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So, uhh, are they setting up Patsy to be an antagonist in S3? I know her comic book arc leads to her becoming a minor hero, but she did a lotta messed up poo poo over the course of this season.
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My only question is, what is the piano program on her Surface Pro?
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I'm not done with the season so this might get covered eventually but "the octopus" was a real-life conspiracy theory made up by a desperate reporter. I still remember the Unsolved Mysteries about it.
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business hammocks posted:I'm not done with the season so this might get covered eventually but "the octopus" was a real-life conspiracy theory made up by a desperate reporter. I still remember the Unsolved Mysteries about it. Wait what? Tell me more
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bunnyofdoom posted:Wait what? Tell me more https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro Some parts of it were probably true, as a savings-and-loan guy had a hit put out on him after appearing on an Unsolved Mysteries segment about it, but it was probably just a regular old embezzlement conspiracy involving government employees.
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Mar 9, 2018 15:10
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Soothing Vapors posted:E2 I haven't gotten to Season 2 yet, but did they seriously kill off Nuke, a somewhat big deal comic book character?
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I haven't gotten to Season 2 yet, but did they seriously kill off Nuke, a somewhat big deal comic book character? Yes, but so? They've killed off a lot of villains in the various Marvel properties.
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Simpson isn’t exactly a big deal—he’s just an extremely weak man with zero resiliency who can’t bring himself to address his problems in a constructive way. Which kind of describes everyone on the show and is a theme of the series.
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Mar 9, 2018 15:22
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Ep11 What is it with the female sidekicks in these netflix shows going stupid in season two. Though granted Karen was also stupid in season one, but far less so.
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Episode 1 Noooooooo RIP Whizzer
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I haven't gotten to Season 2 yet, but did they seriously kill off Nuke, a somewhat big deal comic book character? Yeah, in an incredibly lame way too. I was really hoping he'd be a bigger part of the season, Wil Traval is Cool and Good.
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Soothing Vapors posted:Yeah, in an incredibly lame way too. I was really hoping he'd be a bigger part of the season, Wil Traval is Cool and Good. My mom calls him "Low Budget Tom Jane" and now I'm almost sad he wasn't cast as Frank Castle for even more casting confusion.
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I really wanted to like this season and there were sme good points but Full Season Spoilers There to me wasn't really a compelling villain and over all the story was just all over the place with her mom coming back etc.. it's just like to much really. Like the onl reason was to keep watching Jessica but the sub plots during this was just really bad and uninteresting
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Mar 9, 2018 17:35
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I'm all about hot, biased Latino superintendent guy. The plot has definitely not grabbed me as much as Season 1.
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It's probably impossible to top Tennants Purple man.
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adhuin posted:It's probably impossible to top Tennants Purple man. This is true but I'm pretty unhappy overall with this season.
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Netflix Marvel: "Patsy's kind of mean!"
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Ubiquitous_ posted:I'm all about hot, biased Latino superintendent guy. The plot has definitely not grabbed me as much as Season 1. I can't deal with how handsome that dude is, I have to look away when he's onscreen also E5: crazy killer lady burning a piano piece by piece had me in hysterics for some reason, that is some deeply funny poo poo biracial bear for uncut posted:My mom calls him "Low Budget Tom Jane" Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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adhuin posted:It's probably impossible to top Tennants Purple man. This is true. Still enjoying the season so far (just got to episode 7), but he was such a great villain.
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I've only watched the first episode of season 2 but man it feels like the quality really dropped off in Jessica Jones.
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Le Saboteur posted:I've only watched the first episode of season 2 but man it feels like the quality really dropped off in Jessica Jones. I'm on ep 8 now and it hasn't improved
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I always find it disappointing when a narrative continues by finding epic significance in the past of a main character or in the hidden significance of their family history. It just always seems like an uncreative way to keep developing a story after a tight first/early seasons that have exhausted the initial conflicts. The expectation always seems to be that such discoveries inherently carry dramatic weight because they are necessarily connected to the emotions and development of the character, but it doesn’t necessarily add anything that makes them or their story better or more compelling. Jessica is a self-hating moral absolutist who is at or near rock-bottom at all times. It seems like a strong story has to build out from there with other characters for her to collide with rather than to assume that whatever she is shocked to learn about her childhood or family will be strong enough to carry the show.
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Mar 10, 2018 03:56
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E9: trish discovers 8 episodes later that inhalers, in fact, have a finite number of uses. this discovery floors her. why is she so dumb this year
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Soothing Vapors posted:E9: trish discovers 8 episodes later that inhalers, in fact, have a finite number of uses. this discovery floors her. why is she so dumb this year This but also the non-spoiler : why has she started dressing like an 18th century British fox-hunter? What???????
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Finished JJ2. It was ok, not nearly as good as season 1. Really lacks a strong villain, there are too many sub-plots that don't really go anywhere. Cheng, Jeri, Griffin, Oscar the new super, even Dr. Karl and Trish subplots are just sort of there. I'm particularly confused at what was going on with Griffin. He's on the phone having a secret conversation while Trish is in the shower. Was that a plot thread that went nowhere or was that related to his surprise engagement party? edit: it kind of felt like season 2 was 90% setup for season 3 and not much actually happened. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Pellisworth posted:I'm particularly confused at what was going on with Griffin. He's on the phone having a secret conversation while Trish is in the shower. Was that a plot thread that went nowhere or was that related to his surprise engagement party? Yeah, it was setup for the engagement.
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It's a mess but it's not exactly bad, just really really unfocused.
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E9: Really digging the moment the magical steroid ran out, I was wondering when it would happen
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Literally upset the thread title isn't "With great power comes great mental illness."
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Agree that this season didn't hit the highs of S1, but in a way I thought it was much more even, on the whole. It was definitely paced more evenly than, say, the Defenders, and I think it largely stayed in the "street level", character-focused spot that the Netflix shows do best in. I also liked the dynamic between Jessica and her mom . Yeah, there was no "big bad" to focus on, by and large, but I found the characters' continuing internal struggles to be compelling enough to carry through, and having some mustache twirling villain show up would have been completely inconsistent with what makes the show good to start with - just like with Luke Cage. Also, I guess I get that people are frustrated by Trish acting like an idiot, but nothing she did seemed inconsistent when you recognize that she is, at her core, an addict - her interactions with Malcolm fleshed that out pretty well, I thought.
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I watched half of S1E1 before realizing that Netflix didn’t know I had already watched the first season. I remember liking this show but I guess it didn’t make a strong impression on me.
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The season was really missing a real villain. The mom being an on-and-off sorta-villain would've worked better as a side plot, I think. Definitely a Tennant-shaped hole.
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if they cut out every single scene with the lawyer i'd have liked this a whole lot more. god she sucks its definitely less focused plot-wise but i enjoyed some of the characters well enough it could coast on that alone.
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See, I like the character, but Hogarth's side story having not a single loving thing to do with the main plot was weird.
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Skippy McPants posted:See, I like the character, but Hogarth's side story having not a single loving thing to do with the main plot was weird. Thematically it made sense (Hogarth's super power is her ability to control situations, but the need to do so is her crippling addiction and vulnerability), but yeah - it felt a lot like they wanted to make sure she was still in Jessica's orbit but just didn't have anything for her to do outside of occasionally helping with legal problems.
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Finished the series. Two thoughts to follow up on what's already been said: The season didn't need a villain. The main antagonist isn't Jessica's mother, it's Jessica's very relationship with her mother, her own fuckups, her own attempts to reconcile defeating the monsters and having a mother, and how that affected all her other relationships. Once I stopped looking for a central figure on which to think "She must defeat this person", the season became much better for it. Also, speaking from egregious family issues personally, I found this season personally and uncomfortably more relatable than Season 1, and it made the whole thing hit so much harder that I had to take a break or two (S1 is still better though). God I wish Trish's mom would slip in bird poo poo and die. And, holy poo poo, if you want a villain, Jeri Hogarth could absolutely steal the show if she crosses the line into consistent villainy. Watching her take her obsessive control freak issues to the extreme was like 
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The season has been okay to good so far, but episode 7 is really, really dragging for me.
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Cran posted:Finished the series. Two thoughts to follow up on what's already been said: The season didn't need a villain. The main antagonist isn't Jessica's mother, it's Jessica's very relationship with her mother, her own fuckups, her own attempts to reconcile defeating the monsters and having a mother, and how that affected all her other relationships. Once I stopped looking for a central figure on which to think "She must defeat this person", the season became much better for it. Also, speaking from egregious family issues personally, I found this season personally and uncomfortably more relatable than Season 1, and it made the whole thing hit so much harder that I had to take a break or two (S1 is still better though). God I wish Trish's mom would slip in bird poo poo and die. I agree with this post, especially the last line. I enjoyed the season on the whole.
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Cran posted:Finished the series. Two thoughts to follow up on what's already been said: The season didn't need a villain. The main antagonist isn't Jessica's mother, it's Jessica's very relationship with her mother, her own fuckups, her own attempts to reconcile defeating the monsters and having a mother, and how that affected all her other relationships. Once I stopped looking for a central figure on which to think "She must defeat this person", the season became much better for it. Also, speaking from egregious family issues personally, I found this season personally and uncomfortably more relatable than Season 1, and it made the whole thing hit so much harder that I had to take a break or two (S1 is still better though). God I wish Trish's mom would slip in bird poo poo and die. Agree entirely. This wasn't about Hero vs Villain. This was about damaged people and how they damage each other even with good intentions, with the repercussions and fall out then pinballing out to create new little vortexes of struggle. Sartre's Hell is other people. I thought it was great.
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