There have been threads and discussion on the Jessica Jones Netflix series, but I thought I would start a fresh one for the release, coming tomorrow.
The NYTimes review was largely favorable. The describe it as less of a superhero show but more of an interpretation of Veronica Mars, a bit darker and with some powers in the mix. Cool. And yes, my daughter has reminded me several times that Krysten Ritter was on that show for a bit.
I am not sure how we will be able to consume this, probably within a week. Are there any smart rules about spoilerage in these threads? I would assume that once released, all is fair game, and reader beware. If there is a better/standard approach - wait X days before spoilers, or something - cool.
If it was released normally I’d say open spoilers up to what has aired.
But since the whole series is being released at once, this doesn’t work as well.
Not everyone can (or wants to) binge watch the whole series.
But I’m not sure one thread per episode is appropriate either, though that seems better to me.
I vote for full and open spoilers right away. Anything else will be annoying for the people who do binge-watch the series, and for everyone else it’s pretty easy to simply not look at this thread until they finish the show.
(I’ll be in the latter group, FWIW, and probably not able to finish the series until after Thanksgiving.)
I mean, we could give it a week before open spoilers, but I don’t care. I will only likely see a few episodes a week. I say just make the whole thing open spoilers starting tomorrow, when it hits.
It’s 13 episodes. I’m sure anyone who is really interested in it will watch it within a month at most. I see no problem with open spoilers. I won’t binge-watch it all this weekend (I don’t think!), I’ll just stay away from the Thread until I’m finished.
I’m looking forward to it. I just re-binge-watched Daredevil in preparation since, as I understand it, there will be at least some cross over with all the Netflix series as they lead up to the Defenders series.
I didn’t really like Daredevil the first time around but I liked it better on second viewing. Basically, in the Netflix series anyway, he’s the superhero who fights against! …Gentrification! Which I thought was actually lame. Fisk was a bad guy, sure, but I felt like Murdock’s vigilante game escalated matters and I just rolled my eyes a lot. On second viewing, I focused more on the evil in the means through which Fisk was establishing his empire and with sufficient suspension of disbelief I accepted “the need for a hero!”
I know each show has a different showrunner, so there are bound to be differences in tone, but if the world building is meant to be consistent across the various series then I think I’m ready to enjoy Jessica Jones.
I had never seen Krysten Ritter in anything (except for a small role in Big Eyes) but I knew that I was interested in watching Jessica Jones so I binge-watched Don’t Trust the B- in Apt. 23. I didn’t commit to binge-watching it but I started and soon found it pretty enjoyable. She is easily the best thing about the series, I grew to like her a lot. If I like her as Jones, a different kind of role in a show with a completely different tone, then I think I’ll confidently declare myself a Krysten Ritter fan.
It’d just be too complicated to have a rule that makes sense for a show you can watch at any pace you like. A month is just as arbitrary as a week or two days, might as well make it clear it’s full open spoilers since day one and avoid any confusion.
Oh, to be clear, I’m am on the side of open spoilers from day one.
My comment about most interested viewers needing a month at most to watch it was meant in support of open spoilers from day one. My point was that, at 13 episodes total, it will not take very long to watch. Therefore, there’s not much of a burden placed on people watching at a slower pace to simply wait and not come into the Thread until they’ve finished.
I have reported the thread to the Mods to request the Spoilers tag.
My daughter has something tonight. Have to see if I can get clearance to watch an episode or two on my own ;). Probably makes sense; she’s 15 so we’ll have to see how intense the psycho-sexual stuff is. She and I communicate really well, but that doesn’t mean she likes to watch stuff that can be skeevy with her dad. She sure as heck wasn’t interested in watching Outlander with her mom ;).
ETA: oh, and to speak to your comment; yes, I got an email from Netflix to announce it, with a link to the JJ listing. Haven’t clicked.
That is what I am trying to get a sense of. Dark vs. bleak. According to the NY Times, though, it is not a bleak overall tone:
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I wonder if this is like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books - very heavy, but as Steig Larson himself said, an adult version of Pippi Longstocking where the heroine faces big challenges but the story is ultimately not bleak.
I was all prepared to be excited about this, until I heard the villain uses mind control. I’m not sure why but I’m not a big fan of enemies like that, not to mention Agent Carter just had a villain like that. I guess it is an easy way to create tension when you never know who is your friend and who has been turned.
