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[SPOILERS] The Defenders Showrunner Talks Connections To Previous Series

The Defenders is finally out so it's time to talk spoilers. Showrunner Marco Ramirez spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the finale and all the big reveals. To do that we're going to have to spoil the series though.

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We find out at the end of the series that the Hand wants the bones of a dragon to keep themselves alive. That is the thing that gives them immortality. Those weren't the bones of Shou-Lao the Undying, but a different dragon. Ramirez talks about how this ties into previous series.

Yeah, it's the second one. The idea of that was that there had always been this kind of mystery that the Hand can bring people back from the dead, but we never knew exactly how, and it made sense to connect the life-force idea of the chi in the Iron Fist to the idea of the life force [the Hand members] use for various purposes, so we're just saying it's dragon bone that they use, that that's the substance. That felt like the cleanest way to tie everything in.

And it's been set up since Daredevil season 1; Gao operates in the background of New York with drugs made from that ground into powder. It felt like we could make back alley drug deals in New York and dragon mythology all part of the same story, so that was my way of trying to tie them all in.

Ramirez brings up that that this is the section of street that Nobu wanted in Daredevil season one and how all of this links back to previous shows.

It's like, we knew in season 1 of Daredevil that Nobu wanted a specific building in New York City, and that was why it was important for the Hand to get their hands on this one building, and then in season 2, we revealed that they weren't building up, they were building down. What they were digging toward we didn't know, so when we started on Defenders, we knew it would be Defenders versus the Hand, and we didn't know what they were digging for, and we could come up with anything, you know? It's kind of a fun thing that TV writers do. Like on Lost, the whole season is about the Hatch, but what's in the Hatch? We'll figure that out next season! That's how these things happen.

The bones were buried underneath a collapsed building along with Madame Gao, Murakami, Elektra, and Matt with it. We know Matt has made it out alive and that Murakami likely didn't what with having a piece re bar shoved through his chest. We shouldn't expect answers until Daredevil season 3 or Iron Fist season 2 when it comes to how Matt survived and if the Hand

The Defenders Summary: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team up to fight crime in New York City.

Marvel's The Defenders, created by Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez, stars Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, Finn Jones, and Sigourney Weaver. It's streaming on Netflix now.

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