Daredevil’s Powers Are More Realistic Than You Think
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- Characters who speak other languages don't speak English for no reason, they just use subtitles.
- The villain is actually portrayed with a lot of positive human emotions and motivations.
- The struggles the characters are often grappling with are familiar every day things, like how do I prioritize work vs. family?
The sections where they spoke Japanese really took me out of the world they created. It was so poorly executed.
Having said that, I LOVED the series as a whole. Very well done.
They go into more length about his abilities and his views on the culture, which (in his opinion) holds back the blind from being more independent individuals.
"When Amargan sketched these images—as opposed to shapeless scribbles—the researchers saw activity in brain areas typically associated with vision, including the striate cortex and the frontal and parietal regions of the visual cortex."
So meta discussion aside, there is a difference between 'seeing' and 'perceiving' and one of my great uncles who was blind was much better at perceiving what was going on around him than sighted people. It really amazed me the first time he asked me why some topic was making me uncomfortable (I had no idea he could perceive that)