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Holding up the line (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
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[–] 38 points 7 months ago (6 children)

It's from Jessica Jones, a very, very good show. David Tennant plays a man with mind control powers who uses them in all of the worst ways you can possibly imagine. It's technically a Marvel comics thing, but the creators were given total carte blanche and went deep into the absolute nightmarishness of the subject matter. It's basically a mix of detective noir and horror. Tennant and Ritter both deliver incredible performances and the show really plays with the abject terror of living in a world with superhumans in it. It's like a version of Invincible that refuses to ever undermine the horror by cracking a joke.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Tenant does such a good job with the role that I legitimately had a hard time watching him as other characters for a while after. Kilgrave is so fucking vile on so many levels, but is still a fully fleshed out awful character by the end, and Tenant absolutely nails it.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago*

    It's a ridiculously good performance and I think it really shocked a lot of people who only knew him from Doctor Who.

    I've always said that it takes a genuinely good person to play a truly repugnant villain, and by all accounts that's Tennant through and through.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I think my favorite episode was the 'kilgrave tries to be a hero.' Like, there were so many perspectives that could be taken, and all of them had valid points. They did a good job with it. It also... did have a dark comedy/joke to it. The exasperation of the two main characters as he struggles through the hostage scene was humorous.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If you want a less explicit example of what he does that doesn't really spoil anything, he picks some random family's house as a base and tells the kids to stay out of sight. Iirc they just stand in a closed closet because they can't disobey.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah, its probably.worth elaborating that his mind control power is literally, "He tells you to do something and you cannoy disobey."

    Like in the grand scheme of things Marvel, he could have showed up to Thanos and told Thanos to end himself, and Thanos would have.

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