As excited as I am to see Jessica make her comeback in Born Again, I just hope they actually give her some character development!
One thing I felt her Netflix series lacked, specifically with Jessica’s character is how she was basically the same person and doesn’t really grow as the story progressed. It made the series feel less engaging following the first season for me!
Other characters like Trish and Malcolm however actually developed, that when you look back to the first season they’re not the same characters we were introduced to. Trish’s true essence started to come out, while Malcolm evolved as a person but was still flawed. But anytime each season hinted that Jessica was in the process of realizing she needs to change her bad habits, she goes right back to square one at the beginning of each season.
Whatever plans Marvel has for Jessica, I really hope they can give her some growth or development as a character!
Other characters like Trish and Malcolm however actually developed, that when you look back to the first season they’re not the same characters we were introduced to. Trish’s true essence started to come out, while Malcolm evolved as a person but was still flawed. But anytime each season hinted that Jessica was in the process of realizing she needs to change her bad habits, she goes right back to square one at the beginning of each season.
Whatever plans Marvel has for Jessica, I really hope they can give her some growth or development as a character!
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At least Luke had some fight training as a police officer for years before the prison experiments, so when he meets a similarly-strong opponent he has at least *something* to fall back on to help him so he's not immediately thrown out of his depth
Yeah! She has no spleen now!
Not that every character needs to go through these massive arcs, but they just kept running the same play again and again. And everyone around her got worse and worse.
Season 1, she starts as a cold and isolated loner but by the end she seems like she’s ready to trust people again
Defenders, all that is gone and she’s back to being a cold, isolated loner but she slowly learns to trust people again.
Season 2, she has, once again, gone back to being a cold isolated loner but then (wait for it) she learns to trust people again
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Season 1 she's angry at the world and everything in it. Ptsd, grief and trauma.
Season 2 she's more calm and mellow until the ingen stuff about her past gets pushed on her. Like I can't imagine season 1 Jess letting Oscar hang out with her. But the more she learns about her past the more angry she becomes again.
But she felt different in season 3. Quieter, more sad than angry. Just kind of defeated. But when she discovers Salinger, she's determined and clever, thinking more instead of rushing into situations like she did in the past.
The third season was the regressive one. The lack-of-nuance was poor and the reset of her character was disappointing. Not chaeacter-ruining but still lazy.
I think what you're more-so referring to is a change in her status quo-- which I agree, would be great. But she is certainly a developed character. Hopefully they draw from the end of her original run of Alias... (no spoilers)