I'm currently at episode 11 - decided to force myself to watch it before Defenders - and this show oscillates between extremely boring and hair-pullingly frustrating. The main character is unbelievably stupid, and while I could chalk that down to naiveté in the beginning (E.g. when he's in the mental hospital and, just when his doctor finally believes him that he's Danny Rand, he pulls out the good old 'Yeah, I was in a monastery in a different dimension'), it happens so often over the course of the show that it just makes the character completely unlikeable (E.g. Instead of telling Colleen that he found the Hand's monitoring station, he just pouts about the fact that she lied to him, then immediately goes to the Penthouse, which he KNOWS is bugged, to discuss his attack plan against, you guessed it, the Hand). The only saving grace of this show is Night Nurse, though she's severely hindered by 'No Crossover'-Syndrome (because there is absolutely no good reason why she shouldn't be calling Daredevil as soon as the Hand is mentioned), not to mention that all four show's liberal use of her as the ultimate character development vehicle have made her look like the superhero of motivational speeches.
Edit: Having finished it now, I haven't really changed my opinion. It didn't really feel like Iron Fist's central conflict (Danny's search for his purpose) was solved in any meaningful way, and the rules of when and how he can summon the Iron Fist were very contradictory at times. Night Nurse seems to have god-given motivational powers, because I've never seen a character go that fast from 'YOU LIED TO ME!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" to 'We need to stop fighting and forgive' - I guess that was supposed to be character development, but it's a shame he almost immediately forgot about it again with Davos.
Review by CluisannaBlockedParent2017-08-24T00:35:46Z
I'm currently at episode 11 - decided to force myself to watch it before Defenders - and this show oscillates between extremely boring and hair-pullingly frustrating. The main character is unbelievably stupid, and while I could chalk that down to naiveté in the beginning (E.g. when he's in the mental hospital and, just when his doctor finally believes him that he's Danny Rand, he pulls out the good old 'Yeah, I was in a monastery in a different dimension'), it happens so often over the course of the show that it just makes the character completely unlikeable (E.g. Instead of telling Colleen that he found the Hand's monitoring station, he just pouts about the fact that she lied to him, then immediately goes to the Penthouse, which he KNOWS is bugged, to discuss his attack plan against, you guessed it, the Hand). The only saving grace of this show is Night Nurse, though she's severely hindered by 'No Crossover'-Syndrome (because there is absolutely no good reason why she shouldn't be calling Daredevil as soon as the Hand is mentioned), not to mention that all four show's liberal use of her as the ultimate character development vehicle have made her look like the superhero of motivational speeches.
Edit: Having finished it now, I haven't really changed my opinion. It didn't really feel like Iron Fist's central conflict (Danny's search for his purpose) was solved in any meaningful way, and the rules of when and how he can summon the Iron Fist were very contradictory at times. Night Nurse seems to have god-given motivational powers, because I've never seen a character go that fast from 'YOU LIED TO ME!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" to 'We need to stop fighting and forgive' - I guess that was supposed to be character development, but it's a shame he almost immediately forgot about it again with Davos.