Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24675861-20151122082146/@comment-25521424-20151219110123

GliderMan wrote: RedRoom1984 wrote: I'm going to adimt (ducks to avoid being hit) to not knowing much about the character before watching the series. I didn't know jack about her, so I bought the Alias series on which the show is based on. There is very little in common between the show and the comic, and I honestly enjoyed the comic more. That's a big thing for me, as I'm more of an MCU fan than an actual comics fan.

Even with all the changes, what unnerves me the most is how the show didn't even show her becoming a hero. Marvel... Marvel makes productions on heroes. That's exactly what we were led to believe about it, too. But that last scene of the finale (SPOILERS), she ignores several phone calls from people who clearly need her help, saying she hopes she can fool herself into believing she is one. I want more than that from these characters. I don't want to root for people who are that selfish; it's not even relatable.

There was a lot more that I didn't like, but that's what sealed the deal on my negative view of it. I'm gonna try to watch it again someday, but good God, they just ignored so much potential. What the Alias comics and the JJ tv show will never be, is actually the story of a "normal" superhero with a huge connection with the superhero world around him. Jessica's dad worked for Tony Stark, he got his power with the same chemicals who blinded DD but also the cosmic radiation of Galactus. He liked Peter Parker, dated Scott Lang, befriended Clay Quatermain from SHIELD. Of course the MCU is not as full as a universe as the comic book world, but i think the show missed that feeling of living in a superhero world, instead showing us the fraud beetween a couple of gifted. I mean...it's Marvel Television. We saw gifted humans and Inhumans rising up on the street, just showed us OR make us feel there are plenty of them outside.

I actually thought a lot about how the original Jessica Jones TV series on the ABC would have looked like.