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I'm not really a fan of the DareDevil, "the man without fear" as I remember the tag line but there's always a little buzz.
So, I popped open Dimsny Math Symbol (free as they consume Hulu), to see the noise.
The best comment I heard about the character was someone offering:
"If I were to tell you there were two super heroes ... one an adrenaline fueled action junkie, and a blind guy using his other senses, to offset his lack of sight, you would not be able to guess which one was called DareDevil and which one was called Batman."
The first DareDevil series was interesting. Deborah Wohl, a celebrity D&D gamer was in the show and she's not hard on the eyes.
Vincent D'Nofrio plays Kingpin and some dude plays DD. The only thing I remember from the first series is the fight scenes were violent, complex, and reasonable. When you get your head smashed with a cinder block, you go down.
The latest series starts with the elimination of the two interesting side kicks including Ms. Wohl to get a person of superior diversity to diversify the diversity. If I could remember the thing's name, I'd share it ... but ... they weren't there for any story content, interest, or sensible reason, so let's just move along.
The "Man without Fear" did a bunch of boo hooing and stuff. They said "fear" not "angst and crying like a five year old".
Kingpin has become the mayor of NYC, an idea so absurd .... wait .... checks paper ... well ... the second most absurd idea I've heard. He goes about his mayoral duties.
The first four or so episodes were totally unremarkable. A blind lawyer has given up his heroic identity as DareDevil ... because ... everyone wants to watch a program about a 30 something blind soy boy lawyer. (Some might remember the show Long Street ... even Google barely remembers that one.)
So, there I was begging for Dimsny to introduce commercials and two interesting moments happened.
(1) Two White supremacist cops who were the bad guys of course tried to attack a blind soy boy lawyer ... because that's what they do. It was like a 3 second moment where DD retaliated and broke one guy's leg and smashed the other dude in the head. Beautiful, poetic violence.
I'm reminded of a moment:
https://youtu.be/WwFjCMtqUDg?t=159
Not just punch punch ... breath ... emote ... punch punch ... but violence with purpose and resolution. Momentum ... angular velocity ... three dimensional repugnant pain.
A man without fear.
And moment 2:
(2) As Mayor of NYC, Kingpin has to attend a elementary school event where the children sing "We built this city on rock and roll". He excuses himself in exasperation and goes to the next event at a Latvian embassy where the Latvian choir is singing the Latvian version of "We built this city on rock and roll".
It was like a POW blinking out in Morse code that there was some humor left in the world. Back to the messaging.
I watched a few more episodes and nothing. It might have been the Bloomberg channel droning on. I can't be bothered to pay attention.
It must have been better in the comics. Because it was pretty terrible on the small screen.
I think I have one episode left. I don't expect much.
Yours,
IronConrad
18-Jan-2026