For the second series of "Iron Fist", it was pretty much all change. Danny and Colleen are very much an item and she indeed has pledged to give up all ties with her Hand background and any form of martial arts, even her teaching school. She and Danny now live in New York as a couple, although Danny still patrols the streets trying to put down the fires between the warring Triad factions.
As for Ward and Joy Meachum, their life-changes are even more pronounced. She it seems now carries a grudge against both her brother and Danny, for not telling her about her evil dad's return from the dead in the previous series, to the extent that she is willing to assist Davos in his desire to take the Iron Fist from Danny for himself, which will involve a trio of modern Macbeth type sisters who run a tattoo parlour and some key artefacts from K'un Lun in a weird, ritualistic blood transfusion. Ward meantime is fighting his own demon of drug addiction, where he breaks one of the golden rules by getting romantically involved with his mentor, who just happens to be an attractive female about his own age, wouldn't you know. That apart, he's the one to form ties with Danny although his relationship with Joy, despite his best efforts, founders down to her lingering resentment.
A new character who has a major bearing on events is a former ex-soldier, Walker, a trained killer who after being traumatised in a Black Op gone wrong now harbours a multiple personality disorder as she flips back and forth between a ruthless, ninja-trained gun for hire, in Joy's pay, to her kinder self, who after a chance encounter in the Village, is actually well-disposed to Danny. These elements are all stirred together in the pot as the Iron Fist changes hands, no pun intended, not once but twice, and Danny and Colleen, with the assistance of persistent cop Misty, not only try to keep the peace between the warring gangs, but also straighten out a younger teenage group caught in the cross-fire and of course resolve the major threat of Davos, who goes all Judge Dredd with his new-found power, although clearly he's not heard the one about what absolute power does...
With little or no focus on the high finance backdrop of the Rand Enterprises wheeling and dealing from the first series, this slightly shorter series also seemed to up the action quotient. I personally thoroughly enjoyed the ride, my only criticism perhaps being that Danny / Iron Fist too often seemed subsidiary to the main action but with its continued high-production values, strong action set-pieces and some good acting, especially from Tom Pelphrey as the conflicted Ward, it's a shame that Netflix pulled the plug on this iteration of the character continuing further on his journey, especially as it was well set-up for this in the last minutes of this finishing episode.
Never mind, I at least got to see some of these characters again in the Marvel Defenders crossover team-up with Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, which I also appreciated. So I've now watched, if in a kind of back-side forward way the series of all these characters bar Luke Cage's which I'll now seek out with strong anticipation.
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