Which was one of the two big surprises in that episode, and, it's hinted, is why he isn't wearing the costume.

He didn't wait anything LIKE the 15 minutes, apparently. :)

I think the trick is that the show inverts Danny's acceptance level of who he is and who he is as Iron Fist as the show continues. Your thesis is dead on at the beginning.

Which makes a certain plot point later so very, very lampshaded.

In fact, we've seen other super-secret cults who are utterly unaffiliated decide to take their hand at that, like Hydra!

My second-biggest sigh in the series. (The first was making him of an order that's an entirely separate thing in the Iron Fist mythos!)

I think this is a fair complaint. While some of us have the advantage of knowing Danny from the comics, a lot of his ability is just Informed Attribute here… we need to see how he stacks up with Matt in Defenders to really understand how good he is compared to anyone else. (We get a pretty good look in episode 10, at…

I do think that it's interesting that what gave Danny trouble here was that he was in a moving vehicle, something he probably HADN'T trained for. As for when he can use the Fist, it comes down to when he's able to focus, and only then when he's not exhausted himself using it too often.

Ward being an addict in secret makes a lot of his weirdness earlier more explicable to me, at least.

I think there are some before that, myself.

I'd heard that. (Haven't got to see Cage yet.)

Agreed. I think that the reason Danny and Colleen pop together is less based on their chemistry and more based on the fact that Danny doesn't have some insane expectation of how he's supposed to relate to her, so he's more himself with her than anyone else we've seen to date.

This episode ends the beginning. I think Ward's drug problem really informs a lot of his characterization to date, making what seemed like bizarre character choices more explicable. (They WERE bizarre, since he's drugged out.) Claire and the Hand actually force the show to start paying attention to the plot rather…

Keep in mind I'm talking about the early going here, and Claire doesn't appear until that's over. :) Overall, Claire has a great arc here, albeit one that builds on her previous appearances in the line. (I just realized this morning how she'll inevitably be the one to introduce Luke and Danny, and for what purpose,…

Very much so. It's telling that Joy makes some of the choices she makes after she finds out that Harold's alive, for instance.

That's how I took it too… I think episode ten implies that too.

Kirigi has characterization the way the Terminator had characterization in the first film. :)

Me too, and also me too. :)

To my horror, it retconned the Phantom Rider bit in such a way that it ruined Bobbi… by making her the one who initiated the relationship with him, eliminating the drugs he used on her, and essentially having her murder him in cold blood when he behaved like a 19th Century man and she got tired of him. She acts as if…

It amuses me that the same people who complain about Danny being white instead of Asian don't notice or care that Colleen is about 65% more Asian in appearance here than she has been in the comics EVER. It took me a decade to realize that she was SUPPOSED to be Japanese, what with the complete lack of her looking like…