Marvel Daredevil Season 1 Episode 4- In The Blood

Benny who is trying to save Karen from getting involved with his story.  Karen tries to convince Benny she can be a good source.  But he remembers the pain and death his former sources went through and he does not want Karen to go through that.  Benny, "My sources underestimated what people in power will do to stay in power."  

Maybe I am too negative but I agree with Benny. I watch our news, our politics, and see people in power doing terrible things to stay in power.  Even the ones you voted for.  I never underestimate them, even the ones who have a Jesus fish on the back of their campaign bus.

Wilson Fisk on his date with Vanessa gives her his reasoning why he is the man he is.  Fisk, "I am just trying to make my city a better place."  That is why he kills and strong arms people, to save the city.  In his twisted way he sees what he is doing as best for the city.  At the end of the episode we see Fisk kill one of his Russian mobster cohorts brutally with his bare hands.  His second in command, Wesley,  advices Fisk that this will start a war.  Fisk, "I am counting on it."  

No man sees the good they are doing as evil, even it can be clearly seen by others.  When man is their own standard they can call the evil they do, good.

Matt, in his black mask, tells Claire the reasoning behind the things that he does.  Matt "I just want to make my city a better place."  He says the same thing Fisk has said.  His reason is the same, his tactics are different.  Matt has an inter struggle with his tactics.  His priest represents his standard of goodness.  Whether he lives up to that standard is a different story.  And Matt fails many times to live up to that standard from day to day.  But many times he succeeds, depending on the situation and feelings toward the situation.

This blood war has only just begun.




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Marvel Daredevil Season 1 Episode 3-Rabbit In A Snowstorm

Matt Murdock defending a guilty man, Healy, by the letter of the law. Healy is a murderer who has killed another murderer, but Matt defends him.  He does this because he was to see where Healy will lead him. Healy is connected to the crime ring, Matt is wanting to break down.

Closing argument from Matt.  We do question morality in this courtroom.  We do not question right and wrong. In the courtroom Healy must be set free because of self defence.  That is the letter of the law.  Outside the courtroom he may face a judgment of his own making. I wonder what that is foreshadowing?

Healy is set free in the courtroom.  Healy is set free by the letter of the law.  Outside the courtroom in an alley Healy faces Daredevils form of justice of his own making.  Or at least that is the way Matt sees it.  Through force Healy gives up a name, a name that shall not be spoken, Wilson Fisk.  He calls the man in the black mask for not killing him.  Healy feels as good as dead after giving up the name Fisk.  So he promptly ends his own life in that courtroom alley.

We meet Mr Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, for the first time.  He is in an art gallery starring at white painting,  Rabbit In A Snowstorm.  He tells the art gallery director, Vanessa, "This Painting makes me feel alone."  Mr Fisk will consistently feel alone.

 

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Marvel Daredevil Season 1 Episode 2- Cut Man

Matt in a dumpster.  Sometimes when you loose you can still win.  Matt has lost a big battle against Hell's Kitchen darkness, but he still wins by being found by a new friend, Claire.  Who turns out to be a nurse, and Matt is going to need her help many times.

Battling Jack Murdock, Matt's dad, advised his young son, "It's not how many times you get knocked down Matty, it's how you get up."  And Matt will get up.  He was knocked by a group of evil men who had kidnapped a boy, but he will get back up. The kid was kidnapped by the Russian mafia as a trap to draw in the man in the black mask, and they proceeded to knock him down.  But he will get back up.

Claire wants to know about Matt, but the less about Matt she knows the better is Matt's opinion.  So she nicknames him Mike, after a former boyfriend who was good a keeping secrets.  She does know that Mike/Matt inherited taking a beating from his dad.  She had to patch up his dad's side.  She also knows he is blind, but Matt/Mike informs her there is more than one way to see.  Matt can sense people from far away, and he saves them from danger.  The Russians are looking for the man in the black mask who got away from their grasp.  They have tracked him to Claire's.

Meanwhile Foggy and Karen are getting to know each other, by drinking and bad acting.

After Matt kindly persuades some information on the kidnapped boys whereabouts from one of the Russians.  He decided it's time to get up.  His dad refused to stay down.  Jack Murdock was paid to take a dive in a boxing match by gamblers, but he finally stood up and refused to be that type of man.  It cost him his life.  Matt in his black mask goes to face unbelievable odds to save this kidnapped boys life, even if it costs him his own.  With one of the best fight scenes you will ever see, the man in the black mask gets that kidnapped boy back home to his dad.  


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Marvel Daredevil Season 1 Episode 1-Into The Ring

Confession is good for the soul.  I love Matt Murdock's relationship with his priest, Father Lantom. Matt and other characters working out good and evil are a main theme throughout the season.  One of the first views we have of Matt Murdock, Daredevil, is him working out his salvation with fear and trembling.

Right away we see Matt Murdock struggling with wanting to do good, but doing it in a bad way.  He has daddy issues.  He confesses to his priest how his father, Jack Murdock, as a boxer would trap men in the corner and let the devil out.  Matt as Daredevil would do this as well, he would trap men in alleys and let the devil out.

Matt is confessing sins he has not committed yet.  Father Lantom informs Matt it does not work that way.  Better late than never they say, well Matt believes in better early than never.  Matt dawns his black masks and stops sex traffickers, but as the police are arriving to take them away he beats one fiend bloody.  Matt doing good, but just beyond good and just beyond the law. He traps them in a corner and lets the devil out.

Karen Page, framed for murder, needs a couple of good samaritans to defend her. Enter Nelson and Murdock, Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock attorneys at law, to defend her innocence.  Her good Samaritan has a hidden side, a blind side.  Karen cannot keep her secrets from Daredevils honed senses.  He saves her with his fists but also with he daredevil heightened senses.  He saves her by getting the documents she had borrowed from her former company, Alliance United, into the authorities hands. Karen is saved and she finds a home with Nelson and Murdock attorneys at law.

Hell's Kitchen has almost collapsed.  It is trying to rebuild but the corruption is to great.  Someone is pulling the strings in Hell's Kitchen and Matt Murdock, the man in the black mask, is pulling back.


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