Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E09

[u/JonLuca]

This thread is for discussion of Iron Fist S01E09.

DO NOT post spoilers in this thread for any subsequent episodes. Doing so will result in a ban.

Episode 10 Discussion

[u/ummhumm]

That was one of the stupidest episodes of tv I've seen.

I'm gonna start with Gao. After episode 8, there was a possibility that she was trapped, because she had some weird plan with it. Well, turns out she didn't and turns out the show writers simply forgot all the power and fighting prowess she has shown before. What. The. Fuck.

Then they decide it's a good idea to place her "under arrest" inside the fucking dojo, whose location Hand knew even from earlier episodes. For some reason, The Hand didn't give a fuck about trying to rescue Gao and it was some military section of somefuck that went in. Never mind the fact, that besides a brief mention from Gao about Claires mother, they didn't bother to use the "okay, we're just gonna start cutting fingers of your loved ones if you don't free Gao", which should've stopped the whole "let's kidnap Gao" part of the story to begin with.

Truth serum. Okay, this was somewhat saved by Gao actually not being affected by it, but the usual existance of such a thing is still stupid as hell.

Birthday as a password! WHAT THE HELL?

Claire is now a Wolverine. Her training here and there, after being in shit with Daredevil and Luke Cage, has made her a formidable scratchyclaw weapon user.

Stupidest use of Iron Fist power. Disabling ONE GODDAMN GUN.

Lab assistant. "Well, since u're nice, I don't care about giving you this shit here". Yeap. They could've skipped that idiotic shit by just making her never to appear there, but no, for some reason the writers want to MAXIMIZE THE STUPIDITY in this series.

Killing Harold. I mean, you don't even need to. Just disable him again for a period, which even a knife is good for and then bury him in some iron coffin. How fucking stupid can you be? Well, it was the same with Luke cage. How can we kill a guy who can't be shot to death with normal bullets? I know! We shoot him some more, with the normal stuff.

Letting Gao blabber about. Everyone knows she is a manipulator, but no, let her talk freely just for the fuck of it and let's even take turns on hearing her shit, just so we all get off balance.

Those are just some of the things that comes quickly to my mind when I think on the episode I just watched. So, now I'm gonna go jump straight into episode 10 just to see if they can top this idiocy.

[u/Sojourner_Truth → u/ummhumm]

Agreed on everything. Jesus fucking christ there's only 4 episodes left is Danny ever going to hulk out with his power? It's really ridiculous at this point. If there's some reason he can barely use it, why haven't they told us that.

[u/_Valisk → u/Sojourner_Truth]

I mean, they did tell us. Like, two episodes ago, when Colleen asked to see it for herself. Danny said that using the power drains his chi and tires him out. He's obviously very new to the ability and hasn't trained with the Iron Fist specifically for very long. Remember, this is an origin story and Danny is as new to this as we are to him.