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Originally Posted by kysirsoze

Not sure if this is a spoilers thread so...

Spoiler!

Boy. This show is pretty ****ing bad. I'll start with what was good.

1. Tom Pelphrey as Ward Meachum - Best part of the show to me, hands down. Could have been a very annoying, thankless role and yet I found myself excited when he was in the scene. They even gave him my least favorite C plot cliche of substance abuse and I still was into it. That guy should work a lot more.

2. Rosario Dawson - Man, she tried. She injected as much legitimacy into this thing that she could. She's been a shot in the arm to all of these shows. Thank God for her.

3. ...... production design?

That's about all I got. To me, this show is easily the worst Marvel property out there. I didn't love Luke Cage like most people seemed to but at least it had a slightly original point of view. It's like this show wanted to redo Daredevil except make his superpower really vague and douchey while casting the worst ****ing actor on the planet. I seriously couldn't believe how bad he was. He basically had two moves. Petulant, childish, scowl and baselessly arrogant know it all. Oh, one more, ludicrously and earnestly idealistic dipshit. Yes, a lot of this is the writing, but he got the same writer everybody else got and he was almost unwatchable. I was actually fastforwarding through his emotional scenes by the end. I hope he shaves that pubic hair off his face and takes an acting class before The Defenders.

The rest of the cast was fine, although David Wenham overshot a little on Harold Meachum. Could have been fun, but he was just too moustache-twirling for me to take. OH WAIT! The guy that played Colleen's sensei (B- something?) was also terrible. I mean he didn't have much to do but managed to be total garbage.

The story was really weak, the dialogue might as well have been written by a computer program, and it did nothing at all to make me more excited for The Defenders. All of this could have been saved if I gave half a shit about Danny, but by the last episode I really could not have cared less if Harold put one between his eyes. In fact, I was rooting for it a little against all odds.

Long story short, I'm not terribly familiar with Iron Fist, but I'm a huge Marvel fan. That was enough to compel me through the show, but I will not watch season two if there is one. I thought Mike Colter as Luke was the weakest part of Luke Cage, but Danny Rand is next level bad. Can they just recast? I'm sure not. I feel bad for Iron Fist fans. If I was one of them I'd be pretty ****ing disappointed.

Bakuto. I didn't notice that he was lame until I saw him in a scene with Ward. And he says Iron Fist instead of Iron Fist. It's annoying.