It's probably safe to assume that everybody's sick of origin stories by now. The first wave of the current renaissance in superhero films followed a pretty similar template, and after a while it got hella boring: the first hour or so of the ninety minute X-Men, Spider-Man, or whatever, would be the hero gaining their powers, trying them out, sorting out a costume, going through their first trials and tribulations and so on. Except that meant the rewatch value was basically zilch, and even more so when the origin characters of these characters are reasonably well known by the wider audience, and not really worth spending that much time on. Daredevil less so, but the show still admirably spends as little time as possible on the origin. When it does, it's sparingly, and draws from Frank Miller and John Romita Jr's superior Man Without Fear miniseries. And it's mainly context-appropriate flashbacks, in a manner not all that different from Lost Matt being blinded and simultaneously getting his powers is right at the start, short, and suitably traumatic, whilst the rest fleshes out his family history. All of which plays into the present-day story being told.
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