Daredevil
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Perhaps the most frustrating thing aboutDaredevilis that it doesnt ever stop being an origin story.
Matt Murdock has never been allowed to simplybeDaredevil, confident in his mission, a man without fear.
He also says Vanessa got Nadeem killed.
I honestly appreciate how much of Kingpins arc always boils down to crime-lord romance.
It makes Wilson Fisk feel unique in the annals of comic book villains.
So, remember that farewell video Nadeem recorded at his home before he died?
Mrs. Nadeem covertly gets the phone to Foggy, telling him it contains her husbands last-ditch plan.
(I suspect it may be more complicated than that, but lets roll with it.)
Dex, furious at the salt being rubbed in his wound, refuses to believe Matt.
Matt says he doesnt have to, and gives him an address.
It works, too.
Hes there to fight his way to Fisk, and Matt is more than happy to follow.
Meanwhile, Wilson Fisk is married to Vanessa Marianna.
This being a 21st-century wedding, the guests surround them, recording them with smartphones.
Only those smartphones begin to play something else, instead Nadeems confession.
And then the band stops playing, because Dex is there as Daredevil, ready to kill Fisk.
And then Matt arrives to stop him.
Dex killed Father Lantom!
He and Matt have a very personal beef right now!
Matt has been suffering all season long, and weve been enduring his long downward spiral for 13 episodes.
The remainder of A New Napkin is about Matt making amends.
It might work out.
Matts moving back into his old apartment and sticking around.
Hes got friends, and hes happy to have them.
It is, for the most part, a happy ending.
Its just one that feels weirdly disjointed from the season it closes the book on.
Lantom taught me to transcend my fears, to be brave enough to forgive.
And to see the possibilities of being a man without fear.
But this season hasnt told that story, really.
(A cruel point that MillersBorn Againquietly makes in the comics, and which iskind ofmade here.)
Which leaves us with the question: should we stick around to find out?
