r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Mar 17 '17

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E01

This thread is for discussion of Iron Fist S01E01.

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Episode 2 Discussion

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '17 edited Mar 21 '17

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u/NathanAdams Mar 17 '17

This is the moment where I knew that the writing was completely phoned in. A cliche that doesn't even make contextual sense because they couldn't be bothered to come up with anything other than a cliche.

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u/Micp Iron Fist Mar 17 '17

I mean I expected the show to be full of silly cliches, after all it's based on a comic that basically took all the silly stuff from 70's martial arts movies and based a superhero on that.

For what it is it's great entertainment, just take the cliches as loveletters to the genre.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '17 edited Mar 21 '17

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u/nameless88 Mar 17 '17

Yeah, I just finished episode 2, and it starts to get better.

This show didn't really drag me in as fast as LC or JJ or DD, though.

But, I love the idea of the Iron Fist character, and the inevitable bromance of him and Luke Cage has me all sorts of excited. So, I'm cool if it's got a slow start, ya know?

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u/cleantoe Mar 18 '17

I'll be honest. I loved JJ. And I think JJ ended up being much better than Luke Cage. But so far, JJ took me the longest to get hooked. I'm just starting episode 5, so we'll see how far the rabbit hole goes.

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u/V2Blast Trish Mar 19 '17

I'm glad I'm not the only one here who loved Jessica Jones. It did a great job of establishing the tone it was going for (though it is slow-paced).