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Jessica Jones: A.K.A. WWJD? [1x08] ✦ Watchalong Reaction & Review (Patreon)

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2024-07-27 16:15:24
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2024-08
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OH MY GOD?????? 😭😭😭😭

Click here to watchalong with me.

In my review, I couldn't remember what is coming next in the watch order. 😅 We'll be continuing the "dark" stuff with Daredevil S2 before starting Luke Cage S1 and then bouncing back to Agents of SHIELD with S3.

Anywhooooooo let's talk about this, gahd damn.

✦ KL

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Rat MacKay

I absolutely do not defend anything that Kilgrave has done...but I also feel sorry for him and truly believe that it isn't all his fault. We all know a kid (if not currently, then at some point in the past) who was failed by their parents through a lack of discipline. Even parents who don't discipline their kids and let them be entitled little assholes will still draw the line at some point (or society will)...but imagine the most obnoxious, ill-behaved brat that you can think of...and now imagine how much worse they would be if there was no one who COULD tell them 'no' and correct them. He didn't have a chance at being normal because there was no one to teach him how to be and no one able to discipline him...even the police. Also, they kinda made it a joke with the whole telling a guy to screw himself thing...but imagine a kid with those powers and not having a) the knowledge of how to control it b) the wisdom to choose his words carefully. How many times did you tell someone "leave me alone" as a child? How would you have felt if every time you said that, by the time you were ready to see them again they couldn't be found because they were compelled to obey the request? All things considered, while he's still a terrible guy, I think we're lucky that he is as well-adjusted as he is. Imagine a world where Kilgrave walks into Congress and controls them all into making a law that he is the President for life. He's as cruel, capricious, and self-serving as a kid with a magnifying glass standing over an ant hill on a sunny day...but we're lucky that his ambition is fairly childlike as well. He wants food, shelter, safety, and (despite not understanding the meaning of it) love... I'm glad he thinks relatively small.

Bryan Dempsey

This was a hard watch. And not just the episode. You were so distressed and uncomfortable watching it, it was a little difficult watching you react. The moments we spent at Hogarth’s divorce proceeding or with Trish were welcome reprieves. And KL you visibly relaxed in those moments. For most of the episode you didn’t even do your trademark sway, very clearly unsettled. We’d been building to the reveal of the inside of the house for a couple of episodes and once we see the inside all we want is out. I like how they used the house and triggered memories to explore Jessica’s past, which would naturally occur in that situation. We learned Jessica had a brother and his height wasn’t marked on the wall after age 10, then we see why she carries so much guilt. But she chooses to care about people. Whether she wants or not. I agree with what you said after seeing Kilgrave’s own trauma exposed, many people have rough experiences in childhood but it’s not an excuse for the choices made as an adult. I first knew David Tennant as the affable Doctor in Doctor Who. Seeing him here (again, this is a rewatch for me) in Jessica Jones really shows his acting chops because I despise him. Such a versatile actor. And genuinely nice guy, I met him a few years ago. I found your question of what would we do if we get a redemption style arc for Kilgrave thought provoking. I’m curious, do you really think there’s a way to soften your opinion of him? If so, what would it take for you to not see Kilgrave as an abusive psychopath (my words)? Another question for you. If you were former military police officer and a past victim of Kilgrave, in active pursuit of the man and someone approached you with a bag and said Kilgrave told her to give it to you, would you look in the bag? Knowing the bomb you left behind the day before was unaccounted for? If I have any nitpick of the episode it’s that moment. Just, run man, geez. Otherwise, a well acted, well paced, but very unsettling episode. Think I’ll take a shower now so I can feel clean again and sleep tonight.