It's a good icon! I loved the earlier reveal that the dragon's heart is different colors for different people; I really loved that for Colleen it's that stainless ghost-white.
It occurred to me afterwards that the entire two seasons is basically Colleen's origin story as the Iron Fist
And it's seeded as far back as the first season, with the question of whether Danny really is committed to being the Iron Fist or whether the Iron Fist was just something to be after he stopped being able to be "Danny Rand"; he's believably ambivalent about the responsibilities and tangled up in the power in ways that make it both a logical and a self-protective decision for him to step back from the role. For Colleen, it just feels like the natural next step.
Joy's overall arc is something she's clearly still in the middle of
Yeah, Joy and Mary/Walker were the characters most left unresolved by the cancellation and I'm sorry, because I liked where both of them were going. I was surprised and impressed by Mary/Walker overall, especially considering the show's handling of mental health as a field otherwise. I can't speak to her resemblance to real-life DID, but she avoided most of the fictional stereotypes I know about, and I really enjoyed that although we meet the sweet artist first, the violent black-ops mercenary is (a) the original personality or at least close enough for government work (b) the stable one who has their life together and doesn't flake in the middle of a job (c) and just wants somewhere to be quiet; I assume the third, Sokovian-prison-busting personality would have been explored in future seasons. I don't think I ship her and Joy, but I would have been interested in the further development of their relationship, since it was the kind of morally ambiguous on both sides that female characters don't often get.
and Danny and Ward as wandering adventurers pulling off magic gun heists(!!).
It is an absolutely splendid fragment of kung-fu western. "More sake!" "More water!"
(Even before then, I was tremendously endeared by Ward on the runway telling Danny not to walk past him without a fight, because while Ward with a gun is good backup, Ward hand-to-hand canonically gets the floor mopped with him. Danny has to be training him some as they travel. I'm sure it's fraught at first for all the obvious reasons, but I am also sure they work it out.)
This show was far from perfect, but it was so much better than I thought it was going to be.
I went into it hoping it would be a fun thing to stare at; in lieu of further seasons, I'm reading most of your fic now. I hope you don't mind.
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It's a good icon! I loved the earlier reveal that the dragon's heart is different colors for different people; I really loved that for Colleen it's that stainless ghost-white.
It occurred to me afterwards that the entire two seasons is basically Colleen's origin story as the Iron Fist
And it's seeded as far back as the first season, with the question of whether Danny really is committed to being the Iron Fist or whether the Iron Fist was just something to be after he stopped being able to be "Danny Rand"; he's believably ambivalent about the responsibilities and tangled up in the power in ways that make it both a logical and a self-protective decision for him to step back from the role. For Colleen, it just feels like the natural next step.
Joy's overall arc is something she's clearly still in the middle of
Yeah, Joy and Mary/Walker were the characters most left unresolved by the cancellation and I'm sorry, because I liked where both of them were going. I was surprised and impressed by Mary/Walker overall, especially considering the show's handling of mental health as a field otherwise. I can't speak to her resemblance to real-life DID, but she avoided most of the fictional stereotypes I know about, and I really enjoyed that although we meet the sweet artist first, the violent black-ops mercenary is (a) the original personality or at least close enough for government work (b) the stable one who has their life together and doesn't flake in the middle of a job (c) and just wants somewhere to be quiet; I assume the third, Sokovian-prison-busting personality would have been explored in future seasons. I don't think I ship her and Joy, but I would have been interested in the further development of their relationship, since it was the kind of morally ambiguous on both sides that female characters don't often get.
and Danny and Ward as wandering adventurers pulling off magic gun heists(!!).
It is an absolutely splendid fragment of kung-fu western. "More sake!" "More water!"
(Even before then, I was tremendously endeared by Ward on the runway telling Danny not to walk past him without a fight, because while Ward with a gun is good backup, Ward hand-to-hand canonically gets the floor mopped with him. Danny has to be training him some as they travel. I'm sure it's fraught at first for all the obvious reasons, but I am also sure they work it out.)
This show was far from perfect, but it was so much better than I thought it was going to be.
I went into it hoping it would be a fun thing to stare at; in lieu of further seasons, I'm reading most of your fic now. I hope you don't mind.