Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 1, Episode 6: Immortal Emerges From Cave Iron Fist receives an invitation and a threat. So let’s just address the elephant in the room. Immortal Emerges from Cave is the sixth episode of the first season of the Netflix exclusive television series Iron Fist. Danny receives an invitation likes no other.

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Iron Fist – Immortal Emerges From Cave (Review)Immortal Emerges From Cave might just be the best episode of the first season of Iron Fist. Of course, Immortal Emerges From Cave is not a good episode of television. It is bedevilled by all the other issues with Iron Fist, from inconsistent characterisation to dead- end subplots to pacing issues.

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It even adds a few new problems of its own, especially with a ham- fisted and ill- judged attempt to bring the character of Bride of Nine Spiders into live action. Immortal Emerges From Cave is unlikely to make much of an impression, and it certainly doesn’t rank with the other best episodes of the Marvel Netflix series.“Three men enter! One man (or two men) leave!”At the same time, Immortal Emerges From Cave is the episode of Iron Fist that perhaps comes closest to fulfilling its own ambition.

Immortal Emerges From Cave is a relatively self- contained narrative in the middle of the season, in which Danny finds himself forced to compete in a tournament against the Hand in order to save an innocent life. It is a hokey premise, but one that leads to a series of fairly middling set pieces in which Danny Rand works his way through various “levels” in pursuit of his goal. Immortal Emerges From Cave feels very much like some forgotten z- list direct- to- video martial arts film from the nineties, a pulpy and absurd excuse to string together a collection of fight scenes. The result is not spectacular by any measure, but it is far more entertaining than the meandering story being told around it. Immortal Emerges From Cave might not succeed on general terms, or even on its own terms, but it at least has a strong sense of its own identity. That is enough to put it ahead of the rest of the season.

Glowing reviews. There is room for a truly great Iron Fist story. After all, the character of Danny Rand hits upon all sorts of interesting concepts and ideas.

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As “the Immortal Iron Fist” or “the Living Weapon”, Danny Rand could easily provide an insight to issues of assimilation or integration. Danny could easily serve as a vehicle to comment upon all manner of intriguing topics, whether through his status as a billionaire industrialist adopting Eastern philosophy or as the heir to a wealthy American corporation who found himself in a mystical city populated by kung fu monks. Of course, Iron Fist has made it perfectly clear that the show has no intention of telling a particularly profound or insightful story using the character of Danny Rand.

Given that concession, the best hope is that Iron Fist might at least be entertaining or enjoyable on a pulpy level. After all, the very premise of Iron Fist teases epic kung fu battles and martial arts showdowns. Given the care and craft that went into the stunt work on Daredevil, the first season of Iron Fist should be able to deliver pulpy thrills with some consistency.

Talk to the Hand. Unfortunately, Iron Fist has failed that particular test. The show wastes far too much time in board rooms and offices, following characters scheming about corporate shenanigans or involved in hostile takeovers. Danny got locked in a psychiatric institution in Shadow Hawk Takes Flight before punching his way out. Danny spent a full three episodes trying to prove that he was Danny Rand before Harold Meachum resolved the issue with a throwaway line of dialogue in Eight Diagram Dragon Palm. None of this is compelling viewing. By and large, the action scenes in Iron Fist have been sporadic and underwhelming.

Snow Gives Way featured a very clumsy ambush in Chinatown, in which Danny used the eponymous superpower to break a crook’s knuckleduster without breaking his knuckles. Shadow Hawk Takes Flight featuring a beating with three mooks helpfully singled out by exposition earlier in the episode. Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch and Eight Diagram Dragon Palm improved slightly by putting Colleen Wing in cage matches. Ezra Edelman watch online in english with subtitles in 1440p. Purple haze. However, none of these sequences have felt as fun as they really should. They have often felt perfunctory and obligatory, the show never relishing the opportunity to showcase impressive stuntwork or setpieces. The hallway fight in Eight Diagram Dragon Palm is a great example of the show going through the motions.

Hallway fight sequences are a staple of the Marvel Netflix shows, as seen in Cut Man, New York’s Finest, Seven Minutes in Heavenand Who’s Gonna Take the Weight? Given that Iron Fist is a show about fighting, a hallway fight was a given.

The hallway fight in Eight Diagram Dragon Palm feels very straightforward, to the point that Danny opens the door to the hall outside his penthouse and finds that the bad guys are already lined up and ready to fight. There are certainly innovative elements to the fight. Trevor Morris’ score very consciously channels eighties exploitation films, and the brawl takes a twist when Danny pushes his way into an elevator and the fight continues via split screen. However, the fight is never visceral and never tangible.

It feels perfunctory rather than revelatory. Whatever it meditates. This explains the appeal of Immortal Emerges From Cave, which embraces the goofy and silly aspects of the genre while playing out some of the most familiar tropes. Immortal Emerges From Cave is notable for being directed by noted martial arts film enthusiast RZA. According to Finn Jones, it was a good fit with the production: It’s a lot of kind of ’9.

De La Soul, Jurassic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu- Tang Clan, that kind of music is really what Danny’s jamming to. And we featured that in the series. And actually one of our episodes was directed by the RZA himself, episode 6. So yeah, there’s very close ties to hip- hop music and the Iron Fist series. In fact, this sense of overlap is reinforced by the fact that RZA directed the hokey martial arts tribute film The Man With the Iron Fists. Although RZA is a director and an enthusiast, even drafting him in to direct the episode suggests a coy sense of self- awareness that is sorely lacking from the rest of the season. All’s well. The Hand have abducted the daughter of “the chemist.” In order to secure her return, Danny must take part in a brutal no- holds- barred martial arts tournament against three (or four) champions of the Hand.

Naturally, this tournament throws Danny into to conflict with a set of eccentric assassin types; two knife- wield chef- twins, a vampy poison lady, and a karaoke assassin. On top of this, Danny finds himself visited by a projection of his mentor, Lei Kung the Thunderer. It is all ridiculous, but it is ridiculous in a way that is (largely) fun and exciting.

The old “tournament narrative” is a staple of the martial arts genre, a reliable framework upon which a competent stunt team can layer any number of impressive sequences. There are any number of classic stories build from that framework, most notably films like Enter the Dragon or Bloodsport. Even the comic book character Danny Rand has built arcs around the premise, most notably Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Seven Capital Cities of Heaven.

All about chemistry. So there is a certain thrill to seeing Iron Fist actually embrace its kung fu elements instead of treating them as just a different style of fight choreography layered over an existing storytelling and thematic framework. After all, the Marvel Studios projects work best when they embrace their unique attributes instead of shying away from them.

Iron Man III is a Shane Black film. Guardians of the Galaxy is a space opera. Ant Man works best when it is a heist movie. Luke Cage embraces the conventions and themes of classic blaxploitation. These kung fu roots are what distinguish Iron Fist from every other Marvel property, so it is thrilling to see the show play into those aspects of itself. Of course, the kung fu elements are also the most difficult aspects of Iron Fist, from both a practical special effects standpoint and from a cultural appropriation standpoint.

However, the decision to structure Immortal Emerges From Cave around a tried- and- tested kung fu plot device feels like the sort of genre specificity that is sorely lacking from the rest of the season. On the fence. Of course, it would be even more fun if Iron Fist played with and reclaimed some of the more problematic aspects of these stock kung fu plots, but that seems unlikely to happen given the tone deaf writing of the current creative team. Playing into the tropes would be enough at this point, allowing Iron Fist to distinguish itself from Daredevil.

Whatever problems might exist with the episode, Immortal Emerges From Cave is the episode of Iron Fist with the strongest and most distinctive voice. Given the parallels that exist between the first season of Daredevil and the first season of Iron Fist, the episode represents a very interesting inversion.

The first season of Daredevil was largely preoccupied with its own stories and characters, telling an extended arc that served the series itself. In the middle of all that, Stick stood out as an extended episode- long tease for The Defenders, dropping in hints of the Hand and a large mythos that would obviously pay off down the line. Iron Fist plays almost as the opposite to that.

Singing from the same hymn sheet. While the first season of Daredevil told its own story, the first season of Iron Fist is primarily concerned with setting up The Defenders. After all, the closing scene of Dragon Plays With Fire is consciously designed to tease Danny Rand’s character motivation going into The Defenders. However, in the middle of that extended tie- in, Immortal Emerges from Cave stands as a relatively disconnected single- episode story that teases the possibility of Iron Fist as an exciting kung fu show in its own right. Immortal Emerges From Cave is like the opposite of Stick. Of course, RZA is still working within the confines of Iron Fist.

As fun as the premise of Immortal Emerges From Cave might be, the director still inherits a host of problems from the show around him.