[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”8263″ img_size=”800×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]If you haven’t watched Daredevil season three yet, BIG SPOILERS!
Daredevil season three takes place after The Defenders, where Matt Murdock teamed up with Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand. Considering filming for the third season took place before Iron Fist and Luke Cage felt Thanos’s finger snap of death, there could have been a possibility that at least one Defenders would show up. Or at least The Punisher, considering the two’s close connection in season two. At least, we were hoping?
Alas, no luck. Karen and Matt mention Frank Castle’s name and Jessica Jones’s name is dropped for a split second, but besides that, the show remains fairly secular. While Royce Johnson, who plays Brett Mahoney; and Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page) have hopped to other series, such as The Punisher; their start was on Daredevil. Annabella Sciorra as mob boss Rosalie Carbone was probably the closest we got to a cameo of a character from another Marvel series.
In a conversation with Erik Oleson, Daredevil’s showrunner; he explains the reasoning behind excluding the Defenders:
“Well, there’s a number of reasons,” Oleson began. “There’s the story reason of that Matt feels that it is his responsibility that Fisk’s release in large part is on him for not having taken care of it the first time around, or the second time around. And so Matt Murdock is determined to right the wrongs that he himself set in motion.
“He also, in a kind of a spiritual way, feels like God is speaking to him and is putting in front of him a raison d’etre, a reason to keep going and to keep existing after his heartbreaking life turn at the end of Defenders, where he walked out of the building, Elektra did not. And in episode one of this season, Matt essentially attempts suicide by thug. So he has spiritual and emotional reasons for why he doesn’t call in the Defenders.”
“Then there’s the kind of meta writerly reason why I didn’t want to do that, and if one of the basic rules of great drama writing is that your protagonist must be out gunned by the agonist or else there’s no dramatic tension,” Oleson said. “If Matt can simply call Luke Cage and Jessica Jones and Danny Rand to come in and beat these other villains, your dramatic structure is lopsided. It becomes boring. It’s like suddenly the heroes have all the power and the villain is outgunned, and that becomes a major impediment to telling a great story. So that’s the other reason we did it, truthfully.”
As much as I was really hoping for the likes of Frank Castle to show up, this is Matt Murdock’s show. We had a lot of baggage from season two that needed to get addressed. As someone who had just finished watching season three, I have to say it is my favorite of all the Marvel Netflix shows.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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