Jessica Jones (Season 1)

[Dukefrukem]

If this was a real life conversation I'd be laughing.

[number8]

Touchy touchy.

[Dukefrukem]

Touchy touchy.

This........... I can't argue with.

"Here's Duke taking you into the weekend."

[Dead & Messed Up]

Duke, without giving too much away, a man wishing a woman would be prettier for him ends up being a crucial part of the story.

[D_Davis]

All I fucking said was I wish she was cuter.........

But that's just a really weird thing to say about someone.

Imagine saying that to someone in person?

I think you're tying to say that she doesn't fit your idea of the character, is that right?

If so, there are more tactful ways to relay that information.

[Dukefrukem]

But that's just a really weird thing to say about someone.

Imagine saying that to someone in person?

I think you're tying to say that she doesn't fit your idea of the character, is that right?

If so, there are more tactful ways to relay that information.

I would never say that to someone in person because that context makes zero sense. Yes that is what I am saying.

[Dukefrukem]

Just watched the rape episode last night. "WWJD"

[megladon8]

Seriously did her inconsistent strength not bother anyone else?

[number8]

I don't even really remember any inconsistency.

[Dukefrukem]

I haven't seen it either. She breaks a lot of metal stuff.

[Dead & Messed Up]

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Show Spoiler

Robyn knocking her out with a piece of wood was a series low.

]

[Skitch]

Strength doesn't mean you're invulnerable like Superman. Granted we're only on ep5 or so, but it seems to me that while shes metahuman strong, shes just about as susceptible to damage as any normie. Maybe I'm wrong?

[number8]

They specifically played with it in that episode where she gets shot. She gets away with bluffing most of the time because people just assume you're invulnerable when you're strong.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Oh.

Well, I still hate Robyn.

[number8]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-j...being-stalked/

EDIT: The author originally titled that article "5 Ways 'Jessica Jones' Perfectly Portrays Being Stalked" but of course the Cracked editors retitled to the generic and clickbait sounding "5 Reasons 'Jessica Jones' Is Way Darker Than You Realize."

#1 is one of my favorite aspects of the show. Jessica's really quick in telling other people they're not responsible. That's the main thing she drills to Hope, and she says it with a lot of conviction. She genuinely believes the fault is 100% in Kilgrave. But it doesn't change the fact that she feels all the guilt for what Kilgrave made her do.

[megladon8]

In one scene she lifts a car with no effort at all. In others she seems to be struggling lifting/throwing people in fights.

Also we see her jump incredible heights and scale skyscrapers, but in one of the final episodes she barely makes a 20-30 foot jump between a couple of balconies.

And yes, the knock out was a low. As was the being shot. I didn't think they were playing with it - they seemed to have no set rules for what she can and can't endure. She explicitly says that she is able to heal faster than most, and her gunshot wound is gone by the next episode. But she broken ribs remain for like 1/3 of the season.

[D_Davis]

In one scene she lifts a car with no effort at all. In others she seems to be struggling lifting/throwing people in fights.

Also we see her jump incredible heights and scale skyscrapers, but in one of the final episodes she barely makes a 20-30 foot jump between a couple of balconies.

And yes, the knock out was a low. As was the being shot. I didn't think they were playing with it - they seemed to have no set rules for what she can and can't endure. She explicitly says that she is able to heal faster than most, and her gunshot wound is gone by the next episode. But she broken ribs remain for like 1/3 of the season.

Superhero logic.

Make the hero weaker or stronger depending on the amount of drama or suspense you need.

[ledfloyd]

Just watched the rape episode last night. "WWJD"

Well now you know why she has a "sour look" on her face. It would make no sense to have a survivor of emotional and sexual trauma being all cheery and smiley.

[Dukefrukem]

Yup

[Peng]

I thought it was established already in the very first episode what she had gone through? Like, what happened to Hope already happened to her. Not to mention the traumatized looks she had after being triggered to remember him. The very end of the episode is she struggling mightily to overcome her traumatic past so she can help Hope.

Anyway, really liked the series. Would loved it even more without those neighbors, which drag down even the initially poignant survivor group stuff.

[Dukefrukem]

Season Two

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/17/n...on-2-and-more/

[Dukefrukem]

Why don't people wear ear plugs around Kill Grave?

[Scar]

Why don't people wear ear plugs around Kill Grave?

I seem to recall her using them. Then he just uses random people to attack.

[number8]

Yeah, Patsy confronts him using an iPod. He then commands pedestrians to knock them off her ears.

[Grouchy]

Wow, this show was incredible. If the adagio that "a hero is only as good as its antagonist" applies then it becomes even more incredible. Kilgrave is the most effective villain I've seen in a long, long time and he makes even D'Onofrio's creepy, mature interpretation of Kingpin (a much more "real world" character all things considered) look childish and comic-booky. David Tennant is awesome, Krysten Ritter is a great, charismatic lead (I realize now we didn't see nearly enough of her range in Breaking Bad), pretty much everyone is spot-on. Even that guy who plays the Netflix version of Nuke is pretty rocking - he really sells the "crazed soldier" angle and is pretty funny to boot during the later episodes. The season itself is a gem. It might be my favorite piece of media in the cinematic Marvel Universe so far. I can't tell if you guys are serious when you talk about the occasional bad writing. There are plenty of fully fleshed out secondary characters in this and it has scenes that range from terrifying to hilarious. What more can we ask of TV? Well, actually, you can ask for more - it has a running theme of surviving abusive relationships that I thought was very well handled. I kept anticipating myself and expecting some awkward scene of dialogue to lay it out on the open with no subtletly whatsoever and that never came. Yet there were plenty of suspenseful dramatic moments such as the rooftop sucide attempt that are just amazingly sharp.

It even compares very favorably to the actual Jessica Jones comics. I revisited Alias and The Pulse while I was binging mid-season and... they're not so good. It might be that Bendis's dialogue gets overbearing, or that that Michael Gaydos dude who draws Alias is one of the crappiest artists professionally published that I know of, but I much prefer this version of Jessica Jones. Kilgrave is an afterthought in the original comics, a Big Baddie that Bendis decides to turn into a Deadpool-like meta-joke for some reason, instead of the spectacular villain he is here.