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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 324926" data-attributes="member: 23">Iron Fist Shadow Hawk Takes Flight / Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch continued It’s a relief when, against the odds, Danny’s doctor starts to believe him. Then we see Danny shoot himself in the foot by telling more of his truths which are naturally met with disbelief, meaning he has to escape himself. Incidentally, I picked out both the actors playing Doctor Paul Edmonds and Harold Meachum as Aussies. Not by what they said, but by how they looked. There’s just something about them that feels Australian, and they reminded me at times of certain actors from Neighbours and Home and Away. I don’t recall seeing either of them in specific roles but according to their filmography I will have seen Murray Bartlett in an episode of The Flying Doctors and David Wenham as a debt collector in a latter day Sons and Daughters (I don’t recall him, but from the description I imagine he was giving poor old Susan Palmer a hard time following her gambling addiction). Speaking of soap, the corrupt Meachums have more than a dash of the Carringtons to them, with Joy and Ward as Adam and Fallon, each grasping to hold onto their billions at any cost while backstabbing one another. Joy may be the least corrupt, most human member of the family, but she had a terrifically dark moment in the third episode with the “we’re making sure this organ donor’s liver goes to you as long as you acquiesce to the business offer we’ve made you” speech, made from the foot of the bed of the donor in question who is half an hour away from having his life support switched off. It’s brutal, cold and unexpected. And just when she was in danger of becoming likeable. Things have really started coming together in the third episode with Danny connecting with Jeri Hogarth arriving on the scene to help Danny, the son of her old employer (no fee, but she wants an exclusive contract with Rand if she gets him his company back). I love the intimacy of the conspiratorial nature, with various people - Hogarth, Colleen, Doctor Edmonds and even Joy - at various stages of believing Danny and getting on-side with him. Clearly Joy’s not quite there yet, but I think she will be. Furthering the connections between the series, Danny’s mission is to bring down The Hand, and Madame Gao has paid a visit to Harold Meachum giving him orders . We only heard her voice, but between her and Jeri, it's enough to show that this series is part of a greater whole.</blockquote>

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