Iron deficiency.
Full spoilers for Iron Fist's tenth episode follow.
“The only reason anyone is interested in me is because of the fist.” “Wow, you’re the worst Iron Fist ever.” With those two lines of dialogue in this episode — one spoken by Danny Rand, the other by Davos — it’s almost as if the writers of Marvel’s Iron Fist were not so subtly acknowledging the shortcomings of their central character.
As Madame Gao reminded him in this episode, Danny often behaves like a child. As grating as Danny’s petulance is, his gullibility is even worse. Moments after meeting with Bakuto, Danny proceeds to tell Harold, who Gao mentioned to Danny in the previous episode was a bad guy, all about Bakuto. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, DANNY? Are you just plain dumb? Maybe.
It also doesn’t help that Finn Jones’ performance here was one of his weaker ones this season, especially in his key exchanges with Gao and then Colleen. Jones just couldn’t sell these pivotal scenes (not that the writing helped him out much).
Colleen’s obviously conflicted about it all, legitimately believing Danny was brainwashed during his years in K’un-Lun. She called Bakuto’s sanctuary her home and the people there her family, and yet she also betrayed them for a guy she’s only known for a matter of days and whom she believes is on the wrong side of the conflict between The Hand and K’un-Lun. Yeah, yeah, she has feelings for Danny and feels bad for misleading him, but does her self-proclaimed family of years past suddenly matter less to her?
Even if you didn’t know the Marvel Comics, Bakuto simply seemed too good to be true. Ramon Rodriguez is fine, but he also had some pretty groan-worthy lines here, especially this absolute howler: “Your anger, your hatred, your confusion. It’s destroyed your chi.” Even Yoda would roll his eyes at that one.
And then it turned out Danny couldn’t get it up anymore — his iron fist that is. (I chuckled when he shook his hand like it was a magic eight ball that might give him a different answer this time.) In the end, it was left up to Davos — the real scene stealer in this episode — to take him back to K’un-Lun so Danny can have his chi and iron fist restored. I imagine it being something like taking your iPhone to the Genius Bar.
The highlights of this episode were its three big action set-pieces: The hallway fight (yep, another one) where Danny and Davos took on The Hand, Danny and Bakuto’s brawl in the surveillance center, and then the climactic one on the compound’s grounds. But the coolest, geek-out moment was seeing a previous Iron Fist — Orson Randall, perhaps? — in that Chinese footage from the 1940s. Even if we don’t ever get to see Danny in his Iron Fist costume (and the show’s creators say we won’t in this first season) we at least got to behold one masked Iron Fist.
The Meachums, meanwhile, were back in soap opera mode. Joy, who has known her father was still alive for all of a few hours, got peeved because he wanted to have a toast with her. OK, on one hand it’s early the morning but on the other, Joy, you can’t have a drink with the man you thought was dead for the last 10 years?! Way to be a wet blanket.
Harold’s visit to Lawrence and the latter’s “suicide” paved the way for the Meachums to be restored to the board, even as Harold is now angling to get rid of Bakuto next. It seems a given that the ever-gullible Danny will be his means to do that.
The Verdict
For every cool moment this episode had — Davos, the fights, that footage of a 1940s Iron Fist — there were also enough bad ones to detract from them, and Finn Jones just couldn’t sell Danny’s most pivotal moments here.
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