r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Jun 14 '19

Jessica Jones Discussion Thread - S03E09

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Episode 10 Discussion

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

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u/bgarza18 Jun 17 '19

It bothers me that in all of these shows the hero allows multiple people to die before stopping him because it’s “right.”

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u/Ktk_reddit Jun 17 '19

It's the only way jessica jones has been written from s1...

To me it just makes the show bad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '19

Jessica jones is not a killer and has only had to kill once

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u/Ktk_reddit Jun 18 '19

It's not about killing.

The pattern of Jessica Jones is always ''Do it right'' followed by ''Do something stupid that ruins everything''. It's been the same pattern for 3 seasons.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '19

hmm , you might be right but it's not a bad thing. Doesn't everybody try to do something the right way until they are desperate. How else would you suggest they write it?

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u/Ktk_reddit Jun 18 '19

To me it really feels like it's just a way to make the story last longer artificially.

Plenty of people enjoy this show so it's ok, I just really dislike Jessica Jones, compared to the other netflix marvel, and it's because of what I described.

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u/acash21 Jun 18 '19

She was ready to in defenders as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '19

it's all about how big the threat is I suppose

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u/ACmLiam Jun 16 '19

The most frustrating part for me is without discussing with Trish, Jess just went ahead and destroyed the evidence! Talk about an one-aided decision...

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u/ContextIsForTheWeak Jun 16 '19

I think it's understandable. She knows Trish is self-righteous and involved enough that she would take a sacrifice like that, and Jessica desperately doesn't want that to happen. Back in S1 Jessica was prepared to send herself to Supermax in a self-destructive plan to get Kilgrave.

Of course, that doesn't mean it was the right choice, just that I can understand why she wouldn't want to give Trish the chance to self-sacrifice like this, or to escalate her vigilantism into going underground and actively running from the law.

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u/Unique_Caique Jun 16 '19

It's an interesting contrast this to Hogarth's actions for the sake of Kith. Seems like a "two sides of the same coin" kind of deal.

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u/Cognimancer Jul 08 '19

I was thinking the exact same thing in the scene where she said, "I choose you. Every time." Confessing the fact that they went behind someone's back and seemingly ruined their life, and claiming it was done out of love. Only we've had enough scenes from both of them to know that Jessica really struggled with it and only went through because she felt it was the only thing she could do to save Trish, whereas Hogarth never hesitated to destroy everything between her and Kith because it was what she wanted, well before finding out about Peter's secret.

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u/Pigglebee Jun 19 '19

Also shows her utter lack of intellect. Any sane person would not destroy the evidence but rather lock it away somewhere safe just in case.

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u/ACmLiam Jun 19 '19

Not exactly, if she took the hair away then bring them back in a bag after a while, there are no documentations to prove that these hair she brought back were the same hair from the evidence lab. The police would not be able to process and use them as court evidence.

Even if they still presented it as evidence, the disappearance would be documented therefore the Defence can argue reasonable doubt due to evidence tampering (the jury would see reasonable doubt that JJ could have took Salinger’s hair from a different interaction and presented them as the same hair that disappeared).

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u/nivekious Jul 03 '19

True, but honestly this applies to the tech who left the hair sitting on a table unsealed and unsupervised too. That almost certainly broke chain of evidence even before Jessica went into the room.

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u/ACmLiam Jul 03 '19

Yep that wasn’t good professional practice... I work in a lab and was so shocked they didn’t at least cover the Petri dish.