On the one hand, I truly enjoyed Iron Fist and 90% of its components, Finn Jones included.
On the other hand, someone did fuck this up. I'm not sure Scott Buck is exactly the one to blame though.

Finn Jones as Danny Rand is my favorite guy out of all the Defenders, easy. He's just so damn likable. Jessica lost her comic book cheekiness, while Luke lost his sass. I love Charlie Cox as Matt, but he's a dick—and after seeing a recent interview, Cox seems to agree.

Jones was not totally wrong, though. It might not have been Trump, but it's clear that some reviewers and some people did go into the show with tons of baggage regarding the character. It shows in most of the reviews.

He's indeed intended to be very good at fighting, but I don't think it's a problem of Finn Jones not pulling it off, but rather the direction of the fight scenes. Looking closely at some of the choreography, it's nowhere close to Daredevil or Arrow on its best scenes, but it's decent enough. It's the directors and the…

But it's still a somewhat specific thing that not everyone will understand. I bet there's a whole group of people at any given time that would never think to correlate "monkeys" with a racial insult against black people. Hell, I think there's a big chunk of black people who don't get this at all. It's not that hard to…

Still would be the same story. It wasn't the recast, but the publishing rights issue. Marvel/Disney don't wanna share their income.

How did you catch that? There's another comment thread about that line going on and most people didn't. Unless you're specifically waiting for a line to sound offensive…

I wouldn't say Finn Jones is miscast. He fits perfectly with how the show itself portrays Danny. He's not a badass shaolin monk, at least not the one from the comics. Even Krysten Ritter as JJ and Mike Colter as LC, while seems spot on for the characters in their own show, are far removed from their comic book…

It also fits with how easily Danny—and to a lesser extent Joy—believes anything Harold says(and why Danny insisted on reaching out to Joy and Ward early on in the season). They want to reestablish that connection they've lost, while Ward is the only one to actually witness what Harold has been doing.

I'd say Ogg as Negan wouldn't fare that much better, if the writing is still on the same level. Negan just doesn't work as well on the screen. I'm not his biggest fan in the comics, but making him as close a copy as possible in the show simply doesn't work. The world and tone of the comics have differed from that of…

Regarding that surprise crossover on Legends… It's about time Barry's message from the future be resolved. His archenemy is currently the big bad in Legends, after all.

If this was Agents of SHIELD, this whole season's worth of story would've been done in 6 episodes. 3 episodes if they're planning on doing something fun up next.

I feel that at some point Steven Ogg auditioned for Negan, but lost out to JDM's star power. But he made an impression on the casting people, hence the Simon role.

Ward really grew on me. It leads to a little moment in the last episode that feels really earned, given how the character progressed throughout the season.

I think that was in this one. The one I meant is something along the lines of "I didn't realize we're gonna have an emotional moment here" when the other characters were having an emotional moment indeed.

There's no "fireworks" moment. It's somewhat disappointing, but at the same time it also feels easier to go through than all the other shows, which felt like they're promising fireworks(and did deliver some) but make us go through so much boring stuff to get there.

Not all of the audience will get the racial charge either, to be fair. Even then, not all will take offense or felt that it stood out that much, unless they're actively looking for something to criticize.

Jeri had a really good Jeri-line in the last episode. It was a nice moment.

Diamondback. Harold's hammy, but I understand how the characters might listen to what he says. He says all the right things, damn it.

Ward, man. WARD.