i wish they'd cast a squirming oversized duffel bag in the title role
― 'it's is my life' - jon bovi (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
it'd show more life than finn jones ever manages to muster
It's just now dawning on me that using MacGruber as the model for this show's tone would've made it perfect.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
the main thing which bugged me about this show - finn jones' corpselike performance aside - was the super-cheap-looking set design and dressing.
lol I was joking a few weeks ago that Danny bought a bunch of the same hoodie from Uniqlo on his return to NYC. I have the same one and can only assume the costuming budget was like $200
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
Dad Meachum's "lair" is so corny-looking
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
The costume design for Hand academy was dreadful. '10-15 EXTRAS NEEDED. MUST BE YOUTHFUL IN APPEARANCE AND OWN AT LEAST 1 PIECE OF MAROON CLOTHING'
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
Okay so we finished this tonight, and speaking as the unabashed cheerleader who reps for absolutely everything MCU-related like he's getting paid to do it...this actually was kind of fucking bad?
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 03:48 (seven years ago) link
He looks like a leftover from the 90s hippie revival, lika Kula Shaker leftover or something
And he's so dumb & bland & DONT TELL DOCTORS YOU HAVE SUPERPOWERS DONT YOU KNOW ANYTHING YOU FKING TWIT
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 04:05 (seven years ago) link
I honestly feel like the writing is the real problem here. Character development and motivation was on some '80s Saturday morning cartoon level of complexity and consistency. And it was sooooooo repetitious. OH, DID YOUR PARENTS DIE, DANNY? OH, IN A PLANE CRASH, YOU SAY?
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link
I was riffing on Danny's everyday life after things settle down, where he randomly drops his parents death into the most casual of daily interactions (with cashiers and baristas and what have you), where people are initially sympathetic because this is clearly a thing that just happened because the guy's so messed up about it but then they back away slowly when they discover that this is a dead (parent) horse he's been beating for thirteen years.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 04:39 (seven years ago) link
I also posited that the show would've been improved 1000% if Danny and Colleen and the younger Meachums were all like twelve a la Bugsy Malone. The dialogue would be so much more congruent if it were issued from the cracking voice of someone going through puberty.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 04:43 (seven years ago) link
Omg yes - we are still only 3 or 4 eps into season 1 and it's like okay when are we gonna be done establishing the plane crash because there us literally no-one in this show who doesnt know this now or repeat it on command like fkn north koreans
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 05:08 (seven years ago) link
*is
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 05:09 (seven years ago) link
Is Defenders' writing possibly going to improve him? Couldn't make him much worse really.Not seen the comics since my brother's 40+ years ago so assume he was better there or he'd be forgotten totally innit?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 08:16 (seven years ago) link
tbf there's only so much that writing can do when the guy delivering the dialogue has all the charisma and screen presence of a damp sock
― 'it's is my life' - jon bovi (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 08:58 (seven years ago) link
Not seen the comics since my brother's 40+ years ago so assume he was better there or he'd be forgotten totally innit?
For such a second or third string character, Iron Fist has had some unusually classy creators over the years - Gil Kane, exquisitely inked by Dick Giordano, on the origin issue, a short run by Claremont and Byrne that tied into X-Men continuity, a long run of the Power Man/Iron Fist title by Mary Jo Duffy that is fondly remembered, and more recently, even the Matt Fraction written iteration had pages drawn by the late great John Severin. He's definitely punched like unto a thing of iron above his weight.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 09:15 (seven years ago) link
liked this well enough, obviously the main actor is terrible and the character he plays is even stupider than daredevil (netflix version) which is going some. But 'Bunker' from Banshee is in it so that gets a tick. I'm not a comics person and Jessica Jones is the one out of these 4 series I enjoyed the most but really I'd be all in on a Madame Gau origin story. She's the best character by far in any of these.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
The worst parts of Iron Fist were when they had the potential for dialogue that'd actually establish his disconnect from the world and completely left it on the table. For instance, Danny is walking around with a first or second gen iPod that he's apparently held on to throughout a plane crash and being stranded in an otherworldly place.
Could he charge it when he was trapped there? Is he grateful that he can listen to music again now that he's back? Claire compliments him on his musical taste as a kid and they leave it sitting there -- is there a reason why this silver spoon kid had those musical tastes? Why has no one helped him transfer his music on to a new phone or something?
apologies if they actually riffed on any of this in the couple episodes where I left the show rolling while I went to wash dishes
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Could he charge it when he was trapped there?
ha, that's what i said about this too
it also briefly plunged me into a well of existential despair when i realised that the ipod, which seems to me like it only came out like five years or so ago, was actually released nearly 16 years ago and is now old enough to act as a signifier of the passing of a significant amount of time
― 'it's is my life' - jon bovi (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
xpost Yeah, no, of course they didn't. That was the first thing I thought of when they showed his iPod: what, has he been charging it with his chi?
I have a perverse desire to rewatch this and construct a writing class based around all of the things they did wrong.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
I was plunged into existential despair every time an adult on the show mentioned some cultural touchstone from their childhood that I remember from my late college years.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
lol yes
my other thought was that the ipod shown had a hard drive and was the one right before drop protection, so there's no way it'd have survived the crash if he was listening to music at the time
I had the second gen one in what, 2002? sometime when it was newish
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
The victim approaches
Iron Fist: Finn Jones Ready to Start Training For Season 2 https://t.co/zlUijuBItP pic.twitter.com/VgrRxe10Sg— Comic Book Resources (@CBR) August 23, 2017
The murderer acts
Exciting. Maybe he'll be in a couple of fight scenes himself https://t.co/xCuJ3xUNUU— Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) August 23, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
https://rkcblog.dragondoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MK_FlawlessVictory.jpg
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
Shot.
Finn Jones Promises #IronFist Season 2 'Is Unlike Anything Seen Before' https://t.co/kWkZY2oAcQ pic.twitter.com/f4GJuPirZf— Comic Book Resources (@CBR) May 10, 2018
Chaser.
It’ll be good? https://t.co/YjV3XnN4AP— Ira Madison III (@ira) May 11, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
Really, this will be endless.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
Worth noting again that Scott Buck was fired as showrunner after running this show and Inhumans into the ground.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
I'll hand it to them, I made it through more of Iron Fist than Inhumans. Then again, I made it through ten minutes of Inhumans
― mh, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
didnt even know inhumans was a thing tbh
― gbx, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Seems like Marvel is okay with that. It's looking like it'll be the first MCU thing to not get a release on physical media. Even Iron Fist is getting a Blu-ray release soon.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
I hope they flush it all the way down the memory hole so that they can use the inhuman royals in a real project someday
― mh, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
even when i was really into comic books as an adol/teen i had never even heard of the inhumans
― gbx, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
As a kid, I could not wrap my mind around Crystal's hair as a reader of 60s FF reprints.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
it is truly hilarious as marvel have tried to push the inhumans forward in the comics as being kinda sorta like mutants except they own the movie rights to them
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 11 May 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
they did some squirrely things when they first pushed it hard, too. moved a couple writers around because they were looking for the "right take" on the inhumans, which seemed to be "exactly like x-men"
― mh, Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
I'm still a year and change behind but basically none of Marvel's recent Inhumans stuff has done anything for me.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
Well there's this
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-pictures-from-iron-fist-season-2-include-a-ba-1827830959
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kgmBB-YK--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vgzeietcysyx1zi2guuz.png
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Jeph Loeb cosplayed as Akira Yoshida to promote Iron Fist at SDCC.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DigrWzOUwAAHKxF.jpg
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
They laid some groundwork for Daughters of the Dragon in the most recent season of Luke Cage. I hope they get their own show at some point, as I'd rather see that than another season of Duddy Rand.
― Hi My father very Rusted Root with me what can I do? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
best part of his appearance on the Luke Cage show was that he remembered how to speak English and no longer "Speaks. Like. This."
― mh, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
You might think Marvel would be more cautious with white people pretending to be Japanese
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Had no idea they'd bothered to make a 2nd series after the first was the first one of these Netflix versions i never got through. BUt just seen series 2 is up on torrent sites.Has it got any better?
― Stevolende, Friday, 7 September 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link
i had no idea it wa out yet, but the opening line of matt soller zeitz's review which i just saw seems... unpromising: "Iron Fist season two is an improvement on Iron Fist season one in the way that stubbing your toe is an improvement over jamming your finger in a car door."
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 September 2018 08:23 (five years ago) link
lmao
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
Got through the first two episodes and shit the bed, this is terrible. A country mile better than S1 but still dreadful.
Typhoid Mary should be a great introduction but so far all she's done is walk round dazed and try to pick up Danny. It also doesn't help that the actress playing her is the double of Trish(? the one who ends up taking Nuke's druqs) from Jessica Jones or that in fact pretty much all the white people look the same.
The highlight so far is when some young kids try to hustle Danny and Colleen's favourite restaurant by putting a spike through a waitress' head and the Triad the restaurant owner is paying protection to turn up to sort out the young gang. Danny and Colleen defuse the situation by beating both sets of criminals up, trashing the restaurant in the process, to the great and eternal thanks of the owner.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
10 episodes is a far, far better length.
Still not really any good, but quite balanced in terms of plot and didn't ever feel like it had too many characters or filler episodes.
Wearying by the end though after EVERY SINGLE FIGHT turned into the one from They Live.
SPOILERS
Colleen Wing is Iron Fist now and Danny is just a rich kid who knows a bit of Kung Fu. It seems to be set up that she's going to have a detective agency with Misty Knight because "knight... wing... has a certain detective ring to it". Which is possibly an interesting route for the Gritverse to go down.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
EVERY SINGLE FIGHT turned into the one from They Live.i’ll be honest, this is the first thing i’ve read that might make me wanna give this a chance
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
I don't want to mislead you, you absolutely shouldn't.
MORE SPOILERS
I posted before the epilogue. Colleen is Iron Sword and Danny is Iron Pistols now. No, me neither.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
Didn't realize this was only 10 episodes! Very smart, Marvel. Wish you'd learned some restraint before now, but better late than never.
I guess I'm actually halfway through now. After a verrrrrry shaky, 'do I actually gaf about this anymore?' start, it's gotten pretty dece. I really dug Mary once the Typhoid began to manifest.
Finn is still the absolute worst, natch.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
i still haven't finished luke cage s2, i dunno if i have the fortitude to even start iron fist
the formula of these netflix series has really worn thin tbh, and i'd never have guessed that the punisher would end up being the best of them
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link