Jessica Jones Season 2

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Mar 18, 2018 21:45:02 GMT -6 @homergreg said:

Mar 18, 2018 18:10:42 GMT -6 @lorddeathman said:

I think the complaints come from people who don't know how to pace themselves for the format. TV shows take stamina and investment. If you can't invest or are into quick fixes, you need to find another more suitable medium. If Netflix didn't drop all episodes at once and it took 13 weeks to get to the conclusion, I doubt we'd be hearing all of this "trim the content" noise.

Somebody sees a story being stretched to fit the allotted episode count and their criticism is noise?

I didn't see stretching in Jessica Jones season 2 at all.  The writing and character development were very good, the plot and subplots were interesting, and there wasn't anything stretched so long that you could leave, get a snack and come back and not have a feeling that you might have missed something.  But I can see it all over Iron Fist and it's got nothing to do with "stamina and investment in the format".  It also happens at times in Daredevil, Luke Cage, and the first few episodes of The Punisher to an extent, but not so blatantly or intrusively to the story.   That doesn't mean I can't enjoy the stories.  I like them all overall, but it also doesn't mean I won't point it out as a valid criticism.

If you can't see the basis for those observations on something like Iron Fist I could always force myself to watch it again and show you, but I really don't want to.

I understand that I'm in the minority when it comes to not sharing the opinion that Marvel Netflix shows are overlong (with the exception of Iron Fist and maybe one or two episodes of Luke Cage). And, I'm not saying that anyone has to agree with me.

Compared to say a season of Lost, MNF seems rather compact to me. TV shows, up until recently, typically had 22 to 25 episodes per season and I don't remember hearing many complaints about too many episodes or filler content. There weren't many demands to cut out a few hours from Jack Bauer's day that I can recall. I'm just saying that I think the issue is just as much about shrinking attention spans and the method in which the content ships as it might be about anything actually being over-long.

Like I said before, It's just my take on the matter, and it appears that the content creators themselves agree - at least for the moment. Twelve episodes are closer to the sweet spot for me than say eight.

[Spike Del Rey]

This is my favorite of the Netflix shows, and I loved S2...for eight or nine episodes I actually thought it was better than S1. Unlike most thought, I thought it dropped off a bit once her mom came into the show, I just wasn't really feeling anything for the character or how she was portrayed. Don't get me wrong, the actress was brilliant, but something about it just didn't connect with me. I also wasn't fond of Trish's arc and where she ended up. But overall, I was very happy with it.

[taylorfirst1]

I still have 2 episodes left to see but I'm enjoy it greatly so far. I hate the fact that I am so busy that I don't have time to binge watch these shows.

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Mar 9, 2018 21:41:43 GMT -6 @homergreg said:

Just saw it's on Netflix.  Hope it's as good as the first season was!

I still enjoyed it, although it was rather soap opera-ish this time. Good exploration of characters. What they did to Nuke was unforgivable. Liked that we saw the history of Jessica Jones, cool to see where that jacket came from. No real villains in this one unfortunately. Glad to see Jess's adopted sister is going to join the family business.