Current Events > I think the worst part about Iron Fist is the fact that it... *SPOILERS*

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has several things that aren't good. But specifically At the end when Danny is running from the POlice the lawyer tells him that he shouldn't turn himself in because he's a billionaire and they'll put him in jail for 6 months to a year before trial starts, and the nurse tells him "yeah, our criminal justice system sucks."

Lol? No it doesn't, our criminal justice system absolutely rocks for rich white guys, he'd at worst be put under house arrest in his lavish penthouse while his team of lawyers on retainer sort this mess out.

That moment really took me out of the whole show. Dead guys coming back to life and fists that turn into iron under the full moon I can buy, but saying the system sucks for a billionaire white guy? Who even wrote that line?
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And note, Claire didn't say that ironically, so before you assume she was being her usually sarcastic sucks, she delivered that line under the intention that this was serious.

I wonder if anyone else picked up on that.
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And Faramir's acting is so weird but I love it, I love how he is able to sound so... off. It's very surreal in that way, very Matrixy combined with the bug-wearing-a-man's-skin-as-a-suit from Men in Black 1.
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It's still the best Netflix series about comic book characters. The first five episodes are excellent, capped off by the dramatic iron fist reveal as he blew a hole through the wall of that psychiatric ward. I'm so glad they departed from the actual comic which was far inferior.
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why Iron Fist white? his name implies that he should be asian. or am i racist for thinking that?
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Psycho_Poodle posted...

why Iron Fist white? his name implies that he should be asian. or am i racist for thinking that?

Rand is not an Asian surname. So no.
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Anyone want to comment on the rich guy going to jail implausibility?
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Fisk is a rich white guy in jail is he not.
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A jail he controls...
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Psycho_Poodle posted...

why Iron Fist white? his name implies that he should be asian. or am i racist for thinking that?

You are indeed racist for thinking that. What part of the words Iron and Fist is Asian?
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Anyway just finished the finale. Wow that was... really weak. I mean I'm not one of those losers that keeps hating on the MCU and saying only Daredevil was any good, I liked them all, whilst acknowledging the bad (but nevertheless still liking the shows) but this time... they really swung out and missed with the everything. I mean casting, writing, storyline... I was under the impression that the theme of this show would be cheesy 70s Asian kung fuiness type cinema, just like how Luke Cage paged homage to blaxploitation films, or JJ was pseudo neo-noir.

But it was... honestly I don't know what it was, other than all over the place. ANd what is up with Danny's beard and stupid perm hair, shave off that beard and get a damn haircut I mean GODDAMN
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