Disney under Bob Iger ruins everything. Kathleen Kennedy ruined both the Star Wars and the Indian Jones franchises. Under Disney, Marvel - mostly with a lot of help from Taika Waititi - has completely ruined, well everything related to Marvel. The character of Thor, the arc of the character of Bucky, Captain America, even Hawkeye, were all ruined.
If you paid any attention to Pop Culture this week, you know that Disney has announced the cast of an upcoming Avengers movie. It isn't quite a cast of 1000s, but there are too many people named in it. It will be a muddled, mess, full of cameos that do nothing for the story. But then Disney and Marvel probably don't have a story, not really. That would require thought and planning and some base level of creativity.
The last thing that people were holding out hope for is Disney's take on Daredevil. Not the insanity that was Daredevil as he appeared in She Hulk, that show should never have been made. Not Daredevil as he appeared in Echo, that was just a stupid waste of the 2 characters. Daredevil: Born Again was supposed to be Disney's attempt at a Daredevil program, similar to the Netflix adaptation.
The Netflix adaptation of the character of Daredevil is one of the best, most accurate, comic adaptations ever to come out of Hollywood. You understood the character of Matt Murdock, the roll his faith played in his life. The characters were real, and you cared what happened to them. And the fight scenes were expertly choreographed. Disney's show-runner didn't like all of that character stuff, and the Catholic faith is completely (nearly completely?) absent. (I haven't seen all of it, and I'm not sure I will, since I have to rely on friends with D+, and I'm not that interested.) In short character of the hero is uninteresting. His struggles are unimportant. And his friends have to be eliminated in favor of a diverse cast.
See below the embedded video for a few other thoughts on Daredevil.
This is the Jedi Brooks video How Disney RUINED Daredevil. He explains things better than I can. The video is 10 minutes
This is the Hallway Fight Scene from the Netflix Daredevil. It is from the second episode, "Cut Man," so he doesn't yet have his iconic uniform, and is instead dressed in black. It is one long continuous shot. It is one of the best fight scenes I've ever seen in movies or TV, and set the tone.
When I saw part of an interview transcript that the Disney show-runner did, about how the Netfilx show contained too much talking, I knew this would awful. One of the best episodes in the first season on Netflix was episode 10, "Nelson v. Murdock." At the end of the previous episode, Matt gets nearly killed. In the first part of this episode we find that Foggy brought him back to his apartment, gotten the nurse Claire to stitch him up, and most of the episode is an argument between the two because Foggy now knows that Matt is The Devil of Hell's Kitchen. The episode is all about working through the issues between the characters. And we care, because we care about these two friends. Disney doesn't care about anything except pushing The Message™
I think the biggest problem is apathy. If Disney has anything to do with it, I'm not interested in seeing it.
Earlier, on Friday Night Tights, Rags (a YouTube creator and a regular on Every Frame a Pause) mentioned that Daredevil gave him Star Wars sequel trilogy where we never got a scene between the 3 main characters. There was that scene in Daredevil, but it was destroyed by the bad writing.
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