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Kuljit Mithra · Hardcore Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 1530 Location: Canada

Discussion for Marvel's Daredevil S1E5.
Please only discuss elements in this episode (or previous episodes if it applies) but not anything that happens in episodes after this one.

Dimetre · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:05 pm Post subject:

I absolutely love the scenes between Vincent D'Onofrio and Ayelet Zurer. Wilson and Vanessa's dates are something I could watch for hours.

chamber · Flying Blind Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Posts: 10 Location: UK

You really don't want to say Kingpins real name! Shocked

Foggy bear Laughing

My favourite line of the episode was "you scream and that arm becomes your good one"

"Ascot that's a bit much" Nice little nod to Kingpins comic appearance Wink

Kuljit Mithra · Hardcore Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 1530 Location: Canada

"World on Fire"

-Matt and Claire romance?
-frame of DD for Anatoli murder
-Foggy knows Punjabi!
-Marci is so crazy, of course Foggy dated her
-Mahoney again
-nice trick with Turk
-another dinner with Fisk/Vanessa
-like the Vlad actor, Wesley is still great
-wonder where this Ms. Cardenas plot is going
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Mike Murdock · Golden Age Joined: 08 Sep 2014 Posts: 1750

They said they'd never end episodes in cliffhangers. What the hell? The story had two threads that I thought both worked beautifully. The first was the slumlord storyline, which is the other staple of Foggy and Nelson stories. Glad to see them take a few - it's certainly better than only murder cases (how many murder cases can a young law firm get before it gets absurd?). I love Foggy throughout. Him talking down the big firm was just fun. I love them pitching in with repair work as well. On the other hand, it's interesting to see Karen and Foggy's relationship develop (although Matt's absence seems to be a big part why).

The other story explains Matt's absence and it's the gang war storyline. I love the cabal meeting at the beginning. You get a true sense of the scale of the organization and of things to come. The cops also added to that quite well. The Kingpin has his claws in everything. Have to say that bomb at the end must have been huge to do all that.

I could probably just spend awhile talking about Matt's Radar Senses (to use Bendis's way of thinking, which is what they're going for) - although "impressionistic painting" works too. Seeing it as a sort of sight rather than feeling isn't my preference, but they did a good job of explaining and defining what "combination of all his senses" works like. They cram so much into every episode that I almost forgot to talk about this, but I feel it was worth mentioning.

Five Stars.
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Dave Wallace · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:17 pm Post subject:

Just finished this. A great episode that really moves things forward for all the main characters, with some interesting Matt/Fisk parallels and a cracking cliffhanger.

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train · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:59 am Post subject:

Best episode so far. The pacing of the first 4 shows was a little frustrating for me. Looks like the slow boil was worth the wait. Something that I noticed in this episode that several on here had mentioned...in the first several episodes, it seemed like Matt was taking as much of a beating as he was dishing out. In this episode, it seemed to me that his fighting style has become much more refined and he was the only one dishing out the punishment. To me the fighting in ep. 5 was more reminiscent of the comic book. Loved seeing him use items (pistol clips, etc) like he would his billy clubs. All in all, I'm really satisfied with the series so far. From all of the positive press the show has been receiving, I'd assume a second season is all but guaranteed.

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