#jessica jones spoilers //

[newyorkran]

Belated Jessica Jones rant

Ever since the show started there's been the recurring theme of Jessica doing things by the book: get proof, get criminal, send to jail.

So when Jessica encountered the first antagonist AKA Kilgrave, she tries her routine while also knowing that no normal jail can hold him, so she tries the next best alternative to that but when all fails, she ends up forced to kill him.

In season 2, Alisa is the antagonist. Again she tries her routine but when Alisa does go to jail, it's the wrong kind, she's too strong and unstable for normal prison, (despite having accepted a deal which would not send her to The Raft) and because that fails, she ends up dead too.

In season 3, Trish is the secondary antagonist, and she forces Jessica's hand to fight her. Eventually she does send her to jail, the "right" kind according to Jessica, The Raft. And it works, Jessica sacrifices her best friend, the only family she has left in order to not have her end up like the other antagonists whose stints in confinement did not work.

And I suppose it does seem like a consistent sequence of events for the series but it does not make it a fair one. Because how do you send the weakest of the antagonists to the strongest of prisons?

Is it because Trish was never arrested by the NYPD first? Because they did not have the great Jeri Hogarth who can strike deals out of thin air representing Trish? Because the evidence against Alisa Jones is much more damning than anything Trish did (literally just killed criminals).

IMO it was a cop out by writers who knew the series was ending with no future plans of a reboot, and wanted to leave with a bang. Not a bad watch at all, but sure a messed up one.

[mizgnomer]

You simply cannot have too much David Tennant

[why-i-love-comics]

Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #6 - "Haunted VI" (2024)

written by Stephanie Phillips art by Paolo Villanelli & Matt Milla

[all-0f-the-above]

the superhero's parallel to the hero's journey is one of an almost unbreakable curse: someone is harmed or killed while you are unable to stop it. you spend the next part of your life learning how to stop exactly that, promising yourself it won't happen again. you think to yourself, "if only I had been more prepared the first time, then I could have stopped it."

except defusing bombs isn't the issue. the person planting them is.

betrayal can't be anticipated: that's what makes it a betrayal.

and it's impossible to predict every single time someone will need life saving medical care.

still, you fantasize, "if I had the knowledge I have now, things would be different." and you save others from the same situation. time and time again. but still you ache. you didn't do it all those years ago. it haunts your every triumph.

it's not until you look in from the outside. the exact same thing happens to someone else this time, and you weren't able to stop it.

as you're beating yourself up for it and desperately trying to control the damage that's been done, you see someone sitting off to the side. they are alone and wrapped in a blanket. when you talk to them, you are shocked to hear that they blame themselves.

"What?!" you exclaim, "it wasn't your responsibility to stop this- you couldn't have known! it's on the shoulders of the perpetrators and people like me, who couldn't make it in time."

they are inconsolable. "from now on," they say, "I won't be so naive, and I will do everything I can to stop this from happening again."

you know when a battle is lost, so all you can do is nod and step away. back to your own business.

but it makes you terribly sad for someone to lose their innocence in such a way. to blame themselves for the consequences of someone else's evil. to never again see the world as a hopeful place: just a mosaic of fulfilled and missed opportunities.

and your story, the hero's story, will be tragic as long as you continue without looking inward.

it is only by considering your own beliefs that you are free of the vicious cycle:

sometimes, there is no happy ending, no clever way out. sometimes, awful things happen and there is nothing we can do about it. all we can do is pick ourselves off the ground, movement by excruciating movement, and hold our heads high. we continue. because it is worth it. not because you can "fix" things now. not because you will do things "right" this time. but because you deserve a good life. a life after the bad things. a joyful life.

this is when when you, the hero, finally realize that you're living a triumph. that even after something tragic happens, your life is not a tragedy.

[likelytowritesomestuff]

If I had a nickel for every DT character who has an unhealthy obsession for an american woman and she ends up k*lling him, I would have 2 nickels... which isn't a lot, but it's weird that happened twice

[deckardsdwelling]

Harrison Ford in Shrinking

[Harrison Ford as Paul Rhoades in “Shrinking” - AppleTV - credit: tedslasso]

— WDD

[orangechickenpillow]

Crowley told Gabriel to "Jump out that window" and suddenly Kilgrave was in the room with us

[jackelated]

I have watched 7 different things with David Tennant playing some kind of murderer

Edit: 9 now...

[cyberspqced]

netflix’s defenders high school AU is coming so soon you guys 👁️ it’s more or less a breakdown of every possible dynamic / pairing in a high school setting but if enough people like it i’d be so game to specifically write fics while referencing lore.

i’ll say right now that matt foggy and karen DID become friends in a way similar to how they did in daredevil .. just without the dead man. i’ll also say underrated friendships like colleen and claire + colleen and jess have a lot of coverage because this fandom doesn’t talk about them enough. ironwing is also very canon ANDNANDAND kastle slowburn + frank and amy do in fact meet and maintain a similar bond:)

okay that’s all i’ll say for now. if you have any requests for duos you’d maybe wanna see featured, requests are so open.

[mysticaleyeliner]

[heckcareoxytwit]

Mayor Luke Cage in his mecha suit fights Alistaire Smythe's Spider-Slayer-Prime while his friends (Danny Rand, Cloak, Dagger and Jessica Jones) step in to defend a few police officers from the rest of Smythe's Spider-Slayer robots. Mayor Luke Cage, his friends and the police are in a difficult position when they have to choose in either complying with the anti-vigilante law or doing the right thing when the invading robots are around.

Luke Cage: Gang War #4, 2024

[hellomystraightlacedfriend]

Amazing Spider-Man (2023) #31

Steve Foxe/Eric Koda

[burningfudge]

I'm so glad that Clea is finally interacting with more people! Honestly, she should've spoken to more people when she was the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, especially the other magic people. She should've shown up in Strange Academy, at the very least.

Also "dog mom and witch" lmao

Iron Man Annual (2023)

[why-i-love-comics]

Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #6 - "Haunted VI" (2024)

written by Stephanie Phillips art by Paolo Villanelli & Matt Milla

[hellochildrenoftheatom]

Agatha spoiler

Okay but what is with the MCU and having lesbians try to kill their partners with death by 1000 cuts

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

a non-exhaustive list of things i forgot were in crimson peak:

bobby singer is here???

the lad from sons of anarchy is here

the lad from sons of anarchy is also an ophthalmologist and god did that make me feel like a sleeper agent being woken up (iih nation rise up)

owen from torchwood is also also here??? i swear hes in every movie i dont expect him to be in

just how many homoerotic vibes tom hiddleston shares with both bobby singer and the lad from sons of anarchy

how intense the homoerotic vibes between lucille and edith are; i didnt forget them but wow its gayer than i remember

its like so much gorier than i remembered and also the gore is 10/10 very good

how goddamn amazing fernando velázquez's score is, it really ties the whole movie together

i swear i always forget just how good doug jones and javier botet are despite having watched them in so many movies but god these dudes are so good at their jobs

i remember thinking thomas sharpe was the most charming man and im not gonna judge 15-year-old me, i was in my loki era still

there was a dog????? such a good boy????? dog??????

all the symbolism in the costuming (thank you kaz rowe for highlighting that)

the sharpes having like proto-wetherspoons crockery

how slutty tom hiddleston looks with his waistcoat open

their house looks like a sims house (affectionate)

sometimes a family can be the victorian-edwardian version of the folgers christmas advert, a naïve american girl who can see ghosts, a random dog she found, her doctor friend, and the ghosts of her husbands 3 past wives, the murdered mother of the folgers and their dead baby. dont judge them.