The Immortal Iron Fist! (spoilers)

[fannishliss]

I just finished s2 last night, it was so freaking awesome!!

\o/ I LOVE THAT COLLEEN IS THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST!!!!!!
Colleen with her glowing white sword!!!!!

Danny with guns that .... what?!!?!?!?   LOLZ!  I'm not sure, but I like it anyway!!

I don't think Danny and Colleen are so much broken up as following separate paths for a time.  Like Ward, Danny needs time to find his own path rather than something he's been literally beaten into.

I kind of liked what they did with Davos.  Though I did think we would get a little more Gao in this season....  I guess it stands to reason that Davos may have been slightly manipulated by her but not actually in league with her...   I liked that Davos is blinded by vigilante fervor.  He is so similar to how the Punisher was initially, hell-bent on a so-called "Righteous" path.  It's a dangerous pitfall that any vigilante hero has to be aware is right there next to them, seductive and deadly.

I am really super psyched that Colleen has the Fist now.  I spent a lot of energy pointing out to Iron Fist naysayers that s1 was just as much about critiquing Danny's privilege and foregrounding Colleen and Danny's many other women co-heroes.... the show has always had a powerful Asian hero martial artist, named Colleen Wing, that it seemed many people were too blinded by sexism to notice.  NOW EVERYONE WILL SEE!!!   So many powerful women in s2 — so many, many Bechdel scenes, too numerous to mention, where women are having serious conversations about important matters and taking action to improve the world around them!!  Colleen and Misty at the forefront as Daughters of the Dragon (hopefully Claire will soon rejoin them); Mrs. Yang as a powerful underworld ally of sorts, set on a more peaceful path for the triads; Mary Freaking Walker, whom I adore, setting off on her newly empowered path with Joy Meachum as a reluctant underwriter.....  JUST LOOK AT THE GLORIOUS LINEUP OF WOMEN HEROES.  MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS!!!

Can I just, for a second, talk about Mary Walker to point out how WINTER SOLDIER she is???  You guys know that Bucky is my alter ego.  So imagine my thrills to see that there is now a woman version of what Bucky has gone through and become.  Walker made herself, and kept part of herself innocent, and created a third part to be even more deadly than she is herself.  Such a powerful counterpoint to the Winter Soldier's story, in that, through dissociation, Mary's own mind created alters to help her survive, unlike the Soldier, who was created that way by Hydra.  On the bookshelf in Mary's apartment is the book, The Minds of Billy Milligan, which rocked my world when I read it as a teenager back in the 80s.  (It's by the same guy who wrote Flowers for Algernon...). Idk, I just really like her.  :D Though, I've had the opinion that the Winter Soldier was initially conceived as a kind of male Black Widow... Mary Walker is not a Black Widow at all.  But, she is a very skilled operative who does what it takes to complete the mission.  (and of course, Alice Eve was in Chris Evans's 2014 movie that he directed, Before We Go, which I very much enjoyed.)

What a great show!!! reinforcing that of all the Netflix shows, Iron Fist is my personal favorite!

I hope this will spur at least a few to re-evaluate the first season, which honestly sets all this up absolutely flawlessly. :D