Jessica Jones on Netflix

Ra said:
Dude. Do you understand that they were trying to keep the show as grounded as possible? So movies and TV shows should no longer show black people doing any type of negative behavior at all? Because we are human after all and do negative things just like everyone else. I bet you won't hear any white women complaining about Jessica Jones being portrayed as unlikable bitch for the most part and an alcoholic?
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I think we have a conflict on what grounded is. I don't think that this is grounded. I think if you are trying to portray a black person grounded it would be him trying to get a job or having a job but having to deal with discrimination. There is a difference between bad light(thief and home invader) and struggling(and trying to get a job). One is more boring than the other..... call me crazy but I just think that I am more likely to hear of a struggle of a black person trying to get a better paying job than a thief/home invader trying



Ra said:
The character of Malcolm could have easily been cast as a white dude. Why are you acting as if they wrote a character who happens to be a junkie and decided to purposely cast a black male in the role? When you find evidence that they indeed do just that, then holla and I'll listen.....
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Some of the lines are not what you would have used for if that character was white. It is a question of when did they write the script. In hollywood, they do consider race. Look through some of the Sony leaks. I think you do know that they consider someone's race when casting them. Spiderman won't be black for a long long time. I know everyone including myself wants to pretend like hollywood doesn't see race and selects on talent but that's not true.


I went back to episode 3

The lines were:

They say everyone is a little racist. If you see someone like malcolm, you make a snap judgment.
 
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The Dark King said:
Who cares if his fuck buddy was married or not? And remember he didn't know it's not like he said fuck it and bedded her anyway. He had no clue. Also remember all the characters were flawed it's not like everyone except for the black men were all sunshine and rainbows.
Like I said before you're very hard to please when it comes to this genre. You made up your mind to dislike this and here we are.
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Yes, all characters are flawed. I'm not saying be an angel. I hate that. It reminds of the show called monster where the main character perfect in almost every way. Even when he cheated on the test, he cheated perfectly. and I think that was his only flaw. I'm saying that the black person can be depicted with flaws without stereotypes which they even played in. Miles morales has flaws. He gave up the spiderman suit at one point. I gave a silent NOOOOOO. He has flaws. Static(aka virgil) has flaws too. You don't need to go into black stereotypes to get at flaws.

I think the marriage thing wasn't needed. They should have just gave luke a single lady for jessica to compete against. That would have showed how competitive she is.
 
archangel said:
Are you talking to me?
because I am complaining about negative light on black people.
Tyler Perry does exactly what I complain about.
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Tyler Perry movies/shows are safe, non threatening negro fare with pseudo-spirituality. Either look at that or go to a gospel play if you want to see blacks as Holier than thou. You don't watch TV/movies to be preached to.
 
archangel said:
They wrote one black guy in as stealing and breaking into houses. Then she uses the scary black man to do the dirty deed.

How hard is it to write in Luke dating a single woman? or not have a black character stealing and breaking into an apartment. It feels like people are giving it a pass because he is having sex with a white woman on here.

I never saw that on any of the black created hero shows. They constantly tried their best not presenting black people in negative light.

It is possible to have black people presented in a good light and have interracial relationships.
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That's because dudes are giving it a pass for that reason in here.Haven't seen this Jessica Jones show nor do I plan to.There's plenty of porn with Bald , dark-skinned black men banging married, alcoholic, bitchy White women to look at since that's the case apparently with this show.
 
archangel said:
I think we have a conflict on what grounded is. I don't think that this is grounded. I think if you are trying to portray a black person grounded it would be him trying to get a job or having a job but having to deal with discrimination.
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Dude, if you honestly believe they were trying to do an actual hatchet job and go out of their way to portray black people in a negative light, then I don't know what to tell you. Hate to tell you this but, looking for a job or dealing with discrimination isn't the reality for all black people when down on their luck in some way. You might not want to see or hear about certain negative things, but that's life. That's human nature for some people (black, white or other) when dealing with bad situations and circumstances.

Considering the main character of the story is fucked up and flawed herself, I don't get how or why you're bugging on side/supporting characters who are black not living up to some positive on screen portrayal. I get where you're trying to come from with this, but I don't see it. At all.
 
Ra said:
Dude, if you honestly believe they were trying to do an actual hatchet job and go out of their way to portray black people in a negative light, then I don't know what to tell you. Hate to tell you this but, looking for a job or dealing with discrimination isn't the reality for all black people when down on their luck in some way. You might not want to see or hear about certain negative things, but that's life. That's human nature for some people (black, white or other) when dealing with bad situations and circumstances.

Considering the main character of the story is fucked up and flawed herself, I don't get how or why you're bugging on side/supporting characters who are black not living up to some positive on screen portrayal. I get where you're trying to come from with this, but I don't see it. At all.
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It is fine I will wait for Luke cage. back to the zombie fest.......:p
 
archangel said:
Yes, all characters are flawed. I'm not saying be an angel. I hate that. It reminds of the show called monster where the main character perfect in almost every way. Even when he cheated on the test, he cheated perfectly. and I think that was his only flaw. I'm saying that the black person can be depicted with flaws without stereotypes which they even played in. Miles morales has flaws. He gave up the spiderman suit at one point. I gave a silent NOOOOOO. He has flaws. Static(aka virgil) has flaws too. You don't need to go into black stereotypes to get at flaws.

I think the marriage thing wasn't needed. They should have just gave luke a single lady for jessica to compete against. That would have showed how competitive she is.
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But the show was about her not him, it's her story why should she compete for dude?
I thought it was cool that her love interest was an actual man, not some emasculated dude who kisses her ass because of how wonderful she is. That trend is sickening. They had really good on screen chemistry talked about shit that a lot of ir couples talk about without making it all about that. To be honest the more I think about it's probably one of my favorite ir on screen romances ever
 
The Dark King said:
But the show was about her not him, it's her story why should she compete for dude?
I thought it was cool that her love interest was an actual man, not some emasculated dude who kisses her ass because of how wonderful she is. That trend is sickening. They had really good on screen chemistry talked about shit that a lot of ir couples talk about without making it all about that. To be honest the more I think about it's probably one of my favorite ir on screen romances ever
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Darkseid mentioned the competition so I assumed that was why the married was added unless I misinterpreted what he meant. I really don't know why she was added. There was no point to it. You are right about it being her show. She should have had a single Luke.

so few ir superhero relationships to choose from but I'd love to see a hawkwoman/Green lantern romance in live action. The cartoon was heated.
 
archangel said:
Darkseid mentioned the competition so I assumed that was why the married was added unless I misinterpreted what he meant. I really don't know why she was added. There was no point to it. You are right about it being her show. She should have had a single Luke.

so few ir superhero relationships to choose from but I'd love to see a hawkwoman/Green lantern romance in live action. The cartoon was heated.
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Oh yeah totally. I can see that
 
KWillo said:
There's plenty of porn with Bald , dark-skinned black men banging married, alcoholic, bitchy White women to look at since that's the case apparently with this show.
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Just for the record, the married woman in question in the show was also black. Jessica was not married
 
Darkseid said:
Just as a note, these are the two black actors in the show, with their real life wives:

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JamalSpunky said:
Wait. I swore I heard this dude playing Malcolm was gay. But maybe that was just an urban legend started by people watching him on "Empire".
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More notably, He also played a gay character on Starz's "Spartacus". So that's why folks assumed he was gay.
 
Darkseid said:
Pretty hardcore IR in Jessica Jones AND it's a good show so far (I'm 3 episodes in)

Catch it on Netflix
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I didn't think Jessica Jones was going to be as adult like since it's a Marvel series. No complaints about that though. Can't wait to see the Luke Cage series on Netflix.
 
LuvLife82 said:
I didn't think Jessica Jones was going to be as adult like since it's a Marvel series. No complaints about that though. Can't wait to see the Luke Cage series on Netflix.
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I know right knowing Marvel from their previous productions which were aimed at kids and tweens.
 
The series is setting her character's time with ALIAS. In the comic books during her time with ALIAS she was mostly with Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant-Man. So season 2 would probably feature Luke Cage less.
 
darkcurry said:
The series is setting her character's time with ALIAS. In the comic books during her time with ALIAS she was mostly with Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant-Man. So season 2 would probably feature Luke Cage less.
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Sure will miss their teamwork. :(
 
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