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Originally Posted by seclark (Post 17347406)

Maybe…I see your point, but I devoted a lot of time reading all that shit.
Kinda like the Game of Thrones books.
They miss something, or add something and I notice it.
No big deal except to me, and I don’t count for shit.
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Man, the first 5+ seasons of Game of Thrones was just perfect. Then it wasn't.

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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 17347408)

Man, the first 5+ seasons of Game of Thrones was just perfect. Then it wasn't.

Denied
I mean, it was a great story, but…
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Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17347299)

Finally watched the last two episodes. Could've been better. Occurred to me that Reacher is basically Mack Bolan (maybe someone else has read the Mack Bolan: The Executioner series by Pendleton). Trashy action books along the lines of Marvel's The Punisher. Same kind of shallow writing, but was a fun read for me in my teens.

Hell, I used to read the Mack Bolan books all the time years ago. I'm surprised someone hasn't picked up on those for screen time.

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Originally Posted by Jamie (Post 17346837)

I keep reminding myself as I watch it that it's not that type of show, but the logic holes still bothered me. Particularly at the end. The only thing dumber than Reacher turning himself in was T-1000 not immediately shooting him in the head when he did. Especially once he found out Neagley was alive.

It might have made sense if they had something T-1000 needed, but all it was is that he "didn't like loose ends". He could have just left early for the meeting with arms dealer and been totally fine.

I was curious if this was just them following the novel, so I looked up a plot summary. And no, the novel made more sense.

Spoiler!

It's weird, I don't know why they would change it to something that makes less sense. Maybe they felt like they needed to add a bigger action scene for the ending, but I think it would have been better to beef up the confrontation with the arms dealer instead. Especially since that ended up being so anticlimactic. Which is another thing, the setup of that guy was pretty pointless. Like they spend this time setting up his resourcefulness and ruthlessness and in the end all he does is walk in and get shot.

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Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17347299)

That is just about exactly the genre of the Reacher books.

Which is why the poor writing and god mode stuff doesn't bother me at all.

I love the Reacher series. Just finished up the season the other day. Yeah, it's not great writing, but it is satisfying to see him (and his team) take out the bad guys. It's kind of like the 80s action hero movies. Yeah, they were lame and the writing wasn't great. But who didn't enjoy Rambo going all.....well.....Rambo?

its a decently fun series, but the books are so much better.

Yeah - that ending fell apart.

But I enjoyed watching Dixon jiggle as she dangled from the helicopter...

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17358889)

Yeah - that ending fell apart.

But I enjoyed watching Dixon jiggle as she dangled from the helicopter...

It was like LOTR Return of the King with it never ending.

The ending to Season 2 was just god awful. The writers were just horrible.

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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats. (Post 17356470)

its a decently fun series, but the books are so much better.

The books just got so repetitive. I think I read the first 4 (maybe 5) and the stories just get stale.

Maybe it's because I was reading them back to back. If I swapped to something else, then back to a Reacher book, maybe they wouldn't get to feeling so tedious.

But it was kinda like trying to binge watch Letterkenny. I love that show in small doses but if you watch three episodes in a row, you really do need a palate cleanser.