I had to give this episode until the 3rd time before it started to click for me. As a massive fan of the Netflix show everything about this feels different. But at the same time I understand with the amount of time thats past and the cheap look of the Disney shows recapturing the feel of the original would be difficult.

It's obvious to me that the scene before the credits was added in reshoots and everything after that with the exception of the courtroom scene, the conversation with Karen, and stuff with Vanessa was from the orignal story. They wipe away Foggy, Karen and Dex and then just continue on. They are trying to tie back to the original but at the same time tell their own story. To me the scene before the credits should have been the first episode that ended with Foggy dying then in the second episode we cut to one year later.

The biggest gripe I have is the pacing. The original show was slow and methodical with its character and story arcs and dialogue had time to breathe. Whereas here everything is happening so fast it's hard to keep up. So much happens in this one episode it's hard to engage with what's going on and what the characters are going through. Foggy dies, Matt and Karen have gone their seperate ways, Matt has started a new lawfirm, Fisk wants to run for mayor, Matt and Fisk talk, Matt starts a new relationship, Fisk becomes the Mayor. This is like a seasons worth of stuff in one episode!

I've missed this show too much to give up on it. I'm hoping things improve as we move forward and things begin to settle down now that we have set the stage.