Daredevil 1.01
Apr. 12th, 2015 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
st_aurafinaHoly crap guys, this was awesome. So much the mood and look of the comics around Bendis' run. Do you remember The Black Donnellys? I watched that, and it was all loving with its setting in Hell's Kitchen, and I wished that we could have something like that for Daredevil, and now we do, and this is it.
I thought this was going to be set in the Seventies? Was that just an early thing? Either way I'm glad they went with current continuity. It was hilarious to hear them tying the gentrification of Hell's Kitchen into the Battle of New York. But wow, it looks amazing, all shadows and coloured light falling on puddles and the odd little buildings with beautiful windows. Gorgeous and moody and like all the best of Alex Maleev's covers at once. And then OMG, the bit with Matt's apartment, and the giant computer screen billboard outside the window - so funny, and so right. I love the set for his apartment - I love all the old character buildings, actually. (It's funny how much love I have for stories set in a place I'm never likely to visit, but it's such an important part of Daredevil, and I've been a fan for a long time.)
At the casting stage, I wasn't really thrilled with Charlie Cox as Matt. I didn't hate him - I didn't really know him - but he didn't look so much like my head canon Matt. He's great though - still not my head canon in characterisation, but one doesn't become a comics fan without being able to joyfully adapt to different interpretations of a character. I'm going to like this Matt.
The most important thing about any Daredevil story is the relationship between Matt and his best friend, Foggy. Foggy has to be just right, and sometimes people write him as a bumbling duffer, which he certainly isn't. Foggy's nickname comes from him being dead smart. Foggy is no Jam Watson. I like this Foggy. I like his teamwork with Matt - he's perfectly comfortable with Matt's blindness, they have that happy push-shove when it comes to pretty women (Oh, our very homely real estate agent!), and they obviously have the trust that is the main reason this friendship works. I am looking forward to more of that.
Karen Page is gorgeous - I knew Deborah Ann Woll would be perfect, and she is. The last scene with all three of them together, with the cardboard sign for Nelson and Murdock on the door is so much my head canon of where they all started that I'm beaming.
I'm not going to marathon the rest of the series - so busy! So very busy!! - but I am going to watch it slowly over the next few weeks. I'm looking forward to meeting all of the other characters. More women please!!
I made pretzels today. THEY WERE AWESOME. The problem I'd been having before (with pretzels and bagels both) was that after I put them in the soda bath, instead of puffing up, they turned into sad, flat, drippy pancakes. The problem seemed to be leaving them to rise for too long after shaping them. This time they had the two rises they're supposed to have: one after the bath, and one after baking. And they were so good! We did half with salt and sesame seeds, half with cinnamon sugar.
In conclusion, nom.
I thought this was going to be set in the Seventies? Was that just an early thing? Either way I'm glad they went with current continuity. It was hilarious to hear them tying the gentrification of Hell's Kitchen into the Battle of New York. But wow, it looks amazing, all shadows and coloured light falling on puddles and the odd little buildings with beautiful windows. Gorgeous and moody and like all the best of Alex Maleev's covers at once. And then OMG, the bit with Matt's apartment, and the giant computer screen billboard outside the window - so funny, and so right. I love the set for his apartment - I love all the old character buildings, actually. (It's funny how much love I have for stories set in a place I'm never likely to visit, but it's such an important part of Daredevil, and I've been a fan for a long time.)
At the casting stage, I wasn't really thrilled with Charlie Cox as Matt. I didn't hate him - I didn't really know him - but he didn't look so much like my head canon Matt. He's great though - still not my head canon in characterisation, but one doesn't become a comics fan without being able to joyfully adapt to different interpretations of a character. I'm going to like this Matt.
The most important thing about any Daredevil story is the relationship between Matt and his best friend, Foggy. Foggy has to be just right, and sometimes people write him as a bumbling duffer, which he certainly isn't. Foggy's nickname comes from him being dead smart. Foggy is no Jam Watson. I like this Foggy. I like his teamwork with Matt - he's perfectly comfortable with Matt's blindness, they have that happy push-shove when it comes to pretty women (Oh, our very homely real estate agent!), and they obviously have the trust that is the main reason this friendship works. I am looking forward to more of that.
Karen Page is gorgeous - I knew Deborah Ann Woll would be perfect, and she is. The last scene with all three of them together, with the cardboard sign for Nelson and Murdock on the door is so much my head canon of where they all started that I'm beaming.
I'm not going to marathon the rest of the series - so busy! So very busy!! - but I am going to watch it slowly over the next few weeks. I'm looking forward to meeting all of the other characters. More women please!!
I made pretzels today. THEY WERE AWESOME. The problem I'd been having before (with pretzels and bagels both) was that after I put them in the soda bath, instead of puffing up, they turned into sad, flat, drippy pancakes. The problem seemed to be leaving them to rise for too long after shaping them. This time they had the two rises they're supposed to have: one after the bath, and one after baking. And they were so good! We did half with salt and sesame seeds, half with cinnamon sugar.
In conclusion, nom.