Cyclops has been ruined as a character since about 1986. Which is a shame, since before that, he was a tentpeg of the team.

It was in the 70s of the run, IIRC.

I can't believe nobody said it on the show, since it's so OBVIOUS.

But she makes it clear that she knows who he is and that Colleen is his agent. So while she didn't expect Bakuto's appearance, she knew that she had it won no matter what happened.

Which is both interesting and also how Danny was immediately BEFORE meeting Luke in the comics.

I've said it before, but from here on it becomes more obvious: Colleen is as much the focus of the show as Danny is.

The show lays down vague hints and expects us to pick up on them, at best… when it works, it's pretty great, but it doesn't work out nearly as well as the show thinks it does. While your first paragraph is a DEAD-ON description of Danny at the beginning of both the show and his comics history, it'd be nice if they…

Which says something.

This, I did not know.

I can understand that, although I haven't been able to stomach the X-Books for long since about the time Joe Kelly left.

Homeless guy, and I vaguely remembered him talking to Colleen in Mandarin. So, 5 people, only two of whom you didn't know had been able to function just fine in the US, including attendance in a meeting where English was spoken exclusively. :)

It's an interesting subversion, at least. Colleen couldn't stand that she lost an essential part of herself, written over by who Danny is, because of the absolute intimacy of that, even though she knew he did it to save her life and with no ill intent. It's made for an interesting bit, and I kinda hope that they DO…

The actors didn't help, although Hentschel did a reasonably good job of portraying Hawkman's dry humor without selling how awesome he is in combat. Ciara made the most likeable Kendra ever, which means VERY little: Kendra is, no matter what the universe, a universal charisma sink. She has none of Shayera's dynamism,…

The Iron Fist series isn't really an issue for the Luke Cage dynamic, which, classically, is driven more by Cage in the comics initially… but I was SHOCKED to find that Jones didn't screentest with the Cage actor.

Months. And you're right that the main bit for the show is inexplicable, although they do at least make the attempt. But the pedant in me refuses to not bring up the fact that Colleen was well on her way to being Danny's love interest in the comics UNTIL she got to see his truest self, at which point she genuinely…

I'm DEFINITELY going on the comics here moreso than the show. There, one of Danny's archenemies dumps Ward like a bad habit because he's such a twerp, only to team up with Joy because she ISN'T… and her villainy is based on a sense of duty and honor. There's a reason she comes out of it, and Ward gets murdered by the…

The Essentials edition is pretty darned cheap, and carries you through meeting Luke Cage. :)

This is a valid argument. :)

Colleen starts to fall for Danny in the comics before he's forced to mind-meld with her to get her out of a permanent catatonic state, after which she feels both so violated and has actually seen who and what Danny is so intimately that she can NEVER think of him that way again.

Yep, absolutely. As is, I think that once he did order her to find out more about him, and pretend she liked him, Colleen warmed up to him in reality too, as she got to know him. And the reason that they end up together at the end is pretty much just straight-up that Colleen has had her life completely ruined, lost…