd rather be forced to watch a double feature of Ben Affleck's _Daredevil_ and the _Elektra_ spinoff for a week straight _Clockwork Orange_-style than read whatever festering shitpile of a comic that illustrated abomination came from!
Well I paused the video and binged the first season. I am glad I did. My attention is difficult to hold and this show kept my eyes glued to the screen from the first scene to the last. This was good advice. I now get to watch the rest of the review.
Regarding the suit, they are going with a more realist approach towards it, Batman Begins did it with people enjoying it. If it was simply red leather they would repeat the film and I think they don't want that. For me it worked pretty well. As for the Ice cream sequence Razor... That is how Matt Murdock remembers why Stick left him. The whole episodes and sequence are from Matt's memory. I still think they can explore this story in second season.
It's a great first season but this show has in inherit advantage in the fact that it has 13 hours to develop characters and plot points as opposed to a movie 2.5. I expect to see Electra and Gao. I don't know much about daredevil but he is a hero I'm glad to learn about. My favorite part of this show was gao. The entire season the subtle hints about how dangerous she was. Vanessa even in the comics is dangerous? Never knew that
They did skip huge chunks of his origin story. Expect them to return to it and really delve into the origin. I could see him eventually goaded through the confessional. I'm sure they're using the bracelet excuse merely to add some more personal connection between Matt and Stick while leaving the reality of Stick's abandonment open.
The only thing I can say I wanted more out of the show that I felt lacking was more court drama. I do love that stuff and I would like to see the show do more of it while they tie it in with the superhero stuff.
I'm really not one for crime dramas or live action superhero shows but this series is excellent on a variety of levels. The actor playing kingpin absolutely made that character perfectly multifaceted. Some heros/villians have more than "I do good/evil because, it's the right/wrong thing to do" but just because they're developed a little more doesn't automatically mean they're outstanding, this Daredevil series is. From the main to the supporting cast, continuity, plot, just everything about it. I watched the entire season and not once do I remember thinking: "okay, that part is sub-par and could have done better." The series doesn't feel rushed and the parts that slow down a little enhances the telling of the story per episode and to the overall story. Then there's the Kingpin. A bad guy who truly believes he is the good guy, a good guy willing to do what it takes to make his vision a reality. Intelligent, calculating, methodical and strong both mentally and physically. He isn't perfect and he knows it. Always trying to play to his strengths and keep his weaknesses hidden deep down and far away. Like an anvil he remains cool and undamaged no matter how many times he is struck....until that one button of his is pushed, threatening his mom, his girl or his vision of hell's kitchen should be (okay, okay, he's got more than one mental "launch all nukes now" button or more accurately several isolated arming circuits that all do the same thing, arm every silo and all slaved to the one big, candy apple red, master launch button that simply reads: "commit"
It is great. FYI most The Wire was showed in west Bmore because they couldn't do it in east side. The worst side. It did a good job but those that are aware its comical. And Scott Glenn is great
First off, thank you kindly for the recommendation of this excellent show, I'm two episodes in and loving every minute. One thing I'd like to add about the fight scenes is that Daredevil clearly takes an ass kicking every time he goes toe-to-toe with the bad guys. Whereas in the batman movies he's basically invincible until some dipshit gets a lucky shot with a knife, Daredevil trades blows with his enemies and often has to haul himself off the ground to keep going. This is excellent because it reinforces exactly what they keep telling you the whole show. Murdocks take hits, but always get back up.
Would love to see your opinion on the movie, the movie was.... ok, but the series to me was a huge surprise. I thought it was going to be crap before it came out, but I've never been hooked by a series so much since The Sopranos.
The way You were describing the look of and atmosphere of the show. I think how better it might have been placed in a TMNT movie or show. Since the 2003 one but that just my opinion tho.
Did you not think to mention or just not know that basically EVERYONE loves Christopher Reeve's Superman costume and him in it? That was pretty much universally liked. And the silver lines on the Spider-Man costume as well as the material are big changes.
Just finished up my first run through today - excellent stuff. I plan on revisiting twice before it's relaunch in April 2016. Three really cool things to ponder (keep in mind I have never read the comics): 1. The Punisher. He's confirmed. If Fiske's portrayal is anything to go by, how brutal can they possibly go with Punisher's potrayal without it being too intense for a series (even a Netflix series)? 2. Elektra is confirmed. Do you think they'll keep her more than a season? Stick only featured in one episode. Or could they perhaps be using her to eventually launch a spin off? 3. Gow. Easily the most frightening figure in Hell's Kitchen in my opinion. Could she return? I also liked your interpretation of the white painting. But here's another to consider; could white not also be the colour of whitewashing? Keeping in mind that up until he meets Vanessa he wears all black. I don't think this is arbitrary. Personally, the wall for me is a demonstration of the denial Fiske is in by thinking he is doing the city good when he is in fact Hell's Kitchen's black plague.
Try Whistling This Honestly he is the lesser if all of the evils of hells kitchen. I cant help but wonder just like Dr. Doom that if he finally did win that the world would be a better place for it.
I freaking love this show, I can't wait for season 2. Your review is very accurate in my opinion but I'm biased cause I like your stuff it's not full of pretentious hipster shit nowadays. I give Daredevil and Rageholic 2 thumbs up.
While i don't disagree with your opinion on Waid's run on Daredevil, i just want to point out to people not familiar with his other work that he is still a pretty good writer, he just doesn't get Daredevil's character in the same way Loeb doesn't get cosmic marvel, i heavily recomend reading Waid's work for dc which is fenomenal, specially Kingdom Come, 52 weeks and Superman Birthright
Agreed. Waid is at his best when writing bright and sunny heroes like Superman and Flash. Comparatively, I believe Frank Miller should be kept far far away from Superman...even before the man took his current downturn into self parody.
The red daredevil costume was pretty good, but it doesn't fit the show's established lighting and color pallet as well as the black ninja outfit. Black just blends in with the dark, shadowy setting.
Hey Razor. I loved the series as well and was wondering what are your thoughts on possible storylines for season 2. I think it'd be great if they adapted issues 170-172 from Miller's run. I don't know if the storyline in those issues has been given a name(like how 227-232 are the Born Again story), but it essentially deals with the Kingpin returning to New York and being forced to be the top crime boss again. I loved that story and thought it was right when Daredevil went full crime drama and I couldn't stop reading every issue after. Thanks for introducing me to DD by the way. I just got started with the Guardian Devil storyline.
Since we are talking spoilers I'm actually sad that prostitute didn't get thrown out the window. Typhoid Mary was in one of my favorite Deadpool stories and I was looking forward to seeing her in season 2
I liked the daredevil Netflix show, and it's been a long time since I have seen good old private pyle be in something else then law and order, if you ask me he fit the kingpin role great.
I have a feeling that some Sarkeesian-types upon finishing episode 4 will likely say that the creators of the show were trying to teach us something else we could do with a car door.
I forgot to mention that on the point about the black spots on the Daredevil suit, the man who made it even stated that the suit was not 100% and that the black would provide the most protection, leading me to believe the plan was to cover most every area in the black armor then paint it all red which could easily happen. Even if it does not the suit is still awesome looking. Season 2 cannot come quick enough!
I do as well, but Matt does not want people to know he is blind and branding is very important when it comes to super heroes. I look forward to seeing the costume evolve though. Nothing is better than small tweaks to the costume that show a hero growing and adapting the suit to fit his needs.
I definitely enjoyed Daredevil but it was *significantly* darker than I went in expecting, as somebody not familiar with the source material (never was a comic reader) I think the thing that impressed me the most was the *patience* of the writers. Nothing was rushed. There was no pandering inclusion of a rogues gallery or monster of the week. It was one complete, complicated narrative that fleshed out the characters very well. Now, I don't think "monster of the week" is necessarily bad, I just think it gets so horribly misused as modern writers attempt to make each episode into a complete standalone story. I think the the power of Daredevil was that each episode was just a piece of the whole. I hope it will serve as a master class for future superhero shows (as there seems to be a plethora incoming) As much as I enjoyed the Flash and Arrow I think they lacked that... clarity of purpose displayed in Daredevil. Cant wait for season 2
I really liked the fight choreography in daredevil. One of the best I've seen in a superhero series/movie in a long time. Cannot wait for season 2. HYPE TRAIN!
As someone who has never really delved into comicbooks and has no reason to be hyped about daredevil, the show is in fact really good, i watched 10 of the episodes in one day.
great review as always rageaholic,i hope you heared that marvel confirmed daredevil season 2 with punisher and bullseye,maybe electra?blade,ghost rid...nah. so please rageaholic make a video about it.
סמי גידו Dhe "Marvel Knights" imprint from back-in-dhe-day should have been strictly about non-super-powered characters, not just dhe low-selling ones.
I LOVE HOW IN DAREDEVIL THE PEOPLE HE FIGHTS CAN ACTUALLY KICK HIS ASS not like in some movies or other TV shows with street level superheroes where the henchmen go down in one hit.
IIRC, the Power Rangers were supposed to be a visual reference to superhero comics. If memory serves, they started out as comicbook superheroes. So saying that Tokusatsu ripped them off is a bit of a stretch, Razor.
I'm not into the outfit, but that's more because I never really liked Daredevil's look to begin with I mean on paper it sounds like a great outfit, but most iterations of it just make him look like red batman, especially the face part
THE HALLWAY SCENE, enough said
The Ripper Beware of microwave ovens.
The Ripper Best fight in the series so far. Seeing Matt get tired and having to catch a breather was a refreshing moment in my eyes. That's when I knew I was watching pure gold.
AND it was 1 shot
The Ripper One of the best fight scenes in any modern superhero drama hands down. I fucking love that scene.
The Ripper
Really solid scene, although if I hadn't have watched The Raid 1 + 2, it would be much higher. This series is miles better than any superhero stuff done so far when it comes to gritty.
The crazy thing is, I've watched this show through twice and I never noticed the subtle color change of the kingpin throughout the show. I love it when shows do that, it really signifys how well it was worked on.
I think the show mentioned his Catholicism as a reason for why he doesn't kill.
I was wondering what you thought of Fisk's monologue in the back of the police van during ep 13. Personally, I thought it was the highlight of the character's portrayal and, at least for me, one of the most chilling monologues I've heard in a while simply due to the almost quietly intense and matter of fact nature of it.
jkdjr25 It was absolutely stunning. I really, really disagree with reviewers who claimed the series ran out of steam in the final episodes. the climax was highly satisfying. Kingpin planned a PERFECT escape... that was only foiled by Daredevil rising to a new level (with a badass new suit).
I can't envision a way it could have been handled better. d'Onofrio and Cox knocked it out of the park.
Now I want a Punisher series in the same style and quality Netflix did for Daredevil.
NinjaxShadowXx now THAT i would watch
NinjaxShadowXx Agreed. With Steven DeKnight helming.
NinjaxShadowXx YES!
NinjaxShadowXx FUCK YES. I'm pretty sure Thomas Jane doesn't have anything else going on right now.
NinjaxShadowXx If its anything like Dirty Laundry in the tone of the comics, then yes all the way.
Fantastic review! Totally agree with you on every point.
***** Thank you, good sir! And Godspeed!
Imagine if these guys made an adaptation of The Shadow in this style, using some of the best stories from the Pulps and Radios:
That series would ROCK THE EARTH!!
"Avoid social media like Movie Bob avoids healthy food." Would've been a much better joke IMHO. :D
I got a little irate at your Phantom Pain review, but once I pulled my head out of my rectum and allowed myself to accept that people have different opinions, I rekindled my love for this channel. Plus, your vernacular is to die for. You put the successes of this show in such a way that I would never have been able to explain without a week of writing revision and consulting a thesaurus.
@@aldente3868 i’m conflicted tbh. He’s awesome, and obviously well educated, but he is also a self-righteous, insufferable douchebag when he decides to shit on something. He really takes things he has a problem with to the cleaners, which is fine, commendable even... it’s just that I feel he goes a little _too hard_ even when some of his targets really don’t deserve utter annihilation.
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged while that is true u have to remember people nowadays think something being bad is a 7/10(looking at u IGN) so seeing MGSV being called the perfect stealth action game 10/10 masterpiece needs to be called out on it's flaws and a lot of the time Razorfist doesn't pull his punches and deservedly knocks it down a few pegs
Stick, Speak of the Devil, Cut Man and Daredevil are my favorite episodes.
STILL, IMO, the absolute BEST thing to come out of the MCU.
This series is crack. I binge-watched the season in one day. And after reading Guardian Devil recently, I think Daredevil is becoming one of my favorite characters.
Your Daredevil recommendations are much appreciated!
About the Power Rangers thing, I've gotta add my two cents. Super Sentai started off as a pretty blatant take off on western superheroes, but it wasn't successful originally. What happened to make it all work was Marvel getting directly involved. While simultaneously doing a version of Spider-Man that was incredibly goofy and prominently featured the wallcrawler piloting a giant robot, because Japan, Toei created a third group of Power Rangers that was in effect their version of Captain America, co-produced by Marvel themselves. Featuring a team of international heroes, that show was Battle Fever J, and it was the ratings bonanza that launched the series into long-term success and eventually causing a later entry in the series to be adapted into Power Rangers. Odds are, none of that would have happened if Marvel hadn't gotten involved.
Like I've asked before, would you like to do a Rageaholic Cinema: The Raid 1 and 2?
By that I mean the Indonesian films that gave Hollywood some much-needed shock therapy. The films that set a new bar in action movies that Captain America: The Winter Soldier, John Wick, and numerous others, including the Daredevil TV series, aspired to reach. The films that I think deserve much more attention than they had gotten in their brief stint in US theaters.
I also think that The Raid 2's car chase deserves 10 David Carradines out of 5 in the scale of 1 to Death Race.
[I know I'm not the kind of guy who hypes a film like this, but I think it deserves a bigger audience!]
As a reader of Spiderman as kid, Daredevil was unimpressive. They always used him as a middle-ground between Spiderman and whatever psycho killer vigilante (almost always Punisher) Spidey had to work with. Between the spoiler free section of this and your comic review, I am discovering a hero I should have loved for years. Thank you and keep up the great work you do on RUclips! I'll be back to see the rest of this video when I finish the series.
Razorfist, you must create a Daredevil channel on the side dedicated to Daredevil. I would watch that channel fucking religiously!! Get on it chief
Great review Razorfist! Just wondering what you thought about the side characters in the first season? I personally don't get all the Foggy hate :(
slayerming1 Neither do I. The actor who plays Foggy seemed a _little_ stiff in the first couple episodes... but after he settled in, I thought he was perfect.
***** One of best things to come out of Marvel imho
***** What did you think of Wesley? For me, with what little knowledge I have of Daredevil, he came out of nowhere, and I was really disappointed with his seemingly out-of-character conclusion.
CDRunningG I personally thought Wesley was awesome, that dude was loyal as fuck.
NeoTheAmazingOne And creepy as all hell. Collected and god damned terrifyingly calm about everything. I can appreciated that in a goon.
great first season, i just wished we got a little more Wesley, i wanted to see his backstory and how he met Fisk and how they formed their relationship, i wanna know how he is so loyal and Fisk sees him as a friend instead of just an employee
Man, your words on the Daredevil origin missing the gangster and the separation of the character from the Punisher are hilarious in hindsight here now with the second season.
The first season was amazing. I loved the characters, I loved the fight scenes. Everything. That fight between Daredevil and Nobu was fucking amazing.
The fight scene at the end of episode 2 with the tracking shot was really impressive, especially for television.
Hauled ass at 8:20, great video dude, and now seems like i'll be in for a good time this weekend.
After all these years, I still watch it again
I was a bit hesitant going in, but after the first episode I was hooked. I can't think of a bad performance by anyone with the stand out being Vincent D'Onofrio being a favorite for me. Every scene he's in you're just waiting for shit to go down. I can't imagine anyone else doing this role this much justice.
I shudder to think what Mark Waid has done. I just got blocked by him on Twitter when I criticized him for his position on the Calgary Expo/Honey Badger fiasco. He called me a "sick fuck".
I shall wear that title with pride.
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Charles Shell Mark Waid is a true SJW asshole. I used to love the guy because of Birthright but goddamn is that man a prick or what?
I don't know. I honestly share a lot of their views but I'm not an asshole about it. Blocking people, calling GG a hate movement, completely fucking up Daredevil and having SJW's fawn over it, and just being a prick to his fans online is about as much as I can take.
I used to be a comic book nerd since I was 5 years old, I'm 32 now. But since this influx of progressive types, the industry just feels like it's alienating its older readers and catering to the SJW brigade. I can't can;t pick up a comic book anymore without getting annoyed. Sigh, I really do miss good comics.
***** stop disillusioning me!!! 😭
I JUST finished the last episode, having never been much of a fan of comics myself, I feel inclined to go and checkout everything in your wonderful '10 Essential Daredevil Comics' Thanks a lot Razor, new content from you is always appreciated.
Good review Razor. This is for sure in my top 5 shows on air right now. And thank you for ripping Devin Faraci a new one. That man is a biased contrarian asshole of the highest order. With Daredevil, he was already hating on the show on Twitter beforehand because it was based off Frank Miller's work on the character (he hates Miller and dark and gritty superhero stuff) and he grew up with Stan Lee's run.
Daredevil in this show is a better Green Arrow than the one from Arrow.
Arrow pretty much dropped the 'looking out for the little guy' subtext after season 1, and Daredevil is doing it better than Arrow ever did.
I would have liked for the fight scenes to be shot better, but that’s something that afflicts live action Marvel media at large, and one of the few areas where live action DC reigns supreme. Most of the fights in this season were poorly lit (which understandable but still kind of a problem), full of cuts, and sort of...zoomed in? Like I’m pretty sure there blows that we only half got to see.
I liked it overall, eager to start season 2 now that I’m several years behind, lol.
I was really surprised how brutal this show turned out to be. Gives me hope for a possible Punisher return
Yeah fuck Badass Digest.
EXCELLENT review! Dude you are KILLING it! Every video you put out is excellent, even on the rare occasion I mildly disagree on points you are still entertaining and insanely well worded and researched. Keep up the great content dude!
Holy shit I forgot how good the wire was
Great review. One of the biggest things that I love about this show is that they have taken the side characters such as Foggy and Karen and made them more than just dependents waiting around when Daredevil is not kicking ass or needing to be saved all the time. Everyone in this show feels like a person that you could write a Champions character on complete with loads of disadvantages. I had to watch the Fisk episode three times with the superb writing of DeKnight in showing us the man rising out of the shadows and the great parallels to Murdock.
One thing that I think I would love to see is Punisher get this kind of treatment and intersect well with butting heads with Daredevil.
I just discovered you right now for the first time and all I can say is WOW! Sometimes, you go onto short burst of bigger english words than my eleventh grade AP english teacher ever said in class. hahaha. Sorry if that doesn't make complete sense. I'm sure you understood what I meant.
Immediately subscribed btw.
I noticed when you are actually positive your videos do much better.
Hope more things bring out this side, it does all of us better.
Loving the hell out of this review! I'm currently in the middle of my own episode-by-episode review of the series and I must say, your eloquence shames me just a tad. One thing I wanted to comment on, in your complaint about why Matt never goes after the Fixer's crew, the only thing I could think of is, maybe they weren't comfortable with 12 year old Matt tearing through the Fixer's gang... but they might be okay with a 16 year old Matt doing it. In Man Without Fear, Matt & Foggy are in college 2 years after his ill-fated revenge mission. Sure, season 1 says that Matt first decided to become a vigilante after leaving L&Z, but that doesn't preclude him finding the Fixer during his hormonal teens and taking care of business. Sure, we won't get Stick admonishing him for his actions, but it might actually be better if Matt takes himself to task in that moment and chooses never to kill. I could easily see that as being a relevant flashback in a storyline that deals with him flirting with the dark side (aka, Elektra), PLUS they could use the flashback of the hooker falling to her death as an origin point to bring Typhoid Mary into the series (since, y'know, that was her).
Damn.....what a well articulated review ! ......need to brush mine up...still new in the game my first one of many to come. I love this show
And people were worried that "Disney" was just gonna shove everything from Deadpool to Punisher right into the Vault never to be seen again XD
what really drew me into Matt Murdock / daredevil is that in a way he is a sadist constantly trying to convince himself that he doesn't do this for pleasure and he doesn't but deep down there is that feeling that he can't stay away from that's never really been there before I like it in fact I love it
I actually thought about this show the day after watching it. The Kingpin was the finest performance I have seen for a long time. I remember saying to my housemate "mate, that was good, no that was 'the Wire' good.
Personally, I don't think the fights were as good as people are saying they are (mainly to do with shit like him being clearly exhausted, then doing a ridiculous flip off a wall instead of just punching the guy next to him), and I'm still getting used to Kingpin who seems more like a big manchild than who I was expecting to find (and while that's all well and good, he's a bit too emotional about his decisions throughout). I think that last point would have benefitted from us seeing a bit of Wilson's life before he met Vanessa, as all of his "coworkers" say he's slipping but we don't actually see what he was like before. I mean, his downfall was pretty much that he chose emotion over logic when confronted by that one guy, when a criminal mastermind like him should have been able to think of another way out of it. I'm also not sold on the suit yet (seems a bit plump, though it might be the height of the actor himself giving that impression).
Really good show though and those are pretty much my only big-ish problems with it, so I'm looking forward to how the next season does. It is a Netflix show after all so I wasn't expecting it's first season to be absolutely perfect anyway.
But it didn't make any sense during the scene. Doing flips is one thing, but having a guy right next to you and being exhausted and then choosing to do a flip off the wall that's further away to do the same thing doesn't make any sense. I'm referring to the hallway scene.
Mustering the strength to do something incredible even when exhausted isn't as uncommon as you think, especially in moments of high octane action where an individual's adrenaline level can be at an all time high.
Jonah Drake My point isn't the effects of adrenaline, it's the functionality of the attacks he does. They don't make any sense for what he wants to do in the fight. If someone's standing in front of you and you want to hit them, you don't take a step back and jump off the wall to do it, no matter how sick it looks.
***** You gotta stop man, you're obliterating my sides.
Christ, is there anything Devin Faraci ~isn't~ wrong about?
Welp, I'm sold. Time to check this shit out.
Thanks RazorFist. Keep up the awesome videos!
Ty Razorfist, i was Very hesitant to check this out in the day and age of everything having to revolve around "the something" and i am sure you know which "the something" i am talking about. But i just started the series, see you back in 13 hours.
Thanks for the recommendation. I hadn't gone with Netflix for a while, but I resubscribed to give the show a shot and it did not disappoint. Second time you've recommended something I've thoroughly enjoyed (the first being Thief 2).
For anyone who does in fact bitch about the black and red suit in this show, they made it pretty clear that the suit wasn't finished, but that Matt needed it early. I assume that's why it has so much black in it. I assume when he takes it back and gets it completed, it'll look like a comic perfect representation of itself.
First of all, Razorfist, I just rediscovered you, and I don't know why I ever stopped watching. You're reviews are great.
Second, It seems that that Farazi guy has never heard of Star Trek: TNG or DS9, or even the x-files. Those shows had 45 minute episodes but with 25 episodes a season. 13 episodes is peanuts, but I'm assuming that Farazi is used to HBO and its 10 eps a season.
Just started watching...agree about deadwood
Deadwood had good dialogue writing for one reason. Deadwood actually followed the real history of Deadwood so it left lots of extra time to work on the Dark Wit delivered by Ian McShane. Damned good show!
Well, I'm someone who never followed the Daredevil series of Marvel but has only seen the Ben Affleck movie as well finishing Daredevil Season 1 mainly on your recommendation and after your Top 10 Daredevil stories a few months ago.
Though I would agree to his resolve to not killing, I felt they've at least put in the effort of why he doesn't due to him being constantly ridiculed by his mentor, Sticks.
"I wanted a soldier. You wanted a father." That line alone was strong enough for this origin story.
After watching and what I'm getting from your view on the reviewers, it feels as if everyone was expecting Matt Murdok and Wilson Fisk to be their respective alter egos by the end of Episode 1 or Episode 2 with following episodes to be Daredevil teaming up with Spider-Man and Episode 4 and 5 has him dealing with Elektra and Bulls-eye. As if he's tackling on "villains-of-the-day". I liked the well-paced episodes that delve into everyone's moral ambiguity, emotional context, and resolve to fight against something bigger than them. I miss Ben.
I liked the contrast you've made how Matt started off alone then ended up with "everything" while Wilson started off with "everything" and was left alone. I loved that every villain or ally were competent and not just "canon-fodder" to sit on the side-lines. Enemies fought very well against Matt/Daredevil, allies of Matt or Wilson went out on their own to find out what's going on that could make or break them. I miss Ben.
All around, my interest was to watch how the martial arts was in this Season. After watching good series such as this; I feel seasons should build up all the way on the events happening and end on that note (be it a full closure or a cliffhanger segwaying into the next Season). Effectively creating a story arc(s). Heavy focus was on Matt and Wilson and every episode truly showed their character evolution or degradation.
What really pulls me in with a story like this is when you have two characters "argue" their conflicting views and I mean a valid argument but morals are called into question.
"Am I right for doing this? Is he really our savior? Am I just like him? Am I really the savior?" Combined with the narrative, martial arts, atmosphere, and characters brings this Daredevil to life for me.
R.I.P. Ben
I've gotta say, I'm really grateful for your insistence on a social media blackout. This show is fucking amazing.
As much as I’m hating Netflix right now and have even cancelled my over decade long subscription because of the kiddie porn they uploaded in even more pissed at marvel for taking away the rights to the marvel shows.
Really good review Razorfist thanks on the stick in i always wondered why he doesn't kill nobody which i do have a gripe with him and Batman for that same reasoning too but I still like these kind of characters. U also like his friend Fogg too which i an surprised because those kind of characters sometimes fall flat but everything they did on thatcshow was top notched especially that old boy reference lol.
My ears perked when I heard Devin "Virtue Signal" Faraci's name. By the way, how's he doing these days?
Alright, so I watched this the other day and checked out at the spoilers. Now I'm back, and holy shit. Yeah, it was damn good.
I'm not a cape fan, or comic fan for that matter. I know next to nothing about this, and the spoiler train didn't run me over since I ignored pretty much everything. I hadn't even planned on watching this. Imagine my surprise when fucking Gomer Pyle was the Kingpin. And you know, I think he really was the best thing about this. I'm a sucker for villains, and he played it damn well. All I remember of the Kingpin was the guy I would occasionally see in the cartoons bear hugging Spiderman to death. The way he always had that concerned/sad look when he was doing things. Plus, he was intimidating. As a 5' 6" guy you tend to notice when the bigger fellas move their weight around. Even growing up with constant self defense classes and techniques, and knowing how to handle myself in most situations, it was still unsettling to see him just fucking man handle damn near everyone. And I liked that. That's good television.
On the costume. I'm probably way the hell off base here, but it kinda reminded me of the Dark Brotherhood outfit from Skyrim. Tight suit, black with muted red/almost burgundy patches on the shoulders. I dunno. Fucking great show, though. Best stuff I've seen in a long time.
From Private Pyle to King Pin God damn what a fuckin ride following Vincent D'onofrio's career.
It only took me one look at the panel shown at 0:51 and I immediately cringed. I'd rather be forced to watch a double feature of Ben Affleck's _Daredevil_ and the _Elektra_ spinoff for a week straight _Clockwork Orange_-style than read whatever festering shitpile of a comic that illustrated abomination came from!
Danny Tyson Sadder Still?
That's widely considered to be the _high water mark_ for Mark Waid's Daredevil run.
***** Oh god, that's so bad! What was all the feminist stuff in the new comics that I keep hearing about?
Well I paused the video and binged the first season. I am glad I did. My attention is difficult to hold and this show kept my eyes glued to the screen from the first scene to the last. This was good advice. I now get to watch the rest of the review.
Regarding the suit, they are going with a more realist approach towards it, Batman Begins did it with people enjoying it. If it was simply red leather they would repeat the film and I think they don't want that. For me it worked pretty well.
As for the Ice cream sequence Razor... That is how Matt Murdock remembers why Stick left him. The whole episodes and sequence are from Matt's memory. I still think they can explore this story in second season.
It's a great first season but this show has in inherit advantage in the fact that it has 13 hours to develop characters and plot points as opposed to a movie 2.5.
I expect to see Electra and Gao. I don't know much about daredevil but he is a hero I'm glad to learn about.
My favorite part of this show was gao. The entire season the subtle hints about how dangerous she was.
Vanessa even in the comics is dangerous? Never knew that
Razorfist, will you do a retrospective on the 3 seasons of Deadwood?
Finished the season just in time to fully appreciate this review.
*Inhales deeply, sighs. Goes to watch Daredevil again*
They did skip huge chunks of his origin story. Expect them to return to it and really delve into the origin. I could see him eventually goaded through the confessional. I'm sure they're using the bracelet excuse merely to add some more personal connection between Matt and Stick while leaving the reality of Stick's abandonment open.
The only thing I can say I wanted more out of the show that I felt lacking was more court drama. I do love that stuff and I would like to see the show do more of it while they tie it in with the superhero stuff.
I'm really not one for crime dramas or live action superhero shows but this series is excellent on a variety of levels. The actor playing kingpin absolutely made that character perfectly multifaceted. Some heros/villians have more than "I do good/evil because, it's the right/wrong thing to do" but just because they're developed a little more doesn't automatically mean they're outstanding, this Daredevil series is. From the main to the supporting cast, continuity, plot, just everything about it. I watched the entire season and not once do I remember thinking: "okay, that part is sub-par and could have done better." The series doesn't feel rushed and the parts that slow down a little enhances the telling of the story per episode and to the overall story. Then there's the Kingpin. A bad guy who truly believes he is the good guy, a good guy willing to do what it takes to make his vision a reality. Intelligent, calculating, methodical and strong both mentally and physically. He isn't perfect and he knows it. Always trying to play to his strengths and keep his weaknesses hidden deep down and far away. Like an anvil he remains cool and undamaged no matter how many times he is struck....until that one button of his is pushed, threatening his mom, his girl or his vision of hell's kitchen should be (okay, okay, he's got more than one mental "launch all nukes now" button or more accurately several isolated arming circuits that all do the same thing, arm every silo and all slaved to the one big, candy apple red, master launch button that simply reads: "commit"
It is great. FYI most The Wire was showed in west Bmore because they couldn't do it in east side. The worst side.
It did a good job but those that are aware its comical.
And Scott Glenn is great
First off, thank you kindly for the recommendation of this excellent show, I'm two episodes in and loving every minute.
One thing I'd like to add about the fight scenes is that Daredevil clearly takes an ass kicking every time he goes toe-to-toe with the bad guys. Whereas in the batman movies he's basically invincible until some dipshit gets a lucky shot with a knife, Daredevil trades blows with his enemies and often has to haul himself off the ground to keep going. This is excellent because it reinforces exactly what they keep telling you the whole show. Murdocks take hits, but always get back up.
Would love to see your opinion on the movie, the movie was.... ok, but the series to me was a huge surprise. I thought it was going to be crap before it came out, but I've never been hooked by a series so much since The Sopranos.
The way You were describing the look of and atmosphere of the show. I think how better it might have been placed in a TMNT movie or show. Since the 2003 one but that just my opinion tho.
Did you not think to mention or just not know that basically EVERYONE loves Christopher Reeve's Superman costume and him in it? That was pretty much universally liked. And the silver lines on the Spider-Man costume as well as the material are big changes.
Just finished up my first run through today - excellent stuff. I plan on revisiting twice before it's relaunch in April 2016. Three really cool things to ponder (keep in mind I have never read the comics):
1. The Punisher. He's confirmed. If Fiske's portrayal is anything to go by, how brutal can they possibly go with Punisher's potrayal without it being too intense for a series (even a Netflix series)?
2. Elektra is confirmed. Do you think they'll keep her more than a season? Stick only featured in one episode. Or could they perhaps be using her to eventually launch a spin off?
3. Gow. Easily the most frightening figure in Hell's Kitchen in my opinion. Could she return?
I also liked your interpretation of the white painting. But here's another to consider; could white not also be the colour of whitewashing? Keeping in mind that up until he meets Vanessa he wears all black. I don't think this is arbitrary. Personally, the wall for me is a demonstration of the denial Fiske is in by thinking he is doing the city good when he is in fact Hell's Kitchen's black plague.
Try Whistling This Honestly he is the lesser if all of the evils of hells kitchen. I cant help but wonder just like Dr. Doom that if he finally did win that the world would be a better place for it.
I do regret that they omitted the Fixer subplot. I was hoping to see that properly adapted, but I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Amazing review and amazing show.
I am not sure if its a coincidence that you put Anthem in the video just a few days after I asked you about their Mythos but I sure aint complaining.
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I freaking love this show, I can't wait for season 2. Your review is very accurate in my opinion but I'm biased cause I like your stuff it's not full of pretentious hipster shit nowadays. I give Daredevil and Rageholic 2 thumbs up.
Huh, I had no idea you were into film noir. My favorite is either Gun Crazy or Out of the Past
While i don't disagree with your opinion on Waid's run on Daredevil, i just want to point out to people not familiar with his other work that he is still a pretty good writer, he just doesn't get Daredevil's character in the same way Loeb doesn't get cosmic marvel, i heavily recomend reading Waid's work for dc which is fenomenal, specially Kingdom Come, 52 weeks and Superman Birthright
Ups i fucked up there, i meant Bendis doesn't grasp cosmic marvel, not Loeb
Agreed. Waid is at his best when writing bright and sunny heroes like Superman and Flash.
Comparatively, I believe Frank Miller should be kept far far away from Superman...even before the man took his current downturn into self parody.
***** I prefer Waid's Flash and Fantastic Four myself .
Thanks Razorfist. I'll bury myself in netflix and then return, when I've binged it.
The red daredevil costume was pretty good, but it doesn't fit the show's established lighting and color pallet as well as the black ninja outfit. Black just blends in with the dark, shadowy setting.
Lol Stick's left hand moves behind when he swears, crossed fingers?
Hey Razor. I loved the series as well and was wondering what are your thoughts on possible storylines for season 2.
I think it'd be great if they adapted issues 170-172 from Miller's run. I don't know if the storyline in those issues has been given a name(like how 227-232 are the Born Again story), but it essentially deals with the Kingpin returning to New York and being forced to be the top crime boss again. I loved that story and thought it was right when Daredevil went full crime drama and I couldn't stop reading every issue after.
Thanks for introducing me to DD by the way. I just got started with the Guardian Devil storyline.
I get the feeling the fixer subplot will be a kind of flashback job in the next season.
After viewing the end of episode 2 I'm really interested to see what the Iron Fist show will be like. 13 episodes of The Raid will be fine
Since we are talking spoilers
I'm actually sad that prostitute didn't get thrown out the window. Typhoid Mary was in one of my favorite Deadpool stories and I was looking forward to seeing her in season 2
I liked the daredevil Netflix show, and it's been a long time since I have seen good old private pyle be in something else then law and order, if you ask me he fit the kingpin role great.
I have a feeling that some Sarkeesian-types upon finishing episode 4 will likely say that the creators of the show were trying to teach us something else we could do with a car door.
I forgot to mention that on the point about the black spots on the Daredevil suit, the man who made it even stated that the suit was not 100% and that the black would provide the most protection, leading me to believe the plan was to cover most every area in the black armor then paint it all red which could easily happen. Even if it does not the suit is still awesome looking. Season 2 cannot come quick enough!
I do as well, but Matt does not want people to know he is blind and branding is very important when it comes to super heroes. I look forward to seeing the costume evolve though. Nothing is better than small tweaks to the costume that show a hero growing and adapting the suit to fit his needs.
***** He should still slink about in his new one haha. He just will look less like a ninja
I definitely enjoyed Daredevil but it was *significantly* darker than I went in expecting, as somebody not familiar with the source material (never was a comic reader)
I think the thing that impressed me the most was the *patience* of the writers.
Nothing was rushed. There was no pandering inclusion of a rogues gallery or monster of the week.
It was one complete, complicated narrative that fleshed out the characters very well.
Now, I don't think "monster of the week" is necessarily bad, I just think it gets so horribly misused as modern writers attempt to make each episode into a complete standalone story.
I think the the power of Daredevil was that each episode was just a piece of the whole. I hope it will serve as a master class for future superhero shows (as there seems to be a plethora incoming)
As much as I enjoyed the Flash and Arrow I think they lacked that... clarity of purpose displayed in Daredevil.
Cant wait for season 2
What happen around 12:03? There was a jump-cut when you were saying Punisher midway.
I really liked the fight choreography in daredevil. One of the best I've seen in a superhero series/movie in a long time. Cannot wait for season 2. HYPE TRAIN!
glad you liked it
As someone who has never really delved into comicbooks and has no reason to be hyped about daredevil, the show is in fact really good, i watched 10 of the episodes in one day.
great review as always rageaholic,i hope you heared that marvel confirmed daredevil season 2 with punisher and bullseye,maybe electra?blade,ghost rid...nah.
so please rageaholic make a video about it.
Falsetymology actually i tought it would be great to here hes toughts on season and possible cameos.
סמי גידו Dhe "Marvel Knights" imprint from back-in-dhe-day should have been strictly about non-super-powered characters, not just dhe low-selling ones.
I LOVE HOW IN DAREDEVIL THE PEOPLE HE FIGHTS CAN ACTUALLY KICK HIS ASS not like in some movies or other TV shows with street level superheroes where the henchmen go down in one hit.
i just saw the second episode, that hallway fight scene was amazing, almost as good as "the raid"
Hey, Razofist. The channel fwofcomics is doing a DD retrospective issue by issue.
So does anyone think that the inclusion of The Punisher at some point in the series would be a good thing?
IIRC, the Power Rangers were supposed to be a visual reference to superhero comics. If memory serves, they started out as comicbook superheroes.
So saying that Tokusatsu ripped them off is a bit of a stretch, Razor.
I'm not into the outfit, but that's more because I never really liked Daredevil's look to begin with
I mean on paper it sounds like a great outfit, but most iterations of it just make him look like red batman, especially the face part