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Just started watching, where's the continuity from Jessica Jones


From what I remember of Jessica Jones, didn't Luke own the bar he was working in? Where is the bar now and why is he working in places for cash? Besides those questions, it was pretty disappointing story wise, acting wasn't the best either. After Daredevil and Jessica Jones I expected more.

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They established that Luke wanted nothing to do with Jessica after his being around her caused him to fall under Kilgrave's control. And the only way he was broken out of Kilgrave's control was when Jessica shot him with a shotgun. Plus Luke blew up his bar on Kilgrave's orders.

That's why he moves to Harlem. And Luke has to work these cash jobs that pay under the table because he's a fugitive from the law, and can't get any job that would result in his face being put into some sort of database, or require a full background check.

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Funny how a little thing like paying attention can alleviate claims of weak story telling, eh?

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Funny how a little thing like paying attention can alleviate claims of weak story telling, eh?


Yes it does. Especially since at this point, the new releases practically require you to watch the earlier shows, since Luke was first introduced in Jessica Jones and this show makes major references to both that and the events in both seasons of Daredevil (such as Mariah mentioning Fisk, Fisk's lawyer representing Cottonmouth, or Claire mentioning The Hand's hospital attack).

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There is no explanation for why Luke is now keeping a low-profile washing dishes after owning and running a bar.

Sure, his bar blew up but ... why would an escaped convict on the run from the police open his own bar (and work in it) if he wanted to keep a low-profile?

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Because the JJ writer didn't know that they were making a LC show when they wrote JJ. The JJ writers had to much control on what they could do with LC and then made a plot with his story that made no sense.

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I'm sorry, but the writers very much knew they were going to be making a Luke Cage show when they were writing Jessica Jones as the whole thing Marvel is doing with the Netflix TV shows is introducing 4 new characters (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist) in their own 1 season tv shows, so they can have the 5th of the new shows they announced at the time (The Defenders). The only thing the writers didn't know when they wrote these shows was that some of them would get second seasons, thus delaying the premiere of 3 of the shows (LC, IR and Defenders)

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Sure, his bar blew up but ... why would an escaped convict on the run from the police open his own bar (and work in it) if he wanted to keep a low-profile?


Was that ever established as being owned by Luke? I think a friend owned it and Luke just ran the place on his behalf. Also, at the time, Luke was thought by everyone to have been killed escaping Seagate (remember why it takes so long for Shades to recognize him).

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Yes, it's mentioned that Luke owned the bar.

No, it never said a friend owned it.

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IIRC he says in JJ that everything was in Reva's name. Or... that his name wasn't on anything.

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Not everyone knows who he is, but he doens't have an ID, no Social Security, etc. He can't just get a regular job. He can't even be paid by checks; he has to take cash.

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All a matter of principle. You'd only get those other things, like the new social security number, if Luke had been in something like the Witness Protection Program.

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No, luke cage is not his real name. That was a fake identity that's why the police didn't arrest him when he was questioned on jj. And he didn't really own the bar it was in reevas name. Remmember Carl Lucas is the fugitive

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After the bar blew up, he told Jessica that he didn't own it and that he was taking care of it for a friend.

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