History Headscratchers / TheDefenders2017

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* Gao implies that the collapse of the ground will take a while, and that the Hand will be long gone before it happens. The Defenders, their allies AND the NYPD know exactly what's going on under Midland Circle. Even if the Hand escapes with their prize, all it takes is for one person to alert the local authorities and have specialists sent down there to minimize the damage. People have been mining for thousands of years; stabilizing a small cave (or at the very ''least'' evacuating the affected area and bringing the death toll to zero) should be perfectly straightforward. You can either have the Hand being crushed while they mine, or have them getting away while people plug up the damage; you can't have both.

** Gao seems to imply that it would take a while to actually collapse, the Hand may have had enough time to scrub any trace of their involvment before it happened.

[[folder:The reveal of what the Hand wants (SPOILERS FOR EP.7-8)]]

* Apparently the Black Sky is the hand's equivalent to the Iron Fist. As we see that is a very skilled and letal warrior with similar strenght to at least Jessica Jones, so the Chaste would have reasons to fear that their enemies have such a weapon, specially if they were lolosing the war.

** Yes he did. The store owner was about to shoot unarmed thieves who were already running away. Self-defense laws only stretch so far and you can't just shoot people because they stole your stuff. You can use deadly force ONLY if you believe your life is in immediate danger, but this store owner was most certainly not in any danger as they were RUNNING AWAY.

* Apparently the Black Sky is the hand's equivalent to the Iron Fist. As we see that is a very skilled and letal warrior with similar strenght to at least Jessica Jones, so tje Chaste would have reasons to fesr that their enemies have such a weapon, specially if they were lolosing the war.

* ...so wait, that dragon skeleton is holding down the entire ground of New York? It doesn't seem THAT big.
* How do you harvest something holds the ground you're under? Shouldn't all the miners die when the "keystone" bone is pulled off?

* In episode 2, Gao and Alexandra have a discussion where Goa tells Alexandra that they've hit the wall. Alexandra says it's a door, since, and I quote (approximately): "If they wanted it inaccessible forever, they could haven destroyed it. This is meant to be recovered". First, how do you "destroy" a giant skeleton, knowing that your ennemies just need powder from the bone/marrow? The Hand could pick up the scraps anyways. Second, I thought the reason why the Five fingers were banned from K'un L'un is because it's desecration. So they wouldn't have destroyed it, right? Ok maybe it's more of a plothole than a headscratcher, but I'm still confused.

** The audience only knows something's suspicious about the earthquake because we're GenreSavvy (and we see Alexandra brag about it). The characters are confused by the quake, but mostly accepting of the cover story...until the geologist calls into Trish's show to explain why it can't be natural. Without modern understanding of geology, an artificially-induced volcanic eruption wouldn't be detectable. (As for ''how'' they caused the eruption, the Hand digs underground for [[PlayingWithFire dragon]] corpses, taking so much material that the [[BadVibrations surface grows unstable]]. Quakes [[DugTooDeep can trigger volcanoes].)

* To vaguely quote Stick, the Hand is apparently responsible for "natural disasters" that got covered, and he names Chernobyl...and Pompei. Uhhhh...how do you cause a volcano to erupt, exactly? Even with the reveal in the end, it seems a bit far-fetched...

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