Heaven's Half Hour

The show feels very different to the Netflix original whilst still retaining the core elements that mattered. It remains equally as dark and gritty with the added use of CGI and a more acrobatic Daredevil. People will complain about his new fighting style or the use of CGI but this is an MCU continuation of the Netflix series. This is a good adaptation/continuation of the previous show and shows that Marvel can accommodate darker characters into its universe. The first episode is extremely emotional and characters are given room to breathe and develop, overall it is a very promising start to the series. This is a Daredevil that will be seen in other Marvel projects so the ultra realistic Netflix version would not fit the Marvel Universe, I think they have modified his character well enough to fit into this world whilst still retaining his main qualities.

When the most memorable/interesting scene of the episode is two dudes sitting at a table, you KNOW something isn't quite right. Yikes.

I wasn't impressed at all with the first episode of DD Born Again.

They had a chance to at least do the fight scene right, but nahhh, why do that when you can rely (HEAVILY) on CGI?

The soundtrack is pretty bad too with those very weird and annoying constant thumping tones trying to make you think the episode is "intense" or whatever. Give me a break.

Maybe all this would be acceptable if Born Again wasn't supposed to be a continuation to the great show that was Netflix's Daredevil.

6/10 for episode 1 from me.

The story of the episode was great but the action sequence in the beginning of the episode WAS SOOOO BAD it just ruined my mood for the whole episode. Disney failed to live up to the action sequence quality that Netflix set. Hopefully it will get better as the series continues. I did not like Kingpin on a diet, that is kinda lame. Kingpin is supposed to have a massive presence literally and figuratively. I'm still very excited for this series though and so happy that they brought back Matt Murdock and fit him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hopefully they can bring back some of the other Defenders.

The first episode feels quite rushed. It starts with a sequence that, personally, I didn't find very pleasant, but I understand the decision to include it. However, if you're going to re-record and allow the Netflix show to be canon, then don't get rid of it in less than 10 minutes. As for the CGI, they should have just left it out-I don't think Daredevil needed it since it's a very underground character. The plot with Fisk is interesting, but it would have been better to save it for this series rather than using him in Hawkeye and Echo, since it's hard to take him seriously after what Maya did.

-MASS.

We all know how intense and gritty the original daredevil show was and this episode puts you right back in that Thrill Ride seat. You usually expect a show to start off slow and slowly build up to a big moment or a major plot twist but this show pretty much doesn't waste any time at all. I also like that there isn't a lot of conversation between characters that doesn't feel necessary the show seems to hit on a very fine pace and doesn't let up. If you are a big fan of the original show then you will be definitely happy to see the show gets right back to where it needed to be and gives you what you needed to see.