Jessica Jones Jessica Jones General Discussion Thread - Part 2

[squeekness]

I still have six more to go.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I still have six more to go.

Not enjoying it squeeks?

I actually quite enjoyed the season. Quite a bit.

 

[squeekness]

Actually I am so far, better than Defenders that bored me because I was sick of the Hand already. I do wish Luke was in this more. I liked him and Jess together.

 

[KevTravels]

Actually I am so far, better than Defenders that bored me because I was sick of the Hand already. I do wish Luke was in this more. I liked him and Jess together.

He was that nice added bonus to the first. The romantic interest this season is too dull. Though he's an average guy which is more realistic.

 

[Brother Jack]

I liked the season overall. It wasn't as strong as the first season, which is still maybe the best season of the Netflix shows, but I don't think it was as weak as Iron Fist or the Defenders. It just suffered from the same issue a lot of these shows have of being too long. The 13-episode mandate, if it is a corporate mandate, has to go for these shows to really flourish. They should only be as long as the story they're telling requires, and they should do more to push themselves stylistically. The episodes have a habit of all blending in which each other.

 

[KevTravels]

It's the 13 episodes, but mostly due to the writing. Somehow they make a solid story ideally for 8/9 episodes stretch to 13 and it becomes watered down.

They need better writers.

 

[psylockolussus]

And more budget.

 

[squeekness]

It's the 13 episodes, but mostly due to the writing. Somehow they make a solid story ideally for 8/9 episodes stretch to 13 and it becomes watered down.

They need better writers.

This is me. I don't know why there has to be an absolute 13 episodes.

 

[Iceman]

All the shows have dragged with the exception of Defenders which was too short. 10 episodes for all shows would be fine, plus give Defenders a budget boost or you can't really achieve too much with it.

 

[Brother Jack]

Length wasn't the problem with Defenders. It had a lot more to do with the Hand being a boring, mishandled villain.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Length wasn't the problem with Defenders. It had a lot more to do with the Hand being a boring, mishandled villain.

This is very true. The Hand kind of suck, LOL!!!! They just have no flavor to them.

 

[psylockolussus]

This is me. I don't know why there has to be an absolute 13 episodes.

I guess Netflix just orders Marvel 13 episodes regardless of the content.they made an exception with the Defenders.

 

[TheVileOne]

With marvel studios they ordered 60 episodes for all five shows. 13 for each first season and 8 for Defenders.

 

[ARBH]

Took me a while to get around to finishing it. I enjoyed it, but I really miss Kilgrave as the big bad. This season seemed to stall after the reveal. It was good. Not great.

 

[Iceman]

Length wasn't the problem with Defenders. It had a lot more to do with the Hand being a boring, mishandled villain.

I think length would have been a much bigger drawback if they had had a villain on the level of Fisk or Kilgrave. To me an 8 episode season of a TV show dealing with so many characters is insufficient even if perfect, a bit like a 55 minute film or a 90 page book. You are going to be left thinking of how much more you could have had. By the time the team properly gets together you are already not all that far from the end of the show.

 

[Nathan]

That's more an issue with the script. It should not have taken 3 hours before the characters had their first team up. Each character already had their own Season, so we already know them. Defenders should have shifted things into high gear at the latest by the 2nd Episode.

 

[KevTravels]

With marvel studios they ordered 60 episodes for all five shows. 13 for each first season and 8 for Defenders.

So random right? I mean 13 episodes is standard for like shows that start in mid-season.

I kinda wish each show was given 10 episodes.

The Defenders could have been done with 6 or 10 if only the writing was at a high level. 8 episodes of underwhelming potential IMO.

 

[KevTravels]

That's more an issue with the script. It should not have taken 3 hours before the characters had their first team up. Each character already had their own Season, so we already know them. Defenders should have shifted things into high gear at the latest by the 2nd Episode.

They wanted to have a slow buildup, but it failed masterfully.


All I know is, Luke Cage season 2 better ROCK.

 

[Lord]

Was slightly disappointed by the season. To be honest, i've been feeling like that since pretty much Luke Cage. It just feels like the seasons drag more than they should and have been lacking a strong central villain.

Daredevil's first season tried to have each episode ofer something different and sometimes leaned towards an episodic format and i frankly think the later shows and seasons should have done that more often, instead of stretching premises that would have worked as 2 hour films into 13 hours of content.

I also feel like this season of JJ became too dark. The first one was often depressing too, but it still had a comic booky sensibility that helped make Killgrave more magnetic. He did terrible things but did so in a way that was kinda fun. Without him or another colorful character, everything becomes duller. His few appearances here only made that more clear to me. I honestly wish they just started merging the shows that don't work. Jessica Jones never needed to be a long running show, since the conception of an adaptation of the comics has always been guided by a single concept: Killgrave.

But from how things are going, it seems like Jessica's life is just gonna spiral further and she might not end up in the same balanced place her comic book version did.

 

[Slick]

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That was so Cray.

 

[squeekness]

I really hate that song.

 

[Kane52630]

It really makes you go cray cray.

 

[squeekness]

In a not so good way.

 

[Pennywise]

No, I don't want your cray cray!

 

[Iceman]

That's more an issue with the script. It should not have taken 3 hours before the characters had their first team up. Each character already had their own Season, so we already know them. Defenders should have shifted things into high gear at the latest by the 2nd Episode.

I didn't really expect it to happen earlier. You intro and catch up with the 4 characters in the first episode. Have them crossing paths with each other in the second. Team up in the 3rd. That's how I expected it to go but in an 8 episode season (which I didn't expect) that leaves little more time. The Avengers also had their own introductory films but they took half the film to team up.