Jessica Jones-- Marvel/Netflix

[JD]

I just want to clear up that I didn't mean anything rude by my question to Kirk55555, I was honestly curious.
I'm not trying to force myself or anyone else to change their opinions, I'm just trying to figure out why they have them. Sometimes I can understand it, like what I've figured out about myself vs other people with the Star Wars prequels. There are also times I just can't.

 

[kirk55555]

I just want to clear up that I didn't mean anything rude by my question to Kirk55555, I was honestly curious.
I'm not trying to force myself or anyone else to change their opinions, I'm just trying to figure out why they have them. Sometimes I can understand it, like what I've figured out about myself vs other people with the Star Wars prequels. There are also times I just can't.

I didn't think it was rude, personally. I have my opinions...because they're my opinions. I can explain my opinions on an individual basis, but not why they're different than someone elses. People like and dislike different things, I just tend to dislike some things that a lot of other people like. I also enjoy a lot of stuff that other people don't (like how, say, I like Iron Man 2 a lot more than other people seem to). It all comes down to individual taste, I guess.

 

[Amaris]

It did feel a bit draggy at first, I'll admit, but the show does pick up and it goes places.

I'll keep watching, but that's good to know. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who felt that way.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They're trying to paint a numb world of PTSD and depression.

In the comics, they had two very different artists in play to reflect life before Killgrave that looks zippy, and a different artist for after killgrave which looks like drab nihilistic existentialism.

Switching between the two styles is jarring whenever the story timeshifts.

 

[tomalak301]

I'm up through episode 5 (Was afraid about coming into this thread but it's ok for the most part) and it's a great series. I really love some of the themes this show is tackling, especially dealing with the consequences of your past. Looking forward to hopefully finishing it this weekend. I am finding thought this show is the hardest to binge. It's pretty heavy but I am purposely trying to just enjoy it.

Daredevil will be next, since I haven't seen it and I probably should.

 

[Karzak]

I would have been down for a Black Widow solo movie in place of the needless Iron Man 3.

Of all the Marvel movies, that's the one you'd omit? I'd easily have picked Iron Man 2 or Age of Ultron first.

Well, Widow wasn't even introduced until IM2, though sure, they could have just given her her own solo movie there and still laid the groundwork for the rest of Phase One that IM2 did. But I was thinking in terms of the post-Avengers MCU. IM3 was ultimately pointless and can be skipped without missing a beat, so might as well drop it and give Widow a solo movie.

By that metric, perhaps... but it's a fun, entertaining film. Easily one of the best Marvel has done. Not sure I'd be so quick to axe it, myself.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Sorry, I thought we didn't have to do spoiler tags for a released episode. I was avoiding this thread until I was done watching the whole thing because I knew people would be discussing the ending.

And when I said there's too many episodes, it's because it's so repetitive. They catch him. He escapes. They catch him. He escapes. Over and over.

I thought all of that was an excellent touch. It really highlighted how dangerous Kilgrave was, not just because of what he could do, but because no rational person could seriously accept and comprehend how truly dangerous he was until it was too late.

Of all the Marvel movies, that's the one you'd omit? I'd easily have picked Iron Man 2 or Age of Ultron first.

Well, Widow wasn't even introduced until IM2, though sure, they could have just given her her own solo movie there and still laid the groundwork for the rest of Phase One that IM2 did. But I was thinking in terms of the post-Avengers MCU. IM3 was ultimately pointless and can be skipped without missing a beat, so might as well drop it and give Widow a solo movie.

By that metric, perhaps... but it's a fun, entertaining film. Easily one of the best Marvel has done. Not sure I'd be so quick to axe it, myself.

I'd axe IM3 over any other movie in the MCU. I'd axe it over Green Lantern, for that matter. At least Ryan Reynolds was funny.

Who says you have to look back? If your opinion is different from the vast majority it just means you have a different opinion. Congrats!

I for instance, have no earthly idea what fans see in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. I've only ever seen the first movie because it bored me silly and I couldn't bring myself to watch the next two, but people fall all over themselves for that nine hours and change of monotony. I'm in the tiny minority. I've learned to live with it.

So kirk just likes David Tennant. I only watched multiple seasons of Buffy because I liked Anya. I hated everybody else.

That's because the first movie is boring as hell. It really only serves to look pretty and introduce the buzzwords, though, amazingly, it's still more streamlined and to the point than the first book. Tolkien took quite a while to get going. The only really good stuff in the first movie is the building of the suspense in the mines (drums in the deep, etc) and Boromir's storyline.

The trilogy is great, but 90% of that greatness is in the second two films, in Aragorn's arc, the situation in Rohan and later in Gondor, the relationship between Legolas and Gimli, Pippin's arc and, of course, the greatest epic battles in cinematic history. And all that stuff with Frodo, Sam and Gollum, although Gollum kind of annoys me.

Buffy, on the other hand, is amazing. Troglodyte. No, jk

 

[Ethros]

It did feel a bit draggy at first, I'll admit, but the show does pick up and it goes places.

I'll keep watching, but that's good to know. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who felt that way.

I think, like I had with Daredevil, its the slightly extra running time of 50+ minutes that causes it. Rather than your usual 40-45 or so a lot of shows have

 

[Beagleman]

Just finished it and I think this is Marvel's small-screen masterpiece up for now (and I really dig all of their other outings).

 

[JD]

I just watched the second episode this morning, and it was just as good as the first.

Spoiler: Episode 2 details

The fight in the bar was pretty cool, and I loved the last scene with Luke revealing his revealing his unbreakable skin. The big Kilgrave scene was very creepy.

 

[Christopher]

I think, like I had with Daredevil, its the slightly extra running time of 50+ minutes that causes it. Rather than your usual 40-45 or so a lot of shows have

As someone who first started watching TV in the '70s, when it was normal for shows to run 50-plus minutes, and has had to watch commercials steadily erode away nearly another 20 percent of that content over the ensuing decades, I can't express how refreshing it is to see Netflix returning the "hourlong" television episode to something closer to an hour again. I loved how Daredevil allowed its scenes to breathe and made room for long, thoughtful conversations, instead of having to cram everything into five or six segments of only a few minutes each.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

I think, like I had with Daredevil, its the slightly extra running time of 50+ minutes that causes it. Rather than your usual 40-45 or so a lot of shows have

As someone who first started watching TV in the '70s, when it was normal for shows to run 50-plus minutes, and has had to watch commercials steadily erode away nearly another 20 percent of that content over the ensuing decades, I can't express how refreshing it is to see Netflix returning the "hourlong" television episode to something closer to an hour again. I loved how Daredevil allowed its scenes to breathe and made room for long, thoughtful conversations, instead of having to cram everything into five or six segments of only a few minutes each.

Everyone who doesn't like that format can just wait for the stuff to go to free TV where they will gut the episodes to fill them with ads eventually.

 

[tomalak301]

I think, like I had with Daredevil, its the slightly extra running time of 50+ minutes that causes it. Rather than your usual 40-45 or so a lot of shows have

As someone who first started watching TV in the '70s, when it was normal for shows to run 50-plus minutes, and has had to watch commercials steadily erode away nearly another 20 percent of that content over the ensuing decades, I can't express how refreshing it is to see Netflix returning the "hourlong" television episode to something closer to an hour again. I loved how Daredevil allowed its scenes to breathe and made room for long, thoughtful conversations, instead of having to cram everything into five or six segments of only a few minutes each.

One of the benefits to the streaming. There is a film like aspect to these shows I'm enjoying. Even on your cable networks like AMC, you are still having to make time for commercials. I haven't seen Daredevil yet, but I'm really liking the flow of Jessica Jones so far, the same way I liked the flow or Orange is the New Black.

 

[Borgminister]

There are some flaws with the show--Tennant vulnerable, even though a mind-controller???

Plus, if you're gonna show incessant sex scenes.... SHOW SOMETHING.

3 episodes in.

 

[Guy Gardener]

There's more resale value to not film nudity.

 

[Borgminister]

Good thing I'm paying for Netflix, not Sarah Jones. That tease.

 

[tomalak301]

Just finished episode 8 and one of the best things about watching a show with the whole season out is it doesn't take forever to have a show get where it's going like what this summer felt like when I was watching The Flash. Throughout the series so far I've been hoping we actually see more of Kilgrave other than a guy in the shadows controlling people and I'm at the point of the season where that's starting to happen. I'll be careful with spoilers, but I'm loving where the season is going in this stretch of shows.

 

[Amaris]

It did feel a bit draggy at first, I'll admit, but the show does pick up and it goes places.

I'll keep watching, but that's good to know. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who felt that way.

I think, like I had with Daredevil, its the slightly extra running time of 50+ minutes that causes it. Rather than your usual 40-45 or so a lot of shows have

That may be it! I didn't really notice before, but yeah, those few extra minutes seem to make a difference. Still, I am enjoying it, and Jessica is a badass.

 

[Garak]

5 episodes in and I am really, really liking this show.

And David Tennant!

 

[CaptainWacky]

There are some flaws with the show--Tennant vulnerable, even though a mind-controller???

How is that a flaw?