Iron Fist Episodes 7-13

[Shriveling_memo]

Can someone tell iron fist abilities? At his peak does he have two iron fists or is it just one?

[Iron Fist]

Can someone tell iron fist abilities? At his peak does he have two iron fists or is it just one?

He has two, can channel it into any aspect of his body or even channel the energy externally. Iron Fist is basically a low key energy manipulator.

[EmrysM]

Just finished watching. Really enjoyed the first half of the season, but I feel like they were off to a strong start and stumbled towards the end.
Perhaps that's in part because of the early reviews (which were way-off) setting my expectations low, but once I got to the last few episodes, my thoughts echo a lot of what has already been said on this thread.
Mainly though, I thought Danny learnt his lesson way too late and the final episode/showdown didnt really stand up to what went down in the penultimate episode (I thought the same about season two of Daredevil).
Still, overall, I enjoyed it. Didn't quite stand up to the other Netflix shows in the end, but I thought the majority of the series was enjoyable watching, and it holds up better than (IMO, obviously) AoS (although I gave up on that a while ago, so it may well have picked up) and a few of the films.

[FlashEarthOne]

Admittedly, I'm not very familiar with the comics but this is the worst on-screen superhero I've ever seen. Does he do anything but perform tai chi moves and get a super charged fist once a week? With that said, I think it's more entertaining than Luke Cage.

Thank you! Iron Fist was slow and had so much missed potential... but Luke Cage was a bigger clunker. TBH... I think the villain of Jessica Jones carried the show. I'm not sure about "The Defenders" at this point in time.

[Sighphi]

EP7-

Like i said in the other thread, the reason im watching this show now it's because of the Meachums.

And i only saw DD S1 once but i think they had more fighting in that show by this point. By Ep7 we still have no origin, we have a lot of talk about KL but nothing is shown. That's a huuuuuuge mistake.

[Handsome men don't lose fights]

All finished. B- from me. It had some very cool moments, but you had to sit through a lot of 'meh' to get there.

Great stuff:

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-The reveal that Bukato's temple was a hand recruiting center. -That Assassin singing "Take on Me" to a roomful of dead people. -Madame Gao in general. -Davos -Davos and Danny vs. the Hand -Colleen Wing -Zhao Cheng re-imagined as a drunken master.

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The Meh:

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-Slow Pacing -Too many Meachums -Too many Corporate shenanigans -Not enough Kun'lun -Not enough Thunderer -Making Bride of Nine Spiders boring -Some really poorly shot fights -Pointless Claire participation. -Reducing Colleen to a sad girl in love. --Making Harold the Season 1 final boss. (Oh, he has a pistol. How exciting and novel!)

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I'd watch it again if there was nothing else on, but that's not saying much. If there's a season 2, I hope they go nuts with the crazier aspects of the Iron Fist story, and quit with the boring real estate stuff.

[Killercroc357]

Up to Episode 8.

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Is the 'Drunken Master' character something out of the modern comic books? If so, does he become more of a hero-type later on. I have my original Marvel Premiere Iron Fist comics, and the later series. I don't remember this fellow.

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I may stop here so as not to take it all in too quickly. Sometimes it feels like you rushed a good thing when over-binging. At least for me it has that feel.

[Handsome men don't lose fights]

Up to Episode 8.

spoilers:

Is the 'Drunken Master' character something out of the modern comic books? If so, does he become more of a hero-type later on. I have my original Marvel Premiere Iron Fist comics, and the later series. I don't remember this fellow.

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I may stop here so as not to take it all in too quickly. Sometimes it feels like you rushed a good thing when over-binging. At least for me it has that feel.

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In the comics, Zhao doesn't work for the Hand, and he isn't a drunken stylist. He's an 'implacable man' type (who's also a freaky demi-human) who can kill an Iron Fist like you can step on an ant.

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[Killercroc357]

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In the comics, Zhao doesn't work for the Hand, and he isn't a drunken stylist. He's an 'implacable man' type (who's also a freaky demi-human) who can kill an Iron Fist like you can step on an ant.

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Wow! And I posted a few minutes too soon before the end of the episode. Though I have to be honest, I was waiting for that tie-in to come up.

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She murdered his parents!

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[ian0delond]

All I want now is a Meachums Show recorded in front of a live audience.

[Shriveling_memo]

This show was good, an consistent. No stand out episode or fight scene like how daredevil had the hallway scene or the staircase.

The faults lay in the comicbook aspects, Danny should have been the one hero who came dressed in his suit, that might have helped with the fight scenes. It never felt like Finn did any of real move which took me out of it sometimes.

I don't mind the hand being the big bad through different shows, it's just they need bigger threats inside there organisations to confront the hero's.

Either way, this was better then luke cage and didn't live off the villain of like Jessica Jones. It's no surprise that Daredevil is the most successful of the lot as it embraces the comic book aspects perfectly

[Geno]

He has two, can channel it into any aspect of his body or even channel the energy externally. Iron Fist is basically a low key energy manipulator.

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Basically, Danny should be fighting like the Iron Fist we see in the Bakuto's video from 1948. But what we get instead is... Eh...

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[Iron Fist]

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Basically, Danny should be fighting like the Iron Fist we see in the Bakuto's video from 1948. But what we get instead is... Eh...

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That's because he left like a week after getting the Iron Fist and never completed his training, so he's a total n00b and truly the worst iron fist in the lineage

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[Blue Reloaded]

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That's because he left like a week after getting the Iron Fist and never completed his training, so he's a total n00b and truly the worst iron fist in the lineage

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I think that was my problem with the series. While I liked it, it felt like an "Act 2" throughout the season. Really, the season would have worked better if they took a "Captain America: The First Avenger" approach and used this season to tell his story in K'un-Lun and using the Defenders to flesh out his purpose with the Hand.

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I was really hoping we would get a ROTJ moment with The Defenders after Danny completes his training, but with K'un-Lun gone, doubt we'll actually get that now and instead more of the same half-cocked, brooding Iron Fist.

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[Iron Fist]

I think that was my problem with the series. While I liked it, it felt like an "Act 2" throughout the season. Really, the season would have worked better if they took a "Captain America: The First Avenger" approach and used this season to tell his story in K'un-Lun and using the Defenders to flesh out his purpose with the Hand.

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I was really hoping we would get a ROTJ moment with The Defenders after Danny completes his training, but with K'un-Lun gone, doubt we'll actually get that now and instead more of the same half-cocked, brooding Iron Fist.

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I was really disappointed there wasn't much K'un L'un flashbacks but I guess it's a budget issue? I mean the way they handled the 'dragon' and stuff clearly shows us they can't afford K'un L'un at the moment. Hopefully they get a bigger budget for season 2 because you really can't do an Iron Fist series without K'un L'un.

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I think they said the defenders takes place 3 months post-iron fist so I wouldn't expect him to have learned anything significant about his powers in that time

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At this stage I am hoping a former iron fist comes back and trains him into shape especially if they're going to wimp out and not do K'un L'un to complete his training.