very-simple

The whole idea of Danny being chosen to be the IF would make 1000000x more sense if Lei Kung had seen that their immortal enemy, the Hand, had become a much greater threat to the outside world in places like NY, so he was going to pick the guy who was actually from NY in order to specifically send him back home armed as an immortal weapon that could destroy said enemy. Doesn't that make infinitely more sense in answering questions like - why would they pick this idiot from NY to be the IF? - why would this "sworn defender of K'un L'un" leave the very first chance he got? I kept waiting for them to reveal something like this, even in some sort of questioning "hey, maybe it's actually because they knew I would go back to NY where all these Hand-ites are that they made me the IF?" But no.

It's a little easier to watch if you just remember that Danny is basically still a stunted 10-year old. I've decided this is a deliberate choice on the part of the creators, despite the fact that it's never really addressed on the show other than in one or two comments. I mean - he gets to be on a corporate board, despite not having a high school diploma (or actually progressing past the 4th grade, right? even with his home-schooling). And I'm assuming if he's spent his entire time in a monastery, he hasn't spent a lot of time with...women? (and not even in a romantic sense. Just in an...interacting with women as human beings sense?) So I'd be willing to go with the idea that Danny is still essentially a child, if the REST of the show were in any way hanging together well, but it's just so disjointed - too many plotlines, too many people with too many motives, too many "shifting" bad guys. Especially after the first three series had such strong, character-based points of view - even when they weren't 100%, they were really trying to go deep. This is all surface. And (no spoilers) watching further into the season, there is zero reason Danny needed to be white. To juxtapose him against a largely POC cast playing support to his white savior and/or "bad guys" only highlights how much they fucked up here.

I was also able to subscribe via Overcast this morning (I think Overcast pulls info directly from the iTunes feed, so you don't need to do anything special, just wanted to give folks a heads up that it was also available through that app!).

I kept getting distracted by the fact that the other addiction counselor was clearly separated at birth with Cuba Gooding, Jr.