Are you watching Jessica Jones?
Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 2:07PM Netflix knows when you're watching. Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is watching everyone suspiciously. Killgrave is watching Jessica Jones and tracking how closing she's watching for him. Everyone is watching everyone being watched!
Happy paranoid Thanskgiving!
Curiously I haven't been able to decide if I like Marvel's latest attempt to pummel us all into pop cultural submission with their All Marvel All The Time multiverse agenda but after the dull way too sober first two episodes (sorry, if i want self-important dourness alone we already have Warner Bros DC for that!) the show does pick up and becomes more compulsively watchable in direct relationship to how many characters we've met.
And Marvel Studios finally has a good villain in Killgrave. Loki excepted it only took them dozens of projects to come up with one.
Reader Comments (11)
You didn't think Winter Soldier was a good villain? Sure he's silent, but damn was he menacing.
I actually loved it. It was kind of dour starting off, but I never felt it got nearly as self important as Man of Steel or the Dark Knight Saga. That having been said? Their next show is Luke Cage. So, basically, they're going to have to focus ALL of the tension around saving people, because you can't even really HURT the guy (shotgun blast to the face = knockout) like the show version of Jessica Jones or Daredevil.
5 Notes:
1. Carrie Anne-Moss is going to re-appear either in the Iron Fist show or The Defenders.
2. Wil Traval will be showing up on an episode of Daredevil Season 2 based on what character he is and the fact they felt it important to change his name.
3. Though she didn't show up in any capacity this season (strangely, since they did bring in Hellcat's secret identity), I'd expect Greer Grant-Nelson to show up in some capacity next season.
4. Jessica Jones Season 2 (which we know is going to happen, right?) is probably going to be the one of these that most feeds into that The Defenders miniseries due to both the previous note and, especially, the last note.
5. Who is behind the IGH organization? My obscure cut guess would actually be Ulysses Bloodstone. Even if the cinematic version of HYDRA would be willing to do science experiments on minors (which, to be clear, is something we haven't seen any sign of in this continuity), willingly letting anyone go with little or no oversight or actual indoctrination seems VERY unlike them in either the comics or MCU versions. The modern comic version of Ulysses, meanwhile, has been shown as an abusive and neglectful idiot to both of his kids, so IGH's actions would make perfect sense as a modern adaptation of him. (If this DOES wind up being the game behind IGH? Please have Katie Jarvis show up as his daughter in that miniseries.)
One episode in and I like it. Alias is one of my ten favorite comic series ever, so I come in with different expectations; I know. The thing I am pumped for is more stories for a character I love. The less they keep to the books the better for me. Not interested in rehashings of previously told tales.
tonytr -- well i liked him a lot. but i guess i'm talking about main villain rather than henchman awesomness/antihero... since he will be come a hero.
Brian & Volvagia -- i didn't understand a thing either of you two just said. I assume this is because i know zilch about Jessica Jones in comic book form. That's after my time reading comics which is one of the reasons I was excited to see it. I think it's the fiirst comic book adaptation in recent memory that's NOT from a property that's been around for over 50 years for multiple generations to have opinions about already so i can just view it as a tv series instead of an adaptation. It seems like almost evverything hollywood is interested in in terms of superheroes came from the 1930s or the 1960s.
Nat:
1. Moss is a gender flip of Iron Fist's lawyer in the comics.
2. Wil Traval is Will Simpson, a name change of Daredevil villain Frank Simpson, aka Nuke. The name change is so to not risk confusion in a plot that also features Frank Castle.
3. Greer Grant-Nelson is most known as Tigra, the most enduring of Marvel's 70s horror/supernatural characters and is one of the only superheroes I know of who has two canon origins. Trish Walker on the show uses the gear Greer used after her first origin using the codename Hellcat. With both having a relationship with a cop, they have something to talk about to establish contrast in fortunes. And yes, Tigra's look is very revealing. Because fur holds heat.
4. No additional explanation needed.
5. Ulysses Bloodstone was Marvel's second (Blade was first, but he didn't get any kind of fandom until the movies) attempt at creating a good monster hunter character. (Also a 70s creation.) The Warren Ellis version of his daughter, Elsa, in Nextwave is the fourth (the initial version of her is so different that I count it as a separate failed attempt) and best of those attempts based strictly on the comics.
Don't watch it but I'd check it out if I still had netflix.
Haven't watched it yet but I'll probably get around it before I even get around to Daredevil, lol.
Volvagia - I don't think they would bring in Tigra (what's the point?), I think they're setting up Patsy for Hellcat but they will not be sticking to the origins from the comics. I'd be more interested if they add Hellstrom after the mystical elements are introduced in Dr. Strange.
Also I feel I need to highlight how fabulous Carrie-Anne Moss is as Jeri, the scene from episode 7 where shes walking with her hand on her hip for an entire scene for no apparent reason made me really happy.
Phoe: That kind of change doesn't really mesh with the typical reason these projects substantially change hero origins. The only HEAVILY changed page to screen origin is Star-Lord and that was solely because working with his actual comic origin would make the character start off feeling irredeemable. So a character is using the cast off gear of another hero who had something wacky happen to them. So what?
I've seen the first five episodes. I dig it a lot. Tennant as Kilgrave is the best Marvel villain we've seen so far. The pilot in retrospect was a bit slow, but that's the benefit of binge watching... a slow episode isn't as disastrous.
I'm torn - I want to watch because I LOVE Krysten Ritter and David Tennant and Carrie-Ann Moss etc. etc. etc. But I am SO. DONE. with the all-comics, all the time world. I'm only interested in Agent Carter for the period trappings - SHIELD was way too messy, Arrow too somber, and I just have no need for Daredevil or any further Marvel movies after Ultron. It's just too much, and too much been-there-done-that with the storytelling beats. If I'm bored during the winter TV doldrums I will probably binge a couple of episodes and see how it goes.
On a related note, the boyfriend and I started watching Sense8 the other day out of lack of anything we were both interested in and it was frustrating to have things only barely start to come together by the end of the second episode. We didn't want to give it any more time but felt like we had to because the first two episodes were basically one giant prologue. If the sensates don't come together by the end of the third I don't know how much more we'll watch.