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The highly anticipated premiere of the TV's adaptation of a marvel comic book, Daredevil, had finally hit the screens after its release of the first season. Due to me seeing the film version of the comics, I was intrigued to see how this series would play out as other shows such as "The Flash" I feel have been slow in narrative progression along with confined writing, not allowing it to expand. This defied the odds and impressed me more than I was expecting. It steered away, but not too far from the comics and added more depth into it's narrative allowing it to perhaps facilitate mixed audiences to take a liking to it. The action sequences relating to the comics, bring the action, suspense and climactic conclusions whilst the interrogation and crime investigation scenes give it the meaning. Matt Murdock, a lawyer who suffers from blindness after a car accident when he was a child, portrays a dark version of a child's protagonist. He sets out with his colleague to solve mysteries involving murders and trying to crack them with help of the victim's story when he is himself but sets out to gain justice when he puts on the Daredevil costume, making the two culminate conclusively. With cinematography being designed to bring out the characters and the dark, eerie crime cases, the audience are welcomed into a new filmic style for a modern representation of a superhero.

What was clever and inventive about "Daredevil" was how it didn't immediately show Matt Murdock as a developed superhero, not giving the audience the calm and reassuring feeling that he has been doing it for all his adult life. Instead, it showed the beginner Daredevil and not the experienced one thus representing a more innocent, "I don't know why I'm doing this yet" approach which can cause uneasy responses from the audience as he is constantly juggling with danger. There were many scenes in this episode that appeared as heroic whilst there were other scenes that were considerably dubious, yet somehow, the two cooperatively made the other one look better as the episode went on. The first action sequence at the bay was exciting and skillful as we see Daredevil in action fighting off the villains that are causes of human trafficking. Placing this scene near the beginning of the episode was a great direction to go in as we immediately develop the wrong attitude towards this character, yet, we doubt ourselves after we understand and learn that the character has vast levels of depth, emotional empathy and injustice causing him to lead this other life as a superhero, a great technique from the directors. However, as a lawyer, Matt appears as calm and controlled when interrogating victims of crimes thus increasing his character development that we can match to his heroic lifestyle that he leads but the one similarity he holds whilst being these two characters is the dark persona as if he's constantly hiding something. His colleague, Nelson, remains as the "comedy guy" between the two and has a more relaxed view on things whilst Matt holds crooked smiles and is refrained from saying much dialogue when around crowds, giving the sense that he is distinguished from other lawyers or people, causing the mirroring of two sides of a character to work very well for this adaptation.

The camera-work for "Daredevil" was shot in a manner that promoted the atmosphere around the characters as being responsive to Matt's increased sharpness of hearing, such as the slow motion of the heartbeat and the chain banging against the metal pipe. Not only does this appear as effective and well structured, but it shows the audience that the surroundings work to a character's advantage. This show being filmed a lot in the dark was very secretive and mysterious, relating to Matt's career as well as him being the Daredevil. Dark being synonymous with evil symptoms welcomes the audience into a new style of representation for superheroes but also something that we're not used to when witnessing these type of TV shows. The show featured a lot of close up shots that showed the facial expressions of the characters, striking them at a personal level and making them feel oppressed with guilt or innocence and sometimes knowledge such as Matt hearing the increased heartbeat of the woman when she told her side of the story.

The premiere of "Daredevil" didn't disappoint as an adaptation of a famous comic book hero. Surprisingly, it added a twist to the show being an original "hero saves the day" type of show and brought in a realistic approach due to it appearing more "human" with a scary approach to Matt's character. Throughout the episode, we believe to have a confirmed understanding of Matt as a character and a superhero but as each scene is shown to us, we restart and feel like we don't know him and blame ourselves for ever thinking what we did the scene before we change our minds. That's what's so genius about this show, it's ability to play with your mind and make you feel on edge but also doubtful of the narrative as it has so many opportunities to bring in another angle or punch to the storyline. The cinematography was unique as the atmosphere is filmed to be in Matt or Daredevil's advantage due to the slow motion, mirroring the sharpness of his hearing, given to him from his blindness. As well as this, the scenes were lit to present an eerie aspect as well as presenting a personality of different characters, adding to the different techniques to gain audience engagement thus making them want to continue watching. A great premiere and I look forward to the rest of the season.

Not bad, not bad. I admit to not being exposed to Daredevil Content. All I knew about him is that he's blind, fights, have enemies like Kingpin, Bullseye, and Elektra. I have to say that flashback was traumatic when multiple cars had collided, the dad checking if his son Matt is okay, but realizes that his eyes got exposed to liquid hazardous chemicals telling him to close his eyes. I feel so bad for poor Matt. I can't even imagine what being blind in your entire life could feel like. Funny enough, this scene is darker than any Disney+ MCU "dark scenes".

About the episode, I had a major problem within this is that the pacing issue was Y I K E S. Although, I did love the action of Matt stopping sex trafficking which was pretty based if you ask me & him fighting another one in the rain that was beautifully shot well in the rain. I can't wait to know more about the characters that I like, so here is my first expression of them.

Matt Murdock seems like a decent character, and has more interesting powers than I imagined as hearing somebody's heartbeat whether they are lying or not, "detect" any movements that are involved in attacking. Foggy Nelson is also a decent character who is a detective partner of Matt helping to solve a crime about this group stalking & harrassing a woman. I did enjoy the interaction between Matt & Karen becoming good friends. I can't wait to see what's next.

7/10.

Live Reaction / Review for Daredevil Season 1 Episode 1: First episode, here we go, I hope it's good. So that's how he became blind, interesting. ''Im asking forgiveness for what im about to do''. I like this phrase. I like this protosuit, looks simple and cool. He got some sick moves. Things got brutal pretty fast. His best friends name is foggy? Haha that's kinda funny. Wait he can actually hear her heartbeat? If yes that's cool. They made this guy try to kill Page, who is behind this? I feel bad for Karen. So Karen has the file? Why did she lie? I like the flashbacks with his dad, it's a nice touch. These 3 have good chemistry. These criminals seem to be very organized. Ok this is just the start so I don't know if able to judge the right way but still I will give it a 7.5/10.

The show begins with a short,relevant & believable backstory. Then the plot is quickly established and intricately connected to further provide relevance to the story. I emphasize on relevance as many superhero/vigilante stories lack a plot and just miss the bull's eye. But, Daredevil hits the bulls eye hard and promises to hit ti harder if the ending of the show is anything to go buy. The acting by all the lead characters is believable and one will be able to Judge in future episodes better. But its off to a great start. Also, the whole blind aspect has been powerfully portrayed as a strength. I mean when he says in the gym to switch off the lights, I get the chills.. it was one of those moments. I am eagerly waiting to have time to just binge on the season

Let's marathon the series from Marvel's The Defenders saga, I researched here the right order to watch it and I'm sure. I only watched three seasons of Daredevil, three seasons of Jessica Jones, their crossover series and one season of the others, I believe I didn't finish the first season of The Punisher. I have a curious fact with Daredevil, I watched the first episode as soon as it came out, but I had just watched the film with Ben Affleck. And as incredible as it may seem, I liked that film, then I went to watch the first episode right after, and I simply hated this episode because it was very different from what I had liked. A year passed, I went to rewatch both and I hated the film and loved the series, in short, life. One of the best hero series ever made. Since the first time I watched this series, I've always been very scared of Madame Gao, I don't know why. Kingpin is scary but I'm more afraid of Madame Gao. It's really cool to have several villains and them talking. I really liked the end of the episode, showing what each villain was doing. Episode one watched on March 7, 2024.

This fist episode introduces into the start of Matt Murdoch and Foggy Nelson as fresh lawyers in search of clients in Hells Kirchen, New York.

Already the first scene explains the backstory of Matts blindness and a flashback shows Matts relationship with his father.

This first episode shows already Matt as a Dark Defender, at day lawyer, at night as masked crimefighter (somewhere between Batman and Spiderman).

Visually some good ideas concerning the blindness of Matt and depicting his other senses.

Matt and Foggy take a case of murder and some gang leaders are shown (Chinese, Japanese, American/Irish, East European), who work for a mysterious crime lord.

All in all, this episode is a good start into the universe of Daredevil, with some mystery, dark atmosphere, some tough combat action scenes and feeling like a gritty crime tv show.

Highly recommended.

I'd put off watching this for a while for various reasons but finally got the chance to start catching up on it. On the strength of it, this first episode is head and shoulders above other similar shows from Marvel - JESSICA JONES, IRON FIST, etc. And up there with the first episode of LUKE CAGE in terms of quality. The characters and situation are intriguing, and the only thing I didn't like as much was the action, which was a little over-edited for me, but that has time to improve.

Childish. Unreal. Second fight scene in the first episode. The character Daredevil (a blind man) beats a criminal. They receive blows from each other. It turns out that Daredevil, an ordinary human being with fighting skills, after the fact does not have a single mark from the blows he received. I sat down to watch it because I know that The Punisher appears in the second season. In addition, many characters coincide. Compared to the brutal realism of "The Punisher", Daredevil is like watching Tom & Jerry.

The scenes are forced. As if they were only there as a prelude to something better, which is not happening.

I just start to watch this series. Hope this will good so.