[iron fist] as I said elsewhere: My tertiary question about the show, beyond the obvious ones, is "...wait, doesn't a show about a missing billionaire who comes back from being missing to fight crime already exist? Isn't it ALREADY the most boring tv show on netflix and tv?"
but from when I was reading Ultimate Spider-Man, he crossed over with them a few times, and Iron Fist was really the background-iest of background characters
I don't hate him in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon but a.) he's part of a large ensemble cast, b.) he feels sort of like a joke at the expense of white hippies, c.) the one ep where they gave his
And I maintain that a show with a Chinese-American Danny who has to reconnect with the culture he's lost through necessary American assimilation would have been cool.
Marvel had an opportunity to tell a story that would have really resonated with not just specifically Chinese-American audiences but all hyphenated American groups. Everyone who has ever struggled
with code switching, feeling torn apart in that way. But I mean a story about another white billionaire who's better than everyone else without trying because he's Special, that's cool too.
(The smallest caveat: with the way they fumbled Luke Cage and BLM, they probably would have also fucked this up. But at least they'd have tried something.)
For me personally and the $0 my opinion on this is worth, I think if LC hadn't fallen down so aggressively on the police brutality and racism, Cage's own conservatism might sit better as being the
true expression of the show runner's own politics; authentic to his experience if not everyone else's. But the combination is just..... really respectability-politics-y.
Frankly in a lot of ways it's a really hard time to try to give us the Some Good Cops narrative. Which is why JJ's cop character worked so well for me l-lol
and obviously this isn't about Misty herself, but when I think about watching DD S2 and the likelihood of running into minor character cops who are just ~presumed good~ I get actively twitchy
and also I hate that 'made for fans not critics' shit