The New Iron Fist Trailer is Fine When It Needs to be Great.
Here’s the first trailer for S2 of Iron Fist, and if I’m being honest, I don’t love it.
It’s not terrible, not like the trailers for S1 (“Where did he learn martial arts?”) but S1 was so terrible that I wanted this to blow me out of the water.
It doesn’t. It’s a competently staged fight with an interesting viewpoint trick, it’s clear that the filmmakers know how to show Finn Jones fighting, but the visuals aren’t interesting. The location isn’t unusual. The enemies are, what, a few muggers?
That’s not going to wash away the bad feelings from S1.
I’ve heard that the fight footage they showed at SDCC was exceptional, and that everyone who saw it is really hopeful about this new season. See: https://io9.gizmodo.com/holy-crap-iron-first-season-two-actually-looks-really-1827712069
It’d be nice if that extra footage was online right now.
Yeah, I know Iron Fist is problematic, but he was pretty new when I first got into comics at that impressionable age, so he was all over the comics. I have a soft spot for the character, and I want to see him done well. With luck, that extra footage will make its way online and we can all be impressed.
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Completely agree. IF had some small moments in the Defenders where he started to be an enjoyable TV character (I always loved the comic character) but then ruined it completly by making sure he stayed the emotional idiot with no character growth
John wrote: "Completely agree. IF had some small moments in the Defenders where he started to be an enjoyable TV character (I always loved the comic character) but then ruined it completly by making sure he sta..."I liked him more in Defenders that you seem to have, but I feel like they were stuck with the characterization from season one. In Luke Cage, he seems to have shed that, and I'm hoping they continue in that style.
