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Been a really long time since I've watched Daredevil but I do remember coming away from it feeling like it presented a pretty compelling internally-consistent moral justification for the vigilante thing. You're not planet-crackingly powerful, it's just that you can hear, in detail, every awful thing your neighbors are doing to each other, every night that they're doing it. You can't not know and you can't pretend not to know and when the kid tells you the next day that he just fell down the stairs you can't fall back on the provided ambiguity to absolve yourself of your responsibility to act. Semi-relatedly, you're really really good at martial arts. Start the clock

mikkeneko

ruggedrookie

i kinda hope that wilson fisk being eternally haunted by starship's "we built this city" becomes an inexplicable running bit. i hope every time he turns on the radio on ANY station, it's just another variation of that song. i hope he wakes up in a cold sweat every morning with it echoing around his skull

vigilanteh

Love the subtle comparison of Fisk to the orange fart in the white house. Talking about making promises and then breaking them. Jumping through hoops to get his projects started immediately. Getting upset at the press. Having a wife that can't stand him anymore. The writers knew exactly what they were doing even before he entered for a second term

ultraericthered

I think "subtle" is key here. This show was written and filmed before the orange fart was re-elected into office. Therefore the parallels between Fisk and the First Felon aren't in-your-face overt to the point where Fisk's entire character is sacrificed to make an allegory out of him like what Erik Oleson had wanted to do with him in Season 3 of the Netflix show, but the very concept of a notoriously corrupt, egotistical, ill-tempered, emotionally immature convicted felon (twice convicted in Fisk's case) with authoritarian tendencies taking advantage of a fraught political environment and somehow, against all odds, rehabilitating his image enough to get masses of ignorant, easily manipulated people to vote him into power still resonates so strongly. And not even just in relation to the First Felon, either - the current mayor of New York City is an obscenely corrupt bald guy, and the disgraced former Governor is looking to take advantage and rehabilitate his own image via a mayoral candidacy! It is insane that what was common in comic books and TV shows is now our reality.

spacescaptain

do y'all think matt hearing foggy's voice is literal or metaphorical? because he does have a history of hallucinations, particularly in periods of stress.

i can't find the post, but i saw someone talking about how we as the audience seem cut off from matt's perspective in ddba, mirroring him cutting away a part of himself and isolating from the people around him. so if he was having hallucinations...we wouldn't see them. we don't have the privilege of seeing into his mind like we did in season 3.

if it is literal, what does foggy say to him? the optimistic guess would be that he just has a stream of 'what would foggy do?' (in case you weren't aware, hallucinations can speak positively). but if matt's previous hallucinations of his father and fisk are any indication, he could be hearing some of his most devastating self-talk from the mouth of someone who would never say those things to him.

i could see it being metaphorical, though. just a general sense of foggy guiding his actions. matt is obviously trying to do right by foggy's memory, even if his idea of what that means is clouded by guilt.

maybe it lies somewhere in-between! that's what i think frank experiences, actually. i suspect that him seeing/hearing his son is in the vein of flashbacks but wrong. really strong intrusive images, like a waking version of his nightmare from punisher 1x6.

what do you think?

#gonna scream #if we get a foggy hallucination where he is scolding matt i don’t think ill recover #daredevil #daredevil born again #ddba #daredevil born again spoilers #ddba spoilers #matt murdock

hipwell

one thing there wasn’t a lot of in the og daredevil show was matt getting shit on for being blind in his adulthood.

i think the born again writers have been doing a good job including hints of ableism in matt’s day-to-day interactions.

darlingshane

— DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.04 Sic Semper Systema

bluelygreen

Matt acting how he feels instead of bottling it up. Frank in this episode is basically the emotional battering ram Matt needs for a moment.

cbartonscoffee

"It's not about him?" "No. Okay?" "It's all about him." 1) congrats to the mattfoggy shippers. 2) the way Frank lowers his volume and talks softly because it's important that that's the way in which Matt hears this. It's not something to drill in to him, it's something to put out there, something the both of them know to be true but that needs to be spoken out loud for Matt's sake.

mmmurdockss

Sofija is stronger than me because if Matt Murdock flirted like this with me in that raspy voice I would've done more besides give him the probation days he wanted

royal-abbotts

You lost him didn't you, Red?

bluelygreen

The level to which this burns. I hadn't noticed he wasn't saying it until someone on here pointed it out, but then THIS. EPISODE.

Because Frank understands better than anybody what Matt is going through. He's got a voice in his head too.

But he doesn't quite go the same way, because Matt has been trying to restrain himself because of Foggy. "I couldn't save him," and "he wanted me to stop doing it," and "he died the last time I put the mask on." I think the voice in Matt's head is saying something different than the one in Frank's, or that they might be understanding their voices differently.

rereading the soule daredevil run, and in the “purple” story, matt reveals that the worst thing he could ever do would be… to do nothing in the face of chaos and tragedy.