"If they had known, they'd have never done x" is my least favorite thing ever. What a cheap way to create dread. And it takes me out of the story.
I'd have also shifted the focus from Fisk. In a way, this almost felt like the showrunners wanted to do something like...oh, Breaking Bad or the Sopranos or something. They did a really fine job of doing a show called "Kingpin", but I think in doing so, they left the actual title character a cypher. It also made the show draaaag in some ways- I found myself kind of wishing for a case of the week format. For several reasons, but one of which was that we got to see the villain do something, and then we saw Matt figure it out, and then we saw Foggy and Karen figure out some variation of it. (That's one reason I kind of feel that Hawkeye sort of hit the brakes with Grills' murder. We saw the same darn thing like what, five times? With added details, sure, but especially with the delay between issues, it felt like the story was told in molassas).
So agree with you on the violence. Especially early on. Urgh. That car door thing. I hate that kind of grim&gritty LOOK AT HOW FAR WE CAN TAKE THIS violence, though I recognize I may just be a bit more squeamish than other people. I also was really discomfited by the "good" (and effective!) torture that Matt did. I've really become less tolerant of all the stories that treat torture as justifiable (not to mention effective) and it seemed so *pointless*, especially for that character and his skill sets (talents AND powers). I mean, it's like having an Iron Movie in which, in a room full of machinery and computers, Tony solves problems by digging his way out with his bare hands.
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I'd have also shifted the focus from Fisk. In a way, this almost felt like the showrunners wanted to do something like...oh, Breaking Bad or the Sopranos or something. They did a really fine job of doing a show called "Kingpin", but I think in doing so, they left the actual title character a cypher. It also made the show draaaag in some ways- I found myself kind of wishing for a case of the week format. For several reasons, but one of which was that we got to see the villain do something, and then we saw Matt figure it out, and then we saw Foggy and Karen figure out some variation of it. (That's one reason I kind of feel that Hawkeye sort of hit the brakes with Grills' murder. We saw the same darn thing like what, five times? With added details, sure, but especially with the delay between issues, it felt like the story was told in molassas).
So agree with you on the violence. Especially early on. Urgh. That car door thing. I hate that kind of grim&gritty LOOK AT HOW FAR WE CAN TAKE THIS violence, though I recognize I may just be a bit more squeamish than other people. I also was really discomfited by the "good" (and effective!) torture that Matt did. I've really become less tolerant of all the stories that treat torture as justifiable (not to mention effective) and it seemed so *pointless*, especially for that character and his skill sets (talents AND powers). I mean, it's like having an Iron Movie in which, in a room full of machinery and computers, Tony solves problems by digging his way out with his bare hands.