Jessica Jones

Over the weekend, Andrea and I finally finished off Jessica Jones' 3rd and final season. 

With that, the grand Marvel - Netflix experiment comes to an end. 

Other than Jessica Jones, the only other one of these series that Andrea and I watched was the Defenders. 

Andrea came to Jessica Jones for David Tennant who played the insidiously evil mind controlling bastard Killgrave. Jessica killed off Killgrave at the end of season 1 but apparently we were still along for the ride. Killgrave's evil purple shadow follows Jessica even after death.

Appropriately enough, I suppose, Jessica Jones ends with a word from Killgrave. 

Season 3 was a tough one. Jess and Trish are still estranged as one would imagine would be the case after Trish straight up shot Jessica's mother in the head. Yes, Jessica's mother was a straight up super powered psycho who had killed a lot of people but she was trying to be a better person. 

Trish Walker knows right from wrong and decided Jessica's mom had to die for her sins. 

This firm, unflinching view of right and wrong has informed Trish Walker's life and her own quest for super powers, to do her part to right the wrongs of the world, to make evil doers pay. 

The powers Trish tried to get last season manifest themselves in season 3, cat-like reflexes, agility and speed. She can even see in the dark. And she's using those powers as a masked vigilante kicking evil ass wherever she may find it. 

Reluctantly, Jessica needs to partner with Trish because a new threat has made itself known in New York, a smug dilettante prick named Sallinger whose shtick is to murder people who are unfairly successful.

Events transpire that brings Dorothy Walker, Trish's mom, into Sallinger's clutches. Any hope that Trish could find balance between her fierce obsession with meting out justice and living something like a normal life is destroyed. 

Trish Walker descends further into the dark abyss of her obsessions, beating bad guys to death. They might be bad guys the ferociousness of Trish's attacks betrays the dark and bitter corruption of her soul.

Jessica Jones has a new enemy, her erstwhile adoptive sister. 

The season and the series ends with Trish Walker arrested, brought low by the gut wrenching realization that she is the bad guy.

Her last scene is her in manacles in prison jump suit being loaded on a helicopter to be taken to the Raft, the prison in the mid Atlantic for super people gone bad. 

The last scene is Jessica looking to get a bus ticket as close as she can to Mexico. As the attendant slides over a purple hued ticket to El Paso, Jessica hears a voice, the voice of Killgrave, telling her to go, leave. Let New York City be someone else's problem. 

Without another word, Jessica turns and walks away from the bus ticket.

And with that, the last of the Marvel - Netflix shows comes to an end.  

But somewhere out there, Jessica Jones is still hasn't given up.  

It's a positive outlook for the character of Jessica Jones that doesn't feel entirely earned by the series Jessica Jones. The series is unrelentingly grim and pessimistic and Season 3 seems even more so. Everyone in the show is on a downward, inescapable spiral. Everyone in the show keeps making bad decisions.  

When Jessica Jones reaches its end, its a relief. 

I will miss Kristen Ritter's taciturn and cynical take on a super hero. Her Jessica Jones makes Batman look like a stand up comedian. And I would like to see her make a proper appearance in the MCU movies.  

Jessica Jones meets Ant-Man? The mind boggles. 

I will miss the character Jessica Jones.

The series Jessica Jones? It was time to go.