worst part of DD canon
Karen CONSTANTLY putting herself into situations she cannot defend against, forcing other characters (men) to rescue her or die protecting her. Cool, cool, cool. Reinvent the damsel in distress trope but call it feminism because she subverts expectations by proactively putting herself into these circumstances, instead of them just happening to her.
I wish they had better plans and follow-through for the Hand.
DD (especially the series) is so famously grounded in realistic, street-level violence. But since it still exists in the Marvel universe, yes, there IS going to be overlap with the extraordinary and supernatural. And the Hand IS a Daredevil creation, as well as being a constant antagonist for him in the comics. I think it's perfectly natural they would come up in the series, and I think (absurd as it might seem) they could have worked if done right.
But they teased too cryptically in S1 (when they could have been laying a little more groundwork maybe). Then S2 came along and they gave too much all at once, cramming in a lot to: share time with the Punisher storyline and try to set up The Defenders. It very suddenly became "both feet in." I think they should have planned the release a lot better. I also think they could have.
Sorry, I'm very post-S2 rewatch right now. I know I'm not saying anything new. Most people feel this way. But I see a lot of those people say they shouldn't have done the Hand at all. No, I think it's fine. Matt is not some Amish superhero who has no contact with the world around him. Even the series itself starts off post-alien invasion thwarted by a god and other enhanced individuals. Matt exists in a smaller scale of that, but he still exists in it. Having the Hand is fine. They just needed to do it right, with better/slower build-up. (They also never reeeeally explained the Black Sky or "Substance" that keeps them alive.)
