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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 328627" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Iron Fist</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><u>Season Two</u></span> (2018)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.flickeringmyth.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F08%2FIron-Fist-season-2-posters-1-600x915.jpg&f=1&nofb=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 531px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em><span style="font-size: 18px">The Fury Of Iron Fist / The City’s Not For Burning</span></em></p><p></p><p></p><p>At this point, I’m afraid it feels very much that I’m watching this series out of duty, the completist in me needing to watch the Marvel Television series in release order without skipping any. In fairness, I came into <em>Luke Cage’s</em> second season feeling the same way and I found enough reasons to enjoy it as the season opened up. I’m hopeful that may happen here, but these first episodes have done little to assuage my doubts.</p><p></p><p><em>Iron Fist </em>Season Two feels like more of the same, but with the best parts of Season One excised. There’s no Madame Gao. No Jeri Hogarth. No Harold Meachum. The mysteries of Season One are also behind us, so while remaining Meachums, particularly Harold, are the most interesting characters, they’re not as psychologically fascinating as they were before.</p><p></p><p>Joy is now in cahoots with one of Season One’s dullest sub-plots, Davos who remains dull. His complex relationship with Danny is dull. The flashbacks to K’un Lun are dull (the only bright spot seeing Danny wearing something very close to the comics version of the Iron Fist mask). His chemistry with Joy is non-existent. And what’s happened to his accent? He still has the Manchester accent, but now sounds like he’s trying (without much success) to zhuzh it up into villainous RP. It sounds odd, not just because it’s clearly someone trying to sound grander than their natural speaking voice, but also because I’m fairly sure it’s different from the way he spoke in Season One.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of accents, since I noticed Finn Jones’s tendency to over-rhotacise (in his <em>Luke Cage</em> appearance) I can’t stop hearing it.</p><p></p><p>There’s a new mystery in town in the form of Mary Walker: Amnesiac Stalker. I have no idea what’s going on there. There’s some kind of recurring memory loss going on, with her finding post-its with warnings written on (presumably written by herself) around her apartment. But everything about her screams Bunny Boiler. All her scenes have that Nineties <em>Basic Female Hand That Rocks The Fatal Single White Cradle</em> vibe to them. And she was so blatantly disingenuous in her initial meeting with Danny, pretending to be adorably cluelessly lost (complete with the Agnetha-On-The-Bench inward facing leg pose), that I suspect even Prince Harry might have had red flags about her true motives. Not Danny Rand, though. It's not all bad news, however. A shot of Mary through the window of the Coffee A Go-Go in her cute knitted hat, gave off a late-Sixties/early-Seventies vibe (think Mary Tyler Moore; Mary Jane Watson; <em>Peyton Place’s </em>Rita Jacks) that I haven’t been able to shake. It’s helping.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, I’ll struggle on. It’s a ten episode season so I’m hoping to get this one over with reasonably quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 328627, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Iron Fist[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=5][U]Season Two[/U][/SIZE] (2018) [IMG width="531px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.flickeringmyth.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F08%2FIron-Fist-season-2-posters-1-600x915.jpg&f=1&nofb=1[/IMG] [I][SIZE=5]The Fury Of Iron Fist / The City’s Not For Burning[/SIZE][/I][/CENTER] At this point, I’m afraid it feels very much that I’m watching this series out of duty, the completist in me needing to watch the Marvel Television series in release order without skipping any. In fairness, I came into [I]Luke Cage’s[/I] second season feeling the same way and I found enough reasons to enjoy it as the season opened up. I’m hopeful that may happen here, but these first episodes have done little to assuage my doubts. [I]Iron Fist [/I]Season Two feels like more of the same, but with the best parts of Season One excised. There’s no Madame Gao. No Jeri Hogarth. No Harold Meachum. The mysteries of Season One are also behind us, so while remaining Meachums, particularly Harold, are the most interesting characters, they’re not as psychologically fascinating as they were before. Joy is now in cahoots with one of Season One’s dullest sub-plots, Davos who remains dull. His complex relationship with Danny is dull. The flashbacks to K’un Lun are dull (the only bright spot seeing Danny wearing something very close to the comics version of the Iron Fist mask). His chemistry with Joy is non-existent. And what’s happened to his accent? He still has the Manchester accent, but now sounds like he’s trying (without much success) to zhuzh it up into villainous RP. It sounds odd, not just because it’s clearly someone trying to sound grander than their natural speaking voice, but also because I’m fairly sure it’s different from the way he spoke in Season One. Speaking of accents, since I noticed Finn Jones’s tendency to over-rhotacise (in his [I]Luke Cage[/I] appearance) I can’t stop hearing it. There’s a new mystery in town in the form of Mary Walker: Amnesiac Stalker. I have no idea what’s going on there. There’s some kind of recurring memory loss going on, with her finding post-its with warnings written on (presumably written by herself) around her apartment. But everything about her screams Bunny Boiler. All her scenes have that Nineties [I]Basic Female Hand That Rocks The Fatal Single White Cradle[/I] vibe to them. And she was so blatantly disingenuous in her initial meeting with Danny, pretending to be adorably cluelessly lost (complete with the Agnetha-On-The-Bench inward facing leg pose), that I suspect even Prince Harry might have had red flags about her true motives. Not Danny Rand, though. It's not all bad news, however. A shot of Mary through the window of the Coffee A Go-Go in her cute knitted hat, gave off a late-Sixties/early-Seventies vibe (think Mary Tyler Moore; Mary Jane Watson; [I]Peyton Place’s [/I]Rita Jacks) that I haven’t been able to shake. It’s helping. Anyhow, I’ll struggle on. It’s a ten episode season so I’m hoping to get this one over with reasonably quickly. [/QUOTE]
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