Marvel and Netflix ’s Iron Fist has a flock of issues in its miscellaneous first time of year — but among the woolly-headed flock , there already lies a adamant in the rough , a hero the show was urgently look for . It ’s not Danny Rand , the Living Weapon . It ’s Colleen Wing , the whiz Iron Fist deserves .
This preceding weekend I sit down to watch through the back half of Iron Fist , which I enjoyed a bit more than I didthe clunky first six episodes provided for critical review . A lot of the issues I had with the opening half still persist . But the one thing that connive me the most about the series , Jessica Henwick ’s performance as dojo teacher - turned - streetfighting - asskicker Colleen , carry on to flourish , to the point that I was watching to see her more than I was to see whatever the Hades was going on at Rand Enterprises .
While Danny Rand spend much of Iron Fist tone rudderless , his goals beyond getting control of his family business sector back ( and fighting the Hand ninjas , I guess ) were left more nebulous than they should be . There ’s little in the way of internal conflict in Danny ’s electric arc that makes his journey oblige in this first season . Andas actor Finn Jones has gone on to say , Danny Rand is a very much a piece of work in forward motion by the end of the time of year , a part who still has a lot to find out and develop while heading into The Defenders and beyond . Colleen , on the other bridge player , feels like a poor boy that has a much more definable arc .
Colleen ’s core struggle when we first meet her — balancing her desire to honor the history behind the martial arts she teaches at her dojo and the financial line of keeping it open — feel much more conflicted and intriguing than Danny ’s story of get his million - dollar byplay back . And when Colleen dips into a bit of New York underground John Cage fighting , her regret about using her skills illicitly to realise money grounds Colleen in an emotional struggle that ’s engaging to the audience , an internal convulsion rarely shared by the show ’s titular hero . It ’s an interesting debate about culture and respecting your past tense that at the very least feels nuanced in the way Danny ’s plight does not .
after on , when there ’s the “ twist ” that Colleen is actually a member of the Hand , that same struggle continues . Colleen has to writhe with the idea that the beliefs she was provoke to have — namely , that a faction of the Hand was doing goodness and help people better themselves — was just was nothing more than a front , a Trygve Halvden Lie predicated on her feeling in honor and justness . It makes the moment she does finally choose to side with Danny feel much more impactful , and gives a sensory faculty of settlement for the character .
When people argue that the problematical roots in Iron Fist ’s laughable book chronicle could be at least countered byflipping the head on expectations with an Asian or Asiatic - American lead , this is the sort of material they desire for — a character who shinny with issues of legacy and the heritage of her culture , one that at last patch up her own heroic journey within herself when she conduct on and vote down her former master , Bakuto . That ’s something , arguably , Danny never get to rightfully do in his battle with Harold Meachum , his corporate and ultimate adversary , since Harold ’s Logos Ward kill his begetter to save Rand Enterprises anyway , when Danny ca n’t .
Colleen ’s character is n’t perfect ; in fact , there ’s a reasonable argument to be made that thenebulous nature of Colleen ’s heritage acts a standstill - in for all East Asiatic finish in Iron Fist , so its true supporter can cherry - selection from them when neededin an awkward fashion . But in the death , even with some issues , her journeying represents a much more interesting track than the one Danny Rand thread on throughout Iron Fist ’s first season .
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