Amph Marvel's Jessica Jones

Yes, Luke is getting his own show.

 

I've recently watched the first season of Sense8 a second time and, admittedly, it has grown on me a lot more than in my first viewing. I found myself spending my first run through just getting to know the characters and their names. The second viewing allowed me to become more embedded in the story. I like it a lot more now but there won't be Season 2 until 2017.

The Punisher may potentially be getting his own show too.

 

There'll be a big crossover in the upcoming Defenders series.

 

Rosario Dawson will be in Luke Cage see Diggy's Luke Cage thread.

I was surprised that a couple of my friends didn't like Jessica Jones. It was just too dark and depressing for them.

 

Finished the show last nite, it's pretty strong overall although as I mentioned I do think when it gets away from Jessica / Killgrave, it tends to dither around with supporting characters. However, Simpsons turned out to be freakin' Nuke! "Gimmie a red," which set off my nerd-radar so that made it more interesting.

Slight note that the final confrontation of the season

Spoiler

I was hoping they'd go full-on Purple Man, as in when he got injected he was going to turn purple and they ALMOST hinted at it where he had purple go into his skin, but he was normal skin coloured after the injection. But I did notice purple popping in his neck when he hollered "STOP!" Also where Jessica snaps Killgrave's neck I thought was big deal because she actually did kill him and I wasn't sure A) she'd go through with it B) it does take away a significant adjunct of what made the show what it is. However, this is Rosenberg and she's from Dexter so A) dithering side characters is a thing B) the big baddie dies at the end. But what made Dexter seasons great where when they could come up with a better big baddie, the other ones not so much. Some are so good they loomed over the entire series and definitely Killgrave is that.

And, this is a minor quibble but I thought the final moment of her snapping Killgrave's neck was so strong I almost wished they had rolled credits on that. The next 8 minutes are ... okay, and it does some plot stuff to show Jessica isn't going to jail / and her becoming a hero to others (the final shot of her in the office as the phone is ringing is grand). But the snap is so big, I would have loved it if that's where they ended the season.

 

She had to snap his neck b cause now, going forward, we do t know that she won't do it again.

 

As great as Tennant was in the role, i'd like to see them progress with a new story/case/adversary as the arc for Season 2. I've never read the comic but in the universe we've seen so far I can only imagine there are many possibilities for a private detective. Go to town on the noir, even more so than Season 1.

 

The OG Alias comic (been awhile since I read it) had Purple Man as the overriding baddie but there's a couple of smaller arcs that could be sustained for a season (there's a drug dealing storyline about Mutant Growth Hormone that's giving people superpowers which they kinda did with Simpson but I saw that more as setting up him to go full Nuke). But they basically did the major Alias arc - Jessica Jones vs. Purple Man as Season 1. I kind of wish like in the comic he had her attack the Avengers, though. But they did throw in the "Jewel" costume in a flashback.

 

Actually, regarding Purple Man. I've recently been doing a Daredevil re-watch and realised something. Karen, in the first episode, finds herself in an apartment with a bloodied knife and a dead body with no recollection of the events after leaving the bar with the guy. Is it possible that she was under Purple Man's mind control, possibly hired by Fisk?

 

I thought they explained that as her just being setup via normal criminal means.

 

They did but it was more Matt surmising that she was drugged rather than actually knowing what happened to her. The show didn't consider the how as being important, and for good reason. But it was left open ended enough for Purple Man to have played a role if you wanted to believe that he did.

 

I can go with that.

 

Yeah I do maintain the gaggle of supporting oddball characters is Rosenberg's Dexter instincts kicking in. Which can be a coinflip sometimes. Sometimes you get gold that works with the plot, other times it seems like mugging filler. But I thought Season 1 of Jessica Jones managed to deploy them well, although like in Dexter I do get impatient sometimes for them to get back to the very strong protagonist / antagonist relationship.

As for the big spoiler finale scenes

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while I thought it was executed well - hah! - there was also a part of me that was hoping they'd keep Killgrave around and somehow have him and Fisk be the main baddies of Defenders. That woulda rocked.

 

I agree with the point in the spoiler.


Having just watched DareDevil S2. I loved the way that DD referenced JJ without being to overt about it. It was a great way to tie storylines together without being overbearing and all LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS SHOW about it.

I think Flash and Arrow do this quite well but use very pronounced cross overs. DD and JJ don't which really work and it will be interesting to see how Luke Cage handles it and subsequently how Defenders brings it all together.




I would now love for the MCU or even AoS to have just a throwaway comment on the Netflix universe to help keep it all tied together, it's not essential but would be a lovely link

 

the movies not referencing AoS or the Netflix shows seems to be status quo (but they have Spider-Man now and Punisher and Kingpin are Spider-Man baddies, dammit!) but the fact that AoS hasn't done anything with the Netflix shows yet is kind of odd because they're both ABC Studios productions. However, the powerset of the Netflix shows is something that SHIELD could deal with pretty much every day and not be too concerned.

I mean I would freakin' LOVE if Jessica Jones showed up on AoS but if Coulson and SHIELD got wind of Killgrave, they'd probably be like "Hey, Fitz, load up one of your drones to drop this Killgrave fellow from miles out and we'll dump him in a containment unit" and the season would have been over in 10 minutes.

 

Do we still need to use spoiler tags? It's been 4 months.

 

It's the big moment in the final ep, I view season finales - especially what happens here - as perma-spoilers, but that's just me.

 

No.

We actually established a rule in the Daredevil thread. For all streaming shows which are released in bulk, they follow the same spoiler rules as movies.

In case you don't believe me....ahem....

KILGRAVE DIES WITH JESSICA BREAKING HIS NECK.

See?

 

Definitely no need for JJ-Season 1 spoilers.

Daredevil should have a spoiler-period until April 1, which I believe to be the case at present.

 

Punisher has not been a Spiderman villain in 40 years. What a profoundly silly thing to say.

 

are we expecting a Daredevil/Jessica Jones crossover episode at some point?