We just finished
Jessica Jones, Season 1 after watching
Daredevil, Season 1 again (for me).
We're trying to keep it all in order after Mrs. Pender enjoyed the first season of
Iron Fist.
Jessica Jones Season 1
Although seeing
Doctor Who and the
B in Apt 23 was cool, it was a rough start for us.
I was not entirely sold that
Krysten Ritter was much more than just annoying, dismal, and seriously depressing. At least, her character seemed to be just stuck in this bleak, colorless blah.
For me, I don't think I turned the corner for the show until we find out more about
Malcolm in episode 4.
But any connection to
Jessica, for me, is still almost "meh".
Maybe it is her whole entire self-pitying and immature attitude that kind of turns me off or her constant drinking (which is kind of a trigger for me), but whatever it is, there is still something about her that kind of grates on my nerves.
Now, it is not nearly as bad as the first half of the season.
And some of her "joyless" lines were really hilarious.
Holy fuck, though, her misery is hard to deal with at times (maybe because of my own mental problems) and it never fucking relents.
As I said, we watched
Daredevil Season 1 just prior to this and going from such a great cast and show to this was a little disappointing for me. We slugged through it and I am glad we did because, even though it seemed it could have been a few less
contrived "Purple Man escapes because of this and this" situations and making the season tighter to about 10 episode instead of the slightly bloated 13 episodes, I am glad we got to the end which bordered on anti-climatic.
I mean it seriously was a frenetic build-up to not much payoff and I was on the verge of not really caring even that far into the season.
I almost wished
Jessica had died.
Almost.
Compared to the buildup of
Fisk and the torment of
Daredevil's own problems,
Jessica just seemed stunted through the whole season with no real growth to be shown. She never truly moves past anything. It seems like she should move past some of what is happening to her, but even after a few choice lines or actions, she is right back to where she was in episode 1.
The lack of any growth in her character is tiring, boring, and it seriously flattens her character to nigh-cardboard levels. Every time
Jessica opened a bottle, I felt like doing the same and reflecting her "fuck life" attitude right back at the show.
I really think that is the major difference for me between most of
Marvel vs. DC Comics recent film/movie/TV shows: The characters in
Marvel always seemed to move somewhere - either up or down - while
Superman is
almost just boringly the same over and over.
Sigh.
It ultimately was good, though.