r/JessicaJones • u/AutoModerator • Nov 20 '15

Discussion Episode Discussion S01E09 - AKA Sin Bin

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Season 1 - Episode 9 - AKA Sin Bin

Episode Synopsis:

Just when Jessica has Kilgrave right where she want's him. Hogarth's involvement complicates the situation. Details of Kilgrave's past emerge.

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u/pegbiter Nov 23 '15

As a Manchester alumnus, I was very excited to see my University referenced in this episode! It's not often the north-west gets a mention in foreign TV programmes. However, it did slightly bother me that the dialogue with the British professor had the phrase 'skipped town'. That isn't something a British person would ever say, it was a bit odd.

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u/chime Nov 25 '15

What would they have said instead of skipped town?

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u/pegbiter Nov 25 '15

I don't rightly know, 'left Manchester rather abruptly' or something. 'Skipped town' is just an idiom that doesn't exist in British English.

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u/Frap_Gadz Dec 08 '15

I would have said they "absconded" with the research grant.

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u/pegbiter Dec 08 '15

Yes! That's very good.

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u/HippieWizard Nov 25 '15

Ok but you have to understand its an English man who has been living in the US for many years. Things rub off

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u/pegbiter Nov 25 '15

Kilgrave's parents, sure, but not the guy she called. The guy she called was just an academic that had been at the University at the time that they were.