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Netflix' s Iron Fist

Started by Nexus, March 23, 2017, 09:37:48 PM

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Omega

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March 30, 2017, 01:22:44 PM
Quote from: Nexus;953543Sounds unusual, I can understand the reviewers being thrown for a loop.



There's a genre mash up I've never considered but I could see a Kindred of East game with that label being pretty fun.

From the descriptions above it sounds like the Netflix series are moving more towards the "typical" live action comic book show's tendency to down play the comic book aspects rather than embrace them the way Daredevil seemed too.

1: Torg's Nippon Tech cosm was very corporate intrigue, with cyberpunk ninjas and robots.

2: its this whole "no costumes" edict that tends to turn me off every single so called superhero series lately.

Tristram Evans

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March 30, 2017, 03:37:36 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf;954268I don't know numbers, but that scene bugged me on the basis that it's "Bad" for someone to profit off their time and effort to develop a life saving drug. That shit must take years out a person's life, and they gotta eat and pay the rent.

I took at more as showing that Danny was completely inept at business; that his way of life showed his complete ignorance of how the capitalist world functioned.

Voros

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April 01, 2017, 06:24:39 AM
Quote from: Doom;954242Short answer is "not as good as Daredevil."

...but the dingy dojo run by a 20 year kick-goddess where all her students (especially the females) look like models about the same age? Not so much. Toss in the completely non-credible story of the guy showing up when presumed dead, being obviously recognized by everyone that knew him, and *still* trying to deny him...throw in all his close childhood friends (close enough to be siblings to him) not only backstabbing him but still working at the family megacorp, and it's rough.


Wait are you saying a TV show based on a 70s/80s comic book isn't a neo-realist masterpiece? :D

Just pulling your chain and some of what you mention will no doubt get on my nerves but I do wish people would give up the idea that superhero shows should somehow be The Wire. I liked Dark Knight and Logan but cheese, massive coincidences and people acting stupidly is superhero comic 101 and I wouldn't have it any other way. Wish we had more superhero comics and shows still being made for 12 year olds.
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