May 19, 2026

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Review

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• 0:01:43 - Vox vs Shocker duel results
• 0:04:06 - Who's Who?
• 0:08:26 - Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Review
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Hi, and welcome to the Dynamic Dual Podcast, a Rotten

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I almost said I'm Marvelous Joe, but we're not doing

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that anymore, and I'm his twin brother Jonathan. In this episode, guys,

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we're going to review Daredevil Born Again season two and

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not Punisher one Last Kill, which we were almost about

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to do. This was originally supposed to be a double

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feature episode, but we decided not to go that direction. Yeah,

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the two projects are very different from each other and

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we didn't want to kind of muddle things up by

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jamming them both into one episode. So Punisher one Last

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Kill is going to have its own review, which is

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going to be released in a few weeks. This episode's

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all about Daredevil. Can't wait to talk about it because

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it's always a good show. But first, our AI co

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Thanks to AJMK. In our last episode, we did a

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review of the film The Amazing Spider Man Too, during

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which we discussed a lot of characters in that film

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that appeared in the comic books and then asked who

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you thought would make a good matchup for some of

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those characters. There are a lot of responses. One character

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in particular that stood out on the Spider Man side

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that we never got to a duel with was Shocker,

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and when trying to pair him with a DC character,

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I thought Vox might make a good pairing. If you're

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not familiar with Vox, his real name is Mel Duncan.

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He's a former Team Titan who fought as Harold and

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later as Vox. He's the husband of Bumblebee, and he's

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a skilled boxer and hand to hand fighter. He used

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to use Gabriel's horn, but now he uses artificial lungs

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in a voice box to unleash these sonic blasts and

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open dimensional portals. And I think everyone knows who Schocker is.

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He's Hermann Schultz, who is a self taught safecracker and

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engineer from the Bronx. And he built these vibroshock gauntlets

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while in prison. And he wears this like insulated cushioned

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suit that protects him from vibrations, so he shoots out

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these powerful shock waves. Super powerful though he wears a

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quilt yeah, because it's absorbent, so like he can also

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absorb kinetic energy that gets directed against him like punches

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and stuff. So he's cool. He's cool. His grandma made

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it for him. You're not gonna be talking shit about

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him when he beats your ass or Box's ass. I

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should say both. Well, let's see. We put both of

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these characters into our simulator and ran one thousand simulations

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aging nine K. The results please, Hey, you are, sir,

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the winner of the matchup between Box and Shocker is Shocker. Hell? Yeah,

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he won five hundred and thirty three matches, or fifty

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three point three percent of the time, compared to Box,

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who only won forty six point seven percent of the time. Now,

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Vox was a lot faster than Shocker because he could teleport,

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but Shocker also is able to create force fields with

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his shock waves, so we gave him the edge an

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evasiveness as well as the edge in intellect. But Vox

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was a better fighter. Ultimately, though, Shocker came ahead just barely.

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Are you shocked? Are you shocked by the result? Yeah,

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I really didn't know who was gonna win, and not

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that shocked. Not really, you should be. Before we get

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into a review, guys, let's give a quick breakdown of

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the comic book histories of characters that appear in Daredevil

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Born Against season two in a segment we call Who's who.

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Of course, appearing in Daredevil Born Against season two is

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Daredevil Now. Matt Murdoch was born in Hell's Kitchen, New York,

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to boxer Jack Murdoch and none Maggie Murdoch. After saving

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a blind man from a speeding truck, Matt was struck

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by radioactive waste that blinded him, but heightened his remaining

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senses to superhuman levels. A blind warrior named Stick trained

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him to control those senses and taught him martial arts.

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After Jack was murdered for refusing to throw a boxing match,

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Matt used his father's gear to become Daredevil, fighting crime

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at night while pursuing justice by day. As a defense

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attorney with law firm partner Foggy Nelson powers Wise. He

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has enhanced hearing, smell, touch, and taste that allow him

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to perceive his surroundings through a radar like spatial sense,

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giving him an unparalleled image of his physical surroundings and

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their chemical makeup. He can focus his senses with extreme precision,

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endure pain, and fight as one of Marvel's top martial artists.

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His walking kne converts into billy clubs that come with

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a grappling cable. Also in Daredevil Born Again season two,

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is the Kingpin. Wilson. Fisk grew up poor in New

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York City, teaching himself through stolen and borrowed books while

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enduring bullying for his size. After committing his first murder

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at the age of twelve, he trained obsessively in bodybuilding

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and combat, especially sumo, turning his body into a weapon.

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As a teenager, he formed a street gang and was

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recruited by crime boss Don Rigoletto. Fisk eventually murdered Rigoletto

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and seized his operations, building an empire that made him

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New York's kingpin of crime. A kingpin has no superpowers,

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but his massive body is nearly pure muscle, making him

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one of the strongest non enhanced humans alive. He's a

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highly trained fighter, skilled in sumo, judo, and habkito, capable

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of challenging Daredevil physically. His greatest asset is his genius intellect,

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his strategic mind, and his control over the city's organized crime.

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He occasionally uses hidden weapons, including a laser firing cane

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and a gas emitting stickpin. Yeah, we did a dual

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episode with him against the Penguin and Daredevil had a

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dual episode with Nightwink. We also did a duel with

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Bullseye against dead Shot now Bullseye. His real name is

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Benjamin Poindexter, who had a violent childhood marked by abuse

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and murder, reportedly killing his father and burning down his

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home with his mother inside, before passing through the foster

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system after high school. His uncanny aim earned him a

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shot in Major League Baseball, where he pitched a perfect

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game before killing the batter out of boredom. His talents

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drew the attention of US Intelligence, leading to work as

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a cover operative before he became an assassin for hire.

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As Bullseye, he worked for the Kingpin and became one

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of Daredevil's deadliest enemies murderer Elektra and later Karen page A.

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Bullseye is one of Marvel's greatest marksmen, able to turn

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nearly any object into a lethal projectile, including cards, paper clips, toothpicks,

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and even his own teeth. He's an expert hand to

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hand fighter with CIA and NSA training. He's skilled at

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striking pressure points, and he has an adamantium laced vertebrae

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after being dropped off of a roof by Daredevil. And finally,

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there's Jessica Jones, who was a midtown high school student

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when her family's car collided with a military vehicle carrying

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radioactive materials, which killed her parents and her brother and

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left her in a coma. When she awoke, she developed

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superhuman strength and flight. Inspired by Spider Man, Jessica became

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the costume hero Jewel until the Purple Man mentally enslaved

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her for eight months and used her in his crimes,

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leaving her traumatized and disillusioned with superhero life. After recovering

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with help from Captain Marvel, Jessica abandoned superheroics and became

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a private investigator, founding Alias Inn Investigations. She later resumed

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hero work, married Luke Cage and gave birth to their daughter,

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Danielle Cage. Her powers include enhanced strength and limited flight.

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She is also a capable street level fighter, skilled detective,

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and has some resistance to telepathic manipulation. Yeah, we picked

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Jessica Jones against Huntress in one of our more interesting duels.

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I think. Yeah, it was hard to know who to

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pit Jessica Jones up against, but I was pleased with

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that match. Yeah. That we've gone over most of the

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comic book characters that appear in Daredevil Born Again Season two.

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Let's go ahead and move into our main event and

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give our non spoiler review for Daredevil Born Again Season two. Okay.

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Daredevil Born Again Season two is an eight episode Disney

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Plus television series run by Dario Scartapaine and starring Charlie

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Cox and Vincentinafrio. It's a continuation of Born Against season one,

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which in itself is a continuation of the Dareduvil three

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season series that aired on Netflix about a decade ago,

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and holy shit, are we back. We reviewed daredbl Born

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Against season one last year and we gave it four stars,

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saying that it was, you know, comparable to the Netflix series,

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but fell just short of that greatness, mostly due to

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that season's unevenness caused by a behind the scenes retooling

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of the show during the twenty twenty three writers Guild strike.

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Despite the behind the scenes messiness, dared Devil Born Against

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season one had a great setup for a second season,

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where Daredubl and Karen Page began assembling a group to

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clantestinely take the fight to Mayor Fisk's administration. In season two,

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the war between dared Ubl and his allies against Kingpin

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throws New York into chaos as Fisk corrupts the criminal

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justice system with unlimited authority. Daredevil tries to fight back

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while evading pursuit, recruiting new allies, minimalizing the fallout, and

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contemplating the consequences for the city. And the lead up

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to this season, we learned that Jessica Jones was going

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to be in the show, and my mind started spinning.

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I remember because it sounded like maybe the season was

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going to be more of like A Defender's season two,

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with like Daredevil recruiting other superheroes to battle alongside him,

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and that would have been cool. But I don't want

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to betray anybody's expectations. I'll say that while Daredevil does

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team up with some other superheroes in this season, and

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at least one super villain, this is still very much

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Daredevil's show. Yeah, I like you, was also expecting to

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see a lot more of the Netflix character's return. That's

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what I thought season one was setting up. And while

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that didn't quite happened the way I thought it would,

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I was still really pleased with how overall Season two

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turned out. For sure, like the fanboy and me would

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have geeked out overseeing a Defender's reunion, but I think

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belongs in a Defender's show. I'm glad they focused on

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dart level here. The show has always leaned more towards

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substance than style, I think in that it prioritizes character

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driven exploration over a flashy action even though it does

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have some iconic action, but the fight for New York

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isn't about like an army of heroes against an army

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of corruption. What it really boils down is to the

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very personal battle between one man who will do anything

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for power, one man who will do anything to stop him,

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and the carnage left in the wake in both of

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their refusals to yield. Essentially, it's the city taking sides

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between Fisk and vigilantes in general, and it irrupts in

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a civil war. Yeah, there's a lot of people that

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get involved this season, but like I said, I think

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it still boils down to one man versus one man

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and how their personal viewd affects everything around them. And

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I really like that about Dartavl. Like in the comics,

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the feud between him and Kingpin has always felt really personal,

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So for them to translate that so well in this

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season was brilliant. In season one, the Kingpin and Daredevil

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tried to become something they weren't, and throughout those episodes

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they both rediscovered themselves as who they really were, you know,

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criminal and vigilante respectively. It was Daredevil's re emergence that

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led Kingpin to create his own personal militia and enact

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martial law in an attempt to root out and destroy

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his enemy, leaving all of New York as collateral damage.

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In this season, Daredevil recognizes that their terrible feud can

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only end with a terrible cost, either the destruction of

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the city or their own destruction. The end result hearkens

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to a couple of brilliant arcs and the comics. I'm

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really looking forward to see that play out in season three,

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which is already filming. But that's all to say that

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season two of Born Again ends with the bank. The

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whole thing escalates into this beautiful climax. I really enjoyed

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the latter half of the season, as it contains some

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truly jaw dropping action and heart wrenching drama that really

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has to be experienced if you're a fan of the show.

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The first half of the season I wasn't thrilled with

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apart from, you know, like great fight scenes, I think

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episodes two and three seemed to tread water story wise.

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I think you could actually go straight from the end

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of episode one into episode four and still get like

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ninety percent of what happens this season. Like Born Again,

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season two is almost the reverse of the Netflix startuple

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season two, where you know, on Netflix the first half

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was great and the latter half with the hand Ninja's

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was mid. But Born Again season two flips that, where

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the end was great, the first half was mid, and honestly,

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that's probably the better way to go. There was one

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in particular Game of Thrones level death that just had

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my jaw on the floor, Like, I did not see

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that coming and I was so heartbroken when it happened.

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There have been a lot of powerful death scenes throughout

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the course of this entire show, but this season in

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particular definitely had a couple of doozies, right, And I

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think those deaths would not have been as impactful if

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you didn't have the lead up in the first half. Well,

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it may have been boring. I think it's a necessary

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slog just so those characters get a little bit more development. Yeah,

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accept that for sure. But like, there were a few

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notable plot holes this season, and like plot conveniences dropped

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threads that happened without explanation or cause, especially side plots

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involving Deputy Mayor Daniel Blake, reporter bb Urick, Henchman, Buck Cashman,

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therapist Heather Glenn, and especially Matthew Lillard's character, who is

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a CIA fixer known as mister Charles. Like, I don't

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want to go into details and all those characters, but

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there was often some strange shit going on that made

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me think I had missed something. And then when I

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went back to revisit those episodes while writing this review,

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I realized that I did not miss anything, and whatever

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questions I had must have had answers that existed off screen,

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which is kind of unacceptable for a show of this caliber.

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The season was ambitious, and I definitely noticed that some

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of the connective tissue wasn't all there, Like even with

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a flashback episode in particular, we get the character of

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Buck's backstory, but his setup doesn't really resolve into anything,

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and you're not quite sure why they even brought him

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into the flashback. To be honest, it's just things like

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that where it's like, wait, now, why are these characters

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taking this side? When did that happen? We didn't get

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to see any of that. There's so much that happens

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off screen. How did this character know that this other

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character was going to be in this particular location so

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that they could kill said character, How did this character

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become this way? And what is the point of that? See,

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now I'm glad you're saying this, because I thought I

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was being nitpicky and that I just wasn't paying as

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much attention as I should have, assuming you would have

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answers for me, I guess that's not the case.

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No.

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Typically, when I do these reviews and I have like

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a lot of plothole questions, you and I will kind

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of like chat them over, but we have to go

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into spoilers in order to do that. So instead, I'm

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just gonna say that there probably are no answers, and yeah,

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this season does suffer from plot holes in its side plots.

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The main story, though, is super solid. Beyond the story,

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looking at the characters, dared Ubil was awesome this season.

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Charlie Cox is pure perfection as Matt Murdoch as always,

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as we've said many times before, the dude is pure

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charisma and earnestness. And a particular note here, I noticed

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the guy got fucking jacked for this season, like he

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and his trainer were working overtime. Because Daredevil is like

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traditionally depicted with a leaner, more acrobatic body, type, but

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here he was full on beast mode, like how Joe

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Cassada draws him in Daredevil Father, and his costume was

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pretty interesting as well. It was like an homage to

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the Shadowland arc from the comic books, where he was

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dressed in black, but in the comic books that was

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because he was corrupted by the hand Ninja clan, and

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I thought maybe in this season the character was gonna

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purposefully alter his costume black to signify the dark period

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that he was going through. But really the rationale for

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the black suit was actually that the red coloring was

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coming off through wear and tear, which I also thought

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was great because it signified the sort of like battle weariness. Yeah,

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somehow I always forget how good Charlie Cox is at

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playing both Matt Murdoch and Daredevil, but he brings man.

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Not only do I believe that he could pull off

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all of the stunts that Daredevil does, but he just

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brings so much raw emotion and heart to it, which

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is great for a character like Daredevil, who to me

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is always fit less in the superhero world and more

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in like the crime drama thriller world crime legal drama thriller. Sure, yeah,

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you know who else is great in their role. Vincentinarfio

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as Kingpin. As we mentioned before, in this season, like

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the hero, he undergoes extreme hardship, which did a good

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job of bringing him back to the force of nature

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that he was in the Netflix show that I think

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was sorely missing from Born Against season one because they're

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you know, he tried to tone it down a little

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bit as a politician. Here he's full on back like

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a hurricane. And the climax of this season with the

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Kingpin is probably like a top three Kingpin moment for me,

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it's just pure insanity. Oh my gosh, my jaw is

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on the floor at the very end. Also, I cannot

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believe what I was watching. I don't think this is

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a spoiler, but there's a boxing scene between the Kingpin

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and another guy, one of my favorite scenes in this

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whole season. Yeah, it's a charity boxing match. It was

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included in the marketing material for the season. Really well done,

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really well done. I don't know if that was Dnafrio's

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muscles in that scene, or if he wears like a

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bodysuit or something like that. But the Kingpin traditionally is

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always supposed to be like pure muscle underneath that big suit,

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and they kind of showed that off this season. Bullseye

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was back this season, although his arc this season did

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seem a little bit misguided. I'm sure intentionally so, but

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it felt at a character to me that said, Bullseye

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is like so mentally broken in this show and in

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the comic books that almost nothing he does can really

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be considered a surprise. He's kind of a wild card

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in that regard. Bullseye in the Daredevil series has got

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to be like top three Marvel villains on screen of

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all time. Every time he showed up, I was just riveted.

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It's almost like watching a horror film. And I think

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we've equated him to a horror type character in the past,

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where you just don't know how he's going to go

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about killing people, and he does it in the most

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creative ways. It's morbid, but like in the best kind

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of horror film way. Yeah, borders on fascinating seeing him

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in action. I'm sure a lot of people know that

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Jessica Jones shows up this season. It was teased in

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the marketing. I do feel that she had a lack

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of screen time. She doesn't show very often for those

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who were really excited to see her play a large

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role that just doesn't happen. But I will say that

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the reveal of what Jessica Jones has been up to

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since her show's season three on Netflix was very satisfying.

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It was kind of this like great culmination to her

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overall arc from her own show. I don't know why.

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To me, it felt like Kristian Rudder just had a

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hard time getting back into the Jessica Jones role for

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some reason. It just didn't feel like Jessica Jones to me.

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She felt almost like a caricature of her past role,

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like it kind of lacked the nuance and it was

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a little bit more heavy on the attitude. She seemed

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just a little bit more shallow, But that may just

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be because there was a long break between appearances. And yeah,

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I think she was set back into the role. Christian

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Ritter is a vampire. Looks like she has not aged

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a day, oh for sure for most of this cast.

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Actually the female lead of the show, of course, though,

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is Karen Page. And I just have to say, can

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she die already? Like anytime she was on screen, I'm like,

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why aren't you dead yet? Karen Page that's what you're

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famous for in the comics. Yeah, her death was a

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big deal in the comic books, in the Guardian Devil

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story written by Kevin Smith, and it kind of because

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it hasn't happened yet, but it's exceptionally harsh considering that

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Deborah an Wall is really damn good in the role. Nah,

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I'm tired of her. It's like the fact that they

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try and make her like this badass fighter who could

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go up against like shielded police officers is ridiculous to me.

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It's like you're a legal aid. Stop like trying to

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be a vigilante. Pick up a gun if you're gonna

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do it. I don't know. She does have a dark

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sight to her, but that also, you know, plays into

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her relationship with Frank Castle. She was kind of influenced

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by him. I think I guess particulularly. During the flashback

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episode this season, anytime Foggy was on screen, I was like,

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it should have been Karen Foggy. Oh jeez, I miss you.

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I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with you there. I

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think most people will take my side on it. I

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think I didn't like Karen, but I loved the action

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this season. I thought it was better than last seasons,

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particularly a Hallway esque battle between Daredevil and some armed guards.

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The way the camera moved and the way the whole

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thing was just choreographed. I have no idea how you

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could fathom something that amazing, because it was. I mean,

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there are several exceptionally well done Hallway fight scenes this season,

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