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Daredevil: Born Again (it’s not her)<\/p>\n
Marvel<\/p>\n
I am at least mildly annoyed with Daredevil: Born Again after last night\u2019s episode in a season I have otherwise loved. It took a left turn and killed off a character it shouldn\u2019t have, and now, we hear that wasn\u2019t even the original plan. Spoilers follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the final moments of the episode, Fisk thug Buck Cashman shoots Daniel Blake in the head after he helps BB escape, even after he learns she\u2019s behind anti-Fisk propaganda based on leaks she often stole straight from him after gaining his trust. Cashman reluctantly beats down Daniel to find out where BB is, but he purposefully doesn\u2019t even know. He\u2019s defiant until his last breath, and Cashman, normally a pretty cold-blooded hitman, is emotional as he shoots him dead.<\/p>\n This wasn\u2019t the original plan. They actually shot an alternate scene where Buck Cashman spares Daniel, tells him to run, and then has to explain the entire thing to Fisk later, lying to him that he killed Daniel. Here\u2019s showrunner Dario Scardapane explaining the original plan to Variety:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe way that it would have gone is that he stayed in the Fisk administration,\u201d he says. \u201cHe goes in to resign and the new interim mayor is like, \u2018I\u2019m not taking your resignation. I\u2019m going to keep you close because I don\u2019t trust you.’\u201d<\/p>\n However, it was decided that it was \u201cso wrong\u201d and it didn\u2019t \u201cfeel like the story was earned.\u201d The idea was that they didn\u2019t want to kill off Michael Gandolfini\u2019s Daniel because they liked the character so much, but in the end, they edited in the execution gunshot in post-production to end things there and not move on with his storyline.<\/p>\n Daredevil: Born Again<\/p>\n Marvel<\/p>\n If you thought Gandolfini might be upset about how this went down, he isn\u2019t. He agreed. Here he is speaking to TVLine:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s really anywhere for him, and we had talked about some ideas, but these seasons are made in a vacuum; you can\u2019t really think about Season 3. And I was just like, \u201cI don\u2019t know, it feels weird, it just doesn\u2019t really make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo they came back to me, and they were like, \u201cHey, so we actually are going to kill you in [Episode 7].\u201d And it just felt so right. It felt so freeing, and I remember saying, \u201cHey, if I didn\u2019t think it was right, I\u2019d fight it.\u201d I love Daniel, but it\u2019s so right. Where else is he gonna go?\u201d<\/p>\n I think he should have gone somewhere, as I would argue that season 2 of Born Again had built him up into one of the most interesting characters in the show. And having him sacrifice himself in the spur of the moment for what I would argue is one of the least interesting characters in the show, BB, was not terribly satisfying. I guess if they simply had no real idea where to take the character, it makes sense, but it seemed like that should have been mapped out before all this. Like Daniel\u2019s decision, the show reversed course and killed him even after they shot an ending where they let him live. Bizarre, and I\u2019m not sure this was the right call, speaking as a viewer, at least.<\/p>\n Follow me <\/strong>on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong><\/a> Bluesky <\/strong><\/a>and <\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong>Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n