Finn Jones , star of Marvel and Netflix ’s Iron Fist , save blame outside factors for the pitiable reviews of his show . He’salready trottedout the former and rotted “ this is for the fan not critics ” argumentation , but now he ’s add an contestation as baffling as it is new : Danny Rand is too much like Trump and that is why people do n’t care him . We are suddenly serious .
Speaking to theRadioTimes , Jones gave this explanation for the negatively charged perception regarding his TV serial :
“ I consider the world has changed a lot since we were filming that television show , ” he say . “ I ’m work a ashen American billionaire superhero , at a prison term when the white American billionaire archetype is public foe number one , especially in the US . ”
On a strictly documentary level , this is bullshit . No one ’s holler about Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne , who are far more representative of the uber - rich , beyond - the - law stereotype than Danny Rand is . And Arrow launched a boob tube existence on the back of a ample , white , billionaire character . distinctly , Iron Fist ’s problem lie elsewhere .
Jones continued :
“ We filmed the show way before Trump ’s election , and I think it ’s very interesting to see how that perception , now that Trump ’s in big businessman , how it pee it very hard to root for someone coming from whitened privilege , when that archetype is public enemy number one . ”
Given that the huge majority of American TV and picture entertainment sport white leads and yet has not faced an glimmering of the repercussion or criticism that Iron Fist has find , it ’s safe to say that this is nonsense . Are more the great unwashed critiquing the idea of rich , white men as protagonists ? Absolutely , especially in stories like Iron Fist which also contain racist tropes in their desoxyribonucleic acid . But that not “ public foeman number one ” so much as it is the great unwashed express disappointment that promote diversity in entertainment is still a conflict that necessitate to be fought every day . ( And to say that a clichéd whitened character original is “ public enemy number one ” is incredibly queasy to multitude who have actually been target area of things more serious than critique . )
disregardless of whatever you think of Donald Trump , you’re able to not put down Iron Fist ’s problem at his feet . Criticisms over the show ’s casting and the character existed long before Trump was elected ; criticisms aboutthe show ’s lackluster fight scenes and boring , interminable storytellinghave nothing to do with anything other than the show ’s want of quality .
Finn Jones is being so justificative the right way now , he ’ll blame his show ’s problem on anything or anybody , other than the people who actually pull them . If there ’s any connective at all between Iron Fist and Trump , it ’s that .
We ’ve reached out to Netflix for gossip and will update if we hear back .
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