Hello, and welcome my review of Marvel’s Iron Fist. The biggest idea I’ll go over here is probably the incredible amount of undue criticism that I think the show has gotten over the last few weeks, and why I think it’s undeserved. I honestly think that the show after those first few episodes, while the writing at times was a bit rough, was just plain fantastic. But before we start, I just want to remind everyone to remember, there will be MAJOR SPOILERS for Marvel’s Iron Fist. And with that, let’s get into it.
Firstly, we need to talk about those first two episodes. They were shit, and I have to admit I really, honest to God, thought about forgetting about my review and deleting this blog just so I didn’t have to finish the rest of the show. I really felt, from that point, the rest of the show would be bullshit. But, like I’ve said before, I have a rule where I watch at least the first five episodes, and of course, I followed through, and I don’t regret it for a moment. But, those first two episodes were just absolute shit, everything was off, especially the writing, everything just seemed fucking wrong.
Now, my favorite character had to be Davos, also know in the comics as The Steel Serpent. Of course, Jessica Henwick’s Colleen was great, and so was David Wenham’s Harold Meachum. But Davos was a major symbol for things to come for Marvel’s Iron Fist. His appearance in the first season, and then eventually his exit for the season, came off very similarly to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Baron Mordo in Doctor Strange. In fact, the similarities between Doctor Strange and Marvel’s Iron Fist are absolutely astounding, with the obvious ones like both properties being based off supernatural activities and the female nurse character that fixes up super-powered characters, to the not-so-obvious ones like eventually evil best friend and the evil organization that’s ultimately controlled completely by two characters with assloads of power.
Like I said, I love episodes 3 through 11 of Marvel’s Iron Fist. The whole dynamic of Danny Rand coming back to Rand Enterprises was definitely interesting to see, especially once Jeri Hogarth, whom Danny calls “J-Money” for some reason, gets involved in the proceedings. Danny finds his and his parents’ grave all decorated with a metric shit ton of flowers (which, first of all, seeing your own grave must be pretty fucking surreal), but he has an “oh shit” moment, do a little digging, and finds out Jeri, as Wendell Rand’s lawyer, became the executor of the Rand estate after they all died and had no living relatives, and ended up tending to make sure their graves are taken care of. He then ends up using Jeri, as the family lawyer, to help him be proved as the legitimate heir to 51% of Rand Enterprises. The way they ultimately prove he’s Danny Rand is kind of weird, though; Joy ends up giving Jeri an ashtray that Danny made for her in the third grade, or what I assume it third grade based on the penmanship of the note on the bottom of it, and it had a childhood fingerprint of Danny, so they matched it up to his current fingerprints, and it matched. First of all, what fucking New York, rich kid, probably Catholic, private school makes their students, specifically third graders, make ashtrays? I don’t know many public schools in Philadelphia who do that shit, and it’s Philadelphia, for God’s sake. Secondly, I’m not an expert on fingerprints and shit, but considering your fingers grow quite a bit between the age of eight and twenty-five, which is how old Danny is when he gets back to New York, wouldn’t your fingerprint also grow, or am I just stupid? I mean, if that’s the way it would work, the fingerprints growing thing, the fingerprint would probably be a match to Danny, but probably only a 60% match, because it’s a seventeen-year difference. And with a 60% match, Rand Enterprises would probably be able to refute the evidence of his fingerprint as a match, and the case for Danny to get control of Rand back wouldn’t be finished probably until the next time the gates of K’un-Lun open next in fifteen years.
Then, we, of course, have The Hand. The Hand has only further complicated the Marvel Universe, to be honest, but it is actually pretty good to watch. Ultimately, The Hand was revealed to be the biggest villain of the season. Even Harold Meachum, who was originally supposed to control this season, was ultimately controlled The Hand for most of the season. Even Colleen Wing, who most everyone thought was the heart and soul of the show, ended up being Hand too, but she wasn’t “bad”, like that’s a legitimate answer to being a fucking dark hellspawn ninja with blood magic powers. She did end up wounding her master, Bakuto, and officially showed Danny that she’s a good guy. Maybe.
Either way you play it, Iron Fist had a rough run from critics, and in my book, it deserved a lot more than that. It combined martial arts with the fantasy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it showed something great. Overall, I give Marvel’s Iron Fist 3.5 out of 5 stars.
That has been my time, thank you for reading. Join me next Friday for my Character of The Month on Colleen Wing. Anyways, again, thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed, and remember, have a nerdy day.
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