I think there was such an expectation mismatch through every bit of Iron Fist. Some of the creative choices I will agree are odd for a ninja show, like they hired a non-fighter in Finn Jones and then apparently would spend maybe ten minutes teaching him the moves before committing them to video. (There are actors who are fight choreography prodigies out there, like supposedly Chris Evans is one. But that only comes up because it's unusual.) So all signs kind of point to Scott Buck not even realising what genre he was expected to be working in, which I find kind of hilarious because my sense of humour runs that way. But in a sense you can't go wrong with emotions, because all humans run on those? Emotion made some really memorable shots and moments, imo, and all these characters feeling things so hard means we ended up with a bunch of interesting story threads left to build on. Which might not have been the case if he'd made a ~cooler show.

We need an Iron Fist Defense Squad.

Tom Pelphrey is so. good. Ward could so easily have been just irredeemable, or one note pathos. He has this trademark thing he does where his eyes go wide and damp and he looks like he's about to cry, but he doesn't quite, and it kills me every time. His face just does so much.