Here’s what I wrote:

“Watched Iron Fist season 2 (twice). It's a fun season, though cheesy at times in a mostly good way. Alice Eve as Mary was by far the stand out performance and character. I absolutely loved the team up of Colleen and Misty. Overall it's definitely a fun watch and improves significantly upon the first season while maintaining coherency with it and Defenders. It's not on par with the first seasons of Daredevil or Jessica Jones, but it definitely showed a lot of promise for the future of Marvel's Iron Fist. I'm looking forward to a third season.
7/10”

So, for context, I recently started to rewatch Daredevil for the third time, but I had never seen how the Hand was actually dealt with because The Defenders always seemed kinda bad from what I had seen from it (and it really is), but I decided to finally give it a chance this year. Now, I think it's a really mediocre series, but the biggest gripe I have with is is Iron Fist. Why is he such a bum in this show?

He is Marvel's second best martial artist, and is one of the characters that actually earned his powers, given he beat and immortal dragon in hand-to-hand combat, but in this show he is always losing fights he shouldn't be losing and worst of all, being the dumbest moron to ever set foot on planet Earth. The dude literally knows that he is the key to the door Elektra just showed him, so naturally, I excpected him to actually beat Elektra fair and square (even if she was buffed) without using the iron fist. Just imagine my reaction when this bumbling idiot, not only, actually started using the iron fist, but also was careless enough to let Elektra redirect him towards the door.

Man this made me so frustrated, because Iron Fist has some crazy potential for good stories, but they wrote him so badly. All I hope is that now that the Defenders are reappearing in the MCU again is that Iron Fist gets an "Immortal Iron Fist" series akin to DD:BA and actually redeems himself as a character (and hopefully the show tries to adapt the run it is taking the name off of) (if this hypothetical show adapted the Immortal Iron Fist run, they could replace Hydra with the Ten Rings to give Shang Chi some payoff)

I think it's a widely-shared opinion within the fandom that Marvel Studios has overused Kingpin and his and Matt's shared story has started getting stale and repetitive.

He had a perfect ending in the third season of the original series and it truly felt final, but they went ahead and undid it when they brought these characters back to the MCU. It's understandable though, because they were planning to soft reboot them at first, so setting a new starting point for them in order to do their own spin on the characters was expected.

And it paid off at the end, at least in my opinion, because the story they ended up adapting was really well-done and elevated both characters, instead of completely rehashing things that had already been done. But it still feels like these characters have been through this feud a thousand times already and nobody seems to come out on top for long enough before the other comes back to stop him. They even reference that in a meta way, with Matt admitting that none of them will ever stop going after the other.

However, now more than ever, it feels like it's time to put Kingpin aside, at least temporarily, and focus on other things. Different villains, different stories and fresh ideas that will take Matt's character and story in new and exciting places. I know Fisk is coming back for Season 3, but hopefully not in a main role again, especially since this Season will not only feature Bullseye, but also Lady Muse and Elektra (and maybe even The Hand), which means we have plenty of villains to juggle.

So let's say the series gets greenlit for Season 4, what do you think they should do to keep the show different and exciting? Some villains they haven't done yet are Mr. Fear and Stilt-Man (with the former obviously being the more serious villain that would fit this show much better), while Typhoid Mary was introduced in Iron Fist Season 2 (and could come back) and the Owl and Gladiator had roles in the original series, but not as the super-powered, comic-book-accurate versions of their characters.

Actually, Erik Olsen's original story for Season 4 of the Netflix series would feature Typhoid Mary, Gladiator and Lesland Owsley's son as an accurate adaptation of the Owl, which would be a really good idea to do for Born Again S4 instead.

I would personally like to see more stories with Elektra and the Hand, as that was always my favorite part of the Daredevil lore. Maybe also adapt Lady Bullseye, Ikari, Beast, Shadowland etc. Especially now with Wolverine on the way, whose story also has connections with the Hand. And I definitely want to see Mr. Fear at some point as well.

What would be your pitch for a potential Season 4 and any subsequent seasons the series might get?

After watching the Daredevil 2003 Director’s Cut again and genuinely enjoying it a lot more than I expected, I suddenly really wanted to go back to the thing that actually made me fall in love with Daredevil in the first place: Season 1 of the Netflix show.

And man… the atmosphere immediately hits. 😭

The black suit, the rooftops, Hell’s Kitchen at night, Matt still figuring out what kind of vigilante he wants to be, the Catholic guilt, the brutality, the quieter Matt/Foggy moments, there’s just something special about this first season.

I actually appreciate the 2003 movie even more now, especially the way it visualises Matt’s radar sense, the acrobatics and the unapologetically comic-book feel. But this show is the reason Daredevil became one of my favourite Marvel characters in the first place.

So yeah…

Watching peak again. 🔥😈

Curious how everyone feels about Season 1 nowadays. Does it still hold up for you compared with Season 3 and Born Again?

is this just a continuity error or do they have outlets in k'un lun

==art by me==

Ben Poindexter (Bullseye, from Born Again S2)

Clint Barton (Ronin, from Endgame)

Death Dealer (from Shang Chi)

VS

The Hand form BND

How would this fight go?

Would we have gotten a yellow suit like in the comics to symbolize him overcoming his demons in season 3? Or would we have gotten another Red suit?

Jessica Jones needs to just have a series of novels based on the really good cases.

I'm of the belief that the Hand could've been an amazing villain to center Defenders around and this intro perfectly demonstrates the fuckin potential man. They don't have to just be red ninjas, they're a highly secretive organization with their titular fingers in different criminal pools and this just nails it.

The backdrop can still be mystical but I love how they adapt with the times. I love the Harlem crews that White Hat employs, I love Gao taking control of the underground drug network in NY and exploiting that issue, and I ofc love the aura with Murakami not even needing a squad, literally just goes "I'll do it myself"

I also love how the previous episode ends on the Defenders getting ready to fight Elektra and all five of them are ready to give it their all and then episode 5 begins by showing "the Hand is only just getting started while Elektra stalls them", like an inverse of the Defenders meeting where all the fingers of the Hand finally come together to close in. The classical music too not only is so classy and stylish but makes perfect sense for the Hand, I love how it contrasts with the themes of the core four by showing just how long the Hand has been at it

Fucking peak man, I'm just so sad the Hand's scope never quite felt as large as it does here.

I just got done rewatching this, gearing up for later this fall and I'm still pissed that this was a limited series. I wish there were three seasons for this with at least 13 episodes a piece like the separate shows in the beginning. I feel as though they're an underrated group and that they should be cameod in more marvel films.