Excelsior, my fellow Marvelers, I am Axat, and I'm finding Daredevil's latest episodes to be just alright. New Yorkers might be really buying into it, because the scene transitions are all about the Big Apple's busy business buzziness and urbanity, but spare me the metropolitan-politic.

Kingpin becoming Mayor has been taken from recent comic storylines, but Daredevil's Catholicism isn't very apparent in this iteration. Perhaps it is reflecting society's current disinterest in deification? I don't know, as Master Shifu says to Po the Panda - I'm not an anthropologist. Neither am I an apologist. I am a logicist. ;)

Logic is something we don't seek - at least too much of it - in superhero shows. After all, suspension of disbelief is the first prerequisite of the enjoyment we derive from watching scenarios play out on screen.

For example, my daughter, Adwitya, is a superhero with electric powers. She developed them when a thunderstorm hit hard while she was under phototherapy as a 3-day old infant, giving her a control of electron flows.

Read her origin story and an experimental standoff scenario at this link:

Vidyuta: The Electrifying Indian Supergirl

Vidyuta gained her superpowers right after birth, due to an electric storm that hit while she was in phototherapy. Now, she controls electricity, and uses it to fight supervillains! Accompanied by her Mad Dad, she neutralizes crime all the time!

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But back to the Big Apple cider vinegar bottle under which Kingpin has imprisoned Adam the Adulterer, and has shown him to Vanessa, and thrown him at her for mercy [killing]. Will she let him go? CAN she?

Bang bang, my baby shot me down...as was to be expected, what else?

Also to be expected is Matt Murdock feeling overwhelmed by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Ring a bell? Pulp Fiction, anyone? Cool quotes aside, the character is called a danger by his girlfriend, whom he rescued from a blood-draining-and-painting psychopath. And to top it all, his best friend Foggy's murderer is being used as bait by Kingpin to get a rise out of him. I can relate to his pain.

Not really, just kidding. But what's life without drama? Chaos excites us. We feel strongly when the universe deals us a bad hand, and either we blame circumstances or people, or rise to the challenge, sword in hand.

I don't say gun, because guns seem cowardly to me, but then again, my dad was killed by a sneaky landmine laid by retreating insurgents, so I don't really count fair play as one of the options of eliminating enemies.

I only go on channeling my thoughts into words and my words into videos, with the hope that I will inspire you, dear viewer, to live life kindly, no matter how selfish the rest of the world may seem to act.

It takes the strongest of human willpower to rise above the mire the rest of the world creates around us, and to squelch through the quicksands.

No matter how much you rise, society finds ways to try to push you downwards, but you must not capitulate and sink below the water.

People with agendas will find obnoxious reasons to irritate you; nevertheless, just take deep breaths and a deep drink of water.

Time for my Good Quote From The Episode: "May you always remember to forget the things that make you sad, but never forget to remember the things that make you glad." I've got a tab in Safari open about chiasmus.

Just like this vintage iPhone that I'm being forced by Apple's conspiracy to upgrade, there are things we are forced to do - despite not wanting to.

Same way, Matt Murdock meets Poindexter, Killer of the Foggy Nelson.

Whether Daredevil sets up Bullseye to escape remains to be revealed, but the Black and White Ball by Mayor Kingpin is total richness overkill.

And killed is what Daredevil gets, jumping in front of Kingpin, full on Bollywood hero style. No doubt, the manhunt for Bullseye will appear next week in the season finale of Daredevil v2.0. Tomorrow, new day!

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