Iron Fist...Why?

Mar 19, 2017 10:51 AM

I have just finished watching the first 2 episodes and it is rubbish.

Now I am usually such a easy target for any Marvel product, I blindly love everything they do! Comics, movies, cartoons, I even have Captain America pajamas!
I know right big whoop, who isn't these days? but at the end of these 2 eps I am so disinterested in the rest of the series I have found it real shock.

The show, so far, has bad pacing, boring action and a awful plodding opening plot line that feels like it was written by someone who doesn't like superhero stories and is embarrassed to be making one, which brings me to the dialogue and characterization

Danny Rand is stupid. So far he has many do things that would make Elf look smart (hence the gif). His cluelessness to just about everything he's doing isn't endearing is frustrating to watch. The only Character that has anything interesting to do or say is Jessica Henwick's Colleen Wing.

Now why am I venting? It is because I LOVED Daredevil. (After Cap WS and CW) I think it is the best MCU product, particularly the first 6-7 eps of the first series. The style, action, characters and plot where so good. Season 2, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage were all very good also (not all quite as good but all still had interesting styles and things to offer)

Kilgrave and Kingpin are the best villains the MCU have produced so far, on a par with Loki and Mahershala Ali's Cottonmouth had decent moments also. So far all Iron Fist has is two or three paper thin characters and what looks to be a pantomime villain in David Wenham's Harold Meachum.

Now this is a rant only after two episodes so I could be wrong! it might just have been a slow start and the season picks up and we get some great action and interesting developments... but I'm also feel torn because I don't want to be the type that just watches it for the sake of it, 'these fans just lap this shit up', type of person no matter the quality...saying that...

I have watched all 4 seasons of Agents of Shield so maybe I am the reason the quality has dropped!

What do you think? Is it worth watching till the end? does it get better? is the action any good when we finally get to it?

Your comments and opinions are very welcome!

Thanks!

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IMO Iron fist isn't very good, but Luke Cage is straight trash.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Less whining, more watching

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm not a fan of daredevil, so maybe I'll like iron fist haha

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I love it

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Don't worry it gets better ( better than arrow )

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is really slow at first, but it is because there is a lot of backstory to a character who a lot of mainstream fans do not know about.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not see the show but feel the need to share this related video https://youtu.be/kmKkFfZVoZc

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

I'm about 6 episodes in now. I'm loving it. Not much fighting at first but it picks up quickly. Also, frickin Faramir. Yeah boi. Great story

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

'So far he has many do things that make Elf look smart' I'm so glad you had the courage to say what we are all thinking @OP

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Wow I make Elf look smart... damn

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Love it!! His naive ways are part of the story. Give it a chance, it gets better.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

They aimed for this, but he just came off a smug dick who knows nothing and refuses to learn. He needed to be called out by Colleen and Joy

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's ok. You can't love all Marvel . Watch if you feel the need to. Me? i like it, even the first episode. And i'm normally easily bored.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'll be honest, i thnik most of Marvels TV stuff is good ideas poorly executed, I try and love it but i just can't

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I enjoyed it. But I enjoy a lot of things.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I'm enjoying it so far. Only 4 episodes in and I like the build up.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I watched the first episode with my dad, and I just found it frustrating.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't like to criticize, but I watched 30 minutes at most and couldn't continue.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

well i did finish 1st season, i was hoping for more ... it isn't really good

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I finished it today. They could have done so much with it, but it felt like a recycled Daredevil script, but with worse writing.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

The whole time I was watching it I felt like I was watching a watered down version of the CW's first season of Arrow.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

all four shows are more dramatic than they are action genre. DD season 1 very overhyped. Season 2 was great.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

JJ had an amazing villain. LC and IF were alright. I didn't hate them but they could be better.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

it doesn't picks up, lost my interest which i have made until episode 6, so slow going story that i am using imgur, watching episode 7

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I hated the first 2 episodes. It gets better around 6. Still no main villain though. Harold Mechum is barely present. There's Gao but she

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

2- just learned about Iron Fist taking an interest in the hand's op in NYC.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sort of spoiler - IMO Daredevil and JJ were better than Cage and Fist. Mainly because their antagonists were clear from beginning to end.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Those damn flashbacks in the first episode of that fucking plane crash. If you are not going to use a flashback properly, then don't. (1/2)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

use a flashback at all. Oh, and getting someone who knows martial arts would have been a good idea.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yes, Danny Rand is a childish and naive, I'm hoping it's a character flaw they develop from and not a permanent part of his character.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Same, I'm 4 episodes in, but I'm really liking it so far.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just my opinion but I have it almost level with Luke Cage and the 2nd half of DD2 It never reaches the heights of DD1/JJ/DD2 1st half 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Claire Temple and Colleen Wing pretty much make it worth watching themselves imo 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

After Claire being in DD, JJ, and LC, she just seems overkill now. Like I know Rosario Dawsob's gotta eat, and she's attractive, but geez.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He's naive and innocent, and when it comes to monks or martial arts, he's serious and can't believe people don't know much about it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You gotta remember he was living and raised by monks for 15 years, it's all he really knows. It's funny to me 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

at one point he couldn't believe someone didn't know about warrior monks 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0