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    Quote Originally Posted by Takiwaki View Post
    Reviews of the first 6 episodes are out and its not good =/

    was really looking forward to this ; ;
    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7618121.html has some quotes from various reviews. Had a user comment after it that might get missed, "Saw the first 6 eps of Iron fist. Luke cage is way better."

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    Why do I get the feeling Finn Jones is gonna fuck up Danny Rand?

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    It sounds more like pacing problems. He can't fuck up the character if they don't have him do anything with it.

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    A lot of these reviews (which is hilarious) are focused on his race. Which is retarded. Paraphrasing here but "this was marvel's chance to cast an asian for a main role but instead a white man gets the role in typical hollywood fashion"

    ugh

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    After the initial outrage, how do people still not understand that Iron Fist being white is like the whole point of the character?

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    Well he could've been any race so long as he was American, but I'll be super honest; him being white ain't gonna bug me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odesseiron View Post
    A lot of these reviews (which is hilarious) are focused on his race. Which is retarded. Paraphrasing here but "this was marvel's chance to cast an asian for a main role but instead a white man gets the role in typical hollywood fashion"

    ugh
    No, these are reviews after seeing the first 6 episodes which were released to various reviewers. Looking at them, they're all focused on the same thing: the lack of action and slow plot.

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    Daredevil definitely set the bar pretty high.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
    No, these are reviews after seeing the first 6 episodes which were released to various reviewers. Looking at them, they're all focused on the same thing: the lack of action and slow plot.
    Jessica Jones was pretty slow the first 4 or so episodes and it eventually turned out pretty amazing. But I'm probably being bias since Kilgrave has been my favorite villain in the Netflix MCU.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xno Kappa View Post
    Jessica Jones was pretty slow the first 4 or so episodes and it eventually turned out pretty amazing. But I'm probably being bias since Kilgrave has been my favorite villain in the Netflix MCU.
    JJ hooked people pretty quick in that first episode with the elevator scene though. Even if the plot around that was slow that was a pretty big milestone in showing how dark the MCU could get.

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    nah, JJ took a while.

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    Nah I was hooked after that elevator scene.

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    JJ became a slog. It could've done with 3+ fewer episodes to tighten the pacing.

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    Fuck that, Jessica was awesome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kuronosan View Post
    Fuck that, Jessica was awesome.
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    It was great, but it definitely benefited from all of it being released at once. David Tenant was fucking superb. Maybe I'll watch it again sometime, but from what I remembered it took a few eps to really get good. To me, anyways.

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    Jessica Jones would have been garbage without David Tennant. He was fantastic.

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    Indeed, JJ is actully the best one among DD and LC.

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    Episodes are up. See y'all on the other side~

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    I've been watching. The writing isn't as terrible as the reviews state, but the pacing definitely is. It feels like the series is constantly 3-4 episodes behind where it should be in the progression of the plot.

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    We spend an entire episode in a mental asylum because he shows up and is like "I'm Danny Rand!" and no one believes him. Now to be fair that's completely realistic but we dwell there way too long for the purposes of storytelling.


    As far as whether or not they should have made him Asian, all the problems with the story would still be there if John Cho was the lead instead of Finn Jones. It's not the acting that's the issue, or the thematic elements (if you can get over a white guy knowing wushu).

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