Fixing Netflix's iron fist (spoilers)
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Yeah I do wish the show had gone all out batshit crazy, or at least as much as it could with the budget (could they have afforded some proper wuxia-style wirework? That would have been way better than the slap fights we ended up with). Like, the Hand have realised Iron Fist is in town and are shitting themselves because of it, so they call in their best and wackiest assassins to try and take him down because normal mooks aren't going to cut it. That tournament episode needed to be more than just one episode, each of those fighters could have had an episode to themselves. Going into the show I was expecting something like a live action Kung Fu Panda, what I got was more like House Of Cards But With Punching. Yawn...Queen Michael said:
And yet when you say a guy knows kung fu so good that his kung fu is literally magic its exactly what I expect. Keeping things real works for Daredevil, who is a normal squishy human, but when you're the sort of dude who explains his abilities with terms that start "well I focus my chi..." then you're going to look disappointing if you're not offering something thats at least as good as the grounded guy. Something way more bombastic is neededSouplex said:
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A singular ninja is cool. The fight against Nobu in DareDevil Season 1 is great.Souplex said:
Ninjas plural are lame. The fight against Nobu in DareDevil Season 2, with the addition or 20 more ninjas is incredibly uninteresting and a terrible climax for the show, especially since the ninjas are easily dispatched by the superpower known as "firing a gun."
So that I could understand the plot of The Defenders. I've been looking forward to that show for years and if I have to sit through Iron Fist to enjoy it properly then so be it.Johnny Novgorod said:
I've got some bad news for you then. Defenders tries very hard to "fix" Iron Fist. It kind of spends all its time trying to "fix" the worst points of the Marvel Netflix universe rather than build on the story or even highlight what worked. What it turns out to be is an 8 episode extension of Iron Fist and the terrible second half of Daredevil season 2... with Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Not story points or intrigue from JJ or LC, just the characters thrown in to IF + DD Season 2 (the bad half.)Queen Michael said:
But somehow it isn't bad. I just wish it had done its own thing. I wish the villain was more interesting than The Hand.
I wish they would stop making the exact same villain fakeout every single show they put out (at this point it will only be a twist when they STOP doing it.)
Ugh, I know. The show makes it clear within the first 5 minutes or so that "Yep, villain is going to be The Hand again". It also doesn't help that the first villain is generally the better, more interesting one, outshining their eventual replacements.Kyrian007 said:
Aside from that, I think Defender is a step up from Iron Fist. Granted, not much of a benchmark, but there are things to like. Danny Rand isn't completely insufferable anymore. Some good performances, notably Charlie Cox, Sigourney Weaver and Mike Coulter. The interactions between the main quartet are quite fun. Some of the fight scenes are good, like the office hallway battle, although not quite on par with the single-take one from DD season 1.
Post-credits scene aside, I am looking forward to what they could do with Punisher. He was easily the best part of DD season 2 and one of the high points of the Netflix MCU as a whole.