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Rather than
review each episode individually for Iron Fist, something that fizzled
out about halfway through on Luke Cage, I’m instead going to break my
review up into a number of articles reviewing specific aspects of the
season. Obviously, all of these articles
will contain SPOILERS for Iron Fist season 1, so consider this your
SPOILER WARNING for every Iron Fist related article for the next month
or so.
This week we
will start off by talking about Danny Rand himself, considering that he’s the
main character, after all.
There was a
lot riding on Marvel’s decision to cast Finn Jones as Danny Rand for Iron
Fist. Considering that Iron Fist was
one of the original characters selected by Marvel Studios/Marvel TV for The
Defenders, it was important to get the character right the first time since
he will make multiple appearances in both his own show and the crossover, as
well as possible appearances in the other shows. Additionally, Iron Fist was the series
that Marvel seemed to have the most difficulty with in the pre-production
process, which led to multiple calls by critics for Marvel to do something
completely different with the series.
The biggest
call from critics was for Marvel to cast an Asian-American actor as Danny Rand
in order to increase diversity among the heroes. Did Marvel make the right call in casting
Finn Jones in the lead role?