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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: News: REACHER Renewed by Prime for Season #4
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 21:29:26 -0000 (UTC)
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shawn  <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:30:26 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>> As per Variety:
>>> 
>>>
>https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/reacher-renewed-season-4-amazon-season-3-release-date-1236172458/
>>> 
>>> Renewed for season #4 before season #3 even airs.
>>> 
>>> I am curious to see if they recover from season #2, which most people 
>>> didn't like for "departing from the formula",
>>
>>They pretty much stuck to the book from beginning to end, and the book was
>>a bestseller, so I'm not sure what they should have done differently.
>>
>>> or if they double-down on season #2 and ignore the fundamental "Reacher
>>> is a lone wolf who takes 
>>> bad guys down all on this own!" premise of this.
>>
>>There have been many REACHER books that don't have him taking on everything
>>by himself. Even the first book/season he formed an ad hoc team with Willa
>>Fitzgerald and Malcolm Goodwin to take on the counterfeiters.
>>
>>Several of the Reacher books are set back in time when he was an Army MP
>>and involve him and his special investigators solving cases. Anyone who
>>says REACHER is fundamentally about him being a lone wolf and never working
>>with anyone else doesn't really know the source material.
>
>Well that's the question. Are the majority of the viewers people that
>would have liked the original books or are they more into what we saw
>in the movies and the first season. That is Reacher as the guy who
>goes his own way to take down the bad guys.  I liked both versions,
>the loner and the guy who leads a team, but I don't know if that's the
>same way most viewers feel.

The Tom Cruise movies are let's get an actor shorter than me to play a
giant. At least in the tv show, we start with a tall man and get him to
bulk up so he's almost as large as Reacher. The first movie was
adequate. I've seen the second. It made no impression on me. I recall
nothing about it.

Part of the reason he puts a team together is so he gets to work with a
woman who (compared to other women but not him) is reasonably tough that
he can sleep with. They skipped that in the movies.

I've seen movies in which Cruise is part of an ensemble, so the decision
clearly wasn't his.