Jessica Jones has relatively good taste in booze for a full blown alcoholic.
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[TV] The General Marvel TV/Streaming Thread
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Finished Jessica Jones.
Short, non spoiler version, I loved it from start to finish. Tenant was perfect as the Purple Man. Luke Cage was great. Would it have killed them to have him wear a yellow shirt at least once? Dude has the most adaptation friendly costume and no yellow shirt?
Now for spoilers:
Short, non spoiler version, I loved it from start to finish. Tenant was perfect as the Purple Man. Luke Cage was great. Would it have killed them to have him wear a yellow shirt at least once? Dude has the most adaptation friendly costume and no yellow shirt?
Now for spoilers:
Yo. DC! Look, a character with super powers who snaps the main villain's neck without it being pointless and stupid.
I loved the twists and turns to the point where you have no idea what Killgrave will do. They made his motivations realistic, but made his past a reason how he is, but not an excuse. The side characters were interesting and engaging.
Overall, a total win for marvel.
I loved the twists and turns to the point where you have no idea what Killgrave will do. They made his motivations realistic, but made his past a reason how he is, but not an excuse. The side characters were interesting and engaging.
Overall, a total win for marvel.
I haven't seen it yet and I didn't read your spoiler. I did read that he wore a yellow shirt once, though.
Finished it, was awesome all the way through. Another fine example of Marvel knocking it out of the park. Jessica really shines in the whole piece and the casting was perfect. Really love the inclusion of Trish "Patsy" Walker and hope this gets a second season so we can bring on the Hellcat. For now, I await more Daredevil and then Luke Cage.[DOUBLEPOST=1448746496,1448746456][/DOUBLEPOST]
Yup, that's what he is wearing the first time we see Luke.I haven't seen it yet and I didn't read your spoiler. I did read that he wore a yellow shirt once, though.
I'm hoping against hope that there's one scene in the Luke Cage series where he's looking through his parents' storage unit. As he sorts through the clothing, he picks up a yellow disco shirt, thoughtfully examines it, and brings it home. Someone else finds it later that episode and he nervously explains it's just for a Halloween costume.
Yeah, for about 5 seconds before we even know who he is
They just released new images for Daredevil season 2. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/28/daredevil-season-2-punisher
I was assuming it was part of how DD was trapped, hadn't thought of it being a bludgeon.
--Patrick
Just finished Jessica Jones tonight. Echoing everyone else, it was fantastic. Maybe because the stakes were on such a personal scale, I was edge of my seat. This felt way more intense than anything else from Marvel. Really hope we get a season 2.
"Hmm, this goose seems to be laying golden eggs. Should we keep it?"
"Nah, one's plenty"
Said no-one, ever.
I can think of multiple examples, at least in the video game industry
.But for Netflix, I wonder how they determine a show's success. I guess by how many people watched the whole thing? But that seems like something most subscribers would do if they're binging. Netflix certainly has better ways of tracking data than more classic TV companies who don't take into account numbers of viewers from their own online at times. I just wonder how they figure. Have there been Netflix duds that haven't been renewed?
GasBandit
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I've often wondered this myself. Does netflix consider a show that is merely watched by a lot of users to be successful? Or does it need to meet some other metric? Do they track how long you search for something before you pick that show? Do they track new users who immediately go to a certain show to watch? It makes for an interesting thought exercise.I can think of multiple examples, at least in the video game industry
But for Netflix, I wonder how they determine a show's success. I guess by how many people watched the whole thing? But that seems like something most subscribers would do if they're binging. Netflix certainly has better ways of tracking data than more classic TV companies who don't take into account numbers of viewers from their own online at times. I just wonder how they figure. Have there been Netflix duds that haven't been renewed?
They tend to watch genre shifts over time... if they find a lot of people watching certain series within a genre, that is when they start to consider producing new shows. It's why they did Hemlock Grove: Supernatural horror/mysteries like Supernatural and Vampire Diares were the rage and people were bingeing on Angel, Buffy, and X-Files. Turns out those shows cost basically nothing to make.
Pretty much this. From what I've heard/gathered Netflix looks at how well a show can hit the desired specific demographic. Which is why they did the Adam Sandler deal. They're not concerned with it bombing with Critics or House of Cards fans, as long as the people watching those kinds of crappy movies see it and keep their membership going.
I have to wonder, then, where Orange is the New Black came around. Because as far as I know, there aren't really any other shows like it.
Having had a night to process, some more spoilery thoughts on Jessica Jones.
I'm eager for more of this. If season 2 is so certain, I hope it's before the end of 2016.
I was happy not to see any "Marvel universe intrusion time!" episodes like ep 7 of Daredevil. Claire's presence didn't feel like it cut in, it felt like part of the story. I was worried about that, because there were so many opportunities to throw in a "Marvel big picture" thing, but that didn't happen.
I don't think I've ever felt such relief at a villain's death. I've been happy at a villain's death, but not this sense of "I'm so glad that's finally over." What a miserable scum pile. Even at the end, he couldn't help himself, he was so obsessed with the idea of Jessica loving him, when anyone under his control is only him loving himself. But he couldn't comprehend that, like he couldn't comprehend that he'd raped her, like he couldn't understand that restoring her old home was not a gift but a violation even into her own happy memories, now tainted by him. Pre-Kilgrave Jessica has Kilgrave in her too, because of him.
Really it was a fantastic portrayal of that type of person, mind control or not, and his mind control only made him scarier. From episode 1, this show was intense and it might be my favorite thing Marvel has done.
In fact, as relieved as I was at Kilgrave's death, I'm sad that the season is over and there isn't any more to watch. I loved the ending shot. Jessica's given up on helping, but there's such a flood of people needing her. The slow camera withdrawal with the jazzy music brought it back to the noir kind of feel that the show seemed to be going for before it got into the main plot.
I don't think I've ever felt such relief at a villain's death. I've been happy at a villain's death, but not this sense of "I'm so glad that's finally over." What a miserable scum pile. Even at the end, he couldn't help himself, he was so obsessed with the idea of Jessica loving him, when anyone under his control is only him loving himself. But he couldn't comprehend that, like he couldn't comprehend that he'd raped her, like he couldn't understand that restoring her old home was not a gift but a violation even into her own happy memories, now tainted by him. Pre-Kilgrave Jessica has Kilgrave in her too, because of him.
Really it was a fantastic portrayal of that type of person, mind control or not, and his mind control only made him scarier. From episode 1, this show was intense and it might be my favorite thing Marvel has done.
In fact, as relieved as I was at Kilgrave's death, I'm sad that the season is over and there isn't any more to watch. I loved the ending shot. Jessica's given up on helping, but there's such a flood of people needing her. The slow camera withdrawal with the jazzy music brought it back to the noir kind of feel that the show seemed to be going for before it got into the main plot.
I'm eager for more of this. If season 2 is so certain, I hope it's before the end of 2016.
Ah, that's true. And I realized after I'd written it that the same creator also did the pretty popular Weeds show.
And I hope there's a Stan Lee cameo this time around for both series. I know he didn't have anything to do with Jessica Jones' creation, but it would still be nice.
A Stan Lee cameo in Jessica Jones would've been distracting.
Besides, guy's in his 90s. Having him appear in the pile of movies is probably enough on him as it is.
Necronic
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Dude a lot of that stuff is exactly the kind of thing you would expect an alcoholic to drink. Cutty Sark and Teachers for instance.[DOUBLEPOST=1452118895,1452118779][/DOUBLEPOST]Also Old Grandad is the drink of choice in Bad Santa.
Mostly talking about Windsor and the Manhattan.
Windsor isn"t expensive but it's better than 99%of cheap whiskey.
If they adapt the Greg Rucka run I think they could get a good season long story out of him.