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Although it does take a little while for this series to get going, it’s well worth it. The general mood grows steadily, and all of the characters develop very nicely.. including the stick-in-the-mud.

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s01e01 – 2017-03-17 – Snow Gives Way ∞

Spoiler

• 2:00 — Wooh wooh wubbidy wub wub.
• 8:00 — Daww, scared little girl brave brave man.
• 10:45 — I’m predicting a gentle old woman who will recognize, take care of him and sort all this out.
• 24:00 — Cirque de Psychopath = Cirque du Soleil
• 25:30 — Her eyes are going to forever freak me out, I just know it.
• 25:30 — The building shot and beat feel like an homage to Tron – Legacy – (2010 movie)
• 26:30 — Bang. Roll credits.

• 28:00 —

  • Aviation accidents and incidents
  • Himalayas
• 29:30 — Somewhere up the ramp they should have scraped the door or something to jam it and explain why he didn’t get out and run away.
• 30:15 — His prints on the car, witnesses and cameras at the car garage.
• 31:00 — Hunter-gatherer. And NO, it was not good. Holy fuck was it not good.
• 34:15 — Kung Fu is sometimes a generic term for Chinese martial arts and sometimes an umbrella term for a family of martial arts.
• 37:45 — I’m pretty sure those would cost more than $2.
• 41:00 — Welp, I’m going to see a lot more Apple Inc. products in this show. I let the iPod and iPhone by, but there’s another phone and a computer (monitor)
• 45:45 — Oh, I know him from Van Helsing – (2004 movie)
• 46:00 — If it is him, things would be disruptive but being declared dead a long time ago would remove any claim he had to the company.

s01e02 – 2017-03-17 – Shadow Hawk Takes Flight ∞

Spoiler

• 5:00 — I’m still confused as to how they wouldn’t just drag him away and shoot him in some dark alley.
• 10:45 — Toronto Canada
• 11:30 — While that’s legal in Canada.. isn’t this set in New York United States?
• 13:30 — Even a wooden sword wouldn’t be legal, would it?
• 16:00 — I’m uncomfortable looking any of that up.
• 19:00 — Why would they give him his stuff? Wouldn’t that be confiscated? He could have memorized her number, giving us a glimpse of some more of his abilities..
• 28:30 — Oh good, that’s a Dell monitor. I guess they couldn’t give the place an impression of wealth.
• 32:15 — Shouldn’t she not be taking their calls in the first place?
• 53:45 — Not all things are on the internet.

s01e03 – 2017-03-17 – Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch ∞

Spoiler

• 2:15 — What’s she doing closing and locking the door? It got kicked in.
• 3:00 — Bushido
• 3:15 — I’ll admit I was wrong about the old woman taking him in.
• 4:30 — Yep, the soundtrack reminds me of Tron – Legacy – (2010 movie)
• 12:15 — Starbucks
• 16:45 — Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs
• 20:00 — He can’t hear you.
• 23:00 — She’s kind of an old woman taking him in.
• 28:30 — It would have been trivial for him to have kicked some glass out of the way, or move, and not mention it. It’s also trivial for someone to go down on their knees without using their hands, or at least only using one.. but I guess this is all for effect.
• 30:45 — He does have another place to go.
• 43:00 — Why would he keep anything?

s01e04 – 2017-03-17 – Eight Diagram Dragon Palm ∞

Spoiler

• 2:45 — Daredevil

  • See also Daredevil – (2003 movie)
• 6:15 — Illuminati
• 10:45 — She should hand him the money and say that he need not sully himself with such things.
• 19:15 — Leishmaniasis
• 20:15 — Antimonial Antiparasitic
• 22:15 — .. and they’ll go down in history selling at cost.
• 40:00 — What is duct tape going to do?
• 40:45 — Triad (organized crime)

s01e05 – 2017-03-17 – Under Leaf Pluck Lotus ∞

Spoiler

• 0:30 — Well they’re evil.

  • .. or maybe not..

• 1:45 — Heroin

  • .. or maybe so..
• 10:00 — Fruit Roll-Ups
• 38:00 — .. will he have the flash on?
• 40:30 — There should be no light in there, but his phone could have been used as one..
• 42:45 — So a bullet went through the door or shit wall, through the boxes, through the back of the truck and through the windshield? I saw no hole in either the door or the wall.
• 45:45 — I’m pretty sure that a nurse can’t help him, unless they want to ease his suffering until he dies..

s01e06 – 2017-03-17 – Immortal Emerges from Cave ∞

Spoiler

• 2:15 — Take On Me – (1984 song), by A-ha
• 9:15 — Aston Martin
• 11:30 — How did he get in? Was it unlocked?
• 25:45 — Forbes, People (magazine)

s01e07 – 2017-03-17 – Felling Tree with Roots ∞

Spoiler

• 2:45 — I thought the finger thing was a Japanese thing.
• 8:45 — Frank Stein is his gay lover that he’s having relationship problems with. I won’t judge.
• 9:30 — Shouldn’t the nurse be doing that?

• 11:00 — Wouldn’t she ask about his tattoo?

  • 13:15 — Called it.
• 17:30 — Oh fuck right off right there.
• 29:15 — Feng shui

• 28:45 —

  • “The devil of hell’s kitchen” = Daredevil (TV series)
  • “The man with unbreakable skin” = Luke Cage (TV series)
  • “An immortal weapon” = Iron Fist (comics)
• 30:45 — I’d get rid of that plant.. I’d suspect it.
• 39:00 — What the fuck is she typing? Bwahaha..
• 42:45 — He looks like a man who would look good with a small diamond stud in his left ear.
• 51:45 — Hangzhou China

s01e08 – 2017-03-17 – The Blessing of Many Fractures ∞

Spoiler

• 8:15 — The third wheel needs to come too, for protection.

  • 8:45 — .. called it.
• 12:30 — Golden parachute
• 15:30 — Are they really stupid enough to take a Rand plane?
• 16:00 — I’m not going to bother looking up those artists.
• 20:00 — Just talk.. talk about your feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings.
• 26:00 — Someone must really fuck with his hair..
• 29:15 — Were I a bad guy, I’d already have tried setting that guard up to test him..
• 32:15 — I like the woman’s perspective.. she’s leftover and going mental.
• 35:00 — Destroying a lab didn’t work last time.
• 35:45 — Quick, dial 5555555555!

s01e09 – 2017-03-17 – The Mistress of All Agonies ∞

Spoiler

• 4:30 — Waterboarding
• 5:15 — Sodium Pentothal = Sodium thiopental

• 10:30 —

  • Daredevil (TV series)
  • Luke Cage (TV series)
  • Iron Fist (TV series)
• 19:00 — I can understand him getting in from the street, but how did he get upstairs without an elevator pass?
• 21:45 — I’m surprised they didn’t make him Canadian.
• 37:45 — Okay look, I hate going back to this comment.. but cement.
• 39:15 — Corn Flakes

s01e10 – 2017-03-17 – Black Tiger Steals Heart ∞

Spoiler

• 13:45 — Girl Scouts = Girl Guides
• 15:45 — Oligarchy
• 18:00 — Qigong
• 36:00 — Why would he stay there? With her..
• 45:30 — Good thing he learned that another Iron Fist could use both hands, and so he’s been practicing with his off hand.
• 54:30 — I like how FexEx was in the back of the previous scene, and now UPS is at the back of this one.

s01e11 – 2017-03-17 – Lead Horse Back to Stable ∞

Spoiler

• 1:00 — Did I miss something? Oh, this is an out-of-place flashback.
• 19:45 — Reiki, which is bullshit. Also Qi, which is also .. well sortof bullshit.
• 21:00 — Pete’s Dragon (2016 film)
• 23:15 — Hense why the average man utterly outclasses the average woman at being a living weapon, and why the greatest men exist in a larger ratio to the greatest women. All those feeeeeeeeeeeeelings.

• 30:30 — “And I’m Juliet..”

  • See Romeo and Juliet – (1597 play), by Shakespeare

s01e12 – 2017-03-17 – Bar the Big Boss ∞

Spoiler

• 39:45 — .. and maybe don’t wander around with blood on you?
• 47:30 — There are lots of holes in the ceiling still..

s01e13 – 2017-03-17 – Dragon Plays with Fire ∞

Spoiler

• 10:00 — Xanadu = Shangdu and likely she is referencing it via Xanadu (Citizen Kane)
• 31:00 — Why would they do a damned thing? It’s some random shit down the block.
• 34:45 — He gets up, turns and shoots Danny, roll credits.
• 36:00 — What the fuck, there’s a random clean rag up there?
• 37:15 — Why wouldn’t he finish him off or take his gun or something? Oh, for more exposition-time?
• 40:00 — Why would the bad guy walk away without finishing him?

Continues with Iron Fist season 2 notes