#JJ critical

[tremorsmackenzie]

jessica jones rewatch review

so, ive just finished rewatching jessica jones because my disney+ access has ended. this will contain spoilers for the entire show.

disclaimer: i last watched it a few years ago with my mom and loved it back then, and my memory of it post season 1 was kind of blurry except for some central plot elements, and that i really disliked hogarth and trish towards the end.

so. season 1 was the best in terms of overall plot, character development, vibe, and consistency in my opinion. the best story and definitley also the best villain, kilgrave fucking slaps as a bad guy.

jessica in general is an awesome character, and has never really left my top three. i love her development, her personality, and her writing most of the time. she tries to live her life and take care of herself, but also helps the little guy when its not a wasted effort, and when she makes mistakes and ends up hurting people the reason is human error, not maliciousness or disinterest in other people, and she generally takes responsibility for her actions.

that said, sometimes her writing is lazy or just bad in order for the plot to happen, but unfortunately thats always a problem that exists.

after that, i have some thoughts. in general, i dont really see the narrative point of many of the side stories in the last two seasons. they only barely had anything to do with the main story (especially hogarths arcs), so that was kind of just exhausting to watch, because i genuinely dislike hogarth and, as i said, there kind of was no point to her scenes most of the time for the main narrative, which didnt make it better. the same is true for the sheer amount of sex scenes. in general i dont have a problem with those, but here they were just redundant in terms of plot most of the time, there were way too many of them especially with that in mind, and because of that there was no value added to the show by them. it felt more like filler, or trying to achieve the rating of the show.

what annoyed me the most was how almost every single main character on the show, with the exception of jessica, became so goddamn unlikeable. the side characters were mostly fine (costa, griffin, oscar, etc.), but trish, hogarth, and malcolm were hard to tolerate later on. thats partially due to the genre of the show and what themes are explored there, but its difficult to sympathize with the characters enough to keep watching for 13 episodes per season, when all they do is manipulate and screw each other over constantly, with almost no redeeming qualities or real consequences for their actions, and im not sure whether id call that a good writing decision. that whole situation is a toxic mess and i really hope jessica found some better people after the show ended.

beyond that obviously the female characters were all deep and complicated people, which is one of my favourite things about this show, but i also really wish that some of them werent written as assholes past season 1.

so yeah, those are my thoughts. still one of my favourite shows of all time, but man do i wish the writing had been kinder in season 2 and 3. really hope jessica will be back in daredevil born again or a future show/movie.

Edit: also im mad that oscar and the potential of a genuinely positive relationship with a good person for jessica, that was built up the entire second season, was immediatley taken away at the start of the third season.

[temilyrights]

jj and morgan are so annoying in 8x21 with the victim like omg i’m SO sorry the traumatised victim doesn’t wanna talk to you and it’s inconvenient?? did you leave ur empathy at home??

[youbutstupid]

My opinions on Criminal Minds characters as someone who understands that characters have nuance and aren’t just black and white

Hotch: adore him

Rossi: adore him

Gideon: disagree with his decision to bring Spencer to the field but adore him

Reid: adore him

Elle: adore her

Morgan: adore him

Emily: adore her

JJ: adore her

Seaver: (despite what people think) adore her

Callahan: adore her

Todd: adore her (no one can ever make me hate you bestie)

Blake: adore her

Garcia: adore her (huge crush on her)

Alvez: adore him

Simmons: adore him

Lewis: adore her

[peachi-blossom]

Non-Hazbin Hotel characters that are better than Niffty

I don't hate Niffty, I just hate how she was written in the show since Vivienne Medrano is a massive misogynist in the past and still is today.

I know I put Sun on the better than Charlie Morningstar post, I just wanted to added him on the list because some of his characteristics applies to Niffty, but there are differences too.

Now that I've done Charlie, Alastor, Vaggie, Lucifer and Niffty, I will try to do Angel Dust, Husk, and Cherri Bomb (I should've wrote this first when I started doing the Non-Hazbin Hotel characters that are better than "HH main cast" series). I won't be doing Sir Pentious since he is based off on DollCreep... I will make another better than Charlie post but this time with princesses.

EDIT: 7/11/24

Also there was this one video by a professional therapist who analyze Niffty and the therapist thinks she has OCD. I watched her video and I was like, "Uhh, Niffty never got any development yet. Why are you saying she has OCD?". OCD ≠ overly clean or organized, it's a lot more complicated than you think it is. I don't actually have OCD myself, but I'm on a autism spectrum. I'm really good at math and video games, but it's difficult for me to put the words together whenever I try to say or write something. Like, I know what to say, I just need to actually say it. Although I struggle, I will keep improving.

[arson-09]

my number one enemy in life is the mf that fucked up the last star wars sequel

its been years and i still haven’t recovered from rise of skywalker that movie was so incredibly disappointing. I honestly really liked (by that i mean love) The Last Jedi and i was hoping the vibes would carry but nOoooO BULLSHIT

Imagine IMAGINE the fucking meaning of the empire being destroyed once and for all by a skywalker (kylo/ben) and a nobody (rey) because they care for eachother because it all started by a skywalker turning to the darkside to save his lover. THERE WERE SO MANY MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

STAR WARS IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT HOPE AND NOT GIVING UP AND THEY END IT BY FUCKING KILLING OFF KYLO/BEN ONCE HE AND REY HAD FINALLY REALIZED THEIR FEELINGS WHERES THE HOPE IN THAT??? WHERES THE STORY OF PERSEVERANCE??

I just wanna say thank you to force awakens and the last jedi for opening my eyes to enemies to lovers, havent been the same since (fuck u jj abrams)

[wren-was-here]

i’m making a list of women in fictional media that are hated by a significant portion of their fan bases because they’re complicated, or deeply flawed, or morally grey, or angry when that is inherently connected to the thematic integrity of the story

so far i have:

Diane from Bojack Horseman

Princess Carolyn from Bojack Horseman

JJ from Criminal Minds

Elle from Criminal Minds

Jordan from Criminal Minds

Ashley from Criminal Minds

Haley from Criminal Minds*

Martha from Dr. Who*

Gwen from Torchwood*

Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time

Lapis from Steven Universe

Jessica from Jessica Jones

Mary from Sherlock*

Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Allison (Cameron) from House*

*shout out if they're also hated because they "got in the way" of a fan-favorite (usually mlm) ship and/or had feelings for the leading man that were not reciprocated

anyways lmk if you have others. idk i wanna collect them all and take care of them or something

[strongermonster]

i'm officially single again but she made me do a fuckin exit interview??? she graded me???? she compared my lack of emotional commitment to things and overall flakiness meant that sometimes having sex was like "fucking in a clown car" (??????????????????) "because i never know what i'm gonna get from you"😭😭😭😭😭❓❓❓❓❓🤡 🔫

assigned clussy and d e s t r o y e d lmaooo

[dumb-alek]

I think to myself; I'm not a nerd gatekeeper/snob and think any subclass of fan doesn't really make me go 'ugh you're not a real fan'

And then I remember the JJ Abrams star trek movies

[the-physicality]

Omg stop ur kidding m daoust on jocks in Jills? And I found out on tik tok??? Screaming crying throwing my phone across the room

[theangrypomeranian]

Tina and Jimmy Jr. share a braincell

TELL ME I'M WRONG you can't because I'm right :P

[boasamishipper]

[image description: a comparison of luke skywalker in 'the last jedi' to maverick mitchell in 'top gun: maverick'. under a picture of luke, there is a list of traits that read:

old luke:

old and grumpy

nothing like the real luke

gives up on the jedi

ridiculed

refuses to train rey

sad and pathetic

won't fight

dies for nohing

under a picture of maverick, there is a list of traits that read:

old maverick:

older and wiser

same core character

still believes in top gun

respected

trains new pilots

jaded but inspiring

fights despite the odds

puts his life on the line

end id.]

listen i hate rian johnson and the last jedi as much as the next guy but this post Just Ain't It

[bluntblade]

I'm always puzzled by the insistence that Abrams meant for Finn to be Force-sensitive, because if those sound cues are actually the Force (some of the effects on Jakku, also the Hosnian Cataclysm screams) and not just a non-diagetic sound effect (in a franchise which is traditionally extremely literal, otherwise this wouldn't have been fixated on so much), it's deeply weird how little the impact him.

Like, "I heard the death-scream of an entire solar system. Guess it's normal when that happens?" and never thought about it again.

And I can't imagine that being a thing with someone who was already something of a misfit and probably very introspective over that.

Throw that together with the fact that while Rey's awakening is foreshadowed with all the "what girl?!" stuff and they kind-of build to her actually using the Force, I just don't see the same intent with Finn. Indeed, although the plot couldn't happen without him, I feel like the writers are unsure quite what to do with him outside of the plot. And so for me, I just don't feel like him being Force-sensitive was really this thing that was primed only for Johnson to disregard it (not least because of how it's handled in TRoS, but that's a whole other thing).

[fandomqueenlove]

okay so I know the whole jiara thing. I know it was unintentional in s1, and then in s3, a lot of their writing became very much intentionally setting up jiara to be romantic.

I also want to add that I am both a jjpope and jiara shipper with a leaning or preference to jjpope (and also, thst kie deserves to have a girlfriend), but I've made my peace that jjpope isn't going to happen and that jiara was going to.

that being said, I did not like a lot of the writing for jiara this season. I feel like a lot of their best came from when they were writing jj and kiara as platonic back in s1 in comparison to writing them as romantic in s3.

this is just me however, I mean, I'm sure everyone thinks differently and I'm only on episode 7 so far but I'm just not satisfied at all. and in some ways, I do semi still sish that we had gotten at least one friendship with the boys that didn't go further than just platonic (ofc, kie never liked john b or pope like how she likes jj, but john b kissed her and she and pope dated, and I know she's getting with jj when the season ends).

that being said, as a jjpope and jiara shipper, I will now be delving into the kie and cleo have two hands cause I now also shipped them a little bit after the first two episodes. so who says i can't have jjpope, jiara, and cleo x kie in a happy relationship where they all support and care for each other at the same time??

[kiekiecarrera]

https://twitter.com/lizziethat/status/1623783876463034376?s=46&t=oZrqRjgOT0fqgSFe1ek6nw hello?!???

Jiara kiss 3 minutes confirmed!!!!!!

[heroes-fading]

okay pause on the daddy issues on main for now, tlou2 did a lot of things but one of the best was giving us dina

and so this leads me to connect:

all you had to do was stay except it’s Dina and Ellie :(

:-(

i am once again asking druckmann if we rlly had to do all This

dina is the best part of tlou2 from what i can tell ASSUREDLY

like...maybe we'd all be happier...collectively....with our endless speculation....give us one lil dlc with jesse and dina...call it a day....this is such a grim closed loop it's just not fun!!!!!!!!!!

[wren-was-here]

listen i know gwen is definitely flawed but all the anti gwen fics i’ve read are like

“she rolled her eyes and scoffed then she talked way too loud and told everyone their feelings didn’t matter and then she punched ianto in the face and then accidentally blew up the hub”

like. bro.