As many have already finished season two of "Daredevil" (I, sadly, am not one of them), they are hungering for more of this type of show. It seems that the team up of Marvel and Netflix has produced some wonderful kick butt tv shows –– "Jessica Jones" and "Daredevil" –– and are now gearing up to release more. Soon we will have "Iron First. Many do not know who Iron Fist is, so the casting means little to nothing, and when I say that Finn Jones, the actor who plays Sir Lores Tyrell in "Game of Thrones," is going to portray Danny Rand AKA Iron Fist they will not even blink an eye. To maybe change that, let me tell you a short synopsis of the story of Iron Fist.

This is the main statement released by Marvel.com, as part of their casting reveal: "Jones will play Daniel Rand, who returns to New York City after being missing for years. He fights against the criminal element corrupting New York City with his incredible kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist." It continues on, “Danny Rand is a very complicated character. He’s a billionaire New York Buddhist monk martial arts superhero who’s still trying to figure out what exactly that all means,” added series executive producer and showrunner, Scott Buck. “Finn is able to play all these levels in such an honest, revelatory way that as soon as I saw him I knew he was our Danny.”

Now, like I said before, this revelation of Finn Jones playing this character might mean nothing, but many Marvel fans are not happy. The reason being that they feel this could have been Marvel's chance to give this character a new dimension. Instead of casting him as a white male, casting Danny Rand as an Asian-American would have been the better choice in their opinion. This is because the character has a lot of cultural-appropriation tied to it. The kung-fu, the legend of the Iron Fist, and other portions of the character's story can be seen to have Asian roots, and having a caucasian male playing this role just reinforces the white-savior complex.

The original "Iron Fist" comic came out in 1974 at the height of the cinematic martial arts craze, with Bruce Lee showing his skills on the big screen and Jackie Chan not too far behind. At the time, the writers of the "Iron Fist comic" still felt it best that Danny be caucasian, and while many are OK with this, others point out that characters who should have been Asian or African-American have been portrayed by a white person, and it's only fair that now in this day and age that the reverse happen.

I think many are disappointed that Marvel didn't take this chance of race-bending, because they have race-bent and gender-bent in the past, and it has worked out flawlessly. For example, we have Nick Fury, head or former head of S.H.I.E.L.D, originally in the comics and animated series a white male now more commonly known as the character portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, also Idris Bella a black man, who played the Gatekeeper, a Norse god traditionally white, in all of the Thor movies. And in both "Jessica Jones" and "Daredevil" as well, there are characters whose gender has been changed from male to female and whose race has been changed also. With all of these examples in the past, some fans had hopes for "Iron Fist" to make the change. But, ultimately the decision has been made to keep to the story and characters as they were written in the beginning. So, whether you fall in with those that say Danny Rand was a missed opportunity, or those that think the writers did the right thing, or even those that don't care (probably the majority), I know there are many of us excited for another Marvel TV show that will blow our minds.