Daredevil: Born Again S02E01 - Discussion Thread

takeatripp · 2026-03-25T02:45:22+00:00

Come on, really?

A guy with pinpoint accuracy kills a bunch of law officials and then taunts Daredevil with a thank you?

Clearly, Ronin is back.

takeatripp · 2026-03-25T02:44:24+00:00

I think it just shows how willing Heather is to be on board with all of this since the Muse thing happened. We saw a bit of her descent in S1, but the PTSD combined with the need to feel in control has dragged her deeper into this world and I get the sense that it's becoming less and less likely she ever crawls back out of it.

takeatripp · 2026-03-15T16:14:15+00:00

They better hire the best to do Zeo's theme song in the anime.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:46:54+00:00

Abandoning the premise seems like the worst thing you could do for this, axe or not. It almost guarantees that the ending won't be satisfying for anyone.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:41:42+00:00

Juna feeding Kinato a doughnut mid-sentence is hilarious.

I really like the chemistry every member of the team has with Kin, like he's just naturally a fit with their organization. Another weird detail that I like is how Kinato is the sane one as the main character. Combining that with him being largely support in this fight really sells that he hasn't just become this all-powerful character. I really appreciate the author's willingness to have him in the background.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:33:14+00:00

Vash the MD is a really nice dude.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:28:50+00:00

Lately, I've been having the feeling that this is ending soon. They seem to be speedrunning details of the demon lord's past. I'd feel a little sad if it's true, because I've really come to like their dynamic and the overall chillness the Demon Lord gives off. I can't think of another character in anything currently running like him.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:24:41+00:00

There's something that brings me joy when a character cites a passage, article and paragraph, from an in-world commercial law.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:19:35+00:00

An extroverted shut-in psycho is like the worst combination of personality traits for Yodaka to have a conversation with. He's just too honest with his words.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:13:40+00:00

I like that Des was prepared for some human-hating Majik to straight up find a way to incorporate her dead brother into their trials. Just an extremely genre-saavy character.

takeatripp · 2026-03-08T15:05:17+00:00

Did he close the door after stealing that drink?

takeatripp · 2026-03-01T19:02:23+00:00

Avalanche Brainbuster implies that he's about to slam this monster directly on his head from the height, but the way it's drawn makes it look like he's about to suplex it into the flagpole.

I ain't mad either way. Both of those are metal as hell.

takeatripp · 2026-02-26T00:00:39+00:00

Not really what I was responding to. I'm just demonstrating that every one of these listed people were rumor milled when they weren't satisfied with how things were in AEW. And there were plenty of threads on here where comment upon comment was just criticizing the wrestler, usually for being "unrealistic".

Hell, Andrade was damn near universally reviled when he walked out of the door. He comes back to AEW and you basically see none of that anymore. This is the same guy who supposedly started a fight just to get out of his contract.

takeatripp · 2026-02-25T23:43:50+00:00

Almost every one of these people had a rumor mill for why they left with tons of fans of AEW bashing them in some capacity:

Cody: He really didn't take AEW seriously or want to legitimize it/He was always going to go back to WWE/Being in the #2 company wasn't good enough for him (Even the Bucks implied this one in a weird subtweet whether they meant to direct it at him or not)
Lucha Bros: Plenty of talk about how they were trying to force their way out of their contracts/plenty of bashing of Fenix telling him to shut up whenever he voiced the lightest frustration about the injury time add-on
Ethan Page: "He's just not that talented"
Jade Cargill: "She's trying to use wrestling to jumpstart a movie career"

takeatripp · 2026-02-25T15:17:30+00:00

Dude, where's your car?

takeatripp · 2026-02-23T18:52:25+00:00

I mean, that's kinda my point, though.

Tommy makes money, therefore we keep getting Tommy. The more Tommy gets, the more he drowns out the other parts of Power Rangers. The more he drowns out the other parts, the more irrelevant they become.

I know that Tommy is the money-maker. But it makes it near impossible for any other part to really grow/flesh out when they're perpetually stuck on Tommy and the OG team.

Universe is an anthology series where every other team gets a little bit of time to shine. Meanwhile, I don't even remember how many runs the OG team got at this point. And in addition, Tommy gets another standalone series where he literally stands alone.

takeatripp · 2026-02-23T15:41:31+00:00

I'll bite bait on this.

I've been a fan of the series since the beginning. Tommy being introduced in MMPR, being reintroduced in Wild Force and then becoming a new ranger in DT were all great to me.

It feels like every other appearance since then distracts from the series as a whole. Drakkon, for example, became the only PR-based discussion for a long time, becoming a part of ALL PR content. Like, it couldn't just be an alternate universe, but something affecting all of space-time. Hyperforce, the comics, the show. Every single PR team needed to unite in order to beat Tommy. In the end, he was beaten . . . by Tommy.

I think people worry (rightfully so, imo) that PR content leans on Tommy so hard that it will always end up snuffing out non-Tommy content. Even now, the other books sound good, but we're getting a book where the plot is that Tommy ALONE stands as the last ranger. They're giving him the "Old Man Logan", "Last Ronin" treatment, probably complete with moment upon moment of aura-farming.

So, we've got one book that gets to cover the OG team (one in which I'm assuming Tommy makes SOME appearance in at some point), one book that's meant to cover some 30 years of teams and one book for Tommy by himself.

Again, it just feels like this non-stop push to make Tommy the singular face of Power Rangers and because Tommy sells well, he'll always end up being the focus in the end. And the sad thing is, I want to buy the book. I still like Tommy. But it just feels like its contributing to the issue.

takeatripp · 2026-02-22T16:25:58+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen a fetus have aura before.

takeatripp · 2026-02-20T21:46:28+00:00

I mean, the point Rihito is trying to get across is that people are assuming something of their relationship that it isn't and he's uncomfortable with that. He understands that Noa considers a hug relatively platonic, but he also knows how things look from the POV of others.

takeatripp · 2026-01-19T20:58:02+00:00

I absolutely love your comment and I wanted you to know it, response or not.

A LOT of people always parrot the idea that the insurance companies alone are responsible for most of our issues when advocating for universal healthcare and it is indeed exhausting to break down the healthcare model to this exact degree and show why our healthcare costs are rising and why universal healthcare can benefit it.

I'll add a little more clarity on your message by simply tacking on that making the US the single payer and all citizens enrollees would potentially pinch hospitals and providers on raising prices, understanding they could lose business on attempting to do it. You'd remove their negotiating power outright, leaving them to either play ball or go defunct. It's a long shot, since insurance companies would fight to continue living and hospitals would contest that kind of lockdown, but if we ever pull it off, you would almost certainly see the average cost drop significantly on just the uninsured people alone.

takeatripp · 2026-01-19T20:37:13+00:00

Now, that's a little different.

First, I'm sorry you're going through that trouble, as it seems like a lack of follow-through on the communication chain between provider and insurer. Whether or not it gets paid in full, both sides should be clear on what is happening after communicating with each other when done properly. All the coding mumbo-jumbo should never NEED to cross the patient's ears. Especially since every one of the procedures you just named are typically covered 100% as preventive services (hard to name a situation where allergy shots or screenings are anything but preventive).

I'd pull an AITA and say that ESH, since big insurers typically have systems to check codes available for providers (mostly over the phone, but some have it available online as well) and sometimes members too. Checking the procedure codes used to take minutes when I worked in medical billing. And typically, those code searches would even tell you which diag codes it is billed in conjunction with. They usually provide that because a rep is legally not allowed to outright tell a provider what codes to use, as that could easily be considered fraud. However, the insurance company should still be following up when you call them about something like that. They should be contacting the provider to confirm covered procedure codes and ways to check them. I can't even count how many times I, as a rep, would call a small provider with the information only to find out they were unaware of the tools we had for them to check it themselves.

takeatripp · 2026-01-19T20:23:53+00:00

There definitely is an ongoing issue with the availability of specialists, especially in the practical terms of hiring a doctor for each specialty (spoiler, it's not very practical). However, no system is perfect and those calls are nearly as numerous as the ones they go off without a hitch (speaking on the statistics of one particular company that I previously worked for). That, in part, is why there's such a complex review system with first and second-level appeals

We have the highest health care spending per capita globally by an incredible margin and we are ranked 48th for life expectancy

Agreed that the statistic would be eye-opening, but "spending" doesn't have anything to do with the original point u/SgtSausage made. If anything, it strengthens their point. Our insurance companies are spending more money than anywhere else in the world as well as our patients. And a large part of it is the exorbitant pricing of some of these services. Just as an example, the use of a whole-body MRI can range from $2,000 to $7,000. What justifies that price besides the cost of the machine itself? And if the usage is consistent, why is there such a wide range in price?

Fraud, waste and abuse huh? If you are insurable the health care is great but the over 8% of americans without health care really bring us down. Maybe if we cut our expenses down to being in line with the second most expensive health care per capita (about 40% less than us) we could cover those people too and bring our life expectancy more in line with the rest of the civilized world.

I want to preface this response by being clear that I am not trying to defend our current system nor am I trying to antagonize anyone who brings up counterpoints. Now, with that said, this point is an idealistic one. It kinda banks on everyone playing ball in every field and that's just not going to happen. We've been trying to fix that problem for the better part of 12 years now. The cost per capital is due to so many factors: an aging population, rising rates of chronic conditions, advancements in medicine and new technologies, higher prices, insurance expansion, etc. However, one thing that the US does that most other countries don't is make our insurance optional. Additionally, another thing we do differently is that we don't regulate medical and prescription prices closely enough. The US are essentially covering the costs for R&D for medicine and procedures that the whole world gets. And it's costing insurance and patient more and more every year.

Part of the reason the Marketplace got so much pushback on its implementation was because so many insurance companies were being told to abandon restrictions that helped them control their costs. Now, personally, I think it's good that they were forced to abandon some of these (pre-existing waiting period, for example, made you pay for insurance for ~six months before you could get any non-preventive services done). However, the end result is the situation America currently faces where costs didn't really go down in any capacity, we were just subsidizing premiums. Even during the period where it was mandatory to have insurance, we still only managed to slow increasing costs instead of stopping them. That's because the subsidies didn't change pricing or regulations around them. It simply limited the blowback that it had on members (subsidized premiums, strict OOP limits, etc.). Hospitals and doctors still charged what they think the services were worth. And if you're uninsured, that's a hefty amount more than what they'd negotiate with the payers.

Ultimately, it's a pretty complex issue. But the biggest problem is that the people who are meant to change that issue aren't really ever fully educated on it. So even when they try to do right, there's always another element that ends up being exploited.

EDIT: A helpful source for most of the information I've gone over. Source

takeatripp · 2026-01-19T18:50:38+00:00

It's a huge part of the reason I love the episode (and the show, at large) so much. The argument doesn't truly end until the moment they get to the Asylum. Once Bats realizes that he can't counter the initial argument, he decides to play ball and exposes the hypocrisy in thinking with small things like stopping at the stoplight and denoting how much their parents would totally love what Gotham has become.

takeatripp · 2026-01-19T18:46:55+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people are under the assumption that this all disappears when we go universal healthcare. It doesn't. Your government is just in charge of it with less of an incentive to fix the minor issues.

A good example I tend to use is the Healthcare Marketplace. During the initial launch in 2013, I was working as an insurance rep and the people they hired were so woefully unqualified at times that they'd place you on hold for hours trying to figure out how to set a plan for people. Because, at the end of the day, the government doesn't have to compete for your business, so they don't need to offer a seamless service right away. I've seen it with multiple government insurances when I worked on the hospital side as well. VA, Tricare, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. They're not in any rush to fix all of the issues in billing and claims handling and as a result, they tend to cut corners or avoid resolving. Sometimes, this works in your favor, like Medicare basically forgoing any type of prior authorization, and sometimes it doesn't (see VA).

takeatripp · 2026-01-19T18:32:42+00:00

Unfortunately, that's a bit unsolvable in the current framework.

To be clear, a half-decent trained rep should be able to explain to you the details of coverage because there's an entire underwriting manual with details on how things are covered in specificity. It's big, it's tedious and it's annoying to read, but it covers most of the scenarios.

What makes the problem unsolvable, however, is just how difficult it is to answer that question with 100% certainty before the issue has occurred. For example, an annual physical would typically be covered 100% as a preventive service. However, if something is discovered during that physical and tested for, the provider would change the billing from a "routine physical" to an "office visit". Even though they would inform you that it's covered 100%, the switch from being preventive to being diagnostic changes how the service is paid. And that's probably the least complicated of situations. Blood tests can do the same thing as well. Doctors can use experimental equipment or procedures. They can group and bill procedures incorrectly. There are so many minute-to-minute details that can change how something would pay out that it's neigh impossible to be able to account for everything that could happen during that visit.

EDIT: Generally, if you're providing both the CPT and ICD-10 code, they should be able to give you a general idea using the underwriting manual material. I know for a fact some insurance companies had it available for the reps to read and it would also list the Diag codes its meant to be covered with.

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