"Having men (and women) who participate in criminal activity and suffer violent deaths because of it is different than staging (and gendering) "innocent victims," i.e., folks whose sole or primary purpose to the story is to be the victim of a violent act."

Well, there you go.

I think it's just another potential thread to pull on for later down the road. I'm excited people are engaged with Melvin Potter's story, though. It was great in the comics and I liked what they did with the character here.

"And if you could build a coffee table, that'd be great. Nothing fancy, I just … I need a coffee table."

If you want a frame of reference for the show, I'd suggest Daredevil #165-#191 (Frank Miller's first run), then the Daredevil: The Man Without Fear series/TPB, then Daredevil #238-#291 (Nocenti's run) (which I'm going to have to defend from fellow nerds).

DD and Potter had conversations offscreen about the new DD suit. There's no reason to suggest they couldn't discuss details about Betsy, too.

Fisk didn't take over NYC because Hell's Kitchen isn't NYC. It is a borough in it. [EDIT: Neighbourhood, not borough.]

I'm pumped because I know almost nothing about her and I like this corner of the MCU on Netflix. And Ritter is a fave.

So, they victimize a swath of male characters through staged/coerced suicides, critical injury, alleyway murder, hospital murder, torture sessions, decapitation, taking the elevator without an elevator, strangulation, and random head splattering whilst in the back of a car but there should have been less victimization…

Captain Obvious - white dude

That is indeed our Rosenberg.

Oh, I hear ya. I got into long screeds myself on the previous reviews. I'm all for social equality in real life and in fiction but when it becomes either too confining in itself or restrictive in storytelling, it's the opposite of egalitarianism. It's oppressive. He's young, though, and possibly faces a lot of crap in…

Mmm—riiiight. I'm gonna go be … not here. Have fun storming the castle!

No, really, you can't.

I hope you took a mental breath in the middle of that because I'm slightly exhausted reading it! Mostly because I kept picturing each iteration you suggested.

Plus, though the TV rules do apply here, they didn't leave him for dead. A clean-up crew was instructed to do their thing. Fisk would've known before long, barring some conspiracy.

I wish they had found a way to have the characters just do one, unspoken, unheralded, blink-and-you-miss it passby in the background of a mundane street scene. It would be the greatest Easter egg in the history of Marvel Easter eggs.

And stylishly dressed for a woman on the run. But, really, when was she ever not stylishly dressed (out of bed, that is)? She even had perfect Morning After Couture.

Hurray for a fellow Campbellite!

It's a shorthand moral context typifying the struggle between light and shadow, good and evil, right and wrong which allows for easily referenced themes and visual metaphors which enhance the whole 'devil' part of his name and the Hell in Hell's Kitchen.