Yeah, I like him too and mostly think he's been poorly served by the script and training/preparation.

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I think it's far better than season 2 of Daredevil where they were mostly faceless hordes to be killed.

Yeah, while watching it part of me felt that each fight was designed so Danny would win and yet reveal something the Hand didn't know about him, either by his answers to their insistent questioning or how he fought.

I know this is minor, but I can't get over Danny eating meat. Being a vegetarian isn't hard, especially in NYC, and would be a very simple way to show Buddhism means something to him.

It's imperfect, but Life sometimes worked that way. The main character's Buddhism and melange of other Eastern beliefs affected how he approached his police investigations and otherwise made his way through life.

Danny's Buddhism should be something more than "hey, that looks cool."

Oh yeah, he's definitely not supposed to be bipolar or anything. It's just how he comes across. I feel saying he's "child-like" is trying to give coherence to what is just bad writing.

I've been to Shaolin, I've read D.T. Suzuki and Jin Yong. I know there are warrior monks. Buddhists can kill. Nevertheless I hold the only "Buddhist" thing essential to Danny in the show is his refusal to kill. Perhaps I'm reading into that something that isn't there—it isn't really addressed in the show (except in a…

"obviously it's still a part of him to a degree."

I wonder if his hair, distracting as it is, wouldn't make it easier to use a stuntman. If it does, it doesn't show.

The other time I winced watching this was Danny's "It's not a date—unless you want it to be one!"

One thing I do think the show gets right is (unless my memory is faulty) Danny hasn't killed. The show is a lot less grim than Daredevil, and for all its faults far better than Daredevil's season 2.

Ah, I did not recognize him at all.

Though even the "guy-with-superpowers-is-seen-as-crazy" is a bit overdone (though Legion proves one can still make excellent art out of cliches).

I've assumed from the beginning that Ward's hair is a tribute to Donald Jr.

Right? The show had one job and they monumentally effed it up. Gah!

This is the third time I've said it, but it never ceases to astonish me. They often gave him only 15 minutes to learn a fight scene.

Every now and then I get a John Carpenter-ish vibe on the music, which I love. Wish the rest of the show did so as well.

He also eats meat in, I think, the fourth episode after saying he wasn't allowed to in K'un-l'un (though he used to sneak off to do so). Probably does earlier too.