3. Tackle Social Issues
By day, Matt Murdock is a lawyer. Being the swell guy that he is, Murdock works out of Hell's Kitchen so he can help people who usually can't afford a lawyer. Murdock sticks up for the little guy, and he fights the bad guys through legal and, let's just say, extra-legal means. And Murdock's day job has allowed writers an easy in-road for discussing the socials issues of the day. I'm often surprised by how much Daredevil's writers get away with. Heck, Mark Waid took on the Trayvon Martin case a few months ago, and did so with maturity and objectivity. And he was able to do so because Daredevil is an anomaly among comic books it's always been a modest success that seems both on and off the radar of mainstream comics. If it wasn't in this precarious place, I doubt Daredevil's writers could have tackled so many serious issues or taken Matt Murdock down so many dark paths. This announcement puts Daredevil back on the radar in a big way. I'm pretty sure Marvel intends Daredevil to serve as the lynchpin of The Defenders franchise, like Tony Stark was for The Avengers. The move to Netflix frees Marvel to create any kind of content it desires. True, you can pretty much say what you want on prime-time TV these days, but you've still got to sell beer and toothpaste while you're saying it. Daredevil will definitely benefit from a lack of censors and sponsors. This show won't stand apart from all the other comic book franchises by having cooler special effects or wittier banter. It will do so by having Matt Murdock ask difficult questions without easy answers. A show about a man without fear should be a show without fear.