Amazon's Jack Reacher

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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

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- 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

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- The team

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

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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

?