Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-23 (Sunday)

On 3/24/25 11:27 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 3/24/25 2:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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Reacher (Amazon) - I binged season 2.  I hadn't planned on doing that.
I hadn't even planned on watching a single episode, but once I watched
one, I just kept going until I finished out the season.  One thing that
sort of bugged me was how Reacher and his team just casually straight up
murdered anyone they felt like killing and everyone just kept looking
the other way, while simultaneously Reacher was worried about getting
arrested for assault or other nonlethal offenses.  Punching someone in
the face, Reacher has to go into hiding.  Shooting or strangling someone
to death then burring their corpses, confess, no one cares.  That's our
Reacher.  Anyway, the season was pretty good.  And now I can move on to
season 3.
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 The star is making videos saying that season two is by far their worst
season and that he met with everybody and made sure it would be back on
track before he agreed to do season three.

Reddit absolutely *hates* season #2 of "Reacher". Personally, while I thought it was clearly a step down from season #1 (though S1 has a weak ending IMO), I didn't think it was quite as "awful" as they say it is.
However, they do have a point that season #1 got away from the Man Against Town(tm!) trope that is the hallmark of Reacher, as season #2 was way too "team oriented", rather than "Reacher takes on everyone! (nearly alone!!)".
Meanwhile, I am still mystified why they want to make a spinoff show premised around Nealy, by far the weakest character in both S1 and S2!