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Honestly, this season wasn't that good.

posted 5 years ago by TheReccher (343)
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I was this close to expressing this opinion on reddit, but that's become such a fanboy circle jerk I'm thinking I'll just go here.

I see a whole lot praise for this season. Over-the-top. Every nook and crevice of the internet is screaming it's the next Dark Knight (another overrated movie might I add). Maybe I'm out of touch. I absolutely adored the first two seasons. But I found this one dull, tired and un-engaging. Than it dawned on me. Season 3 was so badly advertised the only people who watched it were hardened fans.

And looking at the praise it gets. Daredevil's fanbase is starting to look more cultish the more posts I see from them. Whole lot of raising this show on a pedestal so that anything that isn't Daredevil can gravel at its feet. You can't even hint to the Netflix MCU or a comic book show without a million broken records swarming in. Daredevil is the only good thing evah. No it's not. And the more fanatical those posts are the more I feel my own sanity being restored.

Let's be objective. S3 was a tired, lazy rehash. There's isn't a singe original plotline or character arc. Everything is rehashed and recycled.

Kingpin tries to make Daredevil out to be a public enemy. Check.
Rookie Daredevil in ghetto costume getting beaten up by basic fodder. Check.
Underdog lawyers try to beat Fisk the legal way. Check.
Matt debates if he should go the easy immoral route and kill him. Foggy argues Check check.
Large sprawling talks about how dasterdly Fisk is. His last name said thirty times a minute. Check.
Karen wants to do a story. Ellison says it's bad for business. Check.
They take Fisk down anyway. Peace is restored and Foggy/Karen/Matt have a cheesy fwiendship scene by the end. CHECK.
Matt acts like a dick to his friends. They love him anyways cause he's complicated. Check.
Matt questions if he should give up his friends or if Stick was wrong. CHECK FOR ALL THREE SEASONS.

Are we really going to say this lazy writing is the literary coming of christ simply because it has the Daredevil name? It's been three seasons it hasn't dawned on horn head Stick was a godamn loon. It's been the same arc every season. They're so obviously lost on how to develop Daredevil's character they did a Born Again-ish arc to clearly say "ah screw it, just do season one again." I don't want to see Matt be an amateur again. Just give me a new story.

The Bullseye story was okay But I feel like I could map out every beat in his arc the moment I saw him. And I didn't buy for a second that the F.B.I. hired him. That's just ridiculous. Nadeem was...mildly interesting, but it's just another procedural/cop plot that's become a Netflix MCU cliche.

They were doing a Born Again ish story-line. I guess that's the closest thing to something fresh this whole season but, nothing really came of it. Didn't the comics invent a lot of interesting, fascinating ways for Kingpin to ruin Daredevil's life on a personal level. I wanted to see where his knowing Matt's identity would go. They didn't do a damn thing with it. Matt just makees a deal and it gets swept under the rug.

[–] JustinJackFlash (161) 5 years ago

I do agree that this season was overrated (Though I do think you are going a wee bit overboard).

I think each season has been a bit worse than the previous. And this was the first where I noticed big flaws. It's still very good but doesn't match the awesomness of season 1 and 2.

Bullseye was really well develeloped in the first half but was very underused in the second half and became little more than a glorified henchman. I'd say the first half of the season was better than the second half and the climax especially was quite underwhelming. And still no set piece matches that corridor fight in Season 1.

But the part I hated most was the episode giving Karen a dark backstory. It ruined her character as she is supposed to be a sheltered, everyday sort of person to contrast the dark, damaged characters and twisted world that she's entered into. She's kind of supposed to be the audiences way in to this world. It also took away a lot of the shock and drama from when she killed Wesley in Season 1.

There is a strange assumption with mature tv shows these days that every character has to have dark, heavy elements to their character. But you need some characters to be relatively normal. It doesn't mean they still can't have some sort of natural depth.

[–] bohemianroxie (2471) 5 years ago

A lot of things were left dangling as they didn't know they would be cancelled..

But look..you're free to your opinion and I'm free to mine. It's subjective after all..

When I enjoy something I'm not prone to nitpick and I immensely enjoyed this past season and all other seasons of Daredevil..

I thought Charlie Cox did an amazing and nuanced interpretation of Matt Murdock/Daredevil and I give kudos to all the accompanying cast and the writers as well.
It's just a step above all other tv superhero shows for that alone and deserved a longer life span.