Amazon's Jack Reacher

[Ocean H]

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[drb999]

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[JoeKryten]

So from the trailer this season is based on the same book as the second Cruise film? I read approximately the first five or six books in the series and that one was the stand out for me.

Ritchson has surprised me. With his build I expected a wrestling or American football (or other athletic) background but he was a liberal arts major in college with a music scholarship at one point.

[Fiffy]

Originally Posted by drb999

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Pretty impressive for a guy who, according to the books, lives like a vagrant, never works out, and mostly eats junk food. There's still hope for the rest of us.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by Fiffy

Pretty impressive for a guy who, according to the books, lives like a vagrant, never works out, and mostly eats junk food. There's still hope for the rest of us.

Yeah but was he on American Idol though?

[drb999]

No, season 2 is based on a different book than the second Cruise movie.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by drb999

No, season 2 is based on a different book than the second Cruise movie.

[drb999]

Reacher renewed for season 3

https://tvline.com/news/reacher-seas...on-1235091722/

[Ocean H]

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[HockeySlasher]

Originally Posted by drb999

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Originally Posted by Fiffy

Pretty impressive for a guy who, according to the books, lives like a vagrant, never works out, and mostly eats junk food. There's still hope for the rest of us.

This has been one of my main criticisms of the show. Reacher should be in shape. He’s described in the books has being fit and muscular… but tv being tv, they’re going to go with the “superhero physique.”

Maybe the show will get past this by suggesting that Reacher just spent a summer digging pools in Miami or something. I know that wasn’t part of the book season 2 is based on, but, the show is obviously moving other pieces around - Neagley being in season 1, for example.

[JoeKryten]

Originally Posted by HockeySlasher

This has been one of my main criticisms of the show. Reacher should be in shape. He’s described in the books has being fit and muscular… but tv being tv, they’re going to go with the “superhero physique.”

Reacher is also described in the books as being 6'5" and huge. IMO Ritchson isn't far off from the books which revel in describing how big Reacher is. The books are no more realistic than the TV show in this regard. Well, the books aren't realistic in almost any regard, but they're fun.

[HockeySlasher]

Originally Posted by JoeKryten

Reacher is also described in the books as being 6'5" and huge. IMO Ritchson isn't far off from the books which revel in describing how big Reacher is. The books are no more realistic than the TV show in this regard. Well, the books aren't realistic in almost any regard, but they're fun.

In my mind while reading the books, I always equated Reacher more to what Razor Ramon/Scott Hall looked like… (and maybe a little bit of me. I’m 6’8”, 260.)

Saw the first two episodes before I went to bed last night. Pretty good.

My minor nitpicks can be explained away by “how to convey this internal monologue on TV” or “this doesn’t make good TV.”

For example, the show hasn’t really illustrated how Reacher sees numbers which was a big thing in the book.

Things are also happening a bit too quickly/easily.
- Neagley and Reacher

[Show spoiler]are at Franz’s office for all of 15 seconds before Neagley figures out the post office bit

.
- They only have

[Show spoiler]3 chances at hacking the password instead of 12. With 12, you got to get into the mind of Reacher/Neagley a bit more and see them fail a few times

.
- The team

[Show spoiler]shows up to the bar where Sanchez’s girlfriend works and within 5 minutes they’re getting all the details

.

It’s like the writers just looked at the plot summary on Wikipedia and went with it. Which again, some of the nuance that is in the book is hard to translate to the screen, I get that. Just wish there was some more of them “trying” to figure things out instead of getting to the next step so quickly.

Anyone else catch the reference to

[Show spoiler]James Barr (and presumably the events of One Shot, and the first Tom Cruise movie) while the team was on their way to Atlantic City

?

[Emoto]

Originally Posted by HockeySlasher

In my mind while reading the books, I always equated Reacher more to what Razor Ramon/Scott Hall looked like… (and maybe a little bit of me. I’m 6’8”, 260.)

Saw the first two episodes before I went to bed last night. Pretty good.

My minor nitpicks can be explained away by “how to convey this internal monologue on TV” or “this doesn’t make good TV.”

For example, the show hasn’t really illustrated how Reacher sees numbers which was a big thing in the book.

Things are also happening a bit too quickly/easily.
- Neagley and Reacher

[Show spoiler]are at Franz’s office for all of 15 seconds before Neagley figures out the post office bit

.
- They only have

[Show spoiler]3 chances at hacking the password instead of 12. With 12, you got to get into the mind of Reacher/Neagley a bit more and see them fail a few times

.
- The team

[Show spoiler]shows up to the bar where Sanchez’s girlfriend works and within 5 minutes they’re getting all the details

.

It’s like the writers just looked at the plot summary on Wikipedia and went with it. Which again, some of the nuance that is in the book is hard to translate to the screen, I get that. Just wish there was some more of them “trying” to figure things out instead of getting to the next step so quickly.

Anyone else catch the reference to

[Show spoiler]James Barr (and presumably the events of One Shot, and the first Tom Cruise movie) while the team was on their way to Atlantic City

?

Having now seen a couple of episodes form season 1, I think not having Reacher's internal thoughts conveyed is an unfortunate thing. It was one of the things I liked about the books - Reacher was a thinker, and that is not terribly well conveyed in the show. I also think the actor playing Reacher is more handsome than the character ought to be.

[Axeramm]

damn didnt realize it was weekly. why wont they let me binge?

[drb999]

You could always wait until January to binge it.

[drb999]

Friday can’t come soon enough

[BudBaxter]

Oh to be on the press tour with Serinda Swan...

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[Darev]

Originally Posted by BudBaxter

Oh to be on the press tour with Serinda Swan...

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All she needs is a top hat if they ever need to cast a Zatanna for DC

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Zatanna_Zatara_(New_Earth)

[Petey Parker]

Originally Posted by Darev

All she needs is a top hat if they ever need to cast a Zatanna for DC

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Zatanna_Zatara_(New_Earth)