Buffy Comic Reboot and Daredevil S3 Review
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shadowkatGloomy and raining, again. I think we've only seen the sun once this week?
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Reboot By BOOM
What's interesting is who isn't shown in the re-imagining of the characters, and well, how some of the characters look exactly the same no matter what decade you put them in.
Oh, and they are debuting Drusilla as the key villain, The Mistress -- apparently she's taking the place of The Master. (Making me wonder if Spike and Angel will now take the places of Darla and Angel in S1?)
It's basically 20th Century Fox (which is now owned by Disney) endorsed fanfic. But fun Fox endorsed
fanfic.
2. Daredevil Season 3
A good season in many ways, but whether you loved it or not has a lot to do with how you felt about the key villains and their arcs.
One of which, Wilson Fiske, felt at times to be a huge stinking metaphor for The Doofus (if you don't know who I mean by the Doofus, don't worry about it.) That was Fiske aka The Kingpin of course, who no matter what the characters did they couldn't pin down -- to the point in which it almost felt ludicrous. I found this season to be very frustrating to watch. Even though the metaphor of how the "STATE" can take down a villain who has corrupted the Federal Bureau of Investigations...was a bit heavy handed and well not quite believable. (Because that hasn't happened.) I was rolling my eyes through a good portion of the Wilson Fiske/FBI collusion thread.
Like Jessica Jones -- it's really the origin story of two villains, completion of the origin tale of Wilson becoming the Kingpin, he's actually called in this season, and the origin of Bullseye - who may be the worst of the Daredevil villains and the most difficult to defeat. Note in this season, Daredevil never bests him -- he's too similar in fighting prowess and even better in some respects in that Bullseye truly doesn't care who he hurts, while Daredevil does. It's actually and somewhat ironically Fiske who takes down Bullseye.
What I loved about this season was Karen Page and Matt Murdoch's character arcs. Foggy doesn't quite get as much to do. He had more to do in the previous seasons. And they really delve into all three characters familial relationships and how that affected them. We see how Karen's guilt over her brother's death created the person she is now -- and it's interesting that she feels more remorse of a death that was an accident than the one she caused. She confesses to killing two people to Matt -- her brother in a car accident, and Westly who she shot seven times after he threatened to kill her.
In many ways, S3 loops back to S1 and comments on it. In S1, Westley holds Karen's past over her head and she kills him. Here, she finally tells Foggy about Westley, and Matt about both Westley and what happened to her brother for different reasons. She also, and more importantly, confesses it to Fiske in a scene that is just as powerful and surprising as the one in which she'd killed Westley. Unlike Matt Murdoch -- Karen can and has killed someone. She tells Matt about her brother in an attempt to explain why killing someone, even someone like Fisk, will change him. Foggy and Karen team up to stop Matt from killing Fisk and to save him. We also have Matt's relationship with his mother, aka Sister Maggie. Who he discovers is his mother halfway through the season.
The whole season is filled with revelations and long overdue confessions.
* Sister Maggie - Matt's Mom
* Karen Page -- killed her brother in a car accident, she was high and drunk at the time
* Theo informing his brother, Foggy Nelson, that he'd inadvertently taken a bank loan from Fisk's bank.
* Matt is Daredevil -- Fisk finds out (but then Fisk sort of figured it out already) and so does Agent Nadeem (but he's killed)
* Bullseye being told by Daredevil that Fisk killed Julie, Bullseye's friend.
The Daredevil suit is now gone along with its creator.
What I disliked was the villains. Vincent D'Orithino almost saves it, and to a degree so does the guy playing Poindexter. Who I felt a little sorry for at first. Bullseye aka Poindexter is well-developed, but so much of his development is your cliche serial killer trope. I didn't find him all that interesting, much prefer Electra. Fisk is well still Fisk, and works best mirroring Daredevil, whether it is as a ghost or self-doubt in Daredevi's head.
I felt this season was a tad darker than previous seasons, and a tad heavy handed in some of the themes. Unlike S2, the villains really aren't redeemable in this season or salvageable, and one ca't help but wonder why they aren't just killed. Will state that Fiske is hardly one-dimensional, two maybe.
The series is neatly wrapped up in Season 3. There isn't much they could do after this season which hasn't been done previously. And I really don't need to see Bullseye come back and kill Karen -- which is what happened in the comics. Yes, Bullseye, much like the villain in Luke Cage -- has spinal surgery, which could bring him back - more powerful than before. (Why it's being done, and why he hasn't gotten the death penalty or life-imprisonment for his crimes is beyond me. Did some covert government agency kidnap him for their own nefarious means? Do I care? Not really. It's a cliche - they did the same things in Iron Fist and Luke Cage, come on. Electra was more interesting.
The gang is back together, and Matt has for the most part forgiven Sister Maggie and asked if she could take the place of Father Latham as his confessor. Matt has also chosen to be Matt and to give up the Daredevil guise for the most part. From the end of S1 until roughly the end of S3, Matt had chosen Daredevil -- it had not gone well. He's made peace with his demon. Foggy also has made peace with his -- and no longer wants to be the big shot attorney with the sizable pay-check, he wants to go back to defending those in need. Karen is no longer pursuing being an ace reporter -- and working under a boss who stops her investigations or is more hindrance than aid. At the very end, they are back to Nelson, Murdoch and Page. Except Karen is now their investigator -- more stable, Matt states, than Jessica Jones.
Wilson Fisk makes a deal with Daredevil -- he'll go to prison and not go after Karen, Foggy or Matt as long as Vanessa is left alone -- so she will be free. His punishment is to be separated from her, that is until one or the other figures out a way to free him again. And Vanessa who has a taste for the business, will no doubt continue it. But our threesome is safe for the time being.
I like this ending. It ended on a high note. No major loose ends. With lots of possibilities.
So, unlike everyone else...the cancellation doesn't bother me at all, just one less television to keep track of. ;-) Oh, and Netflix isn't removing the series from Netflix, all three seasons plus the Defenders are available for re-watch for quite some time.
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Reboot By BOOM
BOOM! Studios today unveiled the first look at characters designs from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER by Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan Mora (Klaus, Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers).
Debuting in comic shops on January 9th, 2019 in partnership with 20th Century Fox Consumer Products, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1 reimagines the groundbreaking pop culture phenomenon from the very beginning!
What's interesting is who isn't shown in the re-imagining of the characters, and well, how some of the characters look exactly the same no matter what decade you put them in.
Oh, and they are debuting Drusilla as the key villain, The Mistress -- apparently she's taking the place of The Master. (Making me wonder if Spike and Angel will now take the places of Darla and Angel in S1?)
It's basically 20th Century Fox (which is now owned by Disney) endorsed fanfic. But fun Fox endorsed
fanfic.
2. Daredevil Season 3
A good season in many ways, but whether you loved it or not has a lot to do with how you felt about the key villains and their arcs.
One of which, Wilson Fiske, felt at times to be a huge stinking metaphor for The Doofus (if you don't know who I mean by the Doofus, don't worry about it.) That was Fiske aka The Kingpin of course, who no matter what the characters did they couldn't pin down -- to the point in which it almost felt ludicrous. I found this season to be very frustrating to watch. Even though the metaphor of how the "STATE" can take down a villain who has corrupted the Federal Bureau of Investigations...was a bit heavy handed and well not quite believable. (Because that hasn't happened.) I was rolling my eyes through a good portion of the Wilson Fiske/FBI collusion thread.
Like Jessica Jones -- it's really the origin story of two villains, completion of the origin tale of Wilson becoming the Kingpin, he's actually called in this season, and the origin of Bullseye - who may be the worst of the Daredevil villains and the most difficult to defeat. Note in this season, Daredevil never bests him -- he's too similar in fighting prowess and even better in some respects in that Bullseye truly doesn't care who he hurts, while Daredevil does. It's actually and somewhat ironically Fiske who takes down Bullseye.
What I loved about this season was Karen Page and Matt Murdoch's character arcs. Foggy doesn't quite get as much to do. He had more to do in the previous seasons. And they really delve into all three characters familial relationships and how that affected them. We see how Karen's guilt over her brother's death created the person she is now -- and it's interesting that she feels more remorse of a death that was an accident than the one she caused. She confesses to killing two people to Matt -- her brother in a car accident, and Westly who she shot seven times after he threatened to kill her.
In many ways, S3 loops back to S1 and comments on it. In S1, Westley holds Karen's past over her head and she kills him. Here, she finally tells Foggy about Westley, and Matt about both Westley and what happened to her brother for different reasons. She also, and more importantly, confesses it to Fiske in a scene that is just as powerful and surprising as the one in which she'd killed Westley. Unlike Matt Murdoch -- Karen can and has killed someone. She tells Matt about her brother in an attempt to explain why killing someone, even someone like Fisk, will change him. Foggy and Karen team up to stop Matt from killing Fisk and to save him. We also have Matt's relationship with his mother, aka Sister Maggie. Who he discovers is his mother halfway through the season.
The whole season is filled with revelations and long overdue confessions.
* Sister Maggie - Matt's Mom
* Karen Page -- killed her brother in a car accident, she was high and drunk at the time
* Theo informing his brother, Foggy Nelson, that he'd inadvertently taken a bank loan from Fisk's bank.
* Matt is Daredevil -- Fisk finds out (but then Fisk sort of figured it out already) and so does Agent Nadeem (but he's killed)
* Bullseye being told by Daredevil that Fisk killed Julie, Bullseye's friend.
The Daredevil suit is now gone along with its creator.
What I disliked was the villains. Vincent D'Orithino almost saves it, and to a degree so does the guy playing Poindexter. Who I felt a little sorry for at first. Bullseye aka Poindexter is well-developed, but so much of his development is your cliche serial killer trope. I didn't find him all that interesting, much prefer Electra. Fisk is well still Fisk, and works best mirroring Daredevil, whether it is as a ghost or self-doubt in Daredevi's head.
I felt this season was a tad darker than previous seasons, and a tad heavy handed in some of the themes. Unlike S2, the villains really aren't redeemable in this season or salvageable, and one ca't help but wonder why they aren't just killed. Will state that Fiske is hardly one-dimensional, two maybe.
The series is neatly wrapped up in Season 3. There isn't much they could do after this season which hasn't been done previously. And I really don't need to see Bullseye come back and kill Karen -- which is what happened in the comics. Yes, Bullseye, much like the villain in Luke Cage -- has spinal surgery, which could bring him back - more powerful than before. (Why it's being done, and why he hasn't gotten the death penalty or life-imprisonment for his crimes is beyond me. Did some covert government agency kidnap him for their own nefarious means? Do I care? Not really. It's a cliche - they did the same things in Iron Fist and Luke Cage, come on. Electra was more interesting.
The gang is back together, and Matt has for the most part forgiven Sister Maggie and asked if she could take the place of Father Latham as his confessor. Matt has also chosen to be Matt and to give up the Daredevil guise for the most part. From the end of S1 until roughly the end of S3, Matt had chosen Daredevil -- it had not gone well. He's made peace with his demon. Foggy also has made peace with his -- and no longer wants to be the big shot attorney with the sizable pay-check, he wants to go back to defending those in need. Karen is no longer pursuing being an ace reporter -- and working under a boss who stops her investigations or is more hindrance than aid. At the very end, they are back to Nelson, Murdoch and Page. Except Karen is now their investigator -- more stable, Matt states, than Jessica Jones.
Wilson Fisk makes a deal with Daredevil -- he'll go to prison and not go after Karen, Foggy or Matt as long as Vanessa is left alone -- so she will be free. His punishment is to be separated from her, that is until one or the other figures out a way to free him again. And Vanessa who has a taste for the business, will no doubt continue it. But our threesome is safe for the time being.
I like this ending. It ended on a high note. No major loose ends. With lots of possibilities.
So, unlike everyone else...the cancellation doesn't bother me at all, just one less television to keep track of. ;-) Oh, and Netflix isn't removing the series from Netflix, all three seasons plus the Defenders are available for re-watch for quite some time.
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Date: 2018-12-02 07:59 pm (UTC)Oh now that's an interesting idea! What I'm remembering is that Whedon said that Dru was meant to be the big bad of S2 (and, of course, that Spike was to die in the church). Perhaps the stories will blend that idea in as well.
I haven't seen Daredevil but I noticed some other people also thought that if the series ended here at least there was a good ending rather than some kind of cliffhanger.
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Date: 2018-12-02 11:01 pm (UTC)Yes and no. There's a very good reason why they didn't kill off Spike in the television series. (Granted I'm biased. At this stage, Spike and possibly Drusilla are the only characters that still interests me from that series. I lost interest in everyone else ages ago. Possibly due to over-exposure. LOL!)
It is interesting however that there is no picture of Angel.
I haven't seen Daredevil but I noticed some other people also thought that if the series ended here at least there was a good ending rather than some kind of cliffhanger.
Yep, no cliff-hanger. Ended on a happy note.
Fans are upset...because they were hoping they'd adapt the Frank Miller comic Roulette, where Matt Murdoch visits Bullseye while he's recuperating from spinal surgery...and they play a game of roulette and cat and mouse.
But. I don't think Marvel is necessarily done with the Daredevil character or Charlie Cox in the role. He could pop up elsewhere. I think it was just cancelled on Netflix. According to Forbes, they cancelled the Netflix Marvel series because Netflix was spending a lot of money on content that featured characters etc that it didn't control the rights to and could be yanked at any time by its competitor. Disney now owns Hulu, which is in direct competition with Netflix, also a future Marvel Streaming Channel. Why would Netflix want to feature and pay for a competitor's product? Particularly when the majority of its subscribers would be there regardless?
(My problem with Netflix isn't content, it is locating content.)
Anyhow, it's more than possible Marvel will resurrect the series on one of its streaming channels. Sort of like how the Great British Baking Show jumped from BBC to Channel 4 in Britain.