Iron Fist does not quite make a smashing first appearance

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Marvel’s Iron Fist

Annika Morton, Staff Reporter

There was only one more Defender in the series to find out about and that was Iron Fist. The first episode does not make Danny Rand or Iron Fist look that exciting. Danny played by Finn Jones, comes back to his home in New York City after being allegedly dead for fifteen years. His parents were killed in a plane crash and Danny was the lone survivor. When he goes back to his family’s business he sees that it is being ran by his childhood enemy Ward Meachum. Rand faces many problems such as suffering from major PTSD from the plane crash and having to live on the streets since no one knows who he really is.

The episode does not go into detail about what Danny can do or how he got there. At the end of the episode it shows young Danny Rand laying in the snow after surviving the plane crash and then two monks above him. The end of the episode still leaves the audience with many unanswered questions, such as “How did Danny end up this way?” and “What can Iron Fist really do?” Unlike Daredevil, you do not know that much about Danny’s past. The computer graphics were cheesy as well. Towards the beginning of the show it shows Danny doing a backflip over a car and it was not as clear as other Marvel effects. Compared to the other Defender “bad guys” Harold Meachum, Ward’s father, is not that interesting. Harold Meachum did not make a grand appearance and did not seem that bad. His simple vendetta towards Danny is not as bad as it could have been.

Iron Fist did not make the smashing first appearance as many thought it would. Being the last character to be introduced in the Defenders series, Iron Fist was a disappointing, anticlimactic, and boring character.