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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
You could say the mask is either for combat reasons or is part of his royal regalia, really.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Yeah, uh, to the people who say that Iron Fist picks up in the second half like in Agents of SHIELD's first season, I wouldn't compare either of them . It picks up, don't get me wrong, but the differences between it picking up and Agents of SHIELD picking up are staggering. When Agents of SHIELD picked up, it soared and largely didn't look back. The latter parts of Season 1 brought out twists and turns that actually dragged you into the plot, in addition to some genuinely good writing. It felt like it was finally figuring out what it wanted to be and the major flaws were withering away.
Iron Fist hasn't had that happen yet. The flaws are still there. Uneven pacing, tepid acting, shitty fight scenes, and the show's direction is still confusing as all hell. It hasn't figured out what it wants to be yet, and if the show gets brought back for another season I hope it can finally figure it out. It began to look like it was finally getting there at around episodes six through eight or nine, but then it lost its way once Bakuto showed up. They're trying to do too many things at once.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Then it's a good thing I never said they were trying to get people to hate the Inhumans, huh? I said they were actively making people hate them. Which they were. It wasn't intentional but all positioning them against the X-Men and trying to ape the latter franchise did was engender a bunch of ill will towards the characters.
I want to marry this quote.
Nothing if you're Josh Trank.
edited 16th May '17 2:34:16 PM by comicwriter
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Yeah, Iron Fist's problem's don't just disappear. I feel by episode six, the bar has been set so low that the scraps of quality that are thrown out for the rest of the season are greeted with more praise than they deserve.
There were a ton of problems with this series. Was it because of the amount of time allowed, the casting, the show runner, or the higher ups? I don't know. Probably a combination of both. If this gets a second season, it needs a new show runner as far as I'm concerned. I'm also very concerned about the quality of Inhumans as a result of Scott Buck's role.
Some of the high points deserve praise, don't get me wrong. The stuff with Ward is great and I grew to love him. But everything else isn't as good as people say. Episode 6, despite having some great moments, is still marred by awful fight scenes with flat characters. The closest we get to a good fighter in that episode is Scythe, the only one given a personality. I liked the episode a lot when I was watching it, but thinking back on it, I think it's fairly overrated.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I really enjoyed the twists Iron Fist had in its second half....I was so bored by Coleen at this point and suddenly she was one of the most interesting female characters in the Marvelverse, and I honestly didn't see the this coming. Davos was excellently set-up. Danny kept mentioning him in the early episodes, enough that I got a sense for the friendship between them, but not so overtly that I actually expected him to actually turn up. (which is the hell better as Luke Cage's "I am your brother" reveal...which then needed a whole episode just to establish "yeah, he actually is"). And then there are Ward and Harold. I have a thing for difficult to read characters.
Concerning Inhumans: It is just a picture. We have seen terrible looking pictures before and the costume looked quite awesome on screen in the end. I also think that the reaction to the teaser would be quite positive if not for so many people deciding that they want to hate the show, either because they are offended X-men fans or because they wanted this to be a movie. We should be excited that Marvel is trying something new. They might fail, but they are trying!
As much as I feel like they should've foreshadowed Diamondback better, Davos pales in comparison to him. I don't get much of a sense of closeness between Davos and Danny outside of a couple of scenes. They should've actually bothered showing us instead of telling us. Davos would've also benefited from being in more episodes. Right now, Davos just doesn't really feel like he gels with Danny like people have been telling me he does.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Which is kind of the point.
I have made my peace with the lack on Kunlun at least regarding the show runner. It is pretty obvious that Netflix wasn't providing the budget a show like this needs. I am pretty sure that most if not all the problems of the show would have been solved with more time, a higher budget and a better editor.
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People clowning on the Inhumans because of Marvel's treatment of the X-Men might be part of it but I don't think this would've gotten good reception regardless. Look at Medusa's hair. Can you honestly tell me people wouldn't be joking about that regardless?
edited 16th May '17 3:26:34 PM by comicwriter
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Agreed on all points. Iron Fist gets better, but I don't think it ever really gets great. Episode 6 is a breath of fresh air, and it's the point when it finally feels like it's beginning in earnest. The episodes that follow don't really make good on that promise, though. The Ward plotline is the best part of the series, but it's not enough by itself to make up for the show's other problems.
edited 16th May '17 3:19:56 PM by Unsung
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Yeah, all they needed to do was show some interior sets. Take some Eastern design, create a few interior sets for the monasteries in K'un L'un and set a bunch of flashbacks there. You could even have gardens and stuff — that stuff is not expensive.
But instead, all we got was a single dark room and a cave. That's all.
Pretty much.
The lack of K'un-Lun is this show's proverbial harpoon piercing its torso. The show won't get better until it is removed, and even when it's getting better the harpoon is still there, stuck in the show's organs. And Scott Buck fired this harpoon. He must be dealt with so he doesn't keep firing harpoons.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Okay, the fight with Bakuto was genuinely good and well done. I like a good battle in the rain, and this was the perfect place for some good character development for Colleen...except for when she stupidly thinks they can just take Bakuto to the police. Like, dude, you fucking stabbed him in the gut, who do the cops think is gonna be the bad guy here? And it's obvious he'll probably be coming back, which pisses me off because his actor fucking sucks. He sounds like a guy who's trying so damn hard to come off as smug and intelligent but fails at it because he sounds half asleep and on Nyquil when he delivers his lines.
Danny and Davos falling out was alright but it would've been so much better if Davos was there longer. Hell, thinking back, Episode 8 would've been better if, instead of stupidly taking Claire, they took Davos. Just have an arc of him gradually getting more and more frustrated with Danny's ignorance and disregard for K'un L'un, having some arguments and Davos showing moments of jealousy that gradually lead to this moment, and it'd have so much more impact. Speaking of K'un L'un, fuck those guys. They pretty much raised a kid to be their entire city's bodyguard because "tradition" or some shit. It's stupid. As much as Danny pisses me off, he has every right to fuck off from that place.
And those last few minutes of Episode 12 would've been better for an actual season finale. It looks so much like it's about to end there, and to be honest, this would've been a good finale. Save Harold for a future season if they felt like it. But then psyche, Ward warns Danny and now him and Colleen are on the run.
edited 16th May '17 4:52:29 PM by AdricDePsycho
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I can live without Black Bolt wearing a mask. Frankly, I can live without him wearing a costume at all. Justifying superhero costumes on characters can be untenable at times. Sometimes it works, other times it's just stupid. The Inhuman Royal Family is one of the glaring examples of characters who are wearing spandex and a mask for literally no other reason than to remind you that this is a superhero comic and that's just what you're supposed to do in superhero comics.
They're dressed like idiots to pay tribute to arbitrary genre standards, and not because their appearance is meant to actually make any kind of sense. It's something I give DC crap for all the time - especially so far as secret identities are concerned - and it'd be hypocritical of me to just let it slide for Marvel. Either there should be a reason for a character to be wearing a mask, or he shouldn't be wearing one.
I've never really been a big fan of the Inhumans, I'll admit, and part of that is because it's just really hard to take any of them seriously when they're ranting at length about the super-serious ramifications of their Empire of Anti-Fun while dressed like cartoon characters.
edited 16th May '17 5:22:14 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Most of them. Black Bolt's made the jump from comic book spandex to a thing someone might actually wear pretty nicely. Crystal's rocking a pretty casual look that still pays homage to her comic book costume.
Medusa's the one that really suffers. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's just something about her outfit that looks more like cosplay than an actual outfit.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm actually looking more at the fabric of her dress. It looks fake and I'm not quite sure why.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

Right but that's putting the horse before the cart.
You only have to make the tuning fork look cool after you decide you need the tuning fork at all.
And i can almost guarantee that wasn't the initial thought process. They went mask first, then tuning fork, and then came up with reasons for the fork.