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Daredevil now fully being put in the MCU has been such a miss, especially visually. During the initial Netflix days, Daredevil being a ground hero worked and they pulled it off perfectly. But now with Born Again they had a chance to fully realize daredevil for a new generation and they didn’t.

To give my thoughts on Born Again:
Born Again S1 is straight garbage 2.5 or 3 / 10
Born Again S2 5.5/10. Not bad but nothing more than Mid
(BA S2 isn’t even better than Netflix S2)

But besides the shitty writing and direction, the show is so visually ugly. Season 2 especially have these terrible interior shots. The sun coming through windows is always blown out with ugly useless lens flair.
And the CGI is horrendous.
The first episode of S1 with Matt swinging is hard to look at. And every time Matt is outside, it’s usually by a green screen.

Daredevil deserves a big movie budget so he can actually be the man without fear.

I want him diving off rooftops and properly using his Billy club. Let him be fantastic.
Everytime he uses it on the show it’s so bland and ugly. The show doesn’t have the budget to make it good.

The 2003 movie is terrible and nothing saves it, but daredevil has visual flair in it. Sometimes he was almost a bit too superhuman in his jumping but the right idea was there. And I want that to come back.
I hate this realism bullshit.

It didn’t fit the tone for the Netflix show, but now with born again the fantasy element is right at home.

He’s a blind superhero. Let him do comibook shit. Realism has no place in superhero media.

Preface:
I love Batman as much as the next guy and so naturally I loved Kevin Conroy as Batman. For years I was like many of you that thought the only Batman is Kevin. I grew up loving BTAS, TNBA, Batman Beyond, JL, the Arkham Games, and the countless animated films that he starred in. And when he passed I was genuinely heart broken.

Now after years of reading more comics and watching more animated films, I’ve come to realize that although Kevin is top tier, there are other VAs that do great jobs as the character and sometimes exceed what he does.

Don’t get me wrong, he deserves the praise he gets but as the years go on, I feel a lot of fans are disingenuous about where sits among Batman VAs. Many just follow the hype and just want to sound agreeable.

His voice doesnt fit every Batman adaptation nor should it. He wouldn’t be a good TDKR Batman for instance. And His voice acting for The Killing Joke was subpar. And so on.

Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, Roger Craig Smith all do great jobs as the character and deserve recognition. And there are times when there versions sound better for that version of Batman then Conroy.

(Jason O Mara sucks ass and I hate his Batman)

All that said, I still love Conroy as Batman and may he rest in peace.

EDIT: even if most are shitting on my take I just want to say I love reading every body’s opinion and I’m glad a dialogue was started about other great Batman VAs.
And a lot of you guys are funny too, especially the dude who said he wanted to hit me in the throat LMFAOO.

I just got finished reading Yellow for the 2nd time, and Blue for the first, and while both have hugeee similarities in tone and plot I find yellow much more emotionally impactful. I nearly cried at the end of yellow. While I like Blue it just didn’t resonate with me as much.

I’m not sure if it’s because I read Yellow before Blue, but I just couldn’t shake the feeling like this is the same story just with Spider-Man. Loebs daredevil narration is just so much more beautiful and poetic and his Spider-Man’s is more flat and redundant. Though I do love his characterization of all the characters in both stories.

And Sales artwork is just genius for both.

Thoughts??

My first real posable action figure and I can not wait. Unfortunately MAFEX is too much for my wallet rn so this will have to do. Does anybody else have this CT figure??