The Reel Rejects - DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN 1x8 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:00:29 I love new team. Wow, what an incredible episode. Well, if you were able to watch this on YouTube, it's because of those fine folks over at Preper. They did such a great job editing me on these highlights, so thank you so much over there. Also, we got some great gear right now over at RejectNationShop.com. We got the Fantastic Four.

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Starting point is 00:01:07 that was an incredible episode i really love that first shot i we started off on what seemed like it was a funeral but we had that uh i guess was the blue flower and was really encompassing and symbolizing of uh bull's eye which was really a main staple i understand why we have the whole recap thing i just i really wish we didn't because I didn't even want to know that he was in the episode, first of all. And but again, it's not, it's not the end of the world. But I thought, what an amazing episode, first of all, really great cliffhanger to get us ready for the finale. I can't wait to see what happens.

Starting point is 00:01:39 I love how we were all completely. Yeah, misled. It was great. Like, that's how you subvert expectations because we all thought Heather or Vanessa. And he was really trying to take out Wilson in that moment. Understandably so from all the events of season three. He took out, I totally blanking on the woman's name that point out. was obsessed with that Wilson,

Starting point is 00:01:58 thank you so much, real roomy, that he took out Julie. So it actually makes sense that he would go after Wilson in that moment. He's got a vendetta there. But, yeah, I am curious too, because we did talk about it. Like, did Matt know, even though putting him in the infirmary, would keep him alive? Did he know that he would break out eventually? I don't know about that.

Starting point is 00:02:16 But, I mean, I knew that he knows that it would keep him alive. But either way, I really love, again, I think we've all pointed out, I love the parallels that they always keep shifting upon. between Wilson and Matt. And I love seeing two, again, how they were doing that in this episode. As Wilson and Vanessa's relationship are finally starting to be repaired, as Vanessa took out Adam, we see the distrust and, you know, how the rifting of Heather and Matt's relationship.

Starting point is 00:02:44 I just wish, again, just a little nitpick, I wish we could have spent more time with them throughout the season. So I, like, this would have made a lot more impact for me, even though I still thought it was great, it was great writing. It was a great parallel, but if we would have spent a little more time with them, this would have hit so much more for me, even more so, is all I'm saying. But I still thought it was great in terms of the rift that we were feeling between them. Because I can understand her perspective, although I still think she could have been a little more grateful for Daredevil saving her,

Starting point is 00:03:12 otherwise she wouldn't be here. But it's neither here nor there. I thought that was great. I love the parallels. And then again, when they were dancing, against the difference on, you know, how Wilson is talking about Matt with Heather. and then again the dialogue between Vanessa and Matt was so damn good saying I know you hired bull's eye to take out foggy and then like does she know your daredevil like that's classic daredevil comics and also the Netflix I love that dialogue right there it's so damn good I also thought too I love how brutal this episode was in terms of like you got stuff with the guy's hand going through you got the tooth stuff that was so creative intuitive and just in general it was just so creative and disturbing rather again. that just brought me back to the Netflix style. I loved all that stuff.

Starting point is 00:03:58 That was great. That interrogation scene, really freaking incredible as well. The dialogue in there, there was so much tension, I thought in this episode as well, and I thought they just did a good job. I thought what this episode did so well,

Starting point is 00:04:11 even though if the pacing was really quick, you never felt, it just felt like they really were taking their time each scene. You know what I mean? No scenes felt rushed. And I think that was kind of our biggest complaint, even though we still were entertained by, last week's episode. For me personally, most of the scenes just did not feel rushed in this

Starting point is 00:04:29 episode. And that's what I love so much. I also thought, too, is really interesting all the stuff going on with the commissioner. I know he's being threatened by Wilson Fiske in terms of because he had a kid out of wedlock with another woman, so he's being threatened there. Now, seeing that he's lost full control of the vigilante task force, so that's another interesting thing. And then we got Beebe. She's got that whole thing going on where she suspects. And I love that we didn't know that she suspected that. But, you know, she's a reporter in her own right, like her uncle. But that's another fascinating thing going on and she's really using Daniel as a means to, you know, get Wilson if she can. So that's why she's trying to get in from there and like, that is so damn

Starting point is 00:05:04 fascinating. I love all that. So many different great things I loved about this episode. I could go on and on. Who am I going to start with? Let's go with the fellow geek jack here. How are you feeling after watching that episode? I started this tired. I know when my bones I'm still tired, but I have so much adrenaline that I know I have the, the spirit of Daredevil within me. I, man, I really am so impressed when the tonal shift happens to the parts of the show that feel like the new blood. I was definitely on team, hey, I'd be curious about a Daredevil Spin City. And I do like that I kind of got to see that.

Starting point is 00:05:41 We've got the bank episode. We've gotten these things. But the difference between this and the last episode is why I think we're in a great, and I'm going to be, I'm going to go on the macro, why I think we're in good hands going forward with Marvel. I think that Marvel for a couple of years stumbled because they were trying to put out a volume of content that was unsustainable. And then on top of that, we had a little pandemic, we had a little strike. And everything went awry at the exact wrong time. And I feel like we're actually living in this course correction era.

Starting point is 00:06:12 And the better Marvel does, the better DC does, the more there's competition, the rising tide lifts all boats. and I think Daredevil being the flagship show is in really good hand season two because of this episode. I looking out, zooming out, I think if Daredevil had been awful, we'd be in a bad way with TV. I think if Fantastic Four Thunderbolts or Doomsday is bad, or if all three aren't at least very good, we're in a bad way. Blissfully, they all look pretty great, except for some concerns you've heard me have for Doomsday. But I love that this episode brought a style that felt like it harken back to the defenders while also bringing in a new element with the blue. I love that the parallels of Matt and Heather and Vanessa and Wilson came to a head in such an artistic way that felt like comic panels that felt like they were

Starting point is 00:06:59 the dance of the show culminated in a dance. Like I really enjoy all of that and I really like that Matt has been questioning himself this entire season and then he literally would take a bullet for his greatest enemy. There was a line in this about defending your enemy that came from Bullseye, and then Matt took a bullet for his actual greatest enemy from his other one that killed Foggy. So not only did Matt unleash the man who killed Foggy, he then took a bullet for, and that's a hero, and that's, you know, something I could never be, something that many of us couldn't aspire to get to that level of good, but when the devil gets let out, it isn't always for

Starting point is 00:07:39 vengeance. Sometimes it's for heroism, and this episode really brought all that to a T. I love that we've addressed a lot of the concerns and my last thing I'll say and the biggest relief I have is that a lot of times Marvel makes their penultimate episode a bit of finale

Starting point is 00:07:53 and then the last episode is more of a denouement. I was a little worried last episode when I was like how are we rushing so quick because it was the episode before the one two punch and I was so afraid

Starting point is 00:08:03 this episode would be the finale and then the next episode would be either a bridge to the season because we know it's getting a season that feels like it's a two halves but also there'd be so much fallout in this one episode it wouldn't have a chance

Starting point is 00:08:13 to instead ending on a cliffhanger feeling like we're about to get a true finale all of that feels much more pace like television and that mirrors beautifully that little bottle episode we have like I love that the show feels like a show not a movie chopped up well let me just add you are a hero you're my hero by the way yes so don't ever doubt yourself I'll dive in front of bullets for fellow geek jacks the list is short good to know if someone ever does point a gun at me you're going to run in in front of it so thank you very much I appreciate it I'm accountable Greg how are you feeling I'm feeling good i think this was one of the the best episodes uh and knowing some behind the scenes context that the first episode and the last two are primarily original um when i say original i mean like created from the new team whereas the two through seven are a hybrid mix puts it in a perspective where to echo like what coy is talking about that the confidence moving forward for season two i personally very much feel and especially with these two directors the first episode is a real stylistic episode and it's a great sort of reintroduction into the world and

Starting point is 00:09:27 here they i actually think they did a better job this time because i sort of felt this even on rewatch it was a bit bombastic with its style and auditory ways that they used the first one while I really enjoy the hell out of it there were parts where I felt like the technical side was a bit bit much at times and I think their usage here was more steady was more fine-tuned and less because it had more time to breathe and more more settled in so you'd have to do all this introductory process so I think from even as the director's side of it I think it coalesces a lot better and a lot stronger than their first go around and even how they handle bull's eye here i think they brought it back to a who was it i think aaron was the one of pointed it out in the last

Starting point is 00:10:21 episode of you had a muse character who is a guy dealing with mental health but he's like a serial killer and then season three of daredevil did such a great job of illustrating the dangers of that with bull's eye and then you carry on after the death of muse with bull's eye and while you know we haven't really had too much time here with point dexter the usage of him is well used and even to have him at this event where it feels like it's emulating that of a shooter at a large gathering is very eerie and very unsettling and he's still very scary you know you put a tooth in him available to just shoot into someone's eye it's it's scary you know and I like the acknowledgement too that they acknowledge

Starting point is 00:11:08 he has enhanced supervision and these enhanced abilities like making that clear via through the text itself I think helps out with your portrayal of him and I know we had a little bit of all of us were like well I mean I feel like Matt you might have picked up on that right when you were smashing this guy's face him but then the bulls I want to get his face smashed you know in order to get access to the tooth he knows how these regulations go and with Matt too like this is my favorite kind of Charlie Cox

Starting point is 00:11:38 the guy who is pushed to the edge and can't contain it anymore it reminds me of like my favorite DiCaprio performance of that and the departed this guy who's he has secrets he's trying to maintain the cover and the guy's hyper on edge is like I'm just going to I'm going to tell the truth you know I'm going to I'm going to let her all out there you want to know truth Heather I'm going to show you the truth let's go you know constantly being constantly being pushed and you can feel something in him wants to explode like his interrogation scene with with um with point dexter was was an effective one one where you know he's

Starting point is 00:12:18 crossing the line but in all the right way so all the ways you enjoy as a fan of this guy and uh you know the the use the usage of characters tangoing with each other is often used metaphorically but then to kind of use that in a very literal sense at the very end where it all comes together and to have even a gray area because the relationship of Wilson Fisk and and Vanessa is obviously a dark, dangerous type of relationship. They are criminals. They are killers. It is not what you'd call healthy in a lot of ways yet there's no secrets between them.

Starting point is 00:12:59 yeah and he's revealing his secret as matt's burying his yeah and as as uh matt is when he's when he's dancing and he says to him about the secrets he says to heather about the secrets of secrets like kill you or make you say he says something about it and i did find myself as an audience remember going damn he's right man it like tears apart mass relationships and locus hackmaning with him and heather right now because it were him and venessa have kind of this like grounded confidence but he's also he's also trying to make a point about secrets yet venezica kept a big secret from him about foggy still you know and there's so you see like this veil being broken of they think they're honest with each other they they especially wilson fist thinks he's honest

Starting point is 00:13:48 and maybe wilson actually knows already and she doesn't know that he knows but i don't know i like i like the complexity i like it all and uh i i think that this was a a very wonderfully directed episode rejignation if you haven't heard i'm going to tell you about a little thing that's been part of my routine these past couple months dry neck to spill huel h ue l god that is tasty well i've been using huel update you guys on january 25th i weigh 218 pounds as of the day of filming this i'm down to 188 that's 30 pounds lighter six Pat Greg incoming and easily, a necessity, one of the biggest things that I've been doing,

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Starting point is 00:16:35 And we've seen using the reshoot stuff and the new stuff and tie it in to make a cohesive narrative. I really like the way that the directors did that, but also utilized color at the same time to reflect these different characters. Blue for bull's eye, red for Matt, white for Fisk. And yeah, just the way that we were ramping up the tension over the course of the eight episodes that we're in and it not feeling inorganic because, listen, we've seen a lot of shows within the Marvel Pantheon at this point. A lot of those were in the JPEC era of Marvel, which kind of didn't have a footing on how to properly run a show. And now we've gotten to a place where we can run a show. And even though it didn't start in the way that they would like it to have started, they found a way to cohesive. make it entertaining and allow the plot to really dive in a way that in spite of those

Starting point is 00:17:30 pivots feels natural now we talked about last week and I'll know all of us weren't really super keen on that one but the way that they're able to utilize that and for its larger point I thought was was really well done utilizing bull's eye and how that's playing into it as well and I really enjoy what this season has done with Vanessa overall having her descend into darkness even further because the last show ended with her wanting to be a part of his world and in some ways you can say she's as dark if not darken in the fist granted we haven't seen all those ways come to fruition we just found out of this episode the pot twist that she killed foggy which is wild to think that she's even gone this far but hell the way that they're able to interplay

Starting point is 00:18:17 within their relationship. It's just so fascinating. I really like the point that was made about the closer the Vanessa and Fiske relationship goes into darkness, the more unified can they become, and then the more divisive Matt's life become, the more he tries to hide his darkness, hide his pain. And I'm sure because this new iteration of the show is very proud and very upfront with its visual language, the fact that the last show ended with Matt, blooding something that was important to Fisk, his ideal whiteness, and then him covering himself in the blood off of his, whiteness off of his suit, I was like, wow, that's a beautiful parallel because one going to the edge of violence and the edge of murder, to this one, to the edge of heroism

Starting point is 00:19:08 and staining Fiske within that. I thought was very cool that they did that. And I'm just excited to see where the show goes. I'm excited that this new direction and this new creative team has found a way to heighten the standard of what we know a Marvel product to be, a Marvel series, and just a Marvel production overall. Now, it makes me excited for season two as well. I'm happy that we had those pieces of the OG come into fruition like Josie and bringing that stuff back and the reason why I questioned it in the beginning when we were going to the scene with with point dexter was because they were like talking about it and obviously he was introduced that season but they never straight up said the stuff about him being an FBI agent they said he was like

Starting point is 00:19:57 he was an hitman so it's like it's referencing it but not not in an overt direct way so that's why I was a little unclear about that but I either way I'm really enjoying how they're bringing it all to fruition and now it seems like in some capacity we're going to get that three way fight reprisal between the fisk bull's eye and matt and i just i want to know what happens i'm excited this this show's killing it all good points last thing i'll say and then i got to get out of here i do i did also love that scene back at josie's i thought that was a great way of matt coming up with his own theory of you know with the drink and all that and like you know that foggy was taken out for a certain reason and you know piecing it together i thought that was very

Starting point is 00:20:40 fascinating. I love that. That was great. And then I also love that Josie realized he's not using his cane here because a lot of characters don't point that stuff out. So I thought that was great use of Josie there. And I think that was kind of like the most time we've really ever gotten to spend with Josie, just in general, like an actual scene with her and characters interact. Because usually it's just here's the drink and her like bagging on foggy. So it was, it was nice. It kind of just like it was again in the spirit of the old show. And then, but again, giving her some due time. So I really appreciate that. Last thing I'll say is I really like to because I know we've gotten a little bit of flashes of the old kingpin in terms of him

Starting point is 00:21:14 manipulating people like with the commissioner in terms of you know him having a woman at a child rather at a wedlock with that woman I really liked how he was trying to rile mad up because you could see that look in that beginning of that episode which we all dug you know how he was like kind of panicky and fearful but also too he was kind of excited yeah and that was back as daredevil so he was like thinking up a plan because that's what wilson fist does he is a man Like, when he plays 4D chess while everyone else is playing checkers, and so he was devising a plan, like, how am I going to get into Matt's head? I like that he went after Matt and Daredewell separately.

Starting point is 00:21:48 Yeah, I agree with that. Heather and. Yeah, and that was great. Like, that's my favorite type of, like, yes, you feel very threatened by Wilson Fist, but I love when he mentally gets into other people's heads in regards to his enemies. Like, that's my favorite type of writing when it comes to Wilson Fiske. And I thought this episode, like, nailed it when it came to Dinoffrio's character, or when it came to Wilson Fiss, so that was so freaking great.

Starting point is 00:22:11 Do you think that Wilson had him moved to Jen Pop or do you think that Vanessa had to move to Jim Pop? Because Vanessa had him kill Foggy, but do you think Wilson is covering it up and kind of even killed? I mean, it looked like the task force was moving him, so I would guess Wilson. It's an interesting question. But that's a good question, right? I don't know. We're going to find out next week. Yeah, I guess we'll find out.

Starting point is 00:22:30 But guys, I have to get out of here. So I'm going to let the crew here finish up. So I will see you guys next week for episode nine, the finale. I can't wait. enjoy the review without me. Take care. Be free. I think the last thing I want to say I mean, I've said most of my piece, but

Starting point is 00:22:46 I think it's really interesting that the episode where they both came back to like fully themselves was last week, but then we got the human elements this week and I think that's going to make the finale fuller. Instead of again, like how Marvel sometimes does finale denouement, this was really cool because there was no Daredevil in this

Starting point is 00:23:02 episode. And like there was Wilson getting his kingpin back on but the defense attorney defended kingpin but there was no daredevil and now like going into the finale the fight is such a different dynamic yeah like it's such all of it's so different and I love that it's not just my big flaw with Disney plus a lot of times is a show can be really smart for 90% and then it just ends with punching and I love that this is like likely going to be violent at the end but it's not just going to be the traditional like I I love that right now like what we're just talking about I don't know how it's going to go right that's awesome yeah a lot of intrigue I'm excited

Starting point is 00:23:35 where'd all that punisher stuff come from there's another episode left when the Hollywood reporter put all those punisher images out with her I guess it's in this one out I'm so bummed about that months it's definitely next week when it was like but I'm like

Starting point is 00:23:49 I don't even know how you get there yeah how does like Frank come back Frank come back I mean I dare it was going to need help because he shot that's true the one that pick all says I wish the punisher task for stuff was a lot more prevalent way more prevalent

Starting point is 00:24:05 like you click 30% of crime off screen like what or 30% of vigilante crime should have been a longer show yeah 100% I think especially if you're course correcting it should have been a longer show that could be season two though season two could deal with the vigilante stuff you get with frank coming back and all that so I'm still hopeful and we get a frank special I think maybe the special is frank hunting cops maybe I think we're the I think the I like what they did with BB as well I'm going to choose to stay here on this side of the frame and keep this separate um i had this is this is an actual toy i had when i was a little kid no way oh that's dope 12 inch uh fleer ultra i believe it is when i watch x-men 90s when i was a kid is actual toy oh that's great i think it's a flare ultra 97 that's why it's all dusty and wow anyway so um i think what they did with like his gold skin with bb is one that I think they did a really good job at because she kind of seemed like so in the background and nothing of the effect of her uncle, even though they're doing like the BB report, her presence kind of feels like when she's on camera, nowhere near as strong. And then to see like, ah, yeah, she's been doing the whole act this entire time. I'm like Gandalfini, again, I don't know what they're really building to with him, but it's compelling because the character is really exciting.

Starting point is 00:25:28 Yeah. I didn't expect to feel sympathy for the commissioner. and I didn't realize I cared until that moment when his life seemed like in danger. Yeah, so I was like, oh, I'm invested. It's like lowest-laning commissioner Gordon working together in the way. And so I really, I really think that's cool.

Starting point is 00:25:44 I do think the overall stuff with the lawyers is kind of outside of like, you know, a good episode with Matt doing some shit. I think it's not really, McDuffie. I don't get why they're partners. I don't think it's interesting at all. I think it's kind of boring honestly whenever they like check in with them specifically I'm like I'm not interested in their dynamic I just don't think they've spent enough time to really develop their relationship yeah that's the biggest has to do a lot and it's nine episodes yeah yeah I think they I think they're kind of a service of time I think season two is going to be great because they won't be patching together a season from another season 100% like it'll be the story they wanted not like oh we got this glue yeah I can't wait for the new suit yeah which we've all seen I'll say it looks pretty dope it looks awesome it looks awesome I got to see it at the show.

Starting point is 00:26:32 It does look like it. It's a pretty cool. But it also shows that like, you know, Justin and Aaron and everybody else in the team is listening. Like, we've been wanting the DD for a while. Give us that D. We want the D. Oh, was it? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:26:43 Anyway, I'm done. On that note, give us the D next season. And I can't wait for the finale. I'm going to wrap up since we lost fellow geek checked here. This episode was what I love about the season and the new form of the show, blending the old with the new. I think we're going to get that in the finale. I think we're going to get that going forward. What do you think?

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