{"id":128911,"date":"2015-11-21T06:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/jessica-jones-i-am-so-along-for-the-ride.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:31:25","slug":"jessica-jones-i-am-so-along-for-the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/jessica-jones-i-am-so-along-for-the-ride.html","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Jones &#8212; I am so along for the ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One episode in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is not Brian Bendis&#39; <i>Alias<\/i> comic. But it is is <i>so<\/i> Brian Bendis&#39; <i>Alias<\/i> comic. Which is to say, while the specific plotline is askew, the underlying character arc is so there, and the characters &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is Jessica. Krysten Ritter is doing an excellent job. And yes, that is the horror of her life. And yes, she is powered, and yes, it&#39;s not the focus of who she is or what she does or why she feels the way she feels. And yes, I really am looking forward to watching more than the single episode we squeezed in tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard people say already that this is the best comic book adaptation to date, better than <i>Daredevil<\/i> even. I don&#39;t know that I can say that yet, but I definitely see it gunning for that spot. I look forward to seeing if it succeeds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6219481764702488497\/6219481763472876674'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-vYY7zJ8yyZA\/VlAJti7SJII\/AAAAAAADcq4\/jYeOLZQTd00\/jessica-jones-header%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BHfcmTL27W8'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One episode in &#8230; This is not Brian Bendis&#39; Alias comic. But it is is so Brian Bendis&#39; Alias comic. Which is to say, while the specific plotline is askew, the underlying character arc is so there, and the characters &#8230; Yes, that is Jessica. Krysten Ritter is doing an excellent job. And yes, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/jessica-jones-i-am-so-along-for-the-ride.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jessica Jones &#8212; I am so along for the ride&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jessica-jones-header5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/purple-prose-and-jessica-jones.html","url_meta":{"origin":128911,"position":0},"title":"Purple Prose and Jessica Jones","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Nov-11 11:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Having just finished rereading the books, I'm very excited about an Alias ... er, aka Jessica Jones TV series, and the writer here seems to have a good grasp on the character (though I'm filled with cognitive dissonance about her also writing the newest Twilight movie and for Dexter ...).Less\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51954,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/26\/looking-forward-to-jessica-jones.html","url_meta":{"origin":128911,"position":1},"title":"Looking forward to &quot;Jessica Jones&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Jul-15 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Brian Bendis' comic book Alias was triffic stuff, and he seems pretty positive about the Netflix adaptation coming up later this year (or maybe early 2016):http:\/\/www.denofgeek.us\/tv\/jessica-jones\/247893\/marvels-jessica-jones-co-creator-approves-of-the-showOf course, he was also very enthusiastic about Powers, and I was ... less than impressed. 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