#i can understand trish’s dogged pursuit of the truth regardless of the consequences

[megabadbunny]

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#k so i’m watching season 2 of jessica jones — nearing the end and it’s time for A Rant #let me just start with blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #swapped out themes of recovery and self-discovery and moving past trauma #and learning how to let other people in and how to love them and trust them after horrible life-altering trauma #for themes of...overwrought family drama? #friends bickering endlessly...? and making dumbshit decisions...? #i can appreciate that they didn’t want another obviously overtly despicably evil villain like kilgrave again #jeri’s arc is the only one that interests me at this point #i find her character horrendous and entertaining as fuck #but like the half-assed themes of addiction and family (drama) are just dragging onnnnnnnnnnnn without any purpose or fulfillment #this season completely lacks the drive or structure or coherency or smart themes or ideas that season 1 had #why didn’t they just bring simpson back as a villain like he was built in and everything #the whole ‘whoops your mom has actually been alive this whole time and has SuPeRpOwErS’ is just kind of dumb #not to mention it’s already essentially been done by alias and alias did it better #i can understand trish’s dogged pursuit of the truth regardless of the consequences #bc she’s so desperate to make a difference and prove herself beyond the patsy bullshit #but the whole addiction storyline just feels like a desperate attempt to inject drama #and a lazy way to keep trish relevant to the plotline in a more GASP y way #bc of course she had to desire jessica’s abilities just like malcolm has to want her job and approval #and her mom just wants her undying and unconditional love #and the real villain of the season is everyone’s internal struggle with addiction to booze or drugs or self-purpose or MuRdEr #blah blah jessica is cynical and hard-hearted and it’s screwing folks over blah #it’s the whole ensmallening of the universe problem #even the first season didn’t revolve around jessica so intensely #yes it dealt with jessica’s demons but it also integrated other people who had been hurt by kilgrave #it wasn’t just jessica’s story with other stories messily shoehorned in to revolve around hers #also this season is just kind of repetitive #idk i feel bad bc all of the actors are doing a good job and the production is good #but the story and dialogue are just lukewarm compared to last season #le siiiiiiigh