Ironfist Season 2 Might Dive Steeply Into The Mystic Like The Comics

It’s no secret that the fan-response to Netflix’s Iron Fist series was lukewarm at best. Before it was released, the Finn Jones-starring series received a fairly large amount of hype as the formation of the Defenders approached. On top of that, Iron Fist was already a very popular character from the comics — meaning that fans already had high expectations for the Living Weapon’s first foray into live-action television. However, longtime comic fans were ultimately left disappointed with a series that opted to show an Iron Fist only coming into his own instead of a full-fledged superhero.

In Iron Fist, Danny Rand wasn’t the world’s greatest fighter, or the most mature character. He was on a season-long search for purpose and identity, and many felt like this was the wrong direction for the series to take. Instead of having the season’s story dive into the mythology of the comics, the series largely took place in New York, examining Danny’s return to civilized life. And, instead of focusing on the Iron Fist’s formative years of training in K’un-Lun, a very important location in the source material, we only caught a few glimpses of the mystical city.

Now that the character has been established in the Netflix shows and now that Danny Rand has fully embraced his role as a  protector in the closing moments of Season 1 of The Defenders, the second season of Iron Fist can finally go into uncharted territory. Cameras started rolling on Season 2 and while we don’t know what direction the season will take yet, we hope the series will dive head first into the comics, and give us a story steeped in mysticism.

While Season 1 of Iron Fist mentioned all of these things, it didn’t really show us any of it. Sure, we saw a few flashbacks of Danny in a room with monks; we saw him standing at the gates of K’un-Lun, and we saw him enter the cave where he would face Shou-Lao. But we never really got to see K’un-Lun as a real, living and breathing place. We didn’t see its village or its inhabitants, its customs or its practices. Considering that Danny’s sole mission is to protect this very special place, it’s high time that we actually get to see it. In order for us to understand Danny better, we really need to not only see K’un-Lun, but experience it as a real and strange place.

In order to achieve that, we hope that the series will look to The Immortal Iron First comic book series by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja, a series seen by many as a quintessential Iron Fist run. Specifically, Season 2 should look to “The Seven Capital Cities of Heavan” storyline, which saw Danny enter a reality-spanning fighting contest between seven mystical cities, to see which had the best fighter. Not only would this allow Danny Rand to truly cut loose and up his fighting game, it would also be a great departure from the first season, which only focused on the Hand infiltrating New York.

Besides, for as long as we have known Danny in the Netflix universe, we have seen him away from the home he has always known, a fish-out-of-water situation that has led to him being treated as a bit of a lunatic. It would be crucial for season 2 of the series to finally show us the reverse — to bring in an outsider like Colleen Wing to K’un-Lun, and have her be the fish-out-of-water. This would go a long way to rectify how we perceive Danny, while allowing the character to be his fully-realized self.

There truly is the possibility for Season 2 of Iron Fist to be great. It just needs to move away from Season 1 and embrace the mystical foundations of its main character. The mythology of Iron First is about heroism, mysticism and legacy. And itThere truly is the possibility for Season 2 of Iron Fist to be great. It just needs to move away from Season 1 and embrace the mystical foundations of its main character. The mythology of Iron First is about heroism, mysticism and legacy. And it’s time for the series to give us all three.’s time for the series to give us all three.

There truly is the possibility for Season 2 of Iron Fist to be great. It just needs to move away from Season 1 and embrace the mystical foundations of its main character. The mythology of Iron First is about heroism, mysticism and legacy. And it’s time for the series to give us all three.

Via: CBR