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But even that might be generous.
It assumes its own marvelousness and proceeds tediously from there, offering few satisfactions for any possible audience.
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This is yellow belt drama that deserves to flunk out of the TV dojo.
The biggest problem withIron Fistmight be the property itself.
and obliterate anything with Hulk Smash!
All of this hoo-ha is doled out in bits and drabs of flashback.
Danny’s blazing balled fist?
It’s used sparingly.
Jones nails the earnestness, but that’s all he plays.
Some have criticizedIron Firstsight unseen for cultural appropriation, and they’re not wrong.
The show validates the complaint by being both slavish and shy about Danny’s purely fantastical K’un-Lun origin story.
The character has always been white in the comics, but who cares?
Ultimately, I don’t see why Marvel couldn’t have cast Danny with an Asian actor.
Pacing issues hamper so many Netflix serials.
In the Marvel shows, the lag hits around mid-season.Iron Fistis sluggish from the get-go.
I thinkIron Fistwants to be some subversive scold of capitalism or secularism.
Rand Industries is monolithic big business as super-villain the Evil Corp. ofMr.
The alt-New York that the Marvel-Netflix shows is interesting, at least in concept.
You got Luke Cage up in Harlem participating in the redemption and reconstruction of a struggling community.
My theory aboutMarvel’sThe Defenders the forthcoming team-up show is that it’ll be a superhero remake of Fritz Lang’sMetropolis.
For starters, there aren’t many of them in the first six episodes.
They’re yoga fu.
