(EEEK, why did I not see this comment until now? I am so sorry! I did not mean to ignore you.)
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.)
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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.)