One of the great things about Daredevil season 1 - and one of the things that so set it apart from the rest of the MCU - was the down-and-dirty atmosphere. Here was a truly gritty comic book movie, full of blood and set down dirty alleyways and in old NYC buildings, about not just crime-fighting vigilante-style, but American law and its dealings with systemic corruption. Daredevil season 1 also got in some nice details about the reality of the press industry, and managed to make the villain actually sympathetic, giving Marvel its first proper great bad guy through the realisation that every good baddie needs to feel in some way justified. These were fine touches that gave Daredevil a real-world edge over all other MCU properties. What Daredevil should probably avoid, then, is heading into supernatural territory, something it was hinted the show would do with the Black Sky and Madame Gao's claim that her homeland is "a considerable distance further" than China. The more outre science fiction and fantasy elements of the MCU simply don't belong in a show that has established its world as the real one.
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