How Danny got his chi back.
Full spoilers for Iron Fist's twelfth episode follow.
The penultimate episode of Marvel’s Iron Fist saw Danny, after so much back and forth, finally decide that he is both Danny Rand and the Iron Fist. So that’s settled then.
This decision also meant that Danny rejected returning to K’un-Lun, which then violently severed his friendship with Davos. Danny chose Colleen over Davos, and then poured salt on Davos’ wound by calling out the latter’s abandonment issues during their big fight. (Look, people say nasty things during a breakup!)
While I like both Davos and Colleen, their squabbling in the streets played out more like high school kids fighting over who’s friends with who rather than whatever grand dramatic moment the show was going for. It was pretty silly.
The fight scenes in the rain — Colleen vs. Bakuto, Davos vs. Danny — were entertaining, while the hallway fight (I believe this is the third now this season) was serviceable enough. Bakuto and Danny seemed more like they were dancing than fighting in that scene, although my inner Trekkie got a kick out of Danny receiving a Captain Kirk-style slash across the chest (a wound which miraculously disappeared come his shirtless, second-to-last scene set just hours later).
Danny getting his iron fist to work again was oh-so-conveniently timed (albeit short-lived). I still don’t quite understand how he can keep the power and mantle of the Iron Fist if he rejects K’un-Lun. It seems like a bad deal for K’un-Lun if there was no expiration date or termination clause, if you will. “Here, you won this super power. Now go stand on a rock and guard a passage for the rest of your life. You totally won’t just take the power and run, right? Of course not. Why would you ever want to leave this cold, snowy, lonely ledge?”
Ward’s Faustian bargain with Bakuto predictably went awry, but at least we finally got to The Hand and the Meachums confronting each other. Harold’s constant gas-lighting of Ward has become exhausting, and it was tough to buy that Joy, who has been noticing Harold’s outbursts, wouldn’t even consider that maybe her father returning from the dead might have some, well, negative side effects. Overall, the sequence of Bakuto holding the Meachums hostage played out more terse than tense (and I really wish they’d finally just killed Harold for good).
Now about that ending and the DEA raid on Colleen’s dojo. Is Iron Fist really taking yet another page from Luke Cage and framing its hero for a crime? Yep, sure seems so. Oh, Iron Fist. You really are one step forward, two steps back even within the same episode.
The Verdict
Ultimately, Iron Fist’s penultimate episode did what it was required to do in order to advance the plot onward to the series conclusion, and threw in a few big fights for good measure.
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