I don't think Gao was eavesdropping; I think Davos brought her here.

I don't think they "reinstated" Danny so much as "realized they literally CAN'T kick the majority shareholder out of the company & made this empty gesture to appease him before HE realized it".

Harold has very straightforward goals: Keep making money, return to public life, spend time with his kids, not be a slave to the Hand anymore.

I dunno, we're heading into Defenders with Luke still in freaking prison, so they'll have to spend time justifying his release somehow. Might as well have Danny on the lam too.

Like, is it destroyed, or did the "way" just close? Because other than a couple dead ninjas, the terrain showed no signs of conflict whatsoever.

So, kinda like the Damage Control pilot that ABC's been sitting on? (Movie-star cameos are really dang expensive, fwiw.)

If they strap Deborah Ann Woll into spandex,….I'll at least look at the publicity photos. ;-)

Harold gives zero craps about the Hand's agenda; he's solely focused on his business/family goals. (Maybe you meant Nobu?)

Actually, I think Gao WAS genuinely scared that Danny was about to smash her head in with the Fist.

*K'un L'un is the worst.

But the first one was really good.

If stuff like that had been happening all season, it would've been fight, but just once like that was completely bizarre.

Press pause & wait a few seconds.

I think you got your cause & effect reversed. They were calling him "Devil of Hell's Kitchen" BEFORE he got the costume; at that point, he was still just wearing a bandana over his head.

It boosted his range, made the effects last longer, & allowed him to give commands through electronics, but IIRC some kind of airflow was still needed. He could've achieved that just by standing near an intake vent for the heating system for a few minutes, though. Or perhaps he just relied on the doors not being…

Maybe they were assuming we already knew about the heroin from Daredevil?

Meh, there's plenty of other white actors who could make Danny Rand more sympathetic than Jones made him.
That said, Jones himself is not as big a problem as the sloppy production on this show.

The issue isn't that he had a *bad* daddy (he didn't); it's that he *lost* his daddy.

But later episodes will make it clear that the Iron Fist is expected to STAY at the gate all that time, which is bizarre & inane.

Technically Superman did; they just weren't his birth parents.