New trailer...
for Jessica Jones, season 2! (And it's really a new trailer, not the teaser trailer from a few weeks back.)
Thoughts: as opposed to s1, this isn't based on anything in the Alias comics that I can recall, but it's been years since I've read them. Still, in them, Jessica's super powers truly were an accident as far as I remember (correct me if I'm wrong). Considering various of the MCU tv shows have made "sinister organizations experiment on human beings" a thing, and the last episodes of s1 had dropped heavy hints one of those ominous firms would be Jessica's next major antagonist to defeat, I'm not surprised they follow through. (Also, it fits with Luke Cage's reveal of where his powers come from.)
Speculation: seems that rival PI from the trailer is also a superpowered person? And will be another antagonist?
More speculation, and this one cut for possible spoilers - not that I'm spoiled, I'm just guessing based on this trailer, but if I'm right, it will be a major twist: Jessica's capacity for self loathing not withstanding, I don't think she's referring to herself when she says "it takes a monster to stop a monster". And the very last bit in the trailer is shot in that distinct purple light. Plus I do think those a David Tennant's hands clapping.
Now: Kilgrave is dead, to begin with. There can be no doubt about that. All kidding aside, and accounting for the genre's tendency to resurrect villains, I don't think it would be a good creative choice to literally resurrect him from the dead by PlotDeviceX magic. Not just because Jessica killing him was such a logical and fitting conclusion for her s1 arc, but because while Kilgrave was, for my money, the best of the MCU villains in how he affected his main character, this story would lose power if he came back from the dead. I mean, there isn't much you can do with the character alive that hasn't been done. Making Jessica's life hell again - nah. And I seriously doubt they'll do a redemption storyline with him, after the magnificent mid s1 episode which both plays at it and shows why it's not an option.
HOWEVER. I do think it's possible that Jessica will conclude that in order to defeat s2's antagonist(s), she needs to consult and use her memories of Kilgrave, and that's what she's doing in that last scene. Which might lead to a Head!Kilgrave being present for some episodes, not the real thing (who will remain dead). Because Jessica having a dialogue with her inner demon, err, Kilgrave, while trying to survive for another day sounds just like her kind of fucked up thing to do, plus of course Krysten Ritter and David Tennant were excellent together, and this would be a way the show can use this again without destroying the emotional power of its main first season storyline.
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Click to viewThoughts: as opposed to s1, this isn't based on anything in the Alias comics that I can recall, but it's been years since I've read them. Still, in them, Jessica's super powers truly were an accident as far as I remember (correct me if I'm wrong). Considering various of the MCU tv shows have made "sinister organizations experiment on human beings" a thing, and the last episodes of s1 had dropped heavy hints one of those ominous firms would be Jessica's next major antagonist to defeat, I'm not surprised they follow through. (Also, it fits with Luke Cage's reveal of where his powers come from.)
Speculation: seems that rival PI from the trailer is also a superpowered person? And will be another antagonist?
More speculation, and this one cut for possible spoilers - not that I'm spoiled, I'm just guessing based on this trailer, but if I'm right, it will be a major twist: Jessica's capacity for self loathing not withstanding, I don't think she's referring to herself when she says "it takes a monster to stop a monster". And the very last bit in the trailer is shot in that distinct purple light. Plus I do think those a David Tennant's hands clapping.
Now: Kilgrave is dead, to begin with. There can be no doubt about that. All kidding aside, and accounting for the genre's tendency to resurrect villains, I don't think it would be a good creative choice to literally resurrect him from the dead by PlotDeviceX magic. Not just because Jessica killing him was such a logical and fitting conclusion for her s1 arc, but because while Kilgrave was, for my money, the best of the MCU villains in how he affected his main character, this story would lose power if he came back from the dead. I mean, there isn't much you can do with the character alive that hasn't been done. Making Jessica's life hell again - nah. And I seriously doubt they'll do a redemption storyline with him, after the magnificent mid s1 episode which both plays at it and shows why it's not an option.
HOWEVER. I do think it's possible that Jessica will conclude that in order to defeat s2's antagonist(s), she needs to consult and use her memories of Kilgrave, and that's what she's doing in that last scene. Which might lead to a Head!Kilgrave being present for some episodes, not the real thing (who will remain dead). Because Jessica having a dialogue with her inner demon, err, Kilgrave, while trying to survive for another day sounds just like her kind of fucked up thing to do, plus of course Krysten Ritter and David Tennant were excellent together, and this would be a way the show can use this again without destroying the emotional power of its main first season storyline.
This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1272178.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.