Marvel's Jessica Jones

[Mr. Carnelian]

I loved it. I would have liked more super powers, especially considering despite her super strength some weak nerd from down the hall knocked her out.

8/10 would watch season 2

Having watched ten episodes currently, I have to agree. She's a woman with super-strength, and she gets knocked down easily by either a few guys with little stun sticks or a nerd girl with a plank of wood. Seriously? I could just about buy the first incidence, because she was outnumbered by like, 3-1, but the second one was almost laughable.

Disagree. I actually think it's refreshing to have a Marvel protagonist with clear limitations. Why would superstrength make her a good fighter? I imagine she'll get some kind of martial arts training (from Trish maybe, or whoever taught Trish) after this season. She hasn't really had time recently what with all the Kilgrave trout going on.

As for Jessica herself, she's engaging enough as a character. I still think she's fairly moody and sullen half the time, but she does come out with a few pithy remarks to make up for it. I find Kilgrave more compelling, to be honest.

Personally, I find her extremely compelling, although I agree that Kilgrave is also extremely compelling (despite the fact that he is the most wholly unsympathetic character I've ever come across).

Having watched up to the ten episodes, I have this gripe: Major episode ten spoilers!!Hope's death. I just didn't get it. She's free! She was released! Why the hell did she then just decide to off herself? The argument she did give: that Jessica could go after Kilgrave, was already achieved. Hope could just leg it away from New York for awhile and go under the radar, while Jessica dealt with Kilgrave. It all seemed odd. We had this ten episode build-up to Hope's release and then... she dies. All those wacky, barely held together plots Jessica had, for nothing.

Episode Nine spoilers, sub-plot spoilers My other gripe is the Hogarth divorce sub-plot. No-one is acting like a human being. The entire arc is almost cringworthy to watch at times, to be honest. Then Jessica gets involved and almost kills a woman by pushing her into a train, who only wanted more money in the settlement. And she's the protagonist. I find it somewhat of a distraction, to be honest.

In regard to episode ten Episode ten spoilers I always had a feeling she would kill herself. And she wasn't free: Kilgrave was still alive. Hope was convinced that Jessica could never bring herself to kill Kilgrave while she (Hope) was in danger, and as long as Kilgrave is alive she'd ALWAYS be in danger. So, the only way to free Jessica to kill Kilgrave, as well as give her further motivation to kill him, was to remove herself from the equation

In regard to the Episode Nine spoilers and sub-plot spoilers... (SPOILER) Hogarth is a driven, selfish woman. She was always going to go too far. People like that do exist: she is acting like a human being. Jessica was in a REALLY bad place when the train thing happened, and she was never going to actually let that woman die. It seemed totally consistent with her character to me