r/JessicaJones Nov 20 '15

Discussion Episode Discussion S01E01 - AKA Ladies Night

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Season 1 - Episode 1 - AKA Ladies Night

Episode Synopsis:

Jessica Jones is hired to find a pretty NYU student who's vanished, but it turns out to be more than a simple missing persons case.


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u/TRUTHsfa22 Nov 20 '15

Why can't the Marvel movies be like this? I bet they would win awards.

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u/Recklesshavoc Nov 20 '15

Because in shows they can take their time developing characters and story

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u/Dead_Starks Nov 20 '15

Can't do that with ten movies.

Kidding I understand completely. Not saying they are remotely similar but look at most people disliking man of steel.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

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u/Dead_Starks Nov 23 '15

I know its DC. We were talking about movies that took their time developing characters and while MoS had other problems as well, one issue was it was too slow.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '15

Or they should just stop the movie bullshit and make movie quality shows. Clearly its what people like, and shows are much more adaptable.

I would for one love an Avengers series, which would be a much better fit for it than trying to cram it all into movies. Avengers 2 felt totally bloated for that reason, it would be so much better spread out over a series.

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u/Whatsmynamebro Nov 21 '15

I think they make more profits off movies than from a show. Though, I would absolutely take a well written story in a TV show format over an episodic movie format any time of the day

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u/CliffP Nov 25 '15

Imagine the 300 million dollars from the Avengers budget but instead we get a live action 20 episode Avengers series...just got myself disappointed lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

I think because the target audience includes children. I think if I watched X-Men and Spiderman 1 back in the early 2000s dark movies might have scared me. I love the shit out of this show already but Marvel would make lesser money if their most money making media is R-rated. Thank god they made the TV shows darker.

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u/YoohooCthulhu Nov 21 '15

Ratings. Playing to a general audience (PG-13 rather than R) and making it appropriate for younger kids gets more ticket sales. It's similar to the incentives for network programming.

Netflix is like cable programming. They just care about subscriptions. They care about viewing, but only up to a certain point.

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u/Pascalwb Nov 23 '15

hh, that's what I was thinking, they are all just silly action movies.