📺 Reacher Season 3: Episodes 1-4
My thoughts on the first half of Season 3 of Reacher.
Warning: Contains Spoilers
The much anticipated 3rd season of Reacher has now begun and whilst I would prefer to binge the entirety of it over a couple of days, Amazon Prime Video is making me wait a week at a time to get my fill.
As always, Alan Ritchson plays Reacher, a badass drifter who always finds trouble... or "trouble finds him". Of the supporting cast, brick shithouse Olivier Richters (who plays Paulie) is a cage fight waiting to happen - no doubt something they'll be putting off until episode 8!
💭 Thoughts So Far
The beginning of this season left me feeling confused.
To start off, Reacher was driving a van, his van apparently, and from it, he removes some vinyl records to sell. As somebody who famously travels with just the clothes on his back and a toothbrush, this seemed extremely strange to me... but I let it go.
Then in more typical fashion, as he's trying to sell those records, he senses danger outside and as ever, his senses proved to be astute... the truck he was watching, ramming a fancy Audi and gun fight ensues. Reacher, deciding to save a young man from the back of the car.
Another jarring moment followed - Reacher shoots a cop. At this point, I'm starting to get annoyed... Reacher would never "accidently" shoot a cop.
Back to classic Reacher - car chase, losing the cops before ditching his van.
And then what was nearly my final straw - the half arsed effort to wipe the prints from his van. Casually wiping a few random areas, having been seen driving it and accessing items in the back.
By this point, I'm fuming. If it wasn't for 2 seasons of gripping entertainment, I might well have turned it off.
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Reacher reluctantly takes the young man home, where we first encounter Paulie - you just know that's going to be an epic fight.
The young man's father appears to be some kind of gangster - although claims to be a self-respecting rug dealer. After a game of Russian Roulette, Reacher's recruited into their gang - another ridiculous moment for a drifter such as Reacher.
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At the end of the episode, Reacher proclaims:
"I'm in"
and things suddenly made more sense - episode 2 explaining things further.
Things from then on are more classic Reacher. Happily shooting people and blowing things up. Sneaking around and generally being smarter than everybody else. Of course, I'm now hooked.... and I'll forgive them for the (initially) inexplicable happenings of Episode 1.
I just watched the latest episode last night, but no spoilers, promise! :)))
Of course, that chain of events you describe was all a plot but some episodes really puzzle me, as we all know what's the target group of viewers and why those in charge of the script try to draft plots that are so sophisticated? :D
True, watching the next episodes I could tell the plot is creative and probably one of its own but I'm not convinced it's brilliant :D
Good luck with the work on the proposal and in case you need a fresh pair of eyes, drop me a line! :) Cheers!
I've watched episode 5 now...
🤣
It made sense at some point though, but still...
So many things that look illogical and then here we are, speaking about it :)
No bad publicity, as they say :D
Oh, that guy was always going to die. It was just a question of how long they'd drag it out for. As much as I love it, some things are remarkably predictable.
Although I don't know how Reacher's going to take out Paulie. With all of the build up, he'll probably just shoot him (like that scene in Indiana Jones)!
True, true...
I don't know. Why not they become besties... :D Everything's possible here. Similar to the kitchen lady, he might be an undercover ATF agent :D
Have you caught up with Episode 6 yet?
First base for our guy :D Yeah, buddy, this "shouldn't" happen again, lmao.
Was a bit clumsy, wasn't it? :)))
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Oh, that was so awful. Her efforts at “angry” are so bad. I think that’s what’s ruining her character - the sudden mood swings to mock anger just aren’t even remotely convincing. The emotion is just all wrong.
If there’s any hint at anything beyond 1st base, I’m fast forwarding it.
Imagine that... and all Paulie wants to do is take out Quinn too. But before that can happen, Paulie and Reacher need to have a fight to see who fights Quinn.
I think I just love everything about the character (Reacher) that they'd have to do a lot to lose me. I'm not keen on the people he's teamed up with in this season - the female cop is just so unconvincing and I find her sudden bursts of rage laughable. Then the rookie "oh, he wants to do some shooting practise, is it ok if I untie him and give him my gun?" is just so stupid that it's annoying.
I think most of the bad guys are good and the kitchen lady is providing a few nice moments too.
I guess if they got some of the supporting roles right - like they did in Seasons 1 and 2, I think you'd be convinced 😉
Thanks - hopefully we'll be able to get it approved!
Come to mention it - do you have some experience with graphic design? I'm wondering if there are some fairly easy design tweaks that will make a big difference to the feel of the page?
I am just holding my breath for the moment his character is going to boinc her, pardon my French :D (similar to the previous season), I think that's a development we all could predict, right? :D
However, my bet was on that lovely kitchen lady... and kaboom, my visions are now all to dust :D
I am proficient with Adobe Lightroom and let's say I've got basic-to-intermediate knowledge of Photoshop, my main area of expertise is Photography and that is just slightly touching the area of Design.
I used to work as a full-stack developer more than a decade ago, so I'd say I'm more confident with HTML & JavaScript than Design...
However :D ...
There is one UI feature that would make a big positive change, IMHO.
The preview - it's currently below the editing area and if it could go to the right-hand side, that would be awesome. This will allow the content creator to check out their changes instantly, instead of having to scroll down the whole page then up again for the next changes.
With longer posts, this would be a game changer. ;)
I believe same applies to the comment textarea. Seems to me if its width is decreased by 25-30% the preview could fit right next to its right-hand side.
I hope this helps as I am not exactly sure which page exactly you mean.
Oh no. Of course he will. She'll be all like "Boo hoo hoo, I killed that poor kid and now my rookie partner's dead too. Boo hoo hoo." ... sobs in his arms ... gazes up into his eyes...
Goodness - you don't ask for much 🤣 I agree with you though and I think Blurt or Peakd might offer this feature. That's a tricky one, for sure!
Originally, I meant the look of the page. Like the buttons - They look like a 90's throwback so here you go gorilla - try making them look like this ... insert beautiful image
Ah, buttons...
I'd label myself more Volvo than Pininfarina guy :D
I mean, I prefer features to work flawlessly over looking much better :)
You're right about blurt.blog and peakd, I checked them out earlier today - they both have preview at the right-hand side.
Here is another feature of blurt.blog I like a lot that steemit.com doesn't have - I can see the weights and values of the votes in the feed, no need to enter a specific post or comment. That's quite handy, right ;)
Definitely more food for thought!
Anyone putting up a wish-list anywhere? ;)
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I've put an initial plan in my proposal post - but I did that last year and things changed extremely quickly. GitHub is a good way to log issues and has also been used for feature requests in the past to could be a good way of keeping track of your wish-list 😉
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I didn't read all of this because of the spoiler warning. thanks for including that.
I stopped watching after season 1. I don't know why. I must have been spoiled for choice at the time or something. Since I can't read the above without spoiling it for myself can you tell me if you believe that watching seasons 2 and 3 is "worth it?"
No matter how big the "yes" I reply with is, it's not big enough!
I'm a big fan of the books too so it would've taken a lot for me to switch off.
For a 2nd opinion... @ady-was-here - Should @netflixr watch Reacher Seasons 2 and 3?
@netflixr - this post has been completely trashed by a few idiots. Would you mind muting them (or setting @the-gorilla as a 'mod' so that I can mute them all myself) please?
wow, yeah that really got out of hand huh? I'll look into making you a mod if I can get in touch with the creator of the community.
Ah, didn't realise @unbiasedwriter was the admin - such a lovely chap 🙂
the mod position was passed to me a few years ago. I've not heard anything from @unbiased writer since then though.
If the harassment continues I will manually mute the spam comments that are not related to what is being discussed, but for now, no offense, but I would rather not get involved in whatever this war is that is going on :)
That's ok. I've currently resorted to only posting in communities where I've been able to mute them all and give them an amusing label.
Hopefully @unbiasedwriter will notice one of my mentions, remember all of the great times we had together and give me the power!
@netflixr 100% should watch this, but for the 3rd season wait until it's over, it's so hard watching 1 episode per week when almost every episode ends with some sort of cliffhanger.
I feel like Reacher will surely bump Alan Ritchson's career higher and we'll get to see him in bigger productions pretty soon.
Also, I knew I saw Paulie somewhere before, he has a Youtube channel, his nickname is The Ductch Giant. Sounds like he is some sort of Sith Lord with that nickname :))
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Ha ha - it really is. And by the time a week is over, I've forgotten everything that's already happened.
I'll be watching Episode 5 tomorrow...
well that is all the motivation I need. I'll get S2 today and get started!
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I feel like that first episode that started weird made me hate the new season just enough to love it much more once I understood the logic behind it and why they were doing staged kidnapping.
I thought that was a fun twist as well. I didn't realize I was watching season 3 when I turned it on. Thankfully, I believe that each season is "self contained" and it wont really spoil season 1 and 2 for me, which I haven't seen yet.