Marvel's Daredevil (Netflix)

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There's the rub. The core members of the New Avengers... sorry, The DEFENDERS mostly don't have much of a rogue's gallery of their own. Daredevil has the strongest showing with villains among the street level Marvel heroes.

It's a bit illogical, really. Very often these characters are so far removed from the source material that they're essentially new characters. May as well be anyway. So why not go the full nine and jettison the two or three pieces of "inspiration" taken from the comics and create wholly new characters?

The lag with Daredevil's third season release date is aggravating. It's even worse than The Man In The High Castle's third season release date, though not by much.

Speaking of, TMITHC is another show that looks like it's going to the dogs. But maybe that's a rant for a different thread.

Then again, maybe it isn't. It's not like there's any Daredevil info to talk about...

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D'Onofrio just posted this on his Instagram page with the caption 'WILSON'.

And he posted this on Twitter:

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In a recent Deadline article, Netflix VP Cindy Holland was asked about the reason for the delay of DD season 3.

The series that launched the Marvel Netflix universe, Daredevil, was renewed for a third season two years ago but that third installment of the show starring Charlie Cox is yet to get a premiere date. Why is that, is there an issue with the show?

"The biggest issue was the timing of production and launching of The Defenders because what that meant is we had to shut down all of the shows, so all the actors be available for The Defenders so it's more function of that," Holland told Deadline. "There is no problem with this season, I think it's fantastic, it's real return to form in my view."

https://deadline.com/2018/07/more-marvel-netflix-series-daredevil-season-3-premiere-date-luke-cage-season-3-renewal-defenders-2-tca-1202436262/

In that case, please never make another season of The Defenders. I enjoyed the first season well enough, but it wasn't worth derailing Daredevil's solo series for this amount of time. Holland's quote about s3 being a "return to form" is encouraging though. At the time, I liked DD s2 more than the first season. But looking back on them now, I think s1 was definitely the best. I still love s2, but it did focus too much on Elektra and the Punisher. Most of the comic villains introduced in that season were adapted from Punisher comics (Finn Cooley, Nesbitt, the Kitchen Irish, Colonel Ray Schoonover, the sniper), while the only new comic villains Matt got were Elektra, Grotto and Lord Hiroshi (and Elektra and Grotto were portrayed as allies). By contrast, s1 introduced Kingpin, Wesley, Turk, Owlsley, Gladiator, Nobu and the Hand. There are so many classic Daredevil villains, they should be adapting at least 4-6 new ones each season. The larger the hierarchy of villains, the less chance there is of the series succumbing to the same pacing issues as the other Marvel Netflix shows.

Right now, I'd willingly sell Daredevil's secret identity to a Mexican drug dealer in exchange for one fix of DD s3. If they could just give us a release date, or one official photo, that would be something at least.

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I don't know that I'm buying that explanation. Other series got followups in pretty short order, didn't they? Wasn't the second season of Jessica Jones produced and released after the Daredevil season three teaser came out?

It's hard to remember the chronology of this stuff but I don't think I entirely believe that.

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Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos has stated Daredevil season 3 will be released in 2018:

"In the short term, we've got new seasons coming up, in the second half of this year, of Orange is the New Black, Ozark, Iron Fist, Daredevil, Narcos, the finale of House of Cards, the follow-up series to Making a Murderer."

http://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/08/03/daredevil-season-3-premiering-2018-netflix/

If this is true, then it should be landing in November or December. So just another 4-5 months to go. I can wait...

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It's already been widely reported that Bethel is playing Bullseye, but here's some additional confirmation.

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Here's some interesting news. It seems some critics have already received the first few episodes of season 3. This doesn't usually happen until close to the release date, prompting online speculation that DD s3 might be coming earlier than we thought.

Marvel traditionally screens the first few episodes of the latest Daredevil season at New York Comic Con in October. Obviously there wasn't a season at last year's show, and instead The Punisher season 1 was intended to be the main focus of the Marvel TV panel. Sadly the Las Vegas shooting resulted in The Punisher presentation being cancelled. Afterwards several news outlets reported that Marvel had indeed planned to drop the first season immediately after the panel. Instead the release was delayed until the following month to avoid offending people after the Vegas shooting.

The Punisher s1, like DD s3, was originally given a vague release window towards the end of the year, but no exact date was announced. It looks like Marvel is using the same strategy for DD s3. Are they planning to drop the new season right after the New York Comic Con panel? That would be less than two months from now (October 4th-7th).

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Not to sound ranty or anything but I don't understand the fixation for the NY con that Marvel has.

Then again, San Diego is always over-crowded every year with stuff that has nothing to do with comics so choosing a different venue in a less busy time of year could be seen as good marketing.

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The first reaction to season 3 is in.

That sounds like a mid-October release date. Two months.

I can wait. I can...

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The feature film division so far has mostly specialized in creating individual franchises with awesome first movies (Iron Man, Avengers, etc) which are then followed by lackluster followups (um, Iron Man 2, AOU, etc). Sometimes the third one is an improvement over the second (Iron Man 3) but that shouldn't be assumed.

I am (or I was) slightly concerned that the Netflixverse was trending in the same direction. Daredevil's second season was... good. But less than I'd hoped. Meanwhile, both seasons of Jessica Jones have been great. So hmm.

I couldn't tell you anything about Luke Cage since I gave up on the first season early on and never bothered with the second.

If season 3 of Daredevil is already winning big praise... well, these people are rewarded for gushing reviews. But there's good reason to be cautiously optimistic.