I wonder how they'll do the Karen's past thing. My heart hopes that Matt and Karen end up on a road trip up to Fagan Corners to lay low for a bit, as that'd mean they'd have some connecting time all to themselves. Plus, if anyone's capable of understanding Karen's past best, it'd be Matt.
I also hope that Karenâs past is revealed in Season 3, but I have a feeling Karen is never going to open up to Matt and tell him herself.
After he lied to her about Daredevil, sheâs unsure if he cheated on her (which he practically did), and heâs treated her like an âidiotâ this whole time, I really donât think theyâre close enough anymore.
They began as these two innocent people in pure, white love, but as time and the seasons go on we continue to get darker and darker into both of these characterâs personalities.
I think Fisk or someone else will reveal her secret and completely destroy her reputation, (i.e. maybe lose her job/everyone will start treating her as an unreliable source), and Matt will be the one there to comfort her.
I hope we get to see Matt apologize, PROFUSELY, and have both of them actually open up to each other for the first time since season 1 episode 13 (the hug).
That one five minute scene of them being real with each other caused so many people to ship them, so I am very anxious to see if the writers will allow them to be honest with each other from now on.
I know itâs very likely weâre never getting the Avocado Family back, but I just really hope we get Karen and Mattâs close friendship back, no romance necessary.
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Letâs analyze the shit out of it - Karedevil in 1x12 aka the Hug scene
One cannot leave out such a beautiful scene when analyzing Karedevil scenes. After the balloon scene from 1x11, that cute scene from 1x07, and the last Karedevil scene of the season in 1x13, these two are finally making contact both physically and emotionally, and this âhug sceneâ is all about breaking down walls and dropping the mask. So, without further ado, letâs go.
And brace yourselves, itâs going to be a looooong post.
First off, itâs important to remember that the hug scene is the SECOND Karedevil scene of the episode. We should keep that first scene in mind (around 9Ⲡor 10â˛), when Matt walks into the office while Foggyâs already there and then talks with Karen. In that first scene, Matt looks cold, almost emotionless. He doesnât let anything show.
Nevertheless, he notices Karenâs uneasiness and asks her if something happened. Thatâs when she tells him: âThe world fell apart. Didnât you notice?â
She starts opening up to him even though she doesnât tell him the truth (thatâs sheâs having nightmares because she killed someone) and weâre not shown a compassionate Matt: weâre shown a wall. At this point, itâs the Great Wall of China.
That being said (and you should bear it in mind), about the âhug sceneâ: I may be a psychopath but I just love the beginning of that scene (48â˛40â˛â) when Matt is desperately trying to open the door. I mean, when you realize it wonât open you get that itâs locked and you stop, right? Here Matt just keeps trying to open the door rather vehemently, showing how many fucks he doesnât give anymore after that rough night. And his voice is so broken when he says: âKaren? Karen? Youâre in there?â That means he either felt it was her in the office or that he heard her on the phone with Ben. Either way, I find it cute.
She then opens the door:
Matt: âWeâre locking this now?â
Karen: âSeems like a good idea.â
And then, Matt, who was walking away from her, decides to turn back.
I find this element so important, because a) he looks much more emotional than when they met earlier in the episode (and they havenât seen each other ever since) and b) he tries to get closer to her, he wants to pour his heart out to her but he doesnât know how and he doesnât know if he should. So he just answers: âYeah.â
And they stand their ground in silence, both facing each other for a few seconds which are everything because these precious, silent seconds embody his hesitation.
After that he tries to get rid of her:
âItâs late, you should go home.â
But Karen takes none of that.
âMatt?â she asks in a weak voice.
He doesnât answer, he just freezes.
Karen: âIs this what we are now? Three people who donât even talk to each other?â
And then Matt starts talking about Stick and when he says â... we were close once,â the camera focuses on the expression on Karenâs face:
She knows that heâs about to open up to her.
Matt: âI know this guy. We were close once. He told me if I⌠Iâd have to push the people that I care about away if⌠if I wanted to be effective at what I do.â
Karen: âSeems like you listened to him.â
Matt: âYeah. I thought I didnât. This guy he has a way of getting in your head, you know.â
And the camera zooms in on Mattâs face as he slowly breaks down...
âAnd hereâs the thing: I had a really shitty night.â
And Karen feels heâs hurting. The camera zooms in on her face too, because she can relate to what heâs saying. After all, she took a manâs life not so long ago.
Here she not only realizes Matt heâs deeply hurting, she realizes his words might as well be her own.
âThe kind when you think youâve seen the bottom of humanity and the pitâs just getting deeper, you know?âÂ
She does.
âI⌠I canât. I canât do this alone. I canât. I canât take another step.â
The shot is up close, more than ever, as Mattâs walls are falling apart.
And Karen closes the distance between them.
And he doesnât fight her. He lets go.
âYouâre not alone. You never were.â
And she tightens her embrace and so does he.
For once, he completely opens up to Karen, he accepts her embrace, the comfort sheâs offerring him, he cries, he grunts in the crook of her shoulder. This is what intimacy looks like. I donât remember Matt letting go like that with anyone else except Foggy, not even with Claire, which shows that romantic interaction doesnât mean intimacy. That scene was raw, it was real, it gave him the strength to go on. Karen gave him the strength to go on fighting because she showed him he was not alone, that people cared about him, that SHE cared about him.
This scene (at least in my opinion) is the mirror of the balloon scene in the previous episode. In 1x11, Karen had tried so hard to break down Mattâs walls but he wasnât ready to open up, and it was all about the back and forth bewteen them, which was epitomized by their positions in space, and this process is the same here: Matt tries to get close to Karen, then he turns his back on her, then she starts talking to him and he stops running. Finally, SHE goes up to him and unlike in episode 11, he accepts the disappearance of the distance between them.
The âhug sceneâ is such a HUGE step in their relationship, and even though this scene is not a romantic one per se (even though Iâm pretty sure this hug was romantic for Karen because she already has feelings for Matt), it shows how much theyâve come to care for each other and how much trust and intimacy is present between them.
Now take that handkerchief, cry your heart out, take a deep breath and think about next season, because here are the seeds of a future EPIC love story.
