As much as I DIDN'T hate this show. It's just so mediocre and could have been amazing since you can see flashes of greatness here and there.
Legends of Tomorrow is definitely better than this show, even Season 1 of it. The Hawks were just dragging the show down but man, at least Captain Cold and Heat Wave were a joy to watch every single episode, and the rest of the cast had personality and wasn't so boring you want to tear your eyes out.
In Iron Fist, I couldn't resonate with Danny at all. Heck, I like Danny in the first episode better when he was a carefree relaxed guy, who seem to have a good control on his emotions, reminded me a lot of Yoh Asakura from Shaman King and that's awesome. But later on he acts like a child for the rest of the show and I'm just wondering if it's the same character.
Ward is your typical bad guy, sorta anti-hero maybe. He was serviceable but nowhere as good as other secondary villains we have seen in the three other Marvel shows. Joy is fine, she cares about Danny. But like Ward, the siblings are poorly portrayed because of how bad the writing is. One moment Joy seem to want to work it out with Danny the next she want him to get out of their lives.
Harold is the typical mustache swirling villain in many of his scenes but he never really felt threatening. He's just there...
I hate how he most that this show ruined Madame Gao for me. She was at her best she when make some appearances sporadically throughout Daredevil. But having her appeared so much with this shitty writing have made me hate her. Always talk in riddles and honestly by the time that episode rolled around where she got kidnapped and they spent almost an entire episode at Colleen dojo, I was just done with Madame Gao. I honestly wanted Colleen to shove a sock in her.
Colleen, Claire and Hogarth are the only bright spots in this show.
Colleen actually seem like a much more competent fighter than Danny physically, where as Danny seem more like your grandma doing Tai-Chi in your backyard in half of his fight scenes. She also was incredibly likeable.
Claire is still same old Claire, lighting up any show she is on, even the poor writing didn't manage to bring her character down.
Hogarth is surprisingly great at her limited appearance. She was witty, straight forward and full of sarcasm. I especially like the straight forward part after spending way too long listening to Madam Gao.
I don't blame Finn Jones, the writing and the obvious rush job of this show didn't do him any favor. I think he's a good actor but he had no time to prepared and honestly I'm not sure if given a good amount of time if he would have been better? He seem like a case of miscasting. If they truly wanted him, they should have spent more time training him to get more physically fit and time to understand the character. Cause Danny Rand as a character was all over the place.
Ideally I think I would have gone with Lewis Tan, he was absolutely fantastic. Probably the only fight scene I truly enjoyed in the whole show from start to finished. I hope Lewis Tan come back in some capacity.
I hope Marvel TV learn from this show and not rushed any of their future projects. I'm willing to give Finn Jones another chance and I wish him the best of luck.
