Jessica Jones - Series 1 Release Thread [Open Spoilers]

[Maus_Magill]

@DigitalC

He knew, that was why he was trying to get by without using his powers when he bought her childhood home and set up situations where he could control her by threatening other people instead of just ordering her around. He might have been surprised when his power boost still didn’t work though.

I’ve just watched episode 10. There goes my smug feeling of superiority.

[puzzlegal]

A few continuity quibbles:

In the episode where Kilgrave is introduced, his powers don’t work quite the same later. He enters by making the descriptive statement “you will be delighted to let me in”, or something along those lines. Not a clear command. Then, he tells the children to go to the closet. The girl doesn’t respond. Even when he tells her directly, she protests that she needs to go to the bathroom, and he needs to tell her again. And I realize they wanted a “kick the dog” moment, but Kilgrave is later shown as very meticulous about his personal space. Why would he want her to do smelly things in the closet?

The neighbor “recovers” from addiction awfully quickly and completely.

The athlete-girl pays another inmate to beat her up without even trying to tell Jessica or to get an abortion through normal channels?

And of course the whole “we can’t kill him” thing goes on awfully long. At first, it’s plausible, but as the body count builds up, it gets less and less so.

[AK84]

@puzzlegal

I enjoyed it, but it bothered me a little that the female super-hero is defined by her relationship with a man. Spiderman has psychological trauma, but it was because of his agency, choices he made that he regrets. I can’t think of any male superhero who is defined by another person (“romantic” relationship or not) in the same way.

And, of course there are plot holes, and stuff that’s implausible. But it was fun, and a lot of the acting was really good. I will be happy to watch “Luke Cage”, which hopefully will feature Jessica and Patsy as well as Luke.

:dubious:
Errrr… She is not. If anything her parent’s death and her powers giving accident are what defines her, not her relationship with Kilgrave. He is a villain who used her, and is the season’s big bad, much like how Lex Luthor is the enemy of the piece for Supes in many stories.

[Evil_Captor]

@RikWriter

The problem with any of your ideas is that Jessica’s main goal until late in the season was to get Kilgrave to show his powers and confess to controlling Hope on video or in front of a credible witness, so they could help Hope avoid spending the rest of her life in jail for murdering her parents. That would be impossible if you broke Kilgrave’s jaw or ripped out his larynx.

He could write out a confession. Without his mind control powers, he’s in a terrible place: helpless, with many, many people who hate his guts, people with powers in Jessica’s case. The safest place for him would be jail.