tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post1197560751294620800..comments2024-03-29T09:13:52.064-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Daredevil: Rabbit in a Snow StormBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-81941516508072517002017-08-08T21:03:23.962-04:002017-08-08T21:03:23.962-04:00The first shot of the episode was great. But the f...The first shot of the episode was great. But the fight scene that followed it? Definitely not my favorite. God, what is the need of such graphic violence? Ok, Stephen S. DeKnight is behind the wheel now, I get it. But I hope this doesn’t become Daredevil: Spartacus. I closed my eyes and even took my headset off after the guy’s arm was broken.<br /><br />Apart from that too explicit display of violence, DeKnight continued the amazing work Goddard started. I noticed I wrote “I love” too much while writing this comment, so I organized it and here is what I love:<br /><br />- The opening credits. It’s one of my favorites ever.<br /><br />- That Karen has her own storyline now. It gives her more agency and makes her a more interesting character. In fact, all the principal characters become more interesting at each passing episode. Even new ones, like Ben, are so fleshed out from the get go, that it’s easy to like them and want to know what they do next.<br /><br />- That all the episodes so far are built as standalone. See, serialized TV is great, but this show is giving me some good old standalone stories while building the major arc, and I love that approach. There is “I love” again, I can’t help it.<br /><br />- Charlie Cox’s voice. I know I complimented his voice before, but it’s so sexy. And Cox makes good use of it. I mean, his eyes are hidden most of the time, but he does a great job compensating that with his tone and inflection. Good acting there.<br /><br />I finally remembered where I saw Foggy before. Elden Henson played Pollux in The Hunger Games: Mockinjay! Now I like Foggy even more.<br /><br />And…<br /><br /><i>They took Wesley’s cheque and they cashed it.</i><br /><br />This surprised me! By this, I mean the English. “Cheque” is the word in Portuguese we use for, well, “cheque”. I totally thought that in English the word was “check”. Well, you live you learn. :)Lamounierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00225447169375363236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-62954025455751589912015-07-11T00:39:04.507-04:002015-07-11T00:39:04.507-04:00Josie Rewatch Comment:
Wilson Fisk is Keyser Soze...Josie Rewatch Comment:<br /><br />Wilson Fisk is Keyser Soze!<br /><br />Also: interesting theme of sight running through this episode. <br /><br />--Matt talks about how some people can see the line between good and evil, right and wrong quite clearly. For others, it's a blur. <br /><br />--Vanessa asks Fisk what he sees when he looks at the overpriced painting. Or, more specifically, she ask him what he feels when he looks at it.<br /><br />--Fisk sees himself: alone.<br /><br />--That theme of reflection is picked up in the opening of the last fight scene: Matt thinks he has the jump on Healy, but Healy sees Matt's reflection in the car's back window. <br /><br />--Paired with the whole "Fisk sees himself" thing, we have to wonder if the show is drawing an implicit comparison between Matt and Healy. Both take money from Fisk, albeit for different reasons. Both have some questionable moral systems, albeit in different ways. They both seem to enjoy it: Matt claimed as much in the previous episode.<br /><br />--Healy kills himself by stabbing himself in the eye with that protruding shard. <br /><br />--In doing so, he's basically completing the act (on himself) that Matt began in the previous episode with the Russian henchman, when he stabbed him in the trigeminal nerve.<br /><br />--And, of course, the whole damage to the eye socket, Matt is blind thing. <br /><br />--Which is related to the secret-identity thing. When Matt and Fogey are learning about how to defend their second client, Matt isn't wearing his glasses. When he hears Karen come in, he puts them on. It's like he's got identities under identities. With Fogey, he's more "revealed" than he is with Karen.Josie Kafkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892717530356699008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-29938369319968545962015-05-01T13:23:27.712-04:002015-05-01T13:23:27.712-04:00I hear you Josie, it's tough not to race throu...I hear you Josie, it's tough not to race through the whole season again. But I'm trying to absorb each episode for what it is mostly so I can better comment on it here when its review gets posted :)Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03943327351499919454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-49548546747340317902015-05-01T13:14:55.029-04:002015-05-01T13:14:55.029-04:00Patrick, I binge-watched the whole thing, too. I&#...Patrick, I binge-watched the whole thing, too. I'm got a second binge-watch planned for when all the reviews are up. I consider that the closest I can come to "pacing myself."<br /><br />The bowling alley scene was so awesome.Josie Kafkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892717530356699008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-28139320870372396662015-05-01T10:58:43.678-04:002015-05-01T10:58:43.678-04:00After binge-watching this show the weekend it came...After binge-watching this show the weekend it came out, I'm now going back and watching it again at a more deliberate pace so I can take in each episode more individually. What I took away most from this episode is that even if we got zero superhero stuff, I could watch Charlie Cox, Elden Henson & Deborah Ann Woll(man it is so good to have her back on my screen) headline a "Nelson & Murdock" legal drama and be just as hooked. The three of them are all fantastic, both individually and as a team. Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03943327351499919454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-47593977332180932372015-04-30T15:21:05.685-04:002015-04-30T15:21:05.685-04:00An interesting change of pace from the first two e...An interesting change of pace from the first two episodes. I enjoyed meeting Ben, and really love your thoughts on the Ben-Silvio scene, Mark.<br /><br />It's interesting to compare Mrs. Fisher's choice in this episode to the choice Matt's dad made in the previous one. You note that she she's letting her husband's murder be swept under the rug and is willing to let the people responsible get away with it, while Karen is not. But in fairness, she has her children to consider, which she points out to Karen. She wants them to be safe, secure, and to continue to be there for them, especially since they already lost their father. So she decides to accede to the criminal element. Whereas Jack was unwilling to do that, ultimately leaving Matt with the gambling winnings from the fight, but no father. <br /><br />Which is the better choice? A tough call, obviously. As a mother of two, I have tremendous sympathy for Mrs. Fisher in this circumstance, and think I might make the very same choice, no matter how much it pained me to let my husband's killers roam free.Jess Lyndehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165015932507376656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-68037039251647679992015-04-30T12:48:25.396-04:002015-04-30T12:48:25.396-04:00I'm always overwhelmed by Victor D.- he really...I'm always overwhelmed by Victor D.- he really pulls off the final scene, mixing threat with vulnerability and coming off as this unbelievably sexy monster. <br /><br />Great review!JRShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485752215710916988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-25236551928867076722015-04-27T18:55:33.960-04:002015-04-27T18:55:33.960-04:00What a fantastic opening paragraph, Mark. I laugh...What a fantastic opening paragraph, Mark. I laughed out loud.<br /><br />This was an interesting episode as it seemed that everyone was alone. Matt, obviously, as no one knows who he really is. Foggy, because Matt was making decisions without him and generally annoying him. Karen, because she is going out alone to talk to people she might not want to.<br /><br />The final suicide was horrific to watch. Network television this certainly is not.ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843864158239536750noreply@blogger.com