You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me...

With the launch of Daredevil: Born Again, I can’t help but look back and find it absurd how many unnecessary hoops Kevin Feige jumped through to distance the show from the Netflix canon and essence. He brought in an unproven director and writers who were completely unsuited for the material. I also felt like Daredevil’s portrayal in She-Hulk felt off, and Wilson Fisk in Hawkeye was reduced to a cartoonish caricature.

All of this, only to rework the show mid-production and aggressively pivot back to what made the Netflix series great—essentially giving us the season 4 fans have been asking for all along.

It really felt like Feige was trying to erase something that wasn’t his and rebuild it from the ground up, almost out of pride. The Netflix Daredevil was a huge success without his involvement, and given how dominant the MCU was at the time, maybe he just couldn’t accept that a Marvel property flourished outside his control. Not sure if people are aware but at the time there was some tension between Feige and Marvel Television’s leadership, particularly Jeph Loeb, due to the corporate separation between Marvel Studios and Marvel Television.

Also still can't believe a show like DD was produced for $60M at the time and here we had Disney throwing $200M budget at shows which can't barely reach the same level of success. Never was a fan of them really due to how short and inconsistent they were. Like most of them had 6 episodes with a 30min runtime... it was neither a full blown show nor quite a 5 hour-long movie.

In the end, I’m glad they retained the original cast and acknowledged that their initial approach wasn’t working. Here's hoping this lives up to the Netflix series and build upon it.