Jessica Jones Season 2, Episode 2 "AKA Freak Accident"

[flickchick85]

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Discuss Episode 2 of Season 2, "AKA Freak Accident" here.

ANY SPOILERS FOR EPISODES BEYOND THIS ONE MUST BE TAGGED.​

 

[flickchick85]

Well, I guess I got my wish. Just slightly later than expected.

 

[Dasher10]

You mean for somebody to die before he could appear in Born Again or even get the facepaint?

 

[flickchick85]

Yep.

 

[Dasher10]

Yep.

Season 3 of DD is Born Again which means his role will likely be taken up by Bullseye, Typhoid or Bullet (preferably all three).

 

[Heretic]

You want Bullseye, Typhoid AND Bullet to all be reduced to sharing the storyline points that would go to just Simpson??? I would argue that Bullseye and Typhoid deserve FAR better than that.

 

[flickchick85]

You want Bullseye, Typhoid AND Bullet to all be reduced to sharing the storyline points that would go to just Simpson??? I would argue that Bullseye and Typhoid deserve FAR better than that.

Agreed.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Jessica continues down the self-destructive spiral. I want to say where would Jessica Jones be without a sex scene, but this was just bad trashy sex. That being said, there's an argument that's what Luke Cage was. The only difference is we didn't have a comic book connection to feel sympathy for the guy. Jessica is mostly second to Trish here. I like that Malcolm gets some involement as well. Trish's investigation continues the feminism themes and is very topical with the #metoo movement. Overall, it leads to her encounter with Simpson and the monster, which is cool and furthers the mystery. I did not expect his ending so soon.

I love that the Whizzer continues. I wonder why he's Robert Coleman instead of Robert Frank. Doesn't really make much sense.

Stray notes:
I like Trish's BF Griffin. I hope he doesn't suck.
Hogarth seems like she had a nice time. I guess this is what happened when you have money in New York? I'm glad I have a better life/work balance where my clients can't show up at my apartment door on my day off.

Four Stars.

 

[MadVillainy]

I don't get why include the character just to kill them Unceremoniously

 

[Mike Murdock]

I would argue it fit the story - both for Trish's story and to establish the threat of the "monster." I wouldn't worry too much about a hypothetical Born Again story that might or might not happen.

 

[dmcreif]

I would argue it fit the story - both for Trish's story and to establish the threat of the "monster." I wouldn't worry too much about a hypothetical Born Again story that might or might not happen.

I mean they're never gonna hook Karen Page up on drugs either. In fact, and this a spoiler for later episodes, Trish seems to have taken on some of the elements of the comics version of Karen Page, namely the part of "an actress who develops a drug addiction". Probably for the best since Deborah Ann Woll has insisted on steering Karen as far away from that Frank Miller BS that was Born Again.

 

[MadVillainy]

put spoilers in a spoiler tag.

 

[MadVillainy]

I would argue it fit the story - both for Trish's story and to establish the threat of the "monster." I wouldn't worry too much about a hypothetical Born Again story that might or might not happen.

I don't really care about just Born Again. I just never got why bring a character back just to kill them off. And that's for any movie or show. Not just CBM ones.
They might as well just killed him off in season 1 or not bring him back. It's just a cheap ploy to "up the stakes"

 

[Mike Murdock]

Maybe I'm not remembering, were we supposed to think he died in season one?

 

[MadVillainy]

Not that I remember

 

[chamber-music]

Marvel's live action division sure hates speedsters

 

[Iceman]

Marvel's live action division sure hates speedsters

t:

 

[Lencho01]

No. No, I did not.

 

[squeekness]

I did. Poor guy.

 

[TheVileOne]

I almost wish we didn't see that guy's powers. Like...wow...

 

[UnknownCriminal]

Does anybody think all the Spider-Man references are kinda weird considering that Spider-Man has just shown up in the MCU? Particularly when you remember that both spidey things being referenced in this episode (the great power and spidey sense references) actually haven't been used in either Civil War or Spider-Man Homecoming?

 

[squeekness]

Im not sure where Spidy fits into all of this time wise.

 

[Iceman]

Does anybody think all the Spider-Man references are kinda weird considering that Spider-Man has just shown up in the MCU? Particularly when you remember that both spidey things being referenced in this episode (the great power and spidey sense references) actually haven't been used in either Civil War or Spider-Man Homecoming?

I think Spider-man can be generally referenced because he's so well known without any link necessarily to this MCU version.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Does anybody think all the Spider-Man references are kinda weird considering that Spider-Man has just shown up in the MCU? Particularly when you remember that both spidey things being referenced in this episode (the great power and spidey sense references) actually haven't been used in either Civil War or Spider-Man Homecoming?

Not really because I don't take the characters in-universe as referencing Spider-Man. They're just saying a mantra and it's an in-joke.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Slightly more engaged this time, but it's all more table setting that hasn't particularly grabbed me. Have some major look into Jess's life via flashback rather than drawing things out already. Also... I feel like this is gonna be similar to elements of season one where sometimes I was just "okay... where is this going? Why am I being showed this at all? Why are these characters reacting in this way?" Thing is back then there was more "mystery". Ostensibly this story is literally about the mystery of Jess and her origin but I so far am like Jess at the start of episode one... So far I just don't care.