I swear. I love this channel, but come april 1st he's going to do a video about how every main character is probably a skrull and why it works. And it's going to turn out so good that it's going to convince everyone that it's true. To the point where we can no longer watch the MCU without seeing why skrull ironman/cap/spiderman/etc. would do something like that.
I mean, wow. I legitimately thought that Iron Fist was irredeemable, and here you go blowing my mind with the simplest fix yet!! Incredible my man. Great job.
I also don't think that you need the Harold Meecham plot. Make Ward a semi-bad guy (he tries to have Danny killed, is crooked, etc.) and when Danny destroys him at the end (which ousts Ward and Joy), Joy Meechum suddenly has a *good* reason to want Danny dead: she helped Danny return with the whole ashtray thing and, in return, he destroyed her family. Edit: also, it's Davos, not Danny, that needed to see K'un-Lun gone. As it is, even Davos has no real reason to want Danny dead. So, now you have a Davos pissed about Danny leaving K'un-Lun to be destroyed, and a very wealthy Joy Meechum pissed about Danny destroying her family and career... and you have the perfect setup for a Steel Serpent.
In my opinion, the worst and most destructive part of the show is the fact that there was even a prophecy. If they never wrote in a prophecy, Danny Rand would have actually been able to breath as his own character, like he did in the first couple of episodes, instead of cringing around with a false sense of entitlement and responsibility. Actually, the Hand and its contrived prophecy are the very worst part of the entire Netflix universe. Prophecies are actually the most annoying cliche.
What I still don't understand is why you're making RUclips videos and have not been hired or assassinated by Marvel at this point. But really I loved these ideas, especially since iron fist is my top 5 comic book characters and this turned out so poorly.
Scott Buck almost singlehandedly derailed the entire Marvel TV division. Iron Fist with a ton of its problems, which later spilled over into Defenders, and then Inhumans, the pilot episode of which I unfortunately saw before it was burned.
Adil Dnk marvel studios never really wanted an Inhumans movie. The guy who was the head of the council that used to oversee marvel studios films before Kevin Feige was given complete creative control [i forget the dude’s name] had a strange obsession with the characters. He was eventually fired and forced to move to head of the marvel tv division. I think the guy was a little too eager to get the Inhumans out there and as a result he put Scott Buck- a man known for being able to get things out as fast as he can- behind the wheel and the result was a complete misrepresentation of the source material. Thankfully it was all burned along with all memory of it ever existing
A big problem with Defenders and the Netflix shows in general is that the writers from the different shows do not really talk to each other or plan things out. The Defenders showrunner outright said that each show was just doing their own thing and they were just picking up plot threads from the other shows and making stuff up with no long term plan. That's why so much of Madame Gao's plot don't fit with the Hand. Look at season 1 of Daredevil. Gao had no problem with Fisk betraying Nobu. She even warned Fisk that Nobu's clan will remember his treachery. There was also that line about how she was going back home, a place much farther than China, suggesting that she wasn't of this world. Then in season 2 of Daredevil, Gao even offers to tell Matt about the Hand.
0:24 But they never made Inhumans. They were going to make a show and cast it, but the decision never went to through to start shooting, right? *YES. I AM RIGHT.*
TheSwagtacular oh, I get it. Yeah, I Kevin Feige gave up on the project in order to pursue more important projects. So, Inhumans was never made. Never. Ever. Doesn't exist. You can find fan-made stuff, but that's it. mhmm.
As I plowed anxiously through season one looking for something justifying all the shortcomings, I also sort of hoped for a very specific, but also very cool thing: I wished they would’ve shown Danny punching something or someone related to The Hand really hard with the power of the Iron Fist, right after saying “Talk to the hand”. I mean, it is a show called Iron Fist, about a hero whose power is punching hard, and he fights ninjas known as The Hand. That line could’ve come from any of those and it would’ve fit perfectly. I’m sure a talented scriptwriter could’ve found a way to insert it into the show with style and good timing.
This is really minor but I really wanted Danny to wear the Iron Fist costume. It cannot be because it is too silly, Daredevil wears his costume so why can’t Iron Fist? Even Jessica Jones and Luke Cage had the care to reference their characters original costumes in the shows.
They did reference the costume in Iron Fist, when they had the video of the WWII IF Then at the end of Defenders they showed him wearing a shitty green tracksuit, as if that was a good enough replacement
he means why isn't Danny wearing it the show illustrated that the person wearing the costume was a old iron fist not Danny which is the person that should be wearing not somebody that isnt the iron fist now
That's got to be the worst costume cameo of all time. If you couldn't see the laces on the back of the mask you wouldn't know that's what it was supposed to be. That's like saying Shao Lau the undying is technically in the show because we get to see his eyes at one point.
Aang also ran away from his duties. But he did so because he was a scared kid who had the weight of the world thrust on him before he was ready. I actually think Danny's selfishness in running away could have worked, but it wasn't set up well. We know he spent the past twenty (or whatever it was) years training to be the Iron Fist. He had already accepted his duties. He was good at it. And then he just... changed his mind. It's a bizarre 180 which doesn't make internal sense. We needed more development: WHY did Danny choose to become the Iron Fist? What was he expecting to gain from it? Was it thrust upon him in some way, like it was with Aang? And then: what did he LOSE from becoming Iron Fist? "He was bored" is a terrible reason. Maybe he'd been led to doubt the existence of The Hand. Maybe the mentor he found in K'un L'un was taken from him (again, like Aang) or betrayed him in some way. Whatever it is, he needed to be convinced that: (1) being Iron Fist sucks (in some relatable way), and (2) he needed to be reminded of the life he'd left behind. Now, when the opportunity comes about for him to leave K'un L'un, and opportunity he has to act on immediately and impulsively or it will pass forever, he takes it. And then he has to regret that decision. Even immediately.
BBmetalhead04 Yea I always thought he would be like the Spiderman of the Defenders. Fun, Lovable in an annoying little brother sort of way. You got a small taste of what he could have been in the dinner scene when he's tasting dumplings with Jess, Luke and Matt. They should have had more stuff like that. What's really sad is the actor Finn is alot more light hearted and playful than the character he's playing.
Speaking of Aang, looks help a lot, let him look compelling as a martial artist who's homesick , he looks like he's always been in the city, even if the hair grows back at least let him look a bit humbled
That's got to be the best template to draw dany from. Also differentiates him from the rest of the defenders.....the monk upbringing makes sense with the optimism
This change would definitely make the plot and Danny's motivation work a lot better. Only bad thing is that there are 99 other problems with that show. Can't believe I survived to its end.
Danny Rand and The Hand should make a stand. Start a band. Save music from being bland. Tour the land. Go play in the sand the name of the band featuring Danny rand and the hand.
I think they should have made a Netflix Movie of Iron Fist instead of a series. They could use the entire series's budget on just 2 hours. Perhaps we could have gotten a full dragon fight, and a satisfying finale against the hand. It would be perfect to introduce his character.
Your ability to look at a flawed movie or show, identify moments where it all went wrong and seamlessly integrate new, small changes into the narrative that dramatically improve the plot cohesion and character motivation is just super impressive.
I am one of those people who's never going to watch Iron Fist. This rewrite made my day, but it also makes me sad cause I know this will never happen onscreen. Bittersweet, y'know?
Jordan Montgomery Funny, I have the complete opposite opinion. I thought the dead earth thing was a little TOO silly, and so many of the characters decisions made no sense. Plus, Flint was kind of annoying. Now that their back, it seems to be feeling like the real Agents of Shield again.
Honestly, I had a more drastic idea for changing the show. 1) we get more substantial flashbacks to Kun Lun. Sure, this probably would have raised the budget significantly, but I'm sure they could have found some way to do stuff like show us the scene with Danny and his friends having fun or his challenging training with the monks. Which leads me to the second point... 2) He was forced to train to become Iron Fist. It always struck me as perplexing that Danny both wanted to go back home and wanted to become Iron Fist, a position that would require him to stay in Kun Lun for the rest of his life. So instead, we'll make it so all residents train to become Iron Fist because anyone can potentially be chosen. Danny needs to go through this training or else be cast out and it's seemingly luck that he becomes Iron Fist. Of course he hates this though eventually uses the power as part of his escape because... 3) he's leaving to get revenge. Honestly, I have no idea why they changed the origin to something so complex other than to make the Hand more relevant to the story but that's going out the window. The Rands were looking for Kun Lun with Harold Meachum only for Harold to betray them, leading to the deaths of the Rand parents. Danny is coming for revenge. Pure and simple with the first episode being how Danny slowly infiltrates the company then dons his robes (and mask) to take out Harold only to learn of his cancer and that he's dying. Realizing from that moment he agrees to let Harold live, only for him to mysteriously die the next day. This forces Danny to take an actual position with the company as part of the Meachum's plan to clear his name, but the question is, who killed Harold? The answer being... 4) The monks of Kun Lun are the villains. This could also include Davos as well. You see, the monks were so furious with Danny's selfish decision that they tracked him down and are slowly killing people around Danny in order to force him to come back. All Danny can do is slowly fight them back. This is where the heart of the series lies. It's about family. He at first thinks that his family is dead and tries to avenge them not realizing that he's abandoning people who saw him as family. And over the course of the series, Danny sees his family in the Meachums, the employees of Rand, and several residents of the city. So he learns this is where he should stand. Granted you can still have the idea of part of his destiny as Iron Fist being to destroy the Hand, but make that part of the ending and not a component of the series.
Absolutely amazing this is the perfect and simple fix for Iron fist . This is how the series should have been written it's honestly way better than what we got.
I've struggled with him and DareDevil being too similar. This video just showed me the big difference I'm going to use to sepparate them into two clearly different characters. Morality. Danny Rand is going to be a untilitarian - allowing unethical things as long as he can fight the hand. DareDevil is religious and therfore a Kantian or a virtue ethics person - Bad things are bad, nomatter what.
The astral thing was pretty dumb imo... But then when the video went on, I started to love the idea more and more. Great video fam. I wish this was the real Iron Fist Serie imo. Also, I wish Netflix/Marvel did more with Iron Fist's powers. He's got probably the most unique powers of all the defenders and he's just using it to punch through walls and break stuff... Makes it feel like, imo, he's just using it for convinience and not for "DESTROYING THE HAND"! I hope that in the next season he learns how to tap into to the power a little deeper and give it more of a "Glow/Energy" effect and see him punch people through walls, see him punch cars that are about to crash into him, see him do ANYTHING with his super power.... But nah. All you see him do is use it once or twice and then you see him do his Super Kung Fuu
So this has come up a few times already in the comments and now I'm genuinely interested. How would you rank the Marvel Netflix shows that you've seen?
1. Daredevil season 1 2. The punisher 3. Daredevil season 2 4. Jessica Jones season 1 5. The defenders 6. Jessica Jones season 2 7. Iron fist 8. Luke Cage
The Punisher s1 Jessica Jones s1 Daredevil s1 Luke Cage s1 Daredevil s2 Jessica Jones s2 Defenders s1 Iron Fist s1 Granted I've only seen Punisher s1 once. Also I know that people generally put DD higher than me. I think it's really really well made but there's something about the two shows above it that draw me in more.
Your videos are so well communicated and very thoughtful. Thank you for sharing such good ideas and subtly teaching both creators and audiences how much better entertainment can be.
The opening change is well done.This truly does salvage the show - (1) it fits the mythos, (2) it is entertaining, (3) it does not require any expensive or hard to film effects, (4) your explanation of the fundamental contradiction of the Iron Fist versus the Hand (guard the city, fight the Hand). Really, you can make a bad series seem interesting!
Love your videos. I wouldn't have skipped two thirds of the season if it had gone like this. I ended up just reading a synopsis online, but the series as you've laid it out would've felt much more engaging.
Oof, this is it, this is the best "one small change" yet. Literally that one thing fixes *so much* that fundamentally doesn't work otherwise. That tension between "guarding the pass" and actively hunting the Hand would also work as a fantastic running metaphor for passive vs active opposition to evil, if the series needed a bit more of a thematic arc.
I really like these ideas. - Danny having to debate sacrificing his morals would make for interesting character writing. - Danny having a strong plot motivation (i.e. running the company to sort out the Hand's involvement with it) would sort out my main problem with the series which was its directionless feel (it didn't seem to know where it was going throughout and therefore, dramatic events didn't have the impact they probably should have had). It might also lead to more interesting debate between him and his friend (currently, I think that's probably the least effective point in the series). - That ending would also be interesting. It would be questionable though because the Hand would have effectively defeated themselves through that series which could make them seem idiotic. Also, I'd be interested to know if you have any fixes for 'The Defenders' because as effective as it is to tease the dramatic intent of the Hand, I found what they actually needed him for in 'The Defenders' a bit disappointing.
Absolutely, Defenders is on my short list. I've been getting a lot of requests for Defenders, Inhumans, and Justice League recently. They will all happen in the next few months.
Oh wow, I think 'Inhumans' would need a lot of work. Weak acting and boring characterisation aside, it had a simply boring plot (they spend virtually the whole time wandering about the Earth looking for each other; a bit similar to 'The Defenders' where they spend half the series just getting the characters together). I look forward to all of those videos.
i will find you and i will hug u, u somehow managed to make iron fist (one of the most disappointing shows for me) into such an amazing idea, i got hyped watching the video then remembered at the end of it that this didnt happen. You my good sir a genius
I have to admit I watched every episode of Iron Fist except for the last 30 minutes of the finale. And this changes everything!! I actually kinda... like it now??? Like it makes sense! Well done!
Am I the only one who thinks it's really, really stupid of Marvel to be going ahead with season 2's of both Iron Fist and Luke Cage, instead of just combining them and doing a season of "Luke Cage & Iron Fist"? I mean maybe other people liked Luke Cage season 1 more than I did, but they were both just so flat and boring, I think giving them each other to play off of could really fix both series. Plus you have the perfect excuse to combine them, as their best stuff in the comics was always as a duo. Just seems like a real wasted opportunity
Butt Soup They really should have combined the two shows into a Heroes For Hire show. A) Compared to other shows Luke Cage and Iron Fist are the worst Marvel Netflix shows B) It would lower the amount of shows that had to be worked on by Marvel TV division opening up opportunities for more Marvel shows on Netflix (Moon Knight, Blade, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ghost Rider spin-off show etc.).
You really know how to make a comic book show or movie alot more interesting dude, Props. And did know the showrunner from Iron Fist was behind the Inhumans.
Another on point video man! The only thing I’d suggest is throwing in a little background music. I guess that’s cliche video essay stuff but I think it helps the overall presentation. Otherwise, keep up the good work🤙🏾
For someone who has read Iron First since the late seventies,I found close to zero overlap between the essential characterisation of Rand in over 40years of history and the portrayal in the Netflix series.
L - Boi As an actor and a writer, watching Finn Jones grunt and whine his way through this series was doubly grating for me. I think most of the issues lie in his personal performance though, as well as how he was directed. The character is a liiittle better in Defenders because everyone gets to make fun of him, but I think they still made Danny Rand way too self-important.
The idea is really amazing, but they could also have simply followed the comics. It was like this: Instead of the plane crash, the Rand family and Harold were hiking to K'un Lun because Danny's father Wendell knew the city and wanted to live there with them. CHANGE: The way K'un Lun is found makes sense, rather than being reached in the luckiest and most convenient way ever. Harold makes Wendell fall to his death in front of Danny and his mother Heather, who were unable to stop him. Harold tells Heather he loves her and tells them to follow him, but she says no, he abandons them. Heather and Danny find the entrance to K'un Lun but she allows a pack of wolves to attack her in order to save Danny. CHANGE: Danny knows Harold was the responsible for his parents' death since the beginning, so rather than spending an entire season looking for the killer, that's the first thing he'll do once he gets to NY. Danny is rescued by K'un Lunan guards, who bring him to Yu-Ti, the city's emperor. Yu-Ti offers Danny a wish, and Danny tells him that all he wants is revenge. Yu-Ti assigns Danny as a student of Lei Kung the Thunderer, K'un Lun's martial arts master, in hopes that the training will eventually make Danny forget his desire for revenge. It doesn't. CHANGE: Danny's desire to leave K'un Lun is much more compelling here. This Danny has a well defined reason to make the choices he makes, rather than just assuming any random thing will make him feel whole. Danny trains kung fu for years, also punching buckets of sand, then gravel, then rock to make his fists more resistant and immune to pain. It's still not enough for him, and because he emerged as the finest warrior, Yu-Ti allowed him to go to the cave of the dragon Shou-Lao to acquire the power of an Iron Fist. He later undergoes the Challenge of the Many (against four masters of kung fu) and the Challenge of the One (against the massive robot Shu-Hu, who could only be defeated by the Iron Fist itself) before Yu-Ti and the Dragon Lords, who deem him worthy of his powers and an accomplished Iron Fist. CHANGE: All of this is awesome and should've been included in the show to give us an idea of how skilled Danny is. Yu-Ti tells Danny that the day when he can return to Earth approaches, and he will have to make a choice: to remain in K'un Lun and eat the Fruit of Immortality or to leave the city and perish eventually. Danny can't overcome his desire for revenge and chooses to leave. CHANGE: No stupid rules like "the Iron Fist cannot leave K'un Lun" or "the Iron Fist has to kill for K'un Lun" here. They were clearly only invented to make Danny look even more incompetent in the show, as they make no sense when you really think about it. In NY, Danny goes after Harold and faces all sort of enemy because of a 10 thousand dollar bounty put on the man with the dragon mark. He is triumphant and eventually reaches Harold. CHANGE: Awesome martial arts since very early in the show. Also, this Danny is still driven by anger and revenge, but in a focused and calculated way that is in tone with his years of training, not in a psychotic, uncontrolled and immature way that contrasts his life in a Buddhist monastery. Danny confronts Harold only to find out he lost his legs to frostbite in the mountains years ago, and lives in pain. Harold asks for death, but Danny denies it only for a ninja to enter the room, kill Harold before Danny's eyes and leave. Joy enters the room and blames Iron Fist for her father's death, and Iron Fist has to escape it in a hurry. CHANGE: Danny learns how poisonous revenge is much earlier: this whole arc could've taken 1-2 episodes with the season being used for a much more balanced and enlightened Danny Rand. Danny meets Colleen, who was sent to find him by her father Lee Wing. Lee is a professor of Oriental studies in a university who had been told of the Iron Fist and his imminent arrival to NY. Thus began many of Iron Fist's adventures. CHANGE: First meeting that is way more interesting than "giving money to the tai chi hobo", huh?
Uglyguy 25 I also think it would’ve been interesting to essentially make Danny a zenned out hippie with a mean switch. Which they sort of start doing in that first episode, when he shows up to his company all smiles. But then he’s just petulant for the rest of the series and it’s so aggravating to watch. He should be the most easy-going Defender. And now instead of them being close friends and equals, Luke Cage is this weird surrogate father figure to Danny.
Momo King Exactly! Danny should've been the coolest Defender in the sense that he almost never gets stressed at anything. His superpower is channeling life energy and positive energies, meaning that a cool attitude is essential for his powers to work. That is the positive aspect of a younger protagonist that the season should've focused on: optimism, lightness and fun, rather than making him angry and unsure about anything he does. And you know what's the worst part? Finn Jones is exactly like that in real life. Look for interviews with him, even the ones about the Marvel shows: he's got this spontaneous positive attitude and is always making things so much fun. He said that he was attracted to Iron Fist because he always wanted to play a spiritually connected character, and described the day he was confirmed for the role as something like a dream. On top of that, he's an orphan. So except for being really skinny, this guy is perfect for the role. Every time they make Danny Rand hot headed and overly serious, they aren't just twisting the source material: they're wasting their star's best attributes. Making Luke his mentor in The Defenders was also stupid. Obviously a mutual change of knowledge between the two of them would've been much more interesting, but I guess the internet can't accept a friendship between a white man and a black man in which the black one isn't superior, right? It sucked for Danny, who had to keep being immature for the mentorship to work, but it also sucked for Luke, the last Defender who would need an annoying man-child by his side all the time to look wise.
I really like The Inhumans comics and, like everyone else, hated the show. I haven't even thought about that video topic yet. It might be worth a shot.
The first episode of Inhumans did a pretty good job depicting Maximum as the underdog rather than the villain. Most of the show unintentionally makes the Royal Family appear like entitled tyrants, but then they flip it and just make it that Maximus is power hungry and evil and the Royal Family are the good guys. But what if it was framed differently? What if the theme of the show was Maximus being in the right, and the Royal Family having to make amends and relinquish their privilege for the better of their people? Instead of like, no theme at all.
I liked the first iron fist season but what you said would have made it ten thousand times better. I sure as hell would never have been able to predict where it would end if they had done it your way. Im pretty impressed man good job
I've only just started watching your videos a few days ago, and I'm already convinced that all media of the superhero genre need to check their scripts in with you before making it official. You fix terrible issues of shows/films in an instant while also making already good plots significantly better.
Nando does it again! Great job. I wish you touched on his fighting a bit more. In some scenes, he was having difficulty with just one on ones with a regular goon. He should be the one punch man of marvel. But they don't even have to show it. Have him in a room with 10 baddies, next scene they're all on the ground. Make it mysterious. Totally agree with the mask option though. A stunt double could've saved so many scenes.
I wish you were in the brainstorming sessions of these movies and shows you cover because your creativity is wonderful and almost every video you make makes me wish the media you covered had panned out the way you describe. Keep up the amazing work!
It's frustrating how well this would work. I really liked Iron Fist, and thought Danny's feelings of emptiness and wanting the best of both worlds was totally fine for character motivation, but I can't ignore how much better this would have been. Rather than the Hand working out of Rand feeling so coincidental, this sets it up so logically. Well done!
Ninja: "Alright, moving in on Kun-Lun." Other Ninja: "Oh crap! Is that the iron fist?" Ninja: "Oh god, you're right!" Steve: "Ok team, we need to plan an attack on him." All Ninjas: "Got it!" Steve: "3,2,1! NOW!" All Ninjas: "AHHHHHHHHH!" Other Ninja: "Wait Steve!" Steve: "What?" Other Ninja: "I dropped my business card"! Steve: "And this is why we all hate you."
I somehow loved whole season. I agree that at the beginning there was no clear reason for him to leave, although Madame Gao explained later superficially that he knew someone assasinated the plane and wanted to know who and why. That's why he showed up at Rand and asked about Harold, but he became occupied with proving his identity and then he got imprisoned in mental hospital and met Harold who told him about the Hand.
Funny thing is, Legion seems completely separate from the rest of Fox's X-men stuff. Like, COMPLETELY isolated. So if they wanted to, they could turn around and say legion took place in the MCU all along.
Hey Nando, I just found your channel and it's the best. Your editing, scripts, and ideas are all well thought out and actually make sense. Some other video essay channels are pretty garbage, so good on you. Anyway, keep it up please.
Was gonna say even more minimal a change than astral projection scene would be Danny going back to the plane wreckage and finding the Hand symbol, but that end of season is cool as hell. Maybe even he still goes down to the wreckage, and the rand logo is covered by the Hand symbol, that would be cool and more vague as to how the hand are threatening the company.
I almost never leave comments on RUclips videos but after watching several from your channel, I had to. You're impeccable. Incredible. You are so, so good at this. I hope you get hired by Marvel. Kevin Feige needs to see your videos.
Anyone else find the hand really boring having the hand be the villains for 3 Netflix series was torture for me but iron fist can be done right his fists need to be ablaze with raw energy and every punch should be explosive and the fight scenes should make this show
I only find the hand boring because the ones they propped up as the "main" villains sucked Gao is meh, bokudo was annoying, and whats-her-face was very dull, and was supplanted by elektra who was only slightly less boring Meanwhile the japanese and african dudes were fucking awesome and I wished they showed up more but got killed off just as soon as they showed up Now for the next round of netflix seasons, we've got Gao again, and a handful of crappy villains that were set up at the end of previous seasons like Luke Cage's bro or Danny's friend, which really doesn't bode well for the future
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Slimmy_007 the Hand was amazing in Daredevil. After that, it tanked.
The guy with the chains was amazing but yeah bakudo was the cheesiest actor in the mcu was so pissed when he showed up alive Yeah the Japanese guy was great and so was the French speaking one they kidnapped in defenders
It's amazing how with one change you can make this show so much better. Ironically, I never disliked the show, but Danny felt really out of place. This idea fixes it beautifully. Personally I thought defenders was worse, so i hope to see a video on that one too. Keep it up man!
Kindakoolbutfail Games imo JJ s2 was boring and JJ s1 was my favourite season of any Netflix show DDs1 and 2 was great, punisher was good and Luke Cages first half was great, second half was as bad as ironfist and defenders was fine but moonknight is a very difficult character to write for in comic and even more difficult to adapt even in the best of circumstances and marvel Netflix is inconsistent with a very cheap budget and if they mess up moonknight he will end up like the inhumans and will never be used again or ironfist and have every idiot think hes a bad character because they never pick up a comic,my point is its too risky and I dont want them to ruin my favourite marvel character.
Haven't even finished the video and I already agree with you. Astral projection is definitely not too far off in what iron fist should be able to do and by giving him a far more obtainable/tangible goal that isn't just "I came back to my home city because I needed to destroy the hand and I only came back now because reasons"
Yup. 100% perfect fix. I think the content even exists to edit this into it. I am working on an Iron Fist edit to a 3 hour movie, and I am going to try and put this in there!
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Danny Rand is a Skrull
I swear. I love this channel, but come april 1st he's going to do a video about how every main character is probably a skrull and why it works. And it's going to turn out so good that it's going to convince everyone that it's true. To the point where we can no longer watch the MCU without seeing why skrull ironman/cap/spiderman/etc. would do something like that.
Lmao
He might have been replaced by a baby skrull.
That's also works.
I like to think he’s mcu equivalent to the skrulls that impersonated hank pym and hated every minute of it.
I mean, wow. I legitimately thought that Iron Fist was irredeemable, and here you go blowing my mind with the simplest fix yet!! Incredible my man. Great job.
Thanks!
I also don't think that you need the Harold Meecham plot. Make Ward a semi-bad guy (he tries to have Danny killed, is crooked, etc.) and when Danny destroys him at the end (which ousts Ward and Joy), Joy Meechum suddenly has a *good* reason to want Danny dead: she helped Danny return with the whole ashtray thing and, in return, he destroyed her family.
Edit: also, it's Davos, not Danny, that needed to see K'un-Lun gone. As it is, even Davos has no real reason to want Danny dead. So, now you have a Davos pissed about Danny leaving K'un-Lun to be destroyed, and a very wealthy Joy Meechum pissed about Danny destroying her family and career... and you have the perfect setup for a Steel Serpent.
I doubt the astral projection was a 'simple fix'. You gotta give Nando some credit. Even you or I or Netflix could come up with that.
In my opinion, the worst and most destructive part of the show is the fact that there was even a prophecy. If they never wrote in a prophecy, Danny Rand would have actually been able to breath as his own character, like he did in the first couple of episodes, instead of cringing around with a false sense of entitlement and responsibility.
Actually, the Hand and its contrived prophecy are the very worst part of the entire Netflix universe. Prophecies are actually the most annoying cliche.
What I still don't understand is why you're making RUclips videos and have not been hired or assassinated by Marvel at this point.
But really I loved these ideas, especially since iron fist is my top 5 comic book characters and this turned out so poorly.
Hired or Assassinated XD
Dman3981 seriously. Why is DC & Marvel letting this man embarrass them like this??!
I know right!!! Nando is a genius !!!
The fact that DC and Marvel somehow let this man live and keep writing more interesting plots that their actual movies yet do not hire him.
Scott Buck almost singlehandedly derailed the entire Marvel TV division. Iron Fist with a ton of its problems, which later spilled over into Defenders, and then Inhumans, the pilot episode of which I unfortunately saw before it was burned.
You actually saw it before it was destroyed?! [pulls out silenced pistol] No witnesses!
You mean the guy that was the showrunner for the last few ( and worst) seasons of Dexter?
No way, that couldn't be the problem at all.
Why? Was it burned because it sucked?
Uliverse I wish Marvel just kept the Inhumans for Phase 4, but that's not really how it played out
Adil Dnk marvel studios never really wanted an Inhumans movie. The guy who was the head of the council that used to oversee marvel studios films before Kevin Feige was given complete creative control [i forget the dude’s name] had a strange obsession with the characters. He was eventually fired and forced to move to head of the marvel tv division. I think the guy was a little too eager to get the Inhumans out there and as a result he put Scott Buck- a man known for being able to get things out as fast as he can- behind the wheel and the result was a complete misrepresentation of the source material. Thankfully it was all burned along with all memory of it ever existing
This is 1000000 times better than what we had. I'm pretending this is canon for my own sanity.
PerfectPencil Sounds like a plan!
PerfectPencil same here!!!👍🍺🍻🍺
A big problem with Defenders and the Netflix shows in general is that the writers from the different shows do not really talk to each other or plan things out. The Defenders showrunner outright said that each show was just doing their own thing and they were just picking up plot threads from the other shows and making stuff up with no long term plan.
That's why so much of Madame Gao's plot don't fit with the Hand. Look at season 1 of Daredevil. Gao had no problem with Fisk betraying Nobu. She even warned Fisk that Nobu's clan will remember his treachery. There was also that line about how she was going back home, a place much farther than China, suggesting that she wasn't of this world. Then in season 2 of Daredevil, Gao even offers to tell Matt about the Hand.
0:24 But they never made Inhumans. They were going to make a show and cast it, but the decision never went to through to start shooting, right?
*YES. I AM RIGHT.*
wait but.... no I've seen e *NO I HAVENT, INHUMANS NEVER HAPPENED*
Correct
Poor Iwan Rheon tho, he’s such an amazing actor
TheSwagtacular oh, I get it. Yeah, I Kevin Feige gave up on the project in order to pursue more important projects. So, Inhumans was never made. Never. Ever. Doesn't exist. You can find fan-made stuff, but that's it. mhmm.
Oooooh. It’s no longer canon? I thought it was fine
As I plowed anxiously through season one looking for something justifying all the shortcomings, I also sort of hoped for a very specific, but also very cool thing: I wished they would’ve shown Danny punching something or someone related to The Hand really hard with the power of the Iron Fist, right after saying “Talk to the hand”.
I mean, it is a show called Iron Fist, about a hero whose power is punching hard, and he fights ninjas known as The Hand. That line could’ve come from any of those and it would’ve fit perfectly. I’m sure a talented scriptwriter could’ve found a way to insert it into the show with style and good timing.
Oh shit, that idea for a The Defenders teaser. I love smart 'Even your success was part of our plan' villain twists.
Another great video.
Alienous
"The Xanatos Gambit"
I love it.
That is so rarely used. Man, I miss "Gargoyles."
This is really minor but I really wanted Danny to wear the Iron Fist costume. It cannot be because it is too silly, Daredevil wears his costume so why can’t Iron Fist? Even Jessica Jones and Luke Cage had the care to reference their characters original costumes in the shows.
They did reference the costume in Iron Fist, when they had the video of the WWII IF
Then at the end of Defenders they showed him wearing a shitty green tracksuit, as if that was a good enough replacement
he means why isn't Danny wearing it the show illustrated that the person wearing the costume was a old iron fist not Danny which is the person that should be wearing not somebody that isnt the iron fist now
Bob Pickelson Really? Cause I skimmed this entire video and not once did I see Danny Rand wearing a mask.
They couldve at least done like the old xmen and had him in black leather, maybe drss him like a biker sort of so he doesnt look like a guy ina suit
That's got to be the worst costume cameo of all time. If you couldn't see the laces on the back of the mask you wouldn't know that's what it was supposed to be. That's like saying Shao Lau the undying is technically in the show because we get to see his eyes at one point.
Aang from Airbender should have been the template for Danny. Boyish, naive, optimistic.
Aang also ran away from his duties. But he did so because he was a scared kid who had the weight of the world thrust on him before he was ready.
I actually think Danny's selfishness in running away could have worked, but it wasn't set up well. We know he spent the past twenty (or whatever it was) years training to be the Iron Fist. He had already accepted his duties. He was good at it. And then he just... changed his mind. It's a bizarre 180 which doesn't make internal sense. We needed more development: WHY did Danny choose to become the Iron Fist? What was he expecting to gain from it? Was it thrust upon him in some way, like it was with Aang? And then: what did he LOSE from becoming Iron Fist? "He was bored" is a terrible reason. Maybe he'd been led to doubt the existence of The Hand. Maybe the mentor he found in K'un L'un was taken from him (again, like Aang) or betrayed him in some way. Whatever it is, he needed to be convinced that: (1) being Iron Fist sucks (in some relatable way), and (2) he needed to be reminded of the life he'd left behind. Now, when the opportunity comes about for him to leave K'un L'un, and opportunity he has to act on immediately and impulsively or it will pass forever, he takes it. And then he has to regret that decision. Even immediately.
Agreed. His optimism would have been a great juxtaposition with the grim/dark tone of New York’s criminal underbelly.
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Yea I always thought he would be like the Spiderman of the Defenders. Fun, Lovable in an annoying little brother sort of way. You got a small taste of what he could have been in the dinner scene when he's tasting dumplings with Jess, Luke and Matt. They should have had more stuff like that. What's really sad is the actor Finn is alot more light hearted and playful than the character he's playing.
Speaking of Aang, looks help a lot, let him look compelling as a martial artist who's homesick , he looks like he's always been in the city, even if the hair grows back at least let him look a bit humbled
That's got to be the best template to draw dany from. Also differentiates him from the rest of the defenders.....the monk upbringing makes sense with the optimism
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He'll get more well known as time goes on, I think he's still just starting out
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Ehhhh cinematic excrements been around for 10 years and hasn't grown yet
This change would definitely make the plot and Danny's motivation work a lot better. Only bad thing is that there are 99 other problems with that show. Can't believe I survived to its end.
I think I comment on every single one of these videos how great your ideas are, but dudeeee. You're absolutely killing it.
Thanks!
Tom Morgan Same like wow this change could literally solve half the problems wtf
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Danny Rand and The Hand should make a stand. Start a band. Save music from being bland. Tour the land. Go play in the sand the name of the band featuring Danny rand and the hand.
you need to stop.
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Your fixes are perfect. Made the entire season actually make sense.
Okay but what if The Hand was a bunch of Skrulls...
violetcrumble94 now that’s a theory I can get behind.
What if Nando was the Skrull the whole time?
maybe Danny is the skull and thats why he's so terrible.....
"The BONNNESSS of what we got ARE STILL THERRREEEE!" Well played.
I think they should have made a Netflix Movie of Iron Fist instead of a series. They could use the entire series's budget on just 2 hours. Perhaps we could have gotten a full dragon fight, and a satisfying finale against the hand. It would be perfect to introduce his character.
Your ability to look at a flawed movie or show, identify moments where it all went wrong and seamlessly integrate new, small changes into the narrative that dramatically improve the plot cohesion and character motivation is just super impressive.
I am one of those people who's never going to watch Iron Fist. This rewrite made my day, but it also makes me sad cause I know this will never happen onscreen. Bittersweet, y'know?
Yes! You are definitely rewarded for sticking with Agents of Shield.
Until this latest season
Hunter Brown I'd have to disagree there. It's not as good as season 4, admittedly, but I still think it's a fairly strong season.
The first half of the new season (Future Dead earth) is pretty great, but latest episodes were pretty slow paced and boring.
Episode 100 was awesome
Jordan Montgomery Funny, I have the complete opposite opinion. I thought the dead earth thing was a little TOO silly, and so many of the characters decisions made no sense. Plus, Flint was kind of annoying. Now that their back, it seems to be feeling like the real Agents of Shield again.
“I am the Iron Fist, I trained in Kun’ Lun, me, not you!”
Love this quote. The "me, not you" line is so Danny.
Nando v Movies Thank you
Jesus dude... You make me hate everything I watch by pointing out it's flaws lmao. And I love it. DC or Marvel need to hire you ASAP!
Honestly, I had a more drastic idea for changing the show.
1) we get more substantial flashbacks to Kun Lun. Sure, this probably would have raised the budget significantly, but I'm sure they could have found some way to do stuff like show us the scene with Danny and his friends having fun or his challenging training with the monks. Which leads me to the second point...
2) He was forced to train to become Iron Fist. It always struck me as perplexing that Danny both wanted to go back home and wanted to become Iron Fist, a position that would require him to stay in Kun Lun for the rest of his life. So instead, we'll make it so all residents train to become Iron Fist because anyone can potentially be chosen. Danny needs to go through this training or else be cast out and it's seemingly luck that he becomes Iron Fist. Of course he hates this though eventually uses the power as part of his escape because...
3) he's leaving to get revenge. Honestly, I have no idea why they changed the origin to something so complex other than to make the Hand more relevant to the story but that's going out the window. The Rands were looking for Kun Lun with Harold Meachum only for Harold to betray them, leading to the deaths of the Rand parents. Danny is coming for revenge. Pure and simple with the first episode being how Danny slowly infiltrates the company then dons his robes (and mask) to take out Harold only to learn of his cancer and that he's dying. Realizing from that moment he agrees to let Harold live, only for him to mysteriously die the next day. This forces Danny to take an actual position with the company as part of the Meachum's plan to clear his name, but the question is, who killed Harold? The answer being...
4) The monks of Kun Lun are the villains. This could also include Davos as well. You see, the monks were so furious with Danny's selfish decision that they tracked him down and are slowly killing people around Danny in order to force him to come back. All Danny can do is slowly fight them back. This is where the heart of the series lies. It's about family. He at first thinks that his family is dead and tries to avenge them not realizing that he's abandoning people who saw him as family. And over the course of the series, Danny sees his family in the Meachums, the employees of Rand, and several residents of the city. So he learns this is where he should stand. Granted you can still have the idea of part of his destiny as Iron Fist being to destroy the Hand, but make that part of the ending and not a component of the series.
That's a great idea, I wished that they could go with that instead.
Absolutely amazing this is the perfect and simple fix for Iron fist . This is how the series should have been written it's honestly way better than what we got.
I've struggled with him and DareDevil being too similar. This video just showed me the big difference I'm going to use to sepparate them into two clearly different characters. Morality.
Danny Rand is going to be a untilitarian - allowing unethical things as long as he can fight the hand.
DareDevil is religious and therfore a Kantian or a virtue ethics person - Bad things are bad, nomatter what.
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Another mind blower man! You may become the first content creator that I decide to Patreonize!
No pressure. I would love it but I'm happy with people just watching the videos too. It's all good.
The astral thing was pretty dumb imo... But then when the video went on, I started to love the idea more and more. Great video fam. I wish this was the real Iron Fist Serie imo.
Also, I wish Netflix/Marvel did more with Iron Fist's powers. He's got probably the most unique powers of all the defenders and he's just using it to punch through walls and break stuff... Makes it feel like, imo, he's just using it for convinience and not for "DESTROYING THE HAND"! I hope that in the next season he learns how to tap into to the power a little deeper and give it more of a "Glow/Energy" effect and see him punch people through walls, see him punch cars that are about to crash into him, see him do ANYTHING with his super power.... But nah. All you see him do is use it once or twice and then you see him do his Super Kung Fuu
Nando I love your videos so much they all make the property so much better and what the fans and critics want
So this has come up a few times already in the comments and now I'm genuinely interested. How would you rank the Marvel Netflix shows that you've seen?
1. Daredevil Season 2
2. Daredevil Season 1
3. Jessica Jones
4. The Punisher
And the rest imo
1. Daredevil season 1
2. The punisher
3. Daredevil season 2
4. Jessica Jones season 1
5. The defenders
6. Jessica Jones season 2
7. Iron fist
8. Luke Cage
The Punisher s1
Jessica Jones s1
Daredevil s1
Luke Cage s1
Daredevil s2
Jessica Jones s2
Defenders s1
Iron Fist s1
Granted I've only seen Punisher s1 once.
Also I know that people generally put DD higher than me. I think it's really really well made but there's something about the two shows above it that draw me in more.
1. Daredevil
2. The Punisher
3. Jessica Jones
4. Luke Cage
5. The Defenders
6. Iron Fist
Nando v Movies 1. Daredevil
2: Luke cage.
I’ve only seen 2 ok
Your videos are so well communicated and very thoughtful. Thank you for sharing such good ideas and subtly teaching both creators and audiences how much better entertainment can be.
The opening change is well done.This truly does salvage the show - (1) it fits the mythos, (2) it is entertaining, (3) it does not require any expensive or hard to film effects, (4) your explanation of the fundamental contradiction of the Iron Fist versus the Hand (guard the city, fight the Hand). Really, you can make a bad series seem interesting!
Danny Hand And The Rand: A Star Wars Story.
Love your videos. I wouldn't have skipped two thirds of the season if it had gone like this. I ended up just reading a synopsis online, but the series as you've laid it out would've felt much more engaging.
Oof, this is it, this is the best "one small change" yet. Literally that one thing fixes *so much* that fundamentally doesn't work otherwise.
That tension between "guarding the pass" and actively hunting the Hand would also work as a fantastic running metaphor for passive vs active opposition to evil, if the series needed a bit more of a thematic arc.
This is both one of the most simplistic and effective fixes that I have seen you come up with. Loved it!
I really like these ideas.
- Danny having to debate sacrificing his morals would make for interesting character writing.
- Danny having a strong plot motivation (i.e. running the company to sort out the Hand's involvement with it) would sort out my main problem with the series which was its directionless feel (it didn't seem to know where it was going throughout and therefore, dramatic events didn't have the impact they probably should have had). It might also lead to more interesting debate between him and his friend (currently, I think that's probably the least effective point in the series).
- That ending would also be interesting. It would be questionable though because the Hand would have effectively defeated themselves through that series which could make them seem idiotic.
Also, I'd be interested to know if you have any fixes for 'The Defenders' because as effective as it is to tease the dramatic intent of the Hand, I found what they actually needed him for in 'The Defenders' a bit disappointing.
Absolutely, Defenders is on my short list. I've been getting a lot of requests for Defenders, Inhumans, and Justice League recently. They will all happen in the next few months.
Oh wow, I think 'Inhumans' would need a lot of work. Weak acting and boring characterisation aside, it had a simply boring plot (they spend virtually the whole time wandering about the Earth looking for each other; a bit similar to 'The Defenders' where they spend half the series just getting the characters together). I look forward to all of those videos.
I have faith in Season 2 and I'm actually hyped. Seems like it's going in the right direction. He was amazing in that episode of Luke Cage Season 2
Marvel Should hire this guy without any doubt. Please make an Inhumans video, Scott Buck ruined both of these stories.
Inhumans? Scott suck? What the heck is that? Inhumans is still a comic. No one ever made a live action series about it. You are so ridicilous
daniel white I see what u did there, even i wish i could forget those 8 hours of shit.
@@shaunakpai600 Really hoping Thanos destroys the Moon
It's amazing how a few added scenes can make something so much better
i will find you and i will hug u, u somehow managed to make iron fist (one of the most disappointing shows for me) into such an amazing idea, i got hyped watching the video then remembered at the end of it that this didnt happen. You my good sir a genius
I have to admit I watched every episode of Iron Fist except for the last 30 minutes of the finale. And this changes everything!! I actually kinda... like it now??? Like it makes sense!
Well done!
Am I the only one who thinks it's really, really stupid of Marvel to be going ahead with season 2's of both Iron Fist and Luke Cage, instead of just combining them and doing a season of "Luke Cage & Iron Fist"? I mean maybe other people liked Luke Cage season 1 more than I did, but they were both just so flat and boring, I think giving them each other to play off of could really fix both series. Plus you have the perfect excuse to combine them, as their best stuff in the comics was always as a duo. Just seems like a real wasted opportunity
Butt Soup They really should have combined the two shows into a Heroes For Hire show. A) Compared to other shows Luke Cage and Iron Fist are the worst Marvel Netflix shows B) It would lower the amount of shows that had to be worked on by Marvel TV division opening up opportunities for more Marvel shows on Netflix (Moon Knight, Blade, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ghost Rider spin-off show etc.).
Congratulations. You might just get your wish yet.
Oh will it?
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Hoooly shit, you just made Iron Fist a thousand times better with a little change, thats amazing, I like your version a lot more
You really know how to make a comic book show or movie alot more interesting dude, Props.
And did know the showrunner from Iron Fist was behind the Inhumans.
This. Guy. Is. A. Living. Breathing. LEGEND
Every video is well thought out and absolutely GENIUS
Dude I've been waiting for something like this.
Your content is awesome and totally deserve more subs.
Another on point video man! The only thing I’d suggest is throwing in a little background music. I guess that’s cliche video essay stuff but I think it helps the overall presentation. Otherwise, keep up the good work🤙🏾
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DUDE YOU'RE AWESOME
Dude, I just wanna say I think your videos are great and the way you think of how to change these things and make them so much better is amazing!
For someone who has read Iron First since the late seventies,I found close to zero overlap between the essential characterisation of Rand in over 40years of history and the portrayal in the Netflix series.
Everytime you make a small change it has huge impacts. You are so good at this Nando keep it up man!!!!
I was just binge watching the defenders yesterday thinking about how nando should do an episode of him 😂
Thanks for the ❤️ Nando!
Nando should be in charge of everything worth watching.
I love your changes they really put a perspective of how small changes can have huge effects
I want to say that you did it again, and you are amazing, but ANYONE competent could've fixed Iron Fist.
No, really. Come on Netflix.
L - Boi As an actor and a writer, watching Finn Jones grunt and whine his way through this series was doubly grating for me. I think most of the issues lie in his personal performance though, as well as how he was directed. The character is a liiittle better in Defenders because everyone gets to make fun of him, but I think they still made Danny Rand way too self-important.
The idea is really amazing, but they could also have simply followed the comics. It was like this:
Instead of the plane crash, the Rand family and Harold were hiking to K'un Lun because Danny's father Wendell knew the city and wanted to live there with them.
CHANGE: The way K'un Lun is found makes sense, rather than being reached in the luckiest and most convenient way ever.
Harold makes Wendell fall to his death in front of Danny and his mother Heather, who were unable to stop him. Harold tells Heather he loves her and tells them to follow him, but she says no, he abandons them. Heather and Danny find the entrance to K'un Lun but she allows a pack of wolves to attack her in order to save Danny.
CHANGE: Danny knows Harold was the responsible for his parents' death since the beginning, so rather than spending an entire season looking for the killer, that's the first thing he'll do once he gets to NY.
Danny is rescued by K'un Lunan guards, who bring him to Yu-Ti, the city's emperor. Yu-Ti offers Danny a wish, and Danny tells him that all he wants is revenge. Yu-Ti assigns Danny as a student of Lei Kung the Thunderer, K'un Lun's martial arts master, in hopes that the training will eventually make Danny forget his desire for revenge. It doesn't.
CHANGE: Danny's desire to leave K'un Lun is much more compelling here. This Danny has a well defined reason to make the choices he makes, rather than just assuming any random thing will make him feel whole.
Danny trains kung fu for years, also punching buckets of sand, then gravel, then rock to make his fists more resistant and immune to pain. It's still not enough for him, and because he emerged as the finest warrior, Yu-Ti allowed him to go to the cave of the dragon Shou-Lao to acquire the power of an Iron Fist. He later undergoes the Challenge of the Many (against four masters of kung fu) and the Challenge of the One (against the massive robot Shu-Hu, who could only be defeated by the Iron Fist itself) before Yu-Ti and the Dragon Lords, who deem him worthy of his powers and an accomplished Iron Fist.
CHANGE: All of this is awesome and should've been included in the show to give us an idea of how skilled Danny is.
Yu-Ti tells Danny that the day when he can return to Earth approaches, and he will have to make a choice: to remain in K'un Lun and eat the Fruit of Immortality or to leave the city and perish eventually. Danny can't overcome his desire for revenge and chooses to leave.
CHANGE: No stupid rules like "the Iron Fist cannot leave K'un Lun" or "the Iron Fist has to kill for K'un Lun" here. They were clearly only invented to make Danny look even more incompetent in the show, as they make no sense when you really think about it.
In NY, Danny goes after Harold and faces all sort of enemy because of a 10 thousand dollar bounty put on the man with the dragon mark. He is triumphant and eventually reaches Harold.
CHANGE: Awesome martial arts since very early in the show. Also, this Danny is still driven by anger and revenge, but in a focused and calculated way that is in tone with his years of training, not in a psychotic, uncontrolled and immature way that contrasts his life in a Buddhist monastery.
Danny confronts Harold only to find out he lost his legs to frostbite in the mountains years ago, and lives in pain. Harold asks for death, but Danny denies it only for a ninja to enter the room, kill Harold before Danny's eyes and leave. Joy enters the room and blames Iron Fist for her father's death, and Iron Fist has to escape it in a hurry.
CHANGE: Danny learns how poisonous revenge is much earlier: this whole arc could've taken 1-2 episodes with the season being used for a much more balanced and enlightened Danny Rand.
Danny meets Colleen, who was sent to find him by her father Lee Wing. Lee is a professor of Oriental studies in a university who had been told of the Iron Fist and his imminent arrival to NY. Thus began many of Iron Fist's adventures.
CHANGE: First meeting that is way more interesting than "giving money to the tai chi hobo", huh?
Uglyguy 25 I also think it would’ve been interesting to essentially make Danny a zenned out hippie with a mean switch. Which they sort of start doing in that first episode, when he shows up to his company all smiles. But then he’s just petulant for the rest of the series and it’s so aggravating to watch. He should be the most easy-going Defender. And now instead of them being close friends and equals, Luke Cage is this weird surrogate father figure to Danny.
Momo King
Exactly! Danny should've been the coolest Defender in the sense that he almost never gets stressed at anything. His superpower is channeling life energy and positive energies, meaning that a cool attitude is essential for his powers to work. That is the positive aspect of a younger protagonist that the season should've focused on: optimism, lightness and fun, rather than making him angry and unsure about anything he does.
And you know what's the worst part? Finn Jones is exactly like that in real life. Look for interviews with him, even the ones about the Marvel shows: he's got this spontaneous positive attitude and is always making things so much fun. He said that he was attracted to Iron Fist because he always wanted to play a spiritually connected character, and described the day he was confirmed for the role as something like a dream. On top of that, he's an orphan. So except for being really skinny, this guy is perfect for the role. Every time they make Danny Rand hot headed and overly serious, they aren't just twisting the source material: they're wasting their star's best attributes.
Making Luke his mentor in The Defenders was also stupid. Obviously a mutual change of knowledge between the two of them would've been much more interesting, but I guess the internet can't accept a friendship between a white man and a black man in which the black one isn't superior, right? It sucked for Danny, who had to keep being immature for the mentorship to work, but it also sucked for Luke, the last Defender who would need an annoying man-child by his side all the time to look wise.
That ending reveal alone would have made it shoot to the near top of MCU tv series! And as always brilliant work.
i liked Ward though.
Can you save inhumans?
I really like The Inhumans comics and, like everyone else, hated the show. I haven't even thought about that video topic yet. It might be worth a shot.
Wish they had just gone with the movie. Black Bolt deserves to be on screen with Thanos and the Avengers
Nando v Movies that will be a large undertaking
The first episode of Inhumans did a pretty good job depicting Maximum as the underdog rather than the villain. Most of the show unintentionally makes the Royal Family appear like entitled tyrants, but then they flip it and just make it that Maximus is power hungry and evil and the Royal Family are the good guys. But what if it was framed differently? What if the theme of the show was Maximus being in the right, and the Royal Family having to make amends and relinquish their privilege for the better of their people? Instead of like, no theme at all.
You'll need at least ten Nando v Movies to cover it.
I liked the first iron fist season but what you said would have made it ten thousand times better.
I sure as hell would never have been able to predict where it would end if they had done it your way.
Im pretty impressed man good job
this is really good. First episode idea would have been perfect
Cubes117 SO Perfect!
I've only just started watching your videos a few days ago, and I'm already convinced that all media of the superhero genre need to check their scripts in with you before making it official. You fix terrible issues of shows/films in an instant while also making already good plots significantly better.
I feel the main issue is that Danny's motivations are not strong or portrayed strongly enough.
Nando does it again! Great job. I wish you touched on his fighting a bit more. In some scenes, he was having difficulty with just one on ones with a regular goon. He should be the one punch man of marvel. But they don't even have to show it. Have him in a room with 10 baddies, next scene they're all on the ground. Make it mysterious. Totally agree with the mask option though. A stunt double could've saved so many scenes.
That one tiny change helps so much
I like this fanfiction meets video essay that you have here! Always excited to see you update.
Every single time. You are endless.
When the reveal arrived at the end, I got chills. YES, this was so needed!
Agents of Shield really is great though.
Awesome video as always btw.
I wish you were in the brainstorming sessions of these movies and shows you cover because your creativity is wonderful and almost every video you make makes me wish the media you covered had panned out the way you describe. Keep up the amazing work!
Can someone pls give this man a job at Marvel AND DC???
It's frustrating how well this would work. I really liked Iron Fist, and thought Danny's feelings of emptiness and wanting the best of both worlds was totally fine for character motivation, but I can't ignore how much better this would have been. Rather than the Hand working out of Rand feeling so coincidental, this sets it up so logically. Well done!
You're right, dropping business cards *is* too contrived :)
Ninja: "Alright, moving in on Kun-Lun."
Other Ninja: "Oh crap! Is that the iron fist?"
Ninja: "Oh god, you're right!"
Steve: "Ok team, we need to plan an attack on him."
All Ninjas: "Got it!"
Steve: "3,2,1! NOW!"
All Ninjas: "AHHHHHHHHH!"
Other Ninja: "Wait Steve!"
Steve: "What?"
Other Ninja: "I dropped my business card"!
Steve: "And this is why we all hate you."
I somehow loved whole season.
I agree that at the beginning there was no clear reason for him to leave, although Madame Gao explained later superficially that he knew someone assasinated the plane and wanted to know who and why. That's why he showed up at Rand and asked about Harold, but he became occupied with proving his identity and then he got imprisoned in mental hospital and met Harold who told him about the Hand.
Nando could you do a video about the leader from The Incredible Hulk and The Red Skull from Captain America TFA
Wow I do wish we got your version over what we saw on Netflix. Great job.
odd place for this question but have you seen legion?
Love Legion. Noah Hawley is the only reason I don't want the entire FOX universe rebooted. His Doom movie might be dope.
Funny thing is, Legion seems completely separate from the rest of Fox's X-men stuff. Like, COMPLETELY isolated. So if they wanted to, they could turn around and say legion took place in the MCU all along.
it reminds me of fire starter by stephen king mixed with experimental cinema techniques, so good!
Hey Nando, I just found your channel and it's the best. Your editing, scripts, and ideas are all well thought out and actually make sense. Some other video essay channels are pretty garbage, so good on you. Anyway, keep it up please.
This deserves more views
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Was gonna say even more minimal a change than astral projection scene would be Danny going back to the plane wreckage and finding the Hand symbol, but that end of season is cool as hell.
Maybe even he still goes down to the wreckage, and the rand logo is covered by the Hand symbol, that would be cool and more vague as to how the hand are threatening the company.
100% agree with your rewrite! 👌🏻 I could not stand the series as it is, just did so I could watch Defenders 😂
You deserve a lot more recognition. And a screenwriting job with marvel.
at this point, you should be a writer at marvel. the different "what ifs" you think of are entirely entertaining
Holy shit, this channel impresses the shit outta me every time. Real quality work my man
Why didn't the creators of the show just follow the original origin and go from there? They had the foundation to create a good enough story.
This is my favorite of your videos, & I find myself comeing back to it again & again when I meed background noise
Love your videos...you sound like the guy who also does The Cosmonaut vlogs....one and the same?
Ha nope. I can hear the resemblance, though.
It's too bad studios don't take detailed writing seriously. Plot holes are always a problem and I love the way you fill them!
God Damnit this is good
I almost never leave comments on RUclips videos but after watching several from your channel, I had to. You're impeccable. Incredible. You are so, so good at this. I hope you get hired by Marvel. Kevin Feige needs to see your videos.
Anyone else find the hand really boring having the hand be the villains for 3 Netflix series was torture for me but iron fist can be done right his fists need to be ablaze with raw energy and every punch should be explosive and the fight scenes should make this show
I only find the hand boring because the ones they propped up as the "main" villains sucked
Gao is meh, bokudo was annoying, and whats-her-face was very dull, and was supplanted by elektra who was only slightly less boring
Meanwhile the japanese and african dudes were fucking awesome and I wished they showed up more but got killed off just as soon as they showed up
Now for the next round of netflix seasons, we've got Gao again, and a handful of crappy villains that were set up at the end of previous seasons like Luke Cage's bro or Danny's friend, which really doesn't bode well for the future
Slimmy_007 the Hand was amazing in Daredevil. After that, it tanked.
The problem with the hand is that for a 3000 years old organization they fucking suck.
The guy with the chains was amazing but yeah bakudo was the cheesiest actor in the mcu was so pissed when he showed up alive
Yeah the Japanese guy was great and so was the French speaking one they kidnapped in defenders
It's amazing how with one change you can make this show so much better. Ironically, I never disliked the show, but Danny felt really out of place. This idea fixes it beautifully. Personally I thought defenders was worse, so i hope to see a video on that one too. Keep it up man!
Wow, I wan't the biggest fan of Iron Fist, but I wish they had followed your storyline!
Your titles are perfect hooks for every essay
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Also do you know of Moon Knight? and would you want a Netflix series.
Love Spector. Was hoping they would have introduced him in one of these by now. Maybe Daredevil Season 3. Fingers crossed.
Nando v Movies hopefully
Kindakoolbutfail Games I hope they never touch Moonknight because they would mess it up like they did iron fist,inhumans and JJ s2
Daniel Greig Jessica Jones s2 is great... plus Daredevil is amazing and Luke Cage is good.
Kindakoolbutfail Games imo JJ s2 was boring and JJ s1 was my favourite season of any Netflix show DDs1 and 2 was great, punisher was good and Luke Cages first half was great, second half was as bad as ironfist and defenders was fine but moonknight is a very difficult character to write for in comic and even more difficult to adapt even in the best of circumstances and marvel Netflix is inconsistent with a very cheap budget and if they mess up moonknight he will end up like the inhumans and will never be used again or ironfist and have every idiot think hes a bad character because they never pick up a comic,my point is its too risky and I dont want them to ruin my favourite marvel character.
Haven't even finished the video and I already agree with you. Astral projection is definitely not too far off in what iron fist should be able to do and by giving him a far more obtainable/tangible goal that isn't just "I came back to my home city because I needed to destroy the hand and I only came back now because reasons"
So is Agents Of Shield a good show now? I kind of gave up halfway through season 2
In my opinion,yes
Yeah Season 4 is my favorite. You could probably start there. It's where Ghost Rider shows up.
Once season 3 hits, it starts being an amazing TV show
it's actually good
i initially watched it when it came out and that was good, what went wrong?
Yup. 100% perfect fix. I think the content even exists to edit this into it. I am working on an Iron Fist edit to a 3 hour movie, and I am going to try and put this in there!
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