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by Worm 12/10/2015, 12:25pm PST |
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Did anyone feel they did way too much of a sympathy grab/retcon with Killgrave? The character isn't that sympathetic, he's definitely a bad guy, none of the shit he does can really be justified but he's likable because that's how people are. Horrible people can be really likable, whether you like someone or not or want to fuck them or not doesn't have anything to do with whether they're a good person or not. Likability is not some raison d'etre, it has nothing to do with whether someone is good or not.
Anyway back to what I was saying, we get all this background about his childhood and how he was experimented on also he reveals he had adjustment problems from living a life of absolute wish fulfillment from 8 and reveals the whole thing with Jessica is because he needs someone to "even him out". Though whatever sympathy we got from that (not much for me) is supposed to be reversed because his parents were trying to save him and weren't trying to give him super powers, and I guess anyone who was part of the child experiment hell reel was there for a good reason and really should just get over it. It just seemed really jammed in, "Hey no, these brutal experiments were all to save children's lives, that's it, not give them powers or anything bad, for serious" I didn't think they needed to make his parents irredeemable Blackguards but it felt like an active shift to try to make an already pretty unsympathetic character less sympathetic.
I actually don't mind that they killed him, I feel like with the slow build of the character becoming more and more overt and violent there's a question of "when is Iron Man going to show up?" and "What reason do they have to ever let this guy out of jail?". You just start with a character who is certainly nuts but restrained turning into almost a slasher villain. I think he made a good foil to Jessica who, while more sympathetic is a pretty big fuck up, she lets countless people be murdered while myopically pursuing justice for a girl she relates with, lets people in her apartment be murdered while out shit faced, and tries to get herself locked up in Supermax after typing it into wikipedia like it's some great plan.
Though ultimately how they handled Killgrave gives me a lot of hope for The Punisher being in the second season of Daredevil. |
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