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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: News: REACHER Renewed by Prime for Season #4 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:38:48 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <87set43ikh.fsf@hotmail.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:38:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9080822397d85c1867bd1eb001c68091"; logging-data="3001956"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX188Vg8J9HzCXrqOkODT6CiZeZlvjRrETIo=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:REFSZ9tP8WHhF1GeFfWUZAjvfkc= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3780 Eddie Grove wrote: >"Adam H. Kerman" writes: > >> shawn wrote: >>>On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:30:26 +0000, BTR1701 >>>wrote: >>> >>>>Ian J. Ball 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. > >Which decision? > >Cruise bought the movie rights to Reacher so that he could play him. >Well, technically I guess it was his production company. I forgot. You're right; I'm wrong. All the changes were Cruise's fault. >Childs did not care because he liked the money.