Ok, posting my impressions after watching the whole series.
Want to preface this with I am going to be more harsh on this particular TV series versus say the network ones considering their budget was as high as Game of Thrones, and they can pretty much do whatever they want on the show without fear of censorship.
I also had very high expectations going into the series for the above reasons.
Did it meet those expectations? I would say no. I want to say I love this show, but I would be lying. There are definitely flashes of very exciting storytelling such as the "Sticks" and Final episode.
The rest is very mediocre. It is burdened by very average writing, and direction. There is a lot of very formula based TV direction in the show which is disappointing, I was expecting more creativity.
With the money they put behind it I expected some fantastic editing, sound design, smart dialogue, and artistic use of direction ( This is a marvel comic after all) It rarely show this in the 13 hours I watched.
For instance, I wish there was more scenes like the blind guy in the car with camera rotating around as Daredevil comes in and out of the scene.
That being said I still liked it. It just wasn't the show I wanted it to be. I was just expecting something more on the creative side, and the show is just extremely straight forward almost to the point of being dull at many points.
On the Daredevil suit, it looks great although I would have preferred they not covered the nose even tho that makes more sense in reality.
If I had to give one break out performance that would have to go to Vincent D'Onofrio, he 100% nailed Kingpin.
Want to preface this with I am going to be more harsh on this particular TV series versus say the network ones considering their budget was as high as Game of Thrones, and they can pretty much do whatever they want on the show without fear of censorship.
I also had very high expectations going into the series for the above reasons.
Did it meet those expectations? I would say no. I want to say I love this show, but I would be lying. There are definitely flashes of very exciting storytelling such as the "Sticks" and Final episode.
The rest is very mediocre. It is burdened by very average writing, and direction. There is a lot of very formula based TV direction in the show which is disappointing, I was expecting more creativity.
With the money they put behind it I expected some fantastic editing, sound design, smart dialogue, and artistic use of direction ( This is a marvel comic after all) It rarely show this in the 13 hours I watched.
For instance, I wish there was more scenes like the blind guy in the car with camera rotating around as Daredevil comes in and out of the scene.
That being said I still liked it. It just wasn't the show I wanted it to be. I was just expecting something more on the creative side, and the show is just extremely straight forward almost to the point of being dull at many points.
On the Daredevil suit, it looks great although I would have preferred they not covered the nose even tho that makes more sense in reality.
If I had to give one break out performance that would have to go to Vincent D'Onofrio, he 100% nailed Kingpin.
