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Daredevil: Stick [1x07] ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction & Review
Added 2024-03-22 23:00:04 +0000 UTCWhat a FASCINATING episode. This show truly keeps getting better and better. [Direct link here.]
I'm looking forward to your thoughts! Thanks for taking the time to watch with me. The next episode will be posted shortly.
Cheers,
✦ KL
Comments
I really enjoyed this episode. I love a good backstory heavy episode. When I first watched it, I was so surprised to see Scott Glenn playing “Stick” I had no idea he was in the show. I grew up watching him in movies in the 80’s & 90’s and always enjoyed his acting. It was crazy to see him in a Marvel show and still playing a bad ass despite being in his 70’s at the time. Dude is 85 now! You would have seen him in Silence of the Lambs he portrayed Jack Crawford, Clarice’s supervisor at the FBI.
CheshireKat528
2024-04-04 13:11:52 +0000 UTCSomething implied by Stick is that Matt isn't unique - other people like him exist elsewhere in the world. People like Matt and Stick might be rare, but you'd have to assume that Stick (or someone he knows) has encountered others like them (I'm not a comics guy, so I have no idea if there are other similar characters in the wider Marvel universe).
Sean Ellingham
2024-03-23 20:43:55 +0000 UTCOoooh! Cool!
kaiielle
2024-03-23 16:49:08 +0000 UTCFun fact. The orphanage we saw Stick found Matt in is Saint Agnes - the same orphanage Skye (AoS) was raised in.
Andreas Nielsen
2024-03-23 16:30:14 +0000 UTCThanks for the info!
kaiielle
2024-03-23 14:42:02 +0000 UTCI feel comfortable now explaining Daredevil’s comic book origin. In the ‘60’s Stan Lee relied on forms of radiation affecting people and giving them powers. Cosmic rays=Fantastic Four, Gamma explosion=Hulk, Radioactive spider =Spider-Man, Radioactive waste=Daredevil. The explanation was the ooze took away Matt’s eyes and enhanced his remaining senses and provided a “radar sense” like a bat. Much later, in the late 70’s or early 80’s, Stick was introduced and the idea that he helped Matt hone his senses like this. Been a while since I read the comics but the show is following that particular version of the origin, which I think is embraced by comic fans. I like the idea the radioactive material enhanced the senses and Stick helped him learn to focus. Either way Stick is introduced here as a character we want to dislike. I think maybe HE was becoming attached to Matt, fatherly pride in the child, and that’s why he left. They couldn’t both be emotionally compromised in his twisted idea of fatherhood/drill sergeant.
Bryan Dempsey
2024-03-23 13:01:47 +0000 UTC100%!
kaiielle
2024-03-23 02:42:27 +0000 UTCThanks for the info! I agree with you about Stick.
kaiielle
2024-03-23 02:42:22 +0000 UTCStick's character is very interesting. He's basically like Matt but if he was a soldier that would complete his mission by any means necessary. He sticks (pun intended lol) by his ideals. He did indeed keep the bracelet for 20 years without Matt knowing. That sort of told me he probably did not wanna abandon Matt cuz he liked him and cared for him and they had a good mentor-mentee relationship but had to because Matt had morals and a goodness in him and that would not mix well with his mission. Now there are different interpretations as to why Stick might have left or dropped the bracelet after Matt and Stick's fight. Id like to think that Stick left it there on purpose because he realized how much he hurt Matt when he left him, as Matt was just a kid who was abandoned again so id like to think that Stick left that to show Matt that Stick did in fact care about him all this time but again he cant abandon his mission or let his emotions and feeling get in the way of his purpose. But that showed the nice side of Stick which I loved. So Stick did kill the kid in the container, which was a Black Sky and any questions about what a Black Sky is and what Stick's mission is will be answered down the line.
Waamiq Ali
2024-03-23 02:23:29 +0000 UTCI love Stick's character even tho he is an asshole. You are correct that he is a sort of completely ruthless version of Matt. He has a goal and will kill to achieve it without question.
Christopher simeon
2024-03-23 01:33:48 +0000 UTC
