It’s the sixth episode of our weekly podcast, Who Virgin, where Citizen-Bot watches Doctor Who for the first time and talks about all sorts of other things. This week, an extra long episode stuffed with Daredevil.
What sorts of shenanigans do we get in this week?
Andy’s got bats in his belfry. ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re doing an Avengers: Age of Ultron Review for Episode 8. Distracted by Flash/Arrow.
Dalek – Andy/Big Shiny Robot’s connection to Utah. Utes vs. Utahns. Utah is the nerdiest state. Ayn Rand. Mitt Romney should blame Doctor Who. What makes great science fiction. Commentary on America – hoarding, torture. Yin and Yang: Good and Evil, Timelords and Daleks, Mormonism, Aristotle, Dragonlance, Alien, Jedi and Sith. Troll the respawn, Jeremy!
The Long Game – Fun to see Simon Pegg as a villain. The media. Hierarchy. Searching for Truth. Police shootings.
Father’s Day – fixed points in time. Viewing the past through rose-tinted glasses. Rick Astley. Romanticizing the 60’s. Don’t touch yourself.
Bond: Christoph Waltz thinks we’re idiots. Is it a spoiler that Cumberbatch was Khan? Do we need the mystery box? We’re addicted to the marketing.
Daredevil: origin stories. Frank Miller, Bendis, Brubaker. Opening sequence. Catholicism. How the action sequences are shot. Oldboy. Man of Steel – chopping up the origin story so it works thematically. The first three episodes are a slow, satisfying burn. Using the Netflix model to your advantage. The violence level – violent in the name of furthering plot and character. Ben Urich. We’re not going to get a Season 2 for a while. Netflix stock jumped 2.5%. Karen Page. Foggy is a damsel. Scott Glenn is my Stick. Terrence Stamp and the terrible Elektra movie. Episode 4 in the garage– that was a Batman scene. They nail the Russian mafia stuff — you’re missing out with only reading the subtitles. Fisk and Murdock are the same person. D’Onofrio as Fisk is amazing. Gentrification. Spoilers.