claroso reblogged your post problem I’m having with Daredevil and added:
Hey, I hope you don’t mind if I throw my two cents in.
The source of Matt’s guilt and conflict is that his innate rage and his morality are drawn into sharp contrast. You have a good point there and I wanted to expand on that.
He has an amazingly kind and caring disposition. He is also very religious. I can’t speak for all denominations of Christianity or other religions, but Catholics believe that violence is only condoned in self-defense, and sometimes not even then. Violence is not okay, both because it hurts others and because it darkens your own soul. These are his morals.
But that doesn’t agree at all with his nature, his rage, his sense of justice. Unlike other vigilantes, let’s say Batman, whose morals and nature are very much in tune, Matt struggles with his very nature. He has to tread the line between protecting others and hurting others because he wants to.
And I think that’s a fair reading of his character/ideology, and I definitely can see the divide they’re showing between his violent side and his kind/caring side.
But for me I think it wasn’t very well executed; if they want me to see that Matt has those anger issues beforehand they should have shown the struggle he had with it before he found the vigilantism outlet? Like, the first instance of that violence we see on the show is when he’s saving a bunch of scared teenage girls from human traffickers. Am I supposed to be like, oh no, he’s letting his rage get the best of him! No, I’m gonna be like, yeah, you go Matt, and then when he grapples with the guilt of it, it feels really displaced.
The internal struggle of it seems justified by way more “tell” than “show”, you know?
