Daredevil done right

I finished Daredevil the new Netflix series and I have to say it was great.  Now I haven't watched the other Marvel series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which all of my friends say I should but I just I haven't call me lazy, but I think the quality of both shows is pretty good.  The thing I like about Daredevil is even though that it takes place in the same time frame as the movies, I think it is in between the first Avengers movie and Winter Solider, is that it really feels grounded. It is not about saving the whole world just the world that Matt Murdock and his friends live in Hell's Kitchen. It proves that even though a gigantic event like the Battle for New York happens life continues to move on and the corrupt continue to try and control everything.

Now to address the movie Daredevil I saw it  a while back and I don't think it was all bad nor was it bad because of Ben Affleck was bad in it.  He gave it his all and was a pretty damn good Matt Murdock, Charlie Cox is great to in the new series. What made that movie bad was the over all story and Colin Farell as Bullseye and the late Michael Clarke Duncan as Wilson Fisk.  They aren't bad actors it's just that Farrell's Bullseye was just way over the top, he reminded me of kids I knew in high school who called themselves crazy and did stupid shit to justify how crazy and different they were. Duncan's portrayal as Wilson Fisk was a bit better he certainly had the size but he just played him to much like a cocky gangster, always winking at the fact that he was up to no good but owned half the city so he could do what he wanted.  All of that combined with a bad story and you just have shit movie on your hands.

Remembering

Last weekend was a damn good time, it was something that I really didn't know I needed.  Last weekend was a Remembrance Event at Cogswell College my Alma Mater.  I got to see people I haven't seen in years and talk about old times and more importantly feel those old times again.   It was just interesting being back there, I mean I go there all the time to play D&D and see some of the friends that still go there but to be back there with people I had classes with and graduated with or watched graduate before me and remembering all those old times made way more of an impact than I thought it would.  Walking around talking about things that happened was different then it was when I graduated, it felt more final yet it was a thrill to remember everything that happened within those walls for better or worse.

I was 22 when I arrived at Cogswell and 26 when I graduated from it.  In those 4 years I did not think that it would become the home it did nor did I expect to change as drastically as I have or meet the people I did and connect with them in such a way that I don't just call them friends I call them family. The family that I made there was forged in the fires of midterms, final projects, event/parties, battling the administration, as well as dealing with the curve balls that life loves to throw at us.  In all of that I look back at it fondly still smile at the times that were had, one of the best being a 3 week last semester party/study group for my brother that involved playing games, writing a 20 page paper in between playing games, modeling, sculpting and lots of alcohol.  Sorry not sorry that we broke the rules like that, Kraken rum is awesome though.  It's moments like that that I think I will remember for as long as I can and will keep talking about it for a long time.  I will also look back at that night as being a great moment to, capped off by having them let us write and draw all over the walls.  That was a great time and it was pretty damn cool to see how fast we covered the school I hope they let people do something like that at the new campus because to me that is how the school should look. Art everywhere no blank spaces left.