Yes! It's perfectly suited to her, as the golden sun-glow suits Danny's sunny personality.
And Davos, that cinder-red as rage. I would have been interested to see what became of him in future seasons, too: he's not dead and Danny still thinks of him as family, however damaged and dangerous. I don't know if he could ever become an ally outside of absolute necessity, but the show gave him sympathetic reasons, just terrible solutions. The abusive parenting angle made me think the writers paralleled him somewhat with Ward.
The one-off character I really wish we'd seen more of was Zhou Cheng, the sardonic Drunken Fist master whom Danny pummeled bloody in Anzhou, mid-Season 1. He was confirmed as not in a good way but not dead, which in comic book metaphysics means someone can reappear just easily as if they were confirmed dead. I suppose with the collapse of the Hand he'd have had to find a new job, but.
I have no idea if they actually planned this from the beginning (as the magic 8 ball would say, "signs point to no" is my guess) but it works so well; it makes the entire two-season arc of the show click into place, in a way that just having Danny get the Iron Fist back wouldn't have.
It looks like it's mostly different writers, which supports the seat-of-the-pants theory, but if so they weren't just shoehorning: they were picking up on elements maybe intended for different ends, but channeling perfectly toward this one.
but I think the gangster's widow, whose name I can't currently remember (Mrs. Yang?) really struck me because of the particular kind of political power she wields and her antagonistic-but-respectful dynamic with Colleen by the end, that sort of ambiguous-frenemies thing that again is something you don't get with female characters all that often.
Yes! It is Mrs. Yang; she's a great character and I loved everything you mention about her plot, including that after the crisis is over she doesn't relinquish power. By the end of it she's admitting openly that her husband is dead and she's still running the Hatchets. I expect her never to give it up, until she's assassinated herself or successfully makes peace and retires.
The show doesn't revolve around Danny at the expense of the other characters; you can easily imagine Colleen having a fully developed vigilante-hero existence back in New York without him, with her own network of allies and enemies apart from the connections she has through Danny.
Very much so. She's got some of that by the second season already with Sam and the community center. And even the people they met while they were a couple weren't tied just to Danny—she has her own friendships with Claire and Misty, another aspect of this show I really enjoyed. It could have been so dude-heavy with Harold, Bakuto, and Davos as major antagonists along with Madame Gao, and it's just not.
Does Colleen interact much with Jeri beyond the bit at the end of the first season when they've been framed by Harold? I feel the two of them would really get along.
(With an extra heart-stab because it's very Ward to make a joke about how his dad used to beat the shit out of him. Good lord.)
It is very Ward. I'm pretty sure that despite his oft-demonstrated ability to insult people just by opening his mouth and saying the first thing that enters it, most of his jokes (with people he trusts enough not to lead with asshole) are at his own expense; it feels like his style of defense mechanism.
I would have dearly LOVED to see this onscreen.
I won't stop you from writing it.
Not at all, I'm thoroughly delighted you're reading it! I hope you continue to enjoy it.
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And Davos, that cinder-red as rage. I would have been interested to see what became of him in future seasons, too: he's not dead and Danny still thinks of him as family, however damaged and dangerous. I don't know if he could ever become an ally outside of absolute necessity, but the show gave him sympathetic reasons, just terrible solutions. The abusive parenting angle made me think the writers paralleled him somewhat with Ward.
The one-off character I really wish we'd seen more of was Zhou Cheng, the sardonic Drunken Fist master whom Danny pummeled bloody in Anzhou, mid-Season 1. He was confirmed as not in a good way but not dead, which in comic book metaphysics means someone can reappear just easily as if they were confirmed dead. I suppose with the collapse of the Hand he'd have had to find a new job, but.
I have no idea if they actually planned this from the beginning (as the magic 8 ball would say, "signs point to no" is my guess) but it works so well; it makes the entire two-season arc of the show click into place, in a way that just having Danny get the Iron Fist back wouldn't have.
It looks like it's mostly different writers, which supports the seat-of-the-pants theory, but if so they weren't just shoehorning: they were picking up on elements maybe intended for different ends, but channeling perfectly toward this one.
but I think the gangster's widow, whose name I can't currently remember (Mrs. Yang?) really struck me because of the particular kind of political power she wields and her antagonistic-but-respectful dynamic with Colleen by the end, that sort of ambiguous-frenemies thing that again is something you don't get with female characters all that often.
Yes! It is Mrs. Yang; she's a great character and I loved everything you mention about her plot, including that after the crisis is over she doesn't relinquish power. By the end of it she's admitting openly that her husband is dead and she's still running the Hatchets. I expect her never to give it up, until she's assassinated herself or successfully makes peace and retires.
The show doesn't revolve around Danny at the expense of the other characters; you can easily imagine Colleen having a fully developed vigilante-hero existence back in New York without him, with her own network of allies and enemies apart from the connections she has through Danny.
Very much so. She's got some of that by the second season already with Sam and the community center. And even the people they met while they were a couple weren't tied just to Danny—she has her own friendships with Claire and Misty, another aspect of this show I really enjoyed. It could have been so dude-heavy with Harold, Bakuto, and Davos as major antagonists along with Madame Gao, and it's just not.
Does Colleen interact much with Jeri beyond the bit at the end of the first season when they've been framed by Harold? I feel the two of them would really get along.
(With an extra heart-stab because it's very Ward to make a joke about how his dad used to beat the shit out of him. Good lord.)
It is very Ward. I'm pretty sure that despite his oft-demonstrated ability to insult people just by opening his mouth and saying the first thing that enters it, most of his jokes (with people he trusts enough not to lead with asshole) are at his own expense; it feels like his style of defense mechanism.
I would have dearly LOVED to see this onscreen.
I won't stop you from writing it.
Not at all, I'm thoroughly delighted you're reading it! I hope you continue to enjoy it.
I am! I try to remember to leave kudos.