Jessica Jones-- Marvel/Netflix
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Anyway, I've already bought my new laptop, I just have to wait for it to be shipped. It seems pointless to spend more money just so I can watch a TV show a week or two sooner. The show will still be there when I'm ready.
SPOILERS!!Daredevil was a slow burn to start, but it really picked up once Fisk showed up in person. It's absolutely worth another go.
Anyone get to episode 5 yet? Because...
The Captain America cameo at around the 28 min mark was very cute.
On Episode 8 now, the Cap cameo in Episode 5 was super cute
You'll feel silly when you get there.
Finished the series.
I liked it, but christ it was so drawn out and repetitive. There was absolutely no reason to take 13 episodes to tell this story. Maybe 6. How many times did they capture Killgrave, only for him to escape again?
And if his power wears off after 12 hours, once they've held him for 12 hours and he hasn't been able to issue any new orders, any human time bombs would have already gone off so you might as well kill him then. How many more people died because she was trying to get evidence of his power to free Hope?
Very happy to see Luke Cage in so much of the show. I thought he was just going to be in a couple. I was hoping for a Daredevil cameo though...
I liked it, but christ it was so drawn out and repetitive. There was absolutely no reason to take 13 episodes to tell this story. Maybe 6. How many times did they capture Killgrave, only for him to escape again?
And if his power wears off after 12 hours, once they've held him for 12 hours and he hasn't been able to issue any new orders, any human time bombs would have already gone off so you might as well kill him then. How many more people died because she was trying to get evidence of his power to free Hope?
Very happy to see Luke Cage in so much of the show. I thought he was just going to be in a couple. I was hoping for a Daredevil cameo though...
Watched the first two episodes last night and so far I'm enjoying the series. David Tennant's Kilgrave might be the best Villain I've seen so far in a marvel property. Talk about creepy and vile. Looking forward to seeing how this develops.
This is a great series. Fortune called it the "Best Series on Television" which is a little over the top, but it sure is darned good.
The Purple Man (David Tenent) controlled mah' brain and made me binge watch all 13 episodes.
Darkest Marvel show ever- and second only to Daredevil in terms of acting, story, (characterization) direction, etc. To its credit, the production team doesn't hit you over the head with her power(s). Her metahuman-ness is played down- and her considerable strengths, when used, are therefore made all the more effective.
Also, I'm hoping someone starts to additional threads (I'm not a big thread starter) :
Amazon's Man in the High Castle is also exceptional TV
A Rebooted Lost in Space is apparently coming to Netflix!
The Purple Man (David Tenent) controlled mah' brain and made me binge watch all 13 episodes.
Darkest Marvel show ever- and second only to Daredevil in terms of acting, story, (characterization) direction, etc. To its credit, the production team doesn't hit you over the head with her power(s). Her metahuman-ness is played down- and her considerable strengths, when used, are therefore made all the more effective.
Also, I'm hoping someone starts to additional threads (I'm not a big thread starter) :
Amazon's Man in the High Castle is also exceptional TV
A Rebooted Lost in Space is apparently coming to Netflix!
The thing is Killgrave is a legitimate surname. It's from Cornwall. So it may be Cornish, but it's not corny. (Sorry, not sorry). That's why I appreciated the change from Yugoslavian to British.
It's clear they don't want to spend money on the CGI to add it in background shots. They didn't do it for Daredevil and one of the CGI artists confirmed they were never even asked to do it. Stark Tower replaced the MetLife building, so the occasional shot of that building shows they aren't bothering. They did photoshop it into promotional materials, which, imo, is a much more efficient use of resources.
Eh, I doubt it.
I think it'll be its own sinister organization - this IGH thing, which seems to connect both Jessica Jones and Killgrave. But I suspect that's the plot for a season 2
HEY! He may be a Limey, but he was born in Rijeka!
Thou SHALL NOT take that away from me!
Me too! And he fooled me into thinking he had normal skin!
Great series! Great anti hero, great asshole of a bad guy, fantastic supporting cast and overall superb storytelling.
Since I'd never heard of Jessica Jones before the promos for this show started I'm not going to ding the producers for casting Krysten Ritter. She was absolutely fine.
So I was just reminded that in the comics Teenage Jessica jerked off to a poster on her bedroom wall of the Human Torch.
Hmmm?
Were that to be included in season 2 and the MCU...
Chris Evans or Michael b Jordan?
Hmmm?
Were that to be included in season 2 and the MCU...
Chris Evans or Michael b Jordan?
Why not both?
Evans. Even Jessica thought the latest FF movie was shit.
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Actually could the MCU legally refer to either Fantastic Four franchises as fictional movies representative of their real world (where we are) counterpart?
^That's what I said about the monolith's death cult in AoS and look where that got me!
You're probably right though. It's more likely to connect back to the other Netflix shows than anything else in the larger Marvel canon, so it'll probably tie into that whole thing with Stick and the "Black Sky" gifted kid. The link with Cage seems self evident since he got his powers through some experiment. As I know next to nothing about Iron Fist, I can only presume the link there is something mystical, possibly involving some ancient cult of magical ninja dragons. Or maybe it's his company that's behind all this and his connection will be his discovering the corruption. Actually, wasn't it a Rand truck that spilt that...whatever it was that blinded Matt Murdock? Maybe there's something in that after all.
Hydra would be the easiest explanation though, since they're pretty consistently the only ones seemingly bent on acquiring exotic weaponry and gifted people turned super-solders.
Honestly, I was actually surprised that neither SHIELD nor Hydra was even mentioned here. You'd have thought that even with his powers, Kilgrave would have popped up on their radar before now.
Even the timing is sort of perfect as the point where he finds Jessica is right around the time SHIELD collapsed and Garret sprung everyone from The Fridge.
Still, I agree that I'd rather they do something new.
Maybe in the comics he's got a Dracula accent?
Lets just remember that David is Scottish, and that English accent he used in Jessica Jones (And Doctor Who) is fake.
They could have had Killgrave be from anywhere, but the producers here chose England.
^ Reverend, Agents of SHIELD spoilers should probably be in spoiler code. Someone might be willing to click on Jessica Jones ones but not be caught up on AoS.
But to respond to that:
You still have the comicbook character. If you want him. Both are terrible human beings.
But to respond to that:
While I think the Hydra thing might be a bit cliched, it's far more defensible because SHIELD has always been significantly about SHIELD vs. Hydra and because Secret Warriors already retconned the comics organization to be an ancient organization that would do something like this.
HEY! He may be a Limey, but he was born in Rijeka!
Thou SHALL NOT take that away from me!
You still have the comicbook character. If you want him. Both are terrible human beings.
I don't look at fictional characters that way, especially not comic book villains. Darth Vader was a mass murderer who literally slaughtered children, yet we let kids dress up as him on Halloween...
But even if Kilgrave were real, he probably wouldn't even be the most evil, criminally insane scumbag to share a birthplace with me... Which is a downright horrific fact.
Have you read Emperor Doom?
Doom turns Killgrave into a WMD who makes the entire planet obey Doom.
He's not just amoral, but an Olympic class underachiever too.
Doom turns Killgrave into a WMD who makes the entire planet obey Doom.
He's not just amoral, but an Olympic class underachiever too.
If I had Kilgrave's powers, I would shake the foundations of the Earth. All would love me and despair.
