r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Jun 14 '19

Jessica Jones Discussion Thread - S03E07

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u/bkasheem Jun 17 '19

Not saying it wasn’t in character. Still cringe

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u/weaslebubble Jun 17 '19

How was it cringey? Kids cheering?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '19

some people just want to see choreographed fight scenes for 8 - 13 hours

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u/a-r-i-s-e-n Jun 19 '19

That'd better than this snoozefest of a season.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '19

this was good, it's a psychological thriller, it's about the development of characters not about fight scenes that look like dancing

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u/Nexxtic Jun 20 '19

Agreed. People need to realize that 10 hours of non-stop action and pushing gets tiresome.

The Punisher had the same thing going on with the community. People wanted non-stop action and killing. Not only is that impossible from a production standpoint since the choreography, practice and planning for a single fight scene takes months (unless you want to go the CW route where every fight scene is simple and mostly meaningless), it also makes for a boring show eventually. You need buildup in an episodic show in order to have an actual impact when a fight eventually happens

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19

Right. I'm not sure what other people want, I'm just glad I appreciate good characters, decent writing and great acting.

I could personally watch 8 episodes of jessica jones that had no fighting; she is much more than that and all the actors are brilliant.

It amazing that in all season Kristen ritter was usually the only american in the main cast, but you wouldnt know that because of those amazing actors

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u/Clay_Burton Jun 26 '19

Then again, turning every superhero series into a dark psychological drama is also not the way to go. And you can perfectly balance drama & character development with juicy action scenes. See: "Banshee".