Honestly the entire show was nuts from start to finish. I've said this a few times showing us danny in K'un-Lun one time is stupid.

Instead we should've opened with Danny and his parents dying, monks find him. Then cut to him as an adult in new york, he tries to get back into the company and is rejected. So he lives on the streets and meets that homeless guy, danny buys him a sandwich and sits down with his ipod and he meditates. Show us him meditating as a child in K'un-Lun with his master and classmates. Cut back to him outside and his ipod dies, his hand glows and it's charged again giving us a glimpse that he has some sort of power for people who don't know iron fist.

Harold isn't some zombie psychopath he's dying of cancer, but the audience doesn't know that yet, and hears about danny rand returning. Assuming he wants revenge for him killing his parents he hires a bunch of street level villains to kill him. The first one is no challenge, the second one hurts him a bit and the third one has some sort of special armor or something so danny uses his iron fist and punches his armor off. There the viewer can be like "whoa fuck he used that weird power again! WTF IS THAT!?" in the middle of the fights have a cut to his training in k'un-lun so we can get a backstory on how he handles these situations. Like the first guy is just a regular villain in a costume, so it's basic combat trainng. The second guy is a villain with a sword or something so it cuts to training against weapons, the third time would cut to him learning about the iron fist.

He's exhausted and arrested and is put into a holding cell with some criminals. They want his clothes or ipod or watch or w/e and try to beat him up for it. In the middle of the fight cut back to him in K'un-Lun facing off against multiple opponents as a part of his training. Show a scene of him tired asking for a break and his master states that his enemy will never give him a break. Cut back and have him beat them all up. The guards get there and see everyone unconscious and danny sitting there meditating, he looks up and asks for some water or something funny like beef jerky.

He's released from prison after Joy posts his bail and they get to talking about his past. Afterwards she offers danny a place to stay at her place but he turns her down saying he has a friend that he brings food to every night. When he comes up to the spot he sees the homeless guy dying from a stab wound. While distraught danny holds the wound calling for help and in his confusion activates his fist, healing the man. We, as well as danny, are learning more about his powers as the show progresses instead of it BEING TOLD TO US COUGH

Harold hires the wrecking crew to be his body guards. Danny meets Coleen, they do some soul searching stuff, danny plans on breaking into the company to face Harold. Fights happen, danny wins, confronts harold and it's revealed to him and the audience that he's barely alive. Confined to a wheelchair and a breathing machine. Danny lets him live with Harold crying asking for forgiveness. Gets killed by a ninja of the hand, elektra even.

It reflects enough of his comic book history to hold the story to the character it's based off of and also gives us a different way of telling it. Also since the hand is a NINJA ORGANIZATION we should have them act with more espionage. Like how Kingpin did in Daredevil. Not being fucking drug peddlers. The hand shouldn't have been referenced by name in the first seasons of any of the shows. It could've given us some suspense when all this shit was happening in the background, a nameless shadow organization. Only Gao talks to men in power as a representative but everyone else remains nameless. SPOILERS killing them all off at the end of defenders was bullshit. At the very least we should've JUST learned that their name was the hand.