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1...@dont-email.me>, Obveeus <
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wrote:
> On 11/20/2015 11:06 AM, jess stone wrote:
> >
http://www.eonline.com/news/717453/why-jessica-jones-netflix-s-damaged-deadp
> > an-superhero-is-taking-viewers-by-storm
>
> > "Jessica Jones is a very different kind of superhero. She is not
> > noble, she's not out trying to save the city and right every wrong,
> > she's really just trying to make her rent, to 'make a goddamn living
> > in this goddamn town,' as Brian Michael Bendis wrote," executive
> > producer Melissa Rosenberg told E! News at the premiere of Jessica
> > Jones. "She's just a very real, very complex, very damaged
> > character...we've never seen a superhero go through what she has gone
> > through."
> >
> > <While Eonline does not have the gravitas of say THR or Variety I have
> > yet to read a bad review of this one.>
>
> Having seen the series I will say:
>
> 1. Krysten Ritter does well in this role. She is laughably too tiny to
> actually look tough, but such is the nature of comic book physical
> powers. Still, she plays it well and adds in a great job of drinking,
> grumping, pouting, etc... as the role requires.
Yes. A few times the Bitch From Apt. 23 peeked out, but that was
probably inevitable. She's not tiny when you see her next to, for
instance, her conventionally attractive sister, but she's certainly
slight.
>
> 2. David Tennant does a terrific job as the main bad guy. He captures
> the fun/camp of comic book super villains wonderfully.
He even wears purple suits, at least sometimes. It was funny how he
didn't seem any different from the Doctor, but was effortlessly evil.
He was more ingratiating than his characters in Gracechurch or
Broadpoint.
>
> 3. I liked most of the rest of the cast, except for the mustache
> twirling soap opera style of Carrie-Anne Moss as the evil lawyer and the
> annoying distraction of the twin neighbors.
I liked Moss at the start, but as it went, she got worse and worse. It
was impossible to believe that her assistant (Pam?) had genuine feelings
for her. BUT ... if you had had one bit of belief in her character
left, one drop of empathy, you would *never* buy her disabling the
hermetically sealed chamber. Even as much as I hated her and thought
she was a useless despicable idiot by that point, I still didn't buy it.
I hated her neighbors.
I liked her sister, but I almost turned the series off (in retrospect I
wish I had) when she let the murderous cop in (I guess this is why we
had to suffer through all the stuff with her abusive mother, to justify
her idiotic behavior). And then again when she shot through the
hermetically sealed glass at Kilgrave (one 'L' only, because that's
creative!). These aren't the actions of a smart, bright, rich,
successful, and scared woman; I'd have bought it from the idiot twin
sister though.
>
> This series is not as good as DAREDEVIL, but it is still leaps and
> bounds better than SUPERGIRL/GOTHAM/FLASH.
Here we vary wildly. I won't watch another frame of JJ unless they kick
Melissa Rosenberg off of it. I'll still watch SUPERGIRL/GOTHAM/FLASH.
I'm even watching Arrow this week for the crossover.
>
> Speaking of DAREDEVIL...the crossover character here should have been
> introduced earlier and gotten more screen time.
Yes. They also shouldn't have just met her by accident. But then JJ
shouldn't have just met Luke by accident either.
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