The fact that the latest lawyer case for Jen has to do with the manufacturer of superhero textile and the appearance of our very own Matt Murdock is reason enough to deem this episode actually good. For the first time Jen has someone smart, layered and with an agency to bounce off from.
It's sad to see how this show could have been about this all the time. How, even though we haven't seen a serious attempt at a sitcom-themed Marvel product prior to this, if it had stuck with the three legs it was leaning on: lawyer, superhero, comedy. It could have been the grounds for something trully special. But the showrunners decided to make a goofy, ludicrous and absolutely self-aware story of a superhero that refuses to be a superhero (unless when it matters) and refuses to develop anything other than a surface level character development that could have been solved in one episode, maybe two seeing how short these episodes are. Instead we just have this parade of obnoxious, stupid characters accompanying a "normal character" like Jen through out this saga of skits and "what ifs" scenarios branching from the premise "what if hulk was a woman and didn't want to be a superhero". Which in essence sounds intriguing and actually quite engaging. And that's actually what I thought on the very first episode, that it may not be as bad as people say.
About Daredevil... Matt Murdock's scenes I enjoyed, Daredevil's.. I thought seeing the CGI Daredevil leaping around would be the only issue I may have but it's a bit beyond that too. I know why they changed his outfit so that it was a comic book reference, but it's so modernized and so loosely based on its reference that it comes across as weird. Like a Fortnite skin or unlockable suit and not a genuine reference. Anyways, other than that the fighting style is completely different and worse because obviously they didn't film him doing the stunts nor was the director or stunt coordinator involved at all. The banter between Daredevil and She-Hulk is decent enough, and the jokes actually play on what I just mentioned so I will give it a pass. But idk, there's something unsettling about seeing Matt making so many jokes and quips. About their romantic tension and eventual hook up... I like Jen, I always have. I think she is interesting and has some great character traits, it's just she hasn't had any deep character development other than "I'm not going to get hung up on this dude".
But yeah, I can see them hitting it off. Again, the Matt and Jen scenes and the way they met was interesting however brief it was. But I don't know what they will do in Born Again nor if they managed to sign up the other main characters of the Netflix show, so I don't know how the romance between Karen Page and him ended up. Also, they both have an affinity for the law and its use before using force, given they are lawyers. So it could work. But again, seeing Matt so humoristically behaving is unsettling and plus his walk of shame as Daredevil in plain daylight when normally he is so careful about being seen... Again, depends on how things were reintroduced after Season 3. I have read more light-hearted Daredevil stories in the comics so I am not opposed to a more light-hearted Daredevil. As long as, when it matters, they deliver.
And I have to say, the ending of this episode was actually a cliffhanger. I would have imagined watching this when it came out thinking, woah, can't believe all these shenanigans will amount to something after all! Good thing is, I don't have to wait to find out. So overall, an actual okay episode.
It's sad to see how this show could have been about this all the time. How, even though we haven't seen a serious attempt at a sitcom-themed Marvel product prior to this, if it had stuck with the three legs it was leaning on: lawyer, superhero, comedy. It could have been the grounds for something trully special. But the showrunners decided to make a goofy, ludicrous and absolutely self-aware story of a superhero that refuses to be a superhero (unless when it matters) and refuses to develop anything other than a surface level character development that could have been solved in one episode, maybe two seeing how short these episodes are. Instead we just have this parade of obnoxious, stupid characters accompanying a "normal character" like Jen through out this saga of skits and "what ifs" scenarios branching from the premise "what if hulk was a woman and didn't want to be a superhero". Which in essence sounds intriguing and actually quite engaging. And that's actually what I thought on the very first episode, that it may not be as bad as people say.
About Daredevil... Matt Murdock's scenes I enjoyed, Daredevil's.. I thought seeing the CGI Daredevil leaping around would be the only issue I may have but it's a bit beyond that too. I know why they changed his outfit so that it was a comic book reference, but it's so modernized and so loosely based on its reference that it comes across as weird. Like a Fortnite skin or unlockable suit and not a genuine reference. Anyways, other than that the fighting style is completely different and worse because obviously they didn't film him doing the stunts nor was the director or stunt coordinator involved at all. The banter between Daredevil and She-Hulk is decent enough, and the jokes actually play on what I just mentioned so I will give it a pass. But idk, there's something unsettling about seeing Matt making so many jokes and quips. About their romantic tension and eventual hook up... I like Jen, I always have. I think she is interesting and has some great character traits, it's just she hasn't had any deep character development other than "I'm not going to get hung up on this dude".
But yeah, I can see them hitting it off. Again, the Matt and Jen scenes and the way they met was interesting however brief it was. But I don't know what they will do in Born Again nor if they managed to sign up the other main characters of the Netflix show, so I don't know how the romance between Karen Page and him ended up. Also, they both have an affinity for the law and its use before using force, given they are lawyers. So it could work. But again, seeing Matt so humoristically behaving is unsettling and plus his walk of shame as Daredevil in plain daylight when normally he is so careful about being seen... Again, depends on how things were reintroduced after Season 3. I have read more light-hearted Daredevil stories in the comics so I am not opposed to a more light-hearted Daredevil. As long as, when it matters, they deliver.
And I have to say, the ending of this episode was actually a cliffhanger. I would have imagined watching this when it came out thinking, woah, can't believe all these shenanigans will amount to something after all! Good thing is, I don't have to wait to find out. So overall, an actual okay episode.