Iron Fist SEASON Two

A good compelling hero will need an equally compelling villain, a classic example would be Batman vs Joker.  Danny Rand has the Hand a sworn enemy of the Iron Fist. The second season wisely left the hand behind and focused on the conflict more closely related to Danny Rand.

What did we learn about these villains known as the Hand,  They are 5 clans of Ninjas all original descendants of K'un-Lun, Obsessed with maintaining there secrets of immortality through a blood ritual.  Immortality is in fact finite without the bones of a dragon, the same dragon  that gave Danny his Chi power.  Their  blades and arrow tips are laced with poison and yet it is not consistent on all their weapons.  Their leader was dying and the last elixir was given to Elektra over herself, because her body was ravaged with ailments that no blood ritual could  save after all these centuries ? ?

Season 2 went back to the conflict of Davos and Danny, Similarly to a Jedi who are not allowed to have emotional interests, Davos and Danny are mentally unstable because of their training to remove emotions, Anakin massacred an entire race in his confession to Padme as his bottled emotions got the best of him, Davos exhibits bizarre tantrums, he demands what is owed to him, an earned privileged through his faith and dedications.  Joy Meachum was lied too by every person she thought was family both living and dead.

So the plot of season 2 is steal the  power of the Iron fist and syphon the wealth from  both Danny Rand and Ward Meachum.

There is no Joker here, but we have Mary Walker, a woman with 2 separate personalities one is more aware over the other and brings an arsenal of pain and problems for Danny and his friends.  The character is Typhoid Mary in the comic books; a very well documented character within the Daredevil comics, and  recently a loyal servant to kingpin in the king in black crossover event within the comic books.

Mary played by British actress Alice Eve brings a welcome change to the current cast, and with a level of uncertainty as the character is unpredictable, as she is caught between being either victim or perpetrator.  The character's exit from the season is unfulfilling and has no lasting marks on the story, but her presence gives us the viewer an added investment, from the trivial bickering between siblings and an out of place monk.  As the show concludes with  Danny now wielding two Chi revolvers that fire Chi bullets, both he and Ward Meachum walk the earth - away from their life in New York  in search of an Indiana Jones adventure.