| Friday, February 07, 2003 |
 | so Orbyn is off to see Daredevil, which has got me thinking about old horn-head. As he is actually known. No, really.
First up, as we all no doubt know by now, Matt Murdock lost his vision in a chemical spill which also gave him uncanny senses, allowing him to perceive things as well as any sighted man. That is to say, his disadvantage and his new power cancel each other out entirely. He's just a guy who works out.
What that? Radar sense? He can tell what's going on behind him? I have something that lets me do that, too. it's called turning round. No mess, no fuss, no problem.
Second, Daredevil, for all his vaunted radar sense, is nonetheless still blind. Which means that, assuming his identity is a jealously guarded secret, which I think we can, he must have had an absolute bugger of a time making the costume, and even having made it he has no clear knowledge either of what colour it is or of what it actually looks like, beyond its topography.
I sincerely hope that this point will be addressed in the movie by Daredevil stopping in mid-pursuit with the first five or six bad guys and enquriing earnestly, "So, the outfit - too much? Be brutal." But I don't see it happening myself.
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