Yeah, much as all the critics were saying Colleen should be the star of the show, that's based on her performance in the first 6 episodes (i.e. the ones the critics saw). Once she gets involved with Danny, she quickly goes downhill.

I suspect it helps he isn't the main character. His character is given less to do by the script, leaving it up to the actor to fill him in.

By Jones' own admission he had 3 weeks of training and 15 minutes to learn a fight before it was shot.

The show really should have been a lot more committed to being fun than it is.

Though why are they flying over Tibet to get to China? Were they coming from India (or wherever one flies over Tibet to get to China)?

Many/most Chinese factories have cafeterias. This was a small factory (that produced a ton of heroin?!) but even so, the whole "march the slave labor out for lunch" bit was ridiculous—but par for the course I guess.

I also feel it would have worked better if other fights in the series were more clearly influenced by previous martial arts movies. I liked the fight, I thought it was by far the best, but it also felt oddly out of place, part of another, different and better series, one that actually loved kung fu films.

Tan also looks like he's having fun. That alone would have made the show better even if he isn't a good actor.

"It's sometimes fun when you imagine how it could be better!"

Ah, that makes sense and there are hints you're right. I just wish they had done something with them and I was confident the hints were actually hints and not just us reading something into a mess.

Perhaps but (spoiler because I've lost track of what's been said at this point) when Danny and Davos (?) talk about being weapons, that verges close to a version of no-self. Plus from what I know of Buddhist martial art traditions (not much but some!) using anger like that just wouldn't be done. It's antithetical to…

We're not supposed to, but because we know so little about K'un L'un and (I suspect) the writers so little about Buddhism, that's how they come across.

I sort of wish they had committed to making the show PG-13. Daredevil can have grim, bloody, brutal fights. Ironfist should be graceful, fun, and acrobatic.*

No love for Twitler?

Yup. Perhaps this would matter less to me if vegetarianism wasn't one of the few things we know about K'un L'un. The showrunner really handles K'un L'un and Danny's relation to it poorly.

He wanted Obama primaried in 2012, so if he knew, he wouldn't have cared.

Except later Davos makes a big deal about being passed over so Danny could encounter Shao-Lao. One has to defeat him or whatever, but that's not enough. You have to be chosen to try. Seems like some commitment to Buddhism should be part of it. Admittedly Davos eats a pepperoni pizza like it is no big deal so I'm…

Yeah, much as I say Finn Jones is okay, everyone else fucked up around him, Lewis Tan is so great it's not to be believe he would have elevated everything. And man does he overshadow Jones. It's also unbelievable Jones won that fight, nor did I really want him to. Tan's character was so much better.

They do, which only makes me think they have stupid ways of determining who becomes the Iron Fist.

Shouldn't Danny still be 10 then?