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Jessica Jones comes to Netflix on November 20

 
 
 
I never read the comic books, but I have to say I'm really looking forward to this.

The story is about a washed-up ex-superhero turned private investigator trying to piece her life back together after a traumatic event. The traumatic event can be interpreted as a metaphor for rape, or for any PTSD (e.g. what many Iraq/Afghanistan veterans are going through) or even Stockholm syndrome. You know how Marvel movies are patterned after specific genres? This one is straight up hard-boiled noir, but with a flipped gender role.

Anyway, because I'm such a fanboy, here's all the teasers and trailers I could find:

Teasers






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(Bah. The board won't let me post more VIDEO tags, so I've included the trailers as links instead.)

Trailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHUjuJ8zxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3UYWK2jeX0

Also, we are going to see a fair amount of Luke Cage in this story because Luke is what ultimately enables her to put her life back together, and that neatly sets up the next Marvel-Netflix collaboration, which will feature Luke Cage/Power Man. This also neatly sets up the segue into the next one, which will feature Luke's best friend Danny Rand/Iron Fist.

I'm kinda hoping for some steamy interracial romance in Iron Fist, since his girlfriend is Misty Knight, an African-American ex-cop cyborg.

The plan is that once all 4 Netflix-Marvel series have been rolled out, all 4 superheroes (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist) will team up Avengers-style into the Defenders, which in the Marvel universe is traditionally a repository for superheroes who have a problem with the Avengers for one reason or another.
 
Is the problem they have with the Avengers that they don't have a magic hammer or high tech suit or something like that? Because that's a really good problem which should keep a few more people out of the Avengers.

This show does look cool and I can't wait for it.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
Is the problem they have with the Avengers that they don't have a magic hammer or high tech suit or something like that? Because that's a really good problem which should keep a few more people out of the Avengers.

This show does look cool and I can't wait for it.
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Well, in the case of Power Man and Iron Fist, they have differences of opinion about how best to help people. They feel that the Avengers spend too much time fighting the biggest baddest supervillain and not enough time thinking about how their actions affect the average person. Power Man and Iron Fist are sort of like the A-Team of the Marvel universe. They take on the cases that the other superheroes think are beneath them. Technically, they are superhero mercenaries (their tag line is "heroes for hire"), but often work pro-bono if they think the cause is just.
 
Given that all four series take place in a Hell's Kitchen struggling to recover from the events of the first Avengers movie, it is not hard to imagine why they would band together and not want to join up with the Avengers.
 
Jessica Jones probably will not have the elaborate fight choreography of Daredevil. Daredevil had it because that is basically the story of a blind martial artist, so elaborate and prolonged fight scenes are what the story needs (it also served to underscore the inherent hypocrisy of a vigilante lawyer). Jessica Jones will be hard-boiled noir, so elaborate fight scenes just don't serve the story.

Hard-boiled noir sounds like the right choice for a PTSD metaphor, since most of the classic noir we think of has damaged protagonists struggling to cope with the horrors they endured in WW2.
 
Its 15:40 in Australia on the 20th. What time is it expected in the US to be released.

Am wetting the bed for this.

EDIT: Second episode, and laundry. Doesn't grab me as much as Daredevil.
 
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Last 1/3 of second episode picked up. Playball40 you will love it.
I'm thinking this is a show that will take its time. And by the end of the third episode I think I'm good with that.
 
Made it up to episode 5. I'm hooked.

The junkie neighbor turned out to be more heartbreaking than I expected. I like their interpretation of Luke more the more I see him. Now I really want to see his show.
 
Finished it. It kicked ass. Can't wait for Power Man.

Netflix added Punisher to the lineup, so we're going to have a total of 5 series before they do the Defenders team up. I have to say, I'm not looking forward to Punisher at all. The thing that is interesting about Punisher is that because he crosses all the lines, he forces the other heroes to ask difficult moral questions, but anything that presents him as a protagonist? Not interested. He's nothing more than a mass murderer, possibly even a serial killer.

Anyway, Jessica Jones was excellent.

I heard that Misty Knight will show up in Power Man/Luke Cage, which means she'll definitely be in Iron Fist. Yay.
 
Underseer said:
Finished it. It kicked ass. Can't wait for Power Man.

Netflix added Punisher to the lineup, so we're going to have a total of 5 series before they do the Defenders team up. I have to say, I'm not looking forward to Punisher at all. The thing that is interesting about Punisher is that because he crosses all the lines, he forces the other heroes to ask difficult moral questions, but anything that presents him as a protagonist? Not interested. He's nothing more than a mass murderer, possibly even a serial killer.
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I think Punisher is only confirmed as supporting character in Daredevil season 2, and Netflix is just planning his own show after (or unrelated to) the Defenders team-up if I understood it correctly. Besides where do you get "a total of 5 series"? Even with punisher and Daredevil there would be just four.

At this point though, I wonder if Netflix will even go ahead with the Defenders instead of just continuing each characters' own shows. There wasn't going to be Daredevil season 2 anyway, and Jessica Jones was open-ended for second season (unless that was setting things up for Luke Cage).
 
Jayjay said:
Besides where do you get "a total of 5 series"? Even with punisher and Daredevil there would be just four.
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Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist are confirmed. That makes 4, and the possibility of Punisher makes 5.
 
KeepTalking said:
Jayjay said:
Besides where do you get "a total of 5 series"? Even with punisher and Daredevil there would be just four.
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Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist are confirmed. That makes 4, and the possibility of Punisher makes 5.
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Brain fart. For some reason I read that as "five more", i.e. in addition to what's already aired. Anyway. If they stick with the original schedule, Power man and Iron Fist are coming out in 2016 and that would make Defenders release in 2017. If Punisher gets his own show, it's likely not going to be a year after Daredevil season 2, it's around the same time frame, could be either before or after. Besides I doubt Punisher is going to be part of the Defenders line-up.
 
Sorry, Punisher is still a rumor at this point, but from the sounds of things, Marvel really likes the version of Frank Castle they put in season 2 of Daredevil. Also, there are rumors about Iron Fist getting scrapped or changed from a series into a single movie, which would suck big sweaty donkey balls.
 
Ehhhh... meh.

It's just interesting enough to keep me from turning it off. It definitely hasn't hooked me from the outset like some other shows have. But for something to watch between now and when The Americans and Game of Thrones begins again, it's okay.
 
I quite liked this. It's nice to see a hero who sucks at being a hero kind of trying to be a hero. Kilgrave did a good job of a sociopath who really doesn't know any better. I liked his comment about how he has never in his life known if someone actually wants to hang around with him or is just following orders because it is so damn hard to couch his phrases all the time. It put everything he did into perspective and how he was kind of confused as to why Jessica was do angry at him.

The storyline with the cop guy seemed out of place, but that may change when they expand upon it in future seasons. Other than that, pretty much everything was a hit.
 
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