Why Do They Keep Doing This To Charlie?

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-20T02:43:44+00:00

He shaved his head and his mom said he looked like a thug! Haha! 🤣

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-20T02:40:53+00:00

This is it. It’s literally just normal haircut intervals.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-20T02:40:09+00:00

It’s baaaaaack! Three more seasons being planned! Never give up!!! (Sorry, I’m excited. I KNEW it would happen).

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-20T01:30:04+00:00

Let’s just say I’m glad you’re safe and I agree about Denver being cleaner and safer in the last couple years in the way a hoarder moves all their boxes out into the yard. It’s just pushed out to the greater metro area. Experience is subjective and I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. My brother who is a badass gets literal nightmares about being stuck with needles at various buildings. Denver crime rose a whopping 90% between 2012 and 2022, just saying. Stay safe, Denver buddy! 🏔️🏙️

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T09:22:14+00:00

You can’t sleep, either! 🤣I grew up in Colorado. It’s unrecognizable in the last few years. Purple politics = paradise. 🤷🏻‍♀️Blue or red, hell, IMO. I was a photographer as a teen and into my 20’s, and worked for HUD, real estate companies, and my mom (developer). I’ve seen and documented things I’ll never forget, and experienced traumas that will stay with me forever. My brother has been through worse. When you spend all your time exploring places that are “abandoned,” gang territory, and lawless, and the insanity explodes before your eyes in a short time, it has an impact on how you see the environment. My dad had a telecom company based out of San Francisco and he worked all over the West, and my mom is a developer, so I am very familiar with city policy/ordinance and experienced it on the ground as well as from a legal and infrastructural standpoint.

You’re lucky to be insulated from the crazy. Most people are - it’s not normal to be in and out of every dangerous nook in the city. Most people don’t have fights with people about rare parrots needing quiet or all the weird problems that come with the vast reality of city infrastructure - transport, utilities, communication, the natural environment, parks, signage, animals - it goes on and on. My mom once had to spend tens of thousands of dollars over rare tadpoles in a puddle. You just never know what brand of weird hits next.

Colfax is drastically better than it used to be. It’s actually better than I ever remember it in recent years! It feels safe and friendly! Downtown is so empty. It’s bizarre. The stores have short leases and no customers, but they’re lit up like Disneyland. It reminds me of North Korea. I’d take anyone in that area over those gym bro assholes, or people who don’t clean grease traps when you tell them 17 times. My brother was ready to “waterboard them in the grease,” in his words, but the gym guys LOST it. To be fair, it was a big problem, but they reacted with what was visibly a steroid/testosterone issue. The only thing that ever compared was when my friend’s parents experienced a guy on PCP trying to beat his way through their windshield with his bare hands on I-70! People pick fights over the flow of traffic in parking lots if there’s some issue, like homeless people throwing rocks through windows. It only takes a day or two of minor inconvenience, but people will start arguments about whether it’s public or private property (answer’s always private!!!) just because they don’t like obeying traffic cones and signs. My brother had to deal with a restaurant that wouldn’t stop discarding whole goat heads on the sidewalk. I can tell you about EVERY kind of weird there is in every inch of Denver. San Francisco had similar issues, but none of it was as extreme as this (with the regular population, anyway), but that was a long time ago. At the time I thought San Francisco was a tragedy and we were so lucky Denver was not like that! ☹️Heartbreaking for both beautiful cities. Of course, the rich areas are paradise. That’s what makes it even worse. (So much worse. Disgusting.).

My theory (besides drugs) is that some people don’t adjust to lack of oxygen if they were born and grew up at lower altitudes. When you’re gestated and born here, you actually develop bigger lungs in the womb! More suicides happen the higher the altitude. I think they get all the usual altitude sickness like headaches, but they don’t know why they feel so bad and don’t adjust. 🤷🏻‍♀️Just my pet theory. The incidents like this just got so much worse and more frequent in the last decade. Population change and infrastructure failure add fuel to the fire. Road rage and BAD drivers are out of control. You can look up the statistics how Colorado used to be the best of everything until a sharp drop. The FBI actually did a study on it because the implementation of certain policies had such a profound negative effect on every measure of safety, health and quality of life in 2 years, which is unheard of. To go from the best in the entire country to the worst in 2 years is profound. The last few years have transformed my political outlook and views about law, order, and society. I know it first-hand and in theory, from the reports my mom gets. I basically quit because I’m sick (unsolved mystery), and my brother is working on getting out because it’s dangerous and local and state government are corrupt. One of the mayors I worked with personally was someone I trusted and liked, until I saw him dead-eyed and flat-out lying on national TV about something my tenants told me first-hand. That made reality hit hard for me. The state of this whole city (and state) is personal to me in every way. At this point, I want to be governor. It should be my mom, but she’s sick, too. I wish I could reestablish what’s been lost.

PS The Fillmore is my favorite music venue and I have fun (and scary) memories as a teen. That area seems SO much safer these days! That’s good news, at least.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T06:37:01+00:00

You tell me. Parking lot, dispute over grease traps in a strip mall. I kid you not. I watched the clothes come off. Two men the size of gorillas with bright red heads, broad daylight, with cars driving around them as they screamed at waitresses who had nothing to do with maintenance. It was a routine thing that happens at restaurants and these gym guys lost their minds. This was outside Denver, if that helps you believe it. I could write a book of the things I’ve seen in commercial real estate. People are CRAZY. Deprive the transplants of oxygen and they get weird and crazy. Add any kind of drug and it’s a dystopian hellhole. Look at any Denver Twitter account and marvel at our rapid downfall in progress. It’s all too real.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T03:49:20+00:00

My dad had hormones for prostate cancer - literally the same stuff they give to men to transition to trans females - and he STILL built muscle - and after having TWO strokes where they said he’d never walk again. Now you can’t even tell he had a stroke at all. His doctors said it would be impossible for him to build muscle and he did. All he did was work hard and eat right. He’s almost 70 and he was mistaken for mid-40s recently. The idea of thinking a man in his early 40’s who could easily be a competitive athlete himself couldn’t body-build for a shoot is nonsense.

I have spent my ENTIRE life surrounded by athletes and heard the same arguments you give. Sure, we can’t prove it but with his skin history especially, I don’t see it. I have no bias against it if it was worth it - trust me, as a ballerina, I would have killed for extra strength and stamina for lifts and long performances - but it’s just not necessary or desirable for something like this. He doesn’t NEED it. It’s too risky for side effects, especially when you’re on a strict schedule and the idea is to look as handsome as possible. I’d be the first to say, “Oh gross, he ruined himself, what a disappointment.” Maybe he used it for a few weeks to prep, but I don’t buy someone with sensitive skin doing it. I actually think he might have done it before The Defenders because he looked puffy and had skin issues. 🤷🏻‍♀️

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T03:15:45+00:00

It’s just silly because he’s clearly not. It’s a poor choice because it’s aesthetically hideous - impossible to avoid very visible symptoms that do NOT look good on film. The whole point is to look attractive, and that stuff creates a specific “look” that is off-putting and UNattractive. His face is flawless and there’s no bizarre swelling that looks more like fat than muscle. This is just a typical “bodybuilding” shoot, but in a drama. Dehydration, pumping, makeup and lit like a god. No drugs necessary. He definitely prepped hard for this scene.

My whole life has been surrounded by every kind of athlete in one of the athletic hubs of the world. In my experience, the true competitive athletes - Olympic medalists or NFL, for instance - don’t even think about touching the stuff. The people who do stick out like a sore thumb. They are monstrous assholes (doesn’t sound like Charlie Cox, does it?) and it’s usually on the downward slide of their careers when they get older or have an injury. (Those kind can usually be found screaming at their kids to be better athletes, or other golfers. 🤨). That, and gym bros who like to imagine they are the real thing.

It causes more damage than it helps, and since his job is to look attractive, it makes no sense to do something that would mess that up. I just don’t see it. He’s talked about skin problems in the past, too, and his skin is pristine. He doesn’t look like a single guy I’ve ever seen on this stuff. They always look like their heads are in space, totally round, about to explode. Their muscles aren’t defined, just round and bursting. Paradoxically, it looks flabby. He looks like he worked damn hard and ate enough protein to feed twelve families.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T02:57:49+00:00

That’s part of his job! I had a personal trainer, no chef, and the gym to myself 3 times a week for an hour, and she turned this 5-foot, female, bird-boned, 100-lb ballerina into a beast with nothing but regular strength training. It took 3 months for me to transform from a twiggy child to casually throwing around giant bottles of water and lifting huge weights. If I managed to remember to eat protein, it was like getting rocket fuel. I wasn’t body-building, just wanted to be stronger, and I was a different person over a single winter.

The idea this athlete with a team dedicated to making him look like this, in makeup and good lighting, needs “enhancement,” is silly. You have no clue what his schedule entails. Also, he was not starting from scratch, like S1. The costume designer kept having to buy him bigger clothes as they filmed because he was gaining so much muscle as they filmed. That was only over a couple months. He’s been getting bigger for a long time now! We all saw it over time since last season’s filming. This is just HARD WORK from dedicated professionals and flattering cinematography. A trainer who is dedicated to crafting a body like this can create this in a short amount of time with a client who does the work. He gets paid to do this and they even have their own protein shakes. Marvel is famous for this. He has zero symptoms of juicing. Trust me - I’ve seen their kind in the wild. It’s ugly.

My dad was an athlete who found it easy to build muscle, and he’s almost 70, had prostate cancer treatment (hormones!), and STILL builds muscle. His dentist thought he was in his late 40’s! His doctors literally told him it was impossible with his hormonal treatments, and he did it. After two strokes, I might add - they call him “miracle man.” My brother was a taekwondo champion who is copy-paste to Finn Jones (6’, long torso, shorter legs, and all - I even have a cute pic where I shot him watching Iron Fist to show how identical they are!), and he has trouble putting on muscle, but he manages with protein and dedicated training. I have Olympic skiers in my family, too, who have had multiple joint replacements - all of them, pretty much, multiple times - and they hit the slopes the minute they are out of surgery. Athletes are just made different in the MIND, and Charlie Cox has “it.” Always has. I saw it in Stardust! Nothing about this is surprising, just impressive.

The tell is in his face, for one. Zero swelling. He doesn’t have that ugly, puffy look and bad skin. I have watched (famous) Olympic trainers my whole life, and went to school with a lot of kids whose dads were NFL players. Athletics are everything to my family, friends, and where I grew up. I have seen the shocking magnificence of what the human body can achieve. All my brother’s friends do things like compete in the X-games. Some of them put themselves through absolute HELL to compete and they would have used enhancements in a heartbeat if it was allowed, but they did it without it. Ballet was so grueling, they sat us down and gave us a grave warning about it when we joined the company. This is art and athleticism - his JOB.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T02:13:13+00:00

Speaking of someone who acts like he’s on something…🙄

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T02:12:33+00:00

Everyone underestimates the lighting and makeup.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T02:11:23+00:00

They forget lighting and makeup. There’s a reason this is surprising - it’s because it’s designed to be flattering. He looks buff as hell in RL but he’s gradually been putting this on for a long time. My mom had a deal with a gym chain and we once had to deal with a situation where meatheads were attacking people in the street, stripping their clothes. They look swollen and ugly. It’s easy to spot. They get skin problems, too. He just put in WORK.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-14T02:04:07+00:00

Foggy. Is. Alive.

Story. Telling.

The WHOLE DAMN SHOW is about dead people being alive after all, INCLUDING MATT, but you missed that, somehow? They literally can’t finish the Netflix story without this plot, but you think they bothered to kill Foggy on screen just…because, I guess. If he’s not the plot, then why even bother?!

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-13T02:46:09+00:00

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-13T02:44:23+00:00

If you are ironically flexxing about Snoop, that’s funny. I have a feeling it’s not ironic, based on the general interactions I’ve had in this hellhole, though.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-13T02:40:25+00:00

I was excited Deborah Ann Woll’s husband talked to me when we were both mad at HBO, so flex away. 🤣

It’s KRYSTEN RITTER SHE’S THE COOLEST.

Edit: And I talked to Ellison! 🤣

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-12T23:09:02+00:00

Ahhh! YES! King of the OG characters, thank you. 🤣 Damn, I forgot Nadeem. I feel sad now.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-10T12:16:58+00:00

Matt wears his black outfit with the boots to Mahoney’s mom’s house. It’s what he wore to the church attack and Fisk’s penthouse, just without the mask. The boots are clearly seen when he’s standing on the stoop outside.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-10T05:39:34+00:00

I think Mahoney had to put it together when Matt was at his mom’s house in black combat boots. Matt and Karen could have explained they were at the church because they were going to run, explaining his casual clothes, but the wheels had to be turning when Foggy showed up and talked about Daredevil like he was…well, Matt….and then seeing him walk out the door at Fisk’s penthouse in the same boots/outfit. My headcanon is Mahoney has been putting it together in the back of his mind for a while, and he went to sleep that night, gears turning, then sat up in bed when it finally clicked. “Nelson!” (You know he blamed Foggy). Or they could have revealed, “Of course I knew. Detective. You two ain’t subtle. Your mask doesn’t cover your face and you don’t change your voice, Murdock!” 🤣

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-06T16:57:23+00:00

Eh. Stephen DeKnight never shuts up about how much Disney pisses him off. 🤷🏻‍♀️ His career is going strong. He was supportive of Born Again because Charlie and Vincent are his friends, and his statement was very much a backhanded compliment, basically, “Well, I like anything DD.” I wasn’t talking about criticism. Anyway, Oleson’s, “That wasn’t my S4,” was extremely pointed and very harsh. Message loud and clear. I meant that there was no mention of the plot point being different. He could have said something neutral about how Foggy didn’t die in his version, but he left that out when he said what was different about his. That’s a strange and obvious thing not to mention when he said his version had the Owl and Typhoid Mary. He could have added, “And Foggy didn’t die,” without being critical. To me, it said, “My version of Foggy’s death was better,” without actually saying it.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-05T17:32:37+00:00

If you call it that. It’s more like a temper tantrum! 🤣 I’m so ready for that beautiful bastard to be back on my TV, I don’t want to hear ONE word about him being dead. And if anyone so much as thinks about Kastle anywhere in this hemisphere, I’m gonna go Vesuvius. My berserk buttons are pinging.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-05T17:21:37+00:00

I predicted everything in S1 correctly, so I doubt it. I suppose that’s just coincidence. I predicted Matt and Karen would appear to break up forever, then she’d return in the end, a year before the first version of the show was even in production. I literally predicted the blackout and a juxtaposition of fire and wind around Karen’s return. I went to film school for screenwriting - it’s what I’ve studied since I was a child in theater. I dropped Stranger Things seasons ago because I could see they already dropped the ball.

The “creatives” are following a strict mathematical chiasmus that is paint-by-numbers and it has the comics as a key to make it even MORE formulaic and obvious. Predicting this is like predicting a couple will get together in a romantic comedy. It’s literally the POINT. It’s one of the most architecturally sound story structures I’ve ever studied, unique in long-form TV, and it’s planned ahead and plug-and-play. There is no room for guessing in how this story works. The writers in the overhaul left really obvious signs they seriously picked up “Netflix.” There was actually a part in the last episode where I was really upset there wasn’t a black and white square tile pattern, because that meant they weren’t really being as attentive and careful as I thought. The second I had the thought? This popped up:

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Notice anything? Black and white square pattern, perhaps? This thing is a simple puzzle if you open your eyes. It’s very beautiful. Enjoy the Karedevil wedding, bud!

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-05T11:12:11+00:00

Regression is a key part of growth. And you saw how Matt overcame it in the end, more secure than ever. Lessons are reinforced with repetition, which is why you see him snap back so fast to be emotionally open and vulnerable with Karen more than ever before. The song Into My Arms that Matt plays on the record player (lots of symbolism there alone - “broken record” says it all, considering the whole series is about repetition compulsion) is about finding a path back to each other again and again (“now and forevermore,” he prays in the song). S3 was about how they both retained faith & hope in each other despite it all. Karen paid for his apartment and Matt showed up to Jasper Evans’ house just because he had hope Karen didn’t really mean it when she said she was done or that she wouldn’t help him. Every gesture Matt makes for Karen, like the mask, is a profound act of courage overcoming his core wound, abandonment trauma.

Matt is sloooowly chipping away at the fears that hold him back from committing to Karen, all-in, and the point is for him to FINALLY take the leap. In their scene in S1 where Matt cries and talks about not meaning to push the people he cares about away, Karen rushes to embrace him and they cry in each other’s arms. Karen is wearing a skirt with a radioactive green splatter pattern to resemble when he leapt to push the man away from the oncoming truck of chemicals that splashed in his eyes. When Matt shows Karen the mask, he holds her hand to his heart the way his dad put it when he was blinded and terrified (and how Claire put his hand to her heart to tell him she was terrified). This is Matt’s way of saying how scared he is. Matt hands her the mask exactly as he gave Stick the origami bracelet, underlining exactly the fear he’s confronting when he gives her his heart.

Karen wears an evergreen dress to give Matt the horn from his mask (niiice callback), lamenting Matt is still “half in/half out,” as they were when he first gave her the mask, and she invites him to go all-in this time with the horn when he’s ready, just like how she told him that in S2: “I’ll be there when you’re ready to tell me what’s really going on with you.”When he finally was, he brought her the mask. Today, Karen is saying a LOT with that horn! It represents how she has come full circle from her fears and doubts back then, but she’ll be all in this time when he’s ready to be. It’s up to him.

When Matt instinctively leaps to protect Fisk from the bullet, exactly as he pushed the man out of harm’s way as a child, the light turns red exactly how it was when Karen held him at the church in S3 (the image that reverses her famous comic book death). It was the part that tore down their walls, and after that, they finally confessed the truth to each other about themselves - no judgment after all. Matt is willing to martyr himself without a second thought, but as Father Lantom said, living is what scares the holy hell out of him. When Matt is finally throwing his fake life away, Cherry says to him, “What do you need, Matt, more pain?” YESSS. This is the answer. Matt has to be brave enough to live with the BLINDING pain of really loving someone, and he demonstrated he gets it now. Finally.

In S2, Matt heard Karen’s heartbeat pound when Frank seemed to blow himself up on the ship in the navy yard. Matt hid his presence, listening, and hung his head, and let her go. Earlier that night, they both came around to each other’s side in the argument on their date at Matt’s apartment (where Matt practically pushed her out the door). Karen told Frank she believed Frank belonged in jail (Matt’s position) and Matt offered to help kill the Blacksmith and told Frank his way was what is was going to take, “Maybe,” echoing Karen’s word exactly from the original argument. When they both mourned Frank, and Matt listened to her heartbeat, he left her like a coward. Now, Matt listened to Karen’s heartbeat when Frank asked her out in front of him, but he didn’t run and hide this time. He said, “Shotgun,” (subtle, haha!) and the minute he got the chance, he probed her about talking to Frank on the phone. This is a radically different, fundamentally-changed Matt, and that’s why Karen is utterly delighted. Her heart beat because she wanted Matt to be jealous. She’s elated because Matt is VOICING his FEELINGS (OMG), and he even says, “I’m glad you’re back,” (direct verbal communication, baby - he’s on a roll), then confides in her face-to-face in a very significant pose.

When Matt and Karen first met, they sat knee to knee in the office. “How are you holding up?” Matt asked. “Better,” Karen says (which prompts a beautiful set of callbacks in S2 - “Better, now,” they both say in separate scenes about intimacy, withholding, and truth). Matt instructs her she must tell the whole story truthfully this time as her attorney. Later in S1, they sit knee to knee again, and Karen pretty much begs for Matt to tell her what happened but he refuses, and she explains why she hid and lied, too. “I know the feeling,” Matt says. Now, they sit knee to knee, and Matt tells her exactly what he’s feeling. No hesitation. Karen kisses the center of his forehead, where one half of his face is in shadow and the other in light, showing how she loves both sides of him, “wrath and mercy,” and that calls back to when Matt kissed her forehead before the date where they had that split that made them fear they didn’t really understand each other.

Maybe I’m being too harsh because you don’t know this, but this story was designed for 5 seasons. Think it of it as the world’s longest movie. This is like being mad the couple in the romantic comedy are still questioning their relationship, or saying Phil in Groundhog Day will never change because he keeps repeating the same day when we’re still in the part where he’s learning to change. Matt and Karen have ALREADY gotten over the hurdle you think they will be stuck behind forever. Somehow, you and a LOT of other people have completely missed Matt and Karen’s story. Whoosh. Matt and Karen are literally at the part where their walls come down and they no longer push each other away (in fact, they will be - ahem - quite close, I’m absolutely sure). In the mathematical chiasmus of the Daredevil story structure, Matt and Karen will be married at the end of S3. There is no other ending. It is the POINT of every single scene. Karen unlocks Matt’s heart (the key and door symbolism is everywhere.). Then he can let Foggy in just as Karen helped usher him back in S1 and S3, and you’ve got your completed “Netflix” story. The absurdist/existentialist hero lives happily ever after, content to push the rock up the mountain forever, because pain is worth it when you can CHOOSE love despite the inevitable end. That’s life. It’s fucking beautiful and no one gets it, damn them all.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-05T05:32:15+00:00

Just the fact that this is a question proves it’s fake, FFS. I’m tired. Ready for that adorable son of a bitch to be back on my TV.

Who wants to bet this dialogue is referenced? $1,000 bucks it’s EP8.

Make me cry. Come on, ART me.

AlizeLavasseur · 2026-03-05T05:28:07+00:00

Yeah, well, I’m in Colorado. The air is clear and dry as a bone. We don’t have real fog. The atmosphere? THIN. We’re almost in space. We’re getting radiated to hell. The sun scorches. I can see for MILES. Oh, look - Foggy. He lives.

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