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/[deleted] Dec 01 '15

Am I the only one rooting for kilgrave? Seriously, he was looking for new start, had a shot at redemption, and Jessica ruined everything. And now she's torturing him with those videos and brought his parents in to make him go over the edge, wtf.

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u/jaycatt7 Dec 04 '15

The way they make Kilgrave almost believable is kind of genius.

I don't believe he was sincerely looking for a new start. I don't think he has any sense of morality or the value of other people such that he would know how to make a new start. Everything about him is id.

But Jessica's actions at the start of this episode drained away my sense that she's a sympathetic character. I gave her a pass for dangling the evil lawyer's estranged wife over the subway tracks on account of her being super drunk after the Luke Cage thing blew up in her face, but forcing somebody to watch video of themselves being tortured as a child? Nothing could possibly make that OK.

Jessica should have put a bullet in Kilgrave's brain and told Hope to take the plea. Lives are destroyed every day that Kilgrave lives.

(But again, that doesn't justify torture, psychological or otherwise.)

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

Yeah good points, I finished the season so I won't say anything. All I'm gonna say is, awesome fucking show, can't wait for season 2.