Agreed. Fixation and obsession are not affection. I doubt there's anything about Jessica qua Jessica that he likes (in fact, every times she expresses her personality he seems annoyed). Instead, he thinks that being fixated on her because of her powers is the same thing as, I don't know, me liking my partner because…

Listen to the cast album—I find it the opposite of pretentious. It is exactly what it wants to be and makes no apologies for the joke of its existence.

I think our essential disagreement is this: you think somehow that what Kilgrave wants has been conditioned by his power. I don't. I think the fact of his pathology stems from his power, but that the particular manifestation of his pathology is culturally conditioned.

Yes, he "deserves" women who will perform romantic relationships with him as he has come to understand it! This seems exactly like MRA thinking to me, the "I give you this attention and I bought you dinner and now you owe me attention and love and sex whenever I desire it"

I don't want to spoil anything if you haven't seen the entire show, but I do think there's an in-show example: Hogarth. She feels a kind of entitlement to what she wants, and I think it is distinct from male entitlement in the way she thinks and acts towards the women in her life.

See, I do think he feels entitled to women's inner lives BECAUSE he is male and BECAUSE he is raised in a world of male entitlement. This is the essential disagreement—what he's trying to achieve with Jessica is the possession of a human being, mind and body and soul, specifically because of the world in which he…

I know why you think we're talking past each other, because you're really not seeing what it is that I'm saying.

What @redheadwithtattoos:disqus originally calls him is an "embodiment of male entitlement." This works both on the literal and metaphorical level, as the entitlement he feels toward women's bodies and inner lives is a direct reflection of the society he lives in (and the orders he gives are absolutely a reflection of…

Cool, that seems doable. Appreciate it!

Ok cool! That's very helpful. I'm pretty good at dodging when it's the primary concern. Thanks!

Question for someone who has played the game and has gotten to the end of the comment thread:

"Non-Stop" is my favorite showstopper—the weaving of all the thematic motifs of the first act, forced through months/years of history, all culminating in this climactic hopeful moment without which the second act wouldn't be nearly as devastating.

Let's see what the dude himself has to say when asked about whether it's important that Black Panther gets a black director: