About that Daredevil trailer
Oct. 8th, 2018 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyI have watched the full Daredevil trailer twice.The second time was when it was shownright before their BUILD interview. I had no desire to rewatch after seeing it the first time.
Because really, the advertising for this show is still stuck in 2015. It’s still focusing on drawing all the parallels between Fisk and Matt, and it’s clear that even if Erik Oleson is talking about Wilson Fisk as a stand-in for Trump, we’re still supposed to have some sympathy for him as a three-dimensional character. And I admit, I did, back in 2015. But that was in 2015. The world has changed a bit since then.
Now? I watch a trailer of a rich and powerful white man use his privilege to escape consequences for horrific crimes, get back into a position where he wields power which you know he’s going to use to do horrible things, spew lies all over the place, and especially move to “get back” at the people who dared to try to call him account for what he’s done, and you know what? No way in hell I’m going to sympathize with that bastard. I want him to fucking burn.
And do you really want to go saying he and Matt are alike? You really want to do that to the guy he’s using his power to destroy? That’s just cruel. And don’t go telling me Matt deserves the comparisons because he’s apparently going all dark. In the world we’re currently living in, who the fuck can blame him? All people who resort to what he and Fisk are doing are not alike. Fisk is doing it out of spite and just because he can. Matt is doing it because he has reason to believe he has no other recourse.
I’ve also been disappointed, by the way, that we’re still seen so little of Foggy and Karen in the previews, and that most of the shots of the latter seem to involve her in distress. It was reassuring, at least, to hear Oleson say they’re being treated as heroes in their own stories. It may even stop Karen from being truly fridged; I can at least believe that if she does die, it’ll be as the conclusion of her own story, rather than just as part of Matt’s. Though dread over her death has kept me from looking forward to this season much, to be honest. And if she dies and Fisk lives, I’m going to see red.
I remember back when they would say villains shouldn’t be just evil, that they should be “realistic.” Well, lately reality’s showing us something a little different. And I’m starting to think the more privileged among us, at least, have been blind all this time, that this is just another ploy for us to not condemn the powerful white men for what they’ve been doing to the rest of us for too long.
At least Oleson is talking about the trio bringing him down. Though frankly, my biggest disappointment on hearing there’d be no crossovers for this season was that meant Frank couldn’t show up and kill Fisk for them. None of the trio would cope as well, though Karen might survive it emotionally. If she survived it literally, anyway.
Because really, the advertising for this show is still stuck in 2015. It’s still focusing on drawing all the parallels between Fisk and Matt, and it’s clear that even if Erik Oleson is talking about Wilson Fisk as a stand-in for Trump, we’re still supposed to have some sympathy for him as a three-dimensional character. And I admit, I did, back in 2015. But that was in 2015. The world has changed a bit since then.
Now? I watch a trailer of a rich and powerful white man use his privilege to escape consequences for horrific crimes, get back into a position where he wields power which you know he’s going to use to do horrible things, spew lies all over the place, and especially move to “get back” at the people who dared to try to call him account for what he’s done, and you know what? No way in hell I’m going to sympathize with that bastard. I want him to fucking burn.
And do you really want to go saying he and Matt are alike? You really want to do that to the guy he’s using his power to destroy? That’s just cruel. And don’t go telling me Matt deserves the comparisons because he’s apparently going all dark. In the world we’re currently living in, who the fuck can blame him? All people who resort to what he and Fisk are doing are not alike. Fisk is doing it out of spite and just because he can. Matt is doing it because he has reason to believe he has no other recourse.
I’ve also been disappointed, by the way, that we’re still seen so little of Foggy and Karen in the previews, and that most of the shots of the latter seem to involve her in distress. It was reassuring, at least, to hear Oleson say they’re being treated as heroes in their own stories. It may even stop Karen from being truly fridged; I can at least believe that if she does die, it’ll be as the conclusion of her own story, rather than just as part of Matt’s. Though dread over her death has kept me from looking forward to this season much, to be honest. And if she dies and Fisk lives, I’m going to see red.
I remember back when they would say villains shouldn’t be just evil, that they should be “realistic.” Well, lately reality’s showing us something a little different. And I’m starting to think the more privileged among us, at least, have been blind all this time, that this is just another ploy for us to not condemn the powerful white men for what they’ve been doing to the rest of us for too long.
At least Oleson is talking about the trio bringing him down. Though frankly, my biggest disappointment on hearing there’d be no crossovers for this season was that meant Frank couldn’t show up and kill Fisk for them. None of the trio would cope as well, though Karen might survive it emotionally. If she survived it literally, anyway.
