[ SECRET POST #3050 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3050 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Michael Keaton, Eddie Redmayne]


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03.
[Touken Ranbu (DMM)]


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04.
(Watership Down)


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05.
[Republique]


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06.
[Cardcaptor Sakura]


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07.
[Donkey Kong Country (TV series)]


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08.
[Türkisch für Anfänger]


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09.
[Tom Waits (left), Mark Lanegan (right)]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 038 secrets from Secret Submission Post #436.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Entertainment worries

[herpymcderp]

Nah, it wasn't good. The writing was pretty much the definition of cliché, which is about as nice as I'm willing to be about it. Also there was absolutely no sense of tension in the fight scenes because the writers never had good ol' Matty Murdock get hurt until the narrative called for it, replete with bad guys with Storm Trooper aim and dispensable henchmen.

But yes, it's possible to enjoy bad things, especially if you're not as picky about writing as I and my SO are.

Re: Entertainment worries

[(Anonymous)]

Did we watch the same series? Because I seem to recall Matt getting the piss knocked out of him every other episode - or at least with such frequency that they had to introduce Night Nurse/Claire to staple him back together all the time.

There is a loss of tension in that we know Matt Murdock remains Daredevil for the near future, inasmuch as comics lose that sort of thing. But he was constantly bleeding.

Re: Entertainment worries

[herpymcderp]

You might want to rewatch or ...reread? He gets hurt, yes, but it's always for plot convenience (i.e. when story progression calls for him to get hurt).

It's sad enough that in one episode there are two henchmen at the end of a hallway with guns who are at the ready when Daredevil enters from another hallway that is L-corner to the first. They wait to fire until Daredevil turns, "sees" them, and then flips out of the way. It's a good two seconds of henchmen just staring at a known adversary because... reasons.

In another episode (one of the fights with the Russian gangsters) he's fighting four men simultaneously and breaks down the door to a room as he's looking for a child hostage. Again, one of the men has a gun. This time you can see the stunt man purposefully aim at the ceiling so that there's no possible way he would have a line of sight on Daredevil (presumably so nobody would nitpick as to why he isn't instantly shot as he breaks down the door of the room).

Lastly, count the number of close breakaway shots (scenes shot above the waist that are cut before the moment of the strike which come back to the action after the person has presumably been hit) that go on in the series. It's just phenomenally high. It's tension breaking, because it means we rarely see any actual strikes and we can always just infer that Daredevil doesn't get hit unless there's a damn good reason.

Damn it there was a video on youtube that said all of the above better than I can, but I can't find it now. :(

He's invulnerable until he's not, basically. And to make it worse, the scenes where he's not invulnerable are always telegraphed to hell and back.