Reacher [Drama, Action] (Page 4 of 5)

Normally I agree that they all need to stfu about random issues, since most of them are actors exactly because they were bad at math and it is very questionable if they even fully grasp them.

That said, imo, cases like Donald, Bibi, Vladimir, Potato king, Adolf, Africa dictators and alike can be an exception. Like in Donalds case even if you are a hardcore conservative, should be kinda clear that he lies to your face and steals from you.

Not counting the very long list of other achievements from which USA won't recover for decades and losing wars when he specifically pinky promised you to not start them, the guy, for example, sells early an access to his (barely) Truth Social posts to Wallstreet, jfc. Why Russians cannot do much today about their circus? Because they did/said nada 20 years ago when Vladimir was wilding just like Donald today. Once a daddy spreads his sticky fingers, it's game over  - and Donald basically already has taken over Republican Party, there a few are left who dare think for themselves, the rest think what daddy orders to think.

So, imo, a legit exception to the rule.

@WilliamDrakeMcGregor and @g371

Be careful, recently innocuous postings have vanished. Would hate to see all your hard work disappear.

I am just bummed we only get 8 episodes this season. It is a crying shame.

And whatever happened to the 2 hour first and last episodes? You know, go in and out with a bang.

I completely get what you are saying and it makes sense on the surface level. The issue is time. I work long hours, have kids, hit the gym and do martial arts.

I've basically got time for 1 show per night as I fall asleep.

If that 1 opportunity turns out to be wasted on a show pushing a BS agenda or is just terribly written/produced whatever, thats effectively 100% of my downtime screwed for the day.

I know, I know, first world problems but it shouldn't be too much to ask for decent entertainment but apparently it is these days, almost everything is pushing an agenda.

Yes. Yes, it was. Girl needs an hour at Victoria's Secret.

It was kind of nice to know the fight in the spoiler was possible, but it just didn't sit right with me either.

Okay, picture Bruce Lee if he was a woman. That dude was small, but he was so fast the cameras could not capture his full motion on The Green Hornet.

Problem solved.

When I said it didn't sit right with me, I meant more along the lines of

And if certain posters are *so* over-sensitive to anything not firmly in the manosphere, stop watching TV and movies and go drool over Andrew Tate or read a Mack Bolan novel or something. My god, the constant whining.

My final thought on the subject:
I would've said the same thing if it was men vs. men. The setting and the result we have seen so far just don't really fit together.

Hopefully they show what happened in a Flashback an we all will be the wiser....because with what we know so far, it must've been one hell of a fight (choreograpy-wise) - but then again, I will probably be too distracted to appreciate it

To clarify: I did not say 'helpless' so please don't reframe my comment to make your point.
As a US Army vet, I am very aware of how capable women can be and that's very capable.

What I'm not doing is cherry-picking a random anecdotal situation of one exceptional woman against an average male.  I'm keeping to the context of the show where the women and the men are on equal ground athletically speaking.

I pointed out biological differences.  I know that's a touchy subject in today's world of rampant mental illness, but biological reality none the less.  Just ask #1 women's tennis player about getting her butt kicked by #203 men's player

What kind of brag is it to start out with having to qualify it as "outside of the top 200"? That's a pro athlete knowing the VAST difference between male and female biology in athletics.  And fighting is athletics.

or the #1 women's soccer team (the Matildas) getting destroyed by an under-16 boys weekend club - on two different occassions.

In the context of this show those two woman, and those bad guys are on equal terms, effectively speaking and for the point of this conversation.  All are well trained, combat experienced, doing hand to hand with knives.  In that setting we are not talking about trained women against average men.  We are talking about peers on equal footing. So all the talk in the world about "I've seen women do blah blah" is just yelling into the wind because we have ALL seen extra-ordinary people of all ages and both genders.  That argument doesn't hold water here because we're talking about peers.

So now it comes down to (1) luck and (2) biology.  Like it or not when we see those two women, who's condition we don't yet know - reality says they should at best be near to death.  2 women, 6 dead men in the room. That's the two body guards and 4 dead attackers.  So in a 4:2 death match they're severely out-gunned even though they aren't helpless, are trained and so on. Each woman fighting one male peer stands a chance, but at 2:1 each - at least one is going to be bleeding to death when they find her (the old lady royal protector) the hot princess (they called her "the princess" on the phone) should be nearly there as well but for TV land will be barely hurt at the start of the episode and will have shrugged it of by the end of the episode.

They only way they can make that near to making sense is it started out as 4:4.  If we choreograph this scene:

• The guards weren't killed early, by surprise leaving it 4:2. Instead they fight and do damage.

• If they flashback the fight they have to make it 2:4 where the women stay behind the men DOING THEIR JOB of protecting…

• the body guards inflict some significant damage early before getting killed as they should being outnumbered 2:1. Maybe they kill a couple attackers and wound the other two or some combination of equal damage.

• then the two women are fighting depleted numbers and health of attackers. That gives them a realistic chance.

That could work.

> Are we sure The Jiggler is the princess?
I think it follows the tropes.  The older woman would have been her protector since childhood.  But since the princess is progressive she insisted her guard teach her to fight.

And thus she and Reacher can never have more than just the casual flings (I predict 1 more) since she's got to go back home to stop a war, or free her people, or take her place on the throne… whichever of the 3 plans they pick for the stereotype.

Seekertune.
Thanks for that!

Reacher and other male thugs are trained to use muscle and brawn.. they often lack speed. 

Great against similar combatants if you are Reacher's size.

A highly trained female with much more speed, handling a knife that can kill in an instance...  dangerous.

I had to rewatch the scene again...I didn't even notice this...

LMAO... too

If you think Reacher is "fast"...   you haven't been watching.