Just finished ep. 4 of Jessica Jones and I'm liking it a lot so far. It's...different. Doesn't start off like a typical comic book show in terms of setup but that's not such a bad thing. Really, really loving what they are doing with Malcolm so far. The character has had quite an arc. I appreciate especially how he has had a relationship of some sort with all three WHITE female lead characters. He is defined in many ways by his experiences with them. The only thing hurting the show this weekend is that I have also been tuning into Chernobyl for the first time as well and, fuck, everything looks far inferior to that HBO masterpiece.
Of course I came across a bit of a conversation on twitter involving this black chick named Film Fatale or something like that. She started to hate Jessica Jones as soon as it was revealed that Jessica killed Luke Cage's wife and that she wasn't honest with Luke about it at first. It gave her a reason to declare the Jessica/Luke affair as a problematic relationship that shouldn't go any further. She also led this online criticism of the show's first season for not having more women of color (translation : black women) and how unhappy she was with the couple of black ladies that did appear on the show. She wanted more black female characters on the show, as if that should be some sort of priority. Its an interesting thing I noticed about black ladies. They hate white women but want shows with white females leads to be stuffed with black female best friends and shit. Get the fuck out of here. Anyway of course many other black women agree that JJ show was only addressing white feminism and ignoring the feminism of black wo----er, I mean women of color. And of course plenty of non-black women, having to always side with their Social Media Mammies, chimed in and agreed. And what I loved about the JJ showrunner, a white chick, was that she pretty much ignored that pushback (she was ambushed in an interview by a white journalist who blitzed her about it a bit) and kept doing her thing. In the second season she simply gave more opportunities to men of color!
Anyway going back to the conversation I referred to, one black lady on twitter, in an exchange with Film Fatale, wrote the JJ show off as a show about white supremacist feminism. What ? Really? There is nothing white supremacist about those main characters; they just happened to be white women and the roles for black women are relatively minor. These same people didn't say shit about the Luke Cage denying even the existence of white women.
Again, I love this showrunner, especially in her depiction of black men. Luke Cage made his first appearances on this show and he was presented as a more thoughtful character than he had ever been in the comics. And Malcolm may end up with the best arc of anyone on the series. Meanwhile don't think I haven't noticed that the two young, attractive white female leads (jessica, Trish) both fucked black dudes. Jessica doing so was expected considering her comic book history. Trish though was a welcome surprise.
