As the writing team had already experienced having to “scrap everything and start over,” they couldn’t believe it, and even while writing Daredevil into scenes, Gao said that they were waiting for the other shoe to drop for him as well. She said they thought, “‘Okay, any moment now they're going to tell us we can't use them. [...]’ But it just kept [becoming] more and more real. And it was so hard to keep that secret!”