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rheasilviaAm finally slowly approaching the final eps of Daredevil's second season, and my overwhelming feeling about it is...
... meh.
At this point, the endless fighting and shooting has really begun to bore me. Of course this is an action series, but somehow there's just no point to most of it; yet another fight scene with ninjas, yawn, yet another shooting while people are riddled with bullets and others crouch behind tables, sigh, fast-forward.
The eternal gloomy darkness of the Evil City also gets old (I get it already, jeeze). It's like New Gotham up in here.
Most of all, Matt annoys me. In this season, he has really let the strings of his life slide from his grasp, and seems to be pretending that the ways he is messing up are inevitable - the natural result of his Heroic Calling (capitalization his). He seems like a hopeless adrenaline junkie looking for excuses to me, continually letting the people who rely on him down because it's more important to him to get his fix.
And then, when it turns out there IS a limit to how much his friends will take in terms of being let down when they really NEED him, and then be served lame bullshit lies and vague patronizing not-answers, he decides that the solution is to just cut everyone out of his life entirely. It's too dangerous!! Boy-o, that is not actually the problem here. *headdesk* You don't get my sympathy for wallowing in pseudo-heroic self-pity about being so self-sacrificingly heroic and so necessarily alone, sniff sniff, when it's all your own idiocy and addictive behavior. Get down off that cross already, we need the wood more than your drama.
I do like the Punisher. I always liked the Punisher.
I also really like Karen. She is awesome. So is Foggy, and his corporate lawyer girlfriend has potential.
Also, show, GOOD GOD, what is it with you and the horrible racial stereotypes when it comes to Asians? You could at least have added ONE non-evil non-mob non-martial-artsy Asian character, just to show you're aware not every single Asian person is always an evil scheming mafiosi and/or evil mystical ninja.
I have eps 12 and 13 left to watch, and am actually not sure whether I particularly mind spoilers at this point. Maybe just avoid any really major ones if you comment? Thanks!
... meh.
At this point, the endless fighting and shooting has really begun to bore me. Of course this is an action series, but somehow there's just no point to most of it; yet another fight scene with ninjas, yawn, yet another shooting while people are riddled with bullets and others crouch behind tables, sigh, fast-forward.
The eternal gloomy darkness of the Evil City also gets old (I get it already, jeeze). It's like New Gotham up in here.
Most of all, Matt annoys me. In this season, he has really let the strings of his life slide from his grasp, and seems to be pretending that the ways he is messing up are inevitable - the natural result of his Heroic Calling (capitalization his). He seems like a hopeless adrenaline junkie looking for excuses to me, continually letting the people who rely on him down because it's more important to him to get his fix.
And then, when it turns out there IS a limit to how much his friends will take in terms of being let down when they really NEED him, and then be served lame bullshit lies and vague patronizing not-answers, he decides that the solution is to just cut everyone out of his life entirely. It's too dangerous!! Boy-o, that is not actually the problem here. *headdesk* You don't get my sympathy for wallowing in pseudo-heroic self-pity about being so self-sacrificingly heroic and so necessarily alone, sniff sniff, when it's all your own idiocy and addictive behavior. Get down off that cross already, we need the wood more than your drama.
I do like the Punisher. I always liked the Punisher.
I also really like Karen. She is awesome. So is Foggy, and his corporate lawyer girlfriend has potential.
Also, show, GOOD GOD, what is it with you and the horrible racial stereotypes when it comes to Asians? You could at least have added ONE non-evil non-mob non-martial-artsy Asian character, just to show you're aware not every single Asian person is always an evil scheming mafiosi and/or evil mystical ninja.
I have eps 12 and 13 left to watch, and am actually not sure whether I particularly mind spoilers at this point. Maybe just avoid any really major ones if you comment? Thanks!
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Date: 2016-05-06 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-06 09:55 pm (UTC)The series isn't actually bad, IMO; I am very easily bored with fight scenes, and the main character has never really clicked with me for a variety of reasons. It's still worth a look if you like comic book adaptations. It may very well work better for you!
Personally, I feel that this series is at its best with the supporting characters *not* solely associated with the "mysterious Daredevil backstory and conspiracy" plot, which I suspect is partly because of the actors and partly because these characters aren't so weighed down with decades-old clishés the series has adopted from the comic.
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Date: 2016-05-07 04:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-27 12:13 pm (UTC)I confess that I am not sure how I feel about the news that Matt's martyr complex is not some bright idea the TV series came up with. How is the character presented in the comics - is he painted as a "legimtimate" martyr, or just a self-justifying adrenaline junkie?
I wasn't certain whether the series meant viewers to follow Matt's view on the matter, or whether he really was intended to come off the way he did to me - in other words, as someone who can't help but headlessly and senselessly run into danger at every opportunity because it's the only thing that makes him feel alive. To me he really did look like an addict in a descending spiral this season, complete with the pattern of growing unreliability, selfish heedlessness, transparent excuses, social seclusion and all the rest.
Nothing heroic about that whatsoever. It'd really displease me if viewers were meant to BELIEVE Matt's self-justifications (he is sacrificing himself for the greater good!)... as I rather suspect they are. :-/
And OMG, those Evil Faceless Ninjas. The more I think about it the less I can believe that nobody involved in the production ever thought to wonder whether this might possibly be slightly racist. (I didn't even realize Elektra was meant to be Asian until I saw the actress portraying her child self, BTW. Great casting. / irony Although she doesn't help either, being a murderous violent sociopath herself and all.)