And still the person who gave him his toughest fight was the weedy, skinny, shorter brother from the first series. That's something that's just going to keep looking more weird the longer this show runs for.
shareAlso, they made him "too big" this season. I didn't feel like he was ever in danger.
Unless he were to fight like The Rock or Vin Diesel, I don't seen him sweating over any of the people he's fighting.
He did look big in this one, almost grotesquely at times. In some scenes he is noticeably not the 6'5 they claim his character to be so perhaps they're just trying to compensate by giving him a bigger build.
In a third series perhaps they need to raise the stakes. Have a real strong villain, have Reacher get hurt badly, have one of his buddies die...something like that. I don't know if Childs has a book with that but at the moment he and his gang are a little too unstoppable.
They're reaching "The Rock levels". Meaning that he's getting so big physically that literally no one feels like a threat anymore.
I honestly really liked his "slimmer" build in season 1.
I hear that one of the main antagonists of season 3 is gonna be a big guy like Reacher. So that's good..
I hope he actually gets to get hurt this time though. It's boring when he just bulldozes through everyone.
I think the real reason is he fights a lot more bad guys in this one compared to the first series, so felt it'd be appropriate for him to be as bulky as possible to make it look as believable as possible. Notice how all his other army male buddies aren't particular tall or big either just to re-emphasis the size of him. I agree though they need to tone it down and make him look more vulnerable.
Yeah that was just awkward I thought even at the time before his series of progressively bigger fights
It was pretty "impressive" how he got the better of those bad guys in S2 while dangling from helicopter holding a hospital bed.
I did wonder if his lady friend was going to be killed while watching the series until that point and it did cross my mind he might not be able to hold on. I guess that would have been too traumatising for him. If she'd died another way it might have served the finale better? But yes, him being able to deal with all that was a stretch even compared to everything else. Just like the small and skinny brother almost killing Reacher was in the first series.
shareAnd they keep fighting him without guns.
Fist fight with someone the size of Reacher? Were they really that confident? I thought they would at least pull out some big knives.
This is to be expected in a show like this, to keep the good guys around for long enough. If they made bad guys smart enough to use other methods when it called for it, the good guys would be dead quite early on.
I didn't expect the little weedy guy to give Reacher so many problems though. I suppose because he was one of the main bad guys they thought that justified him posing more threat to Reacher. Silly really, it would be like if the Robert Patrick character suddenly started getting a beating on Reacher while on the helicopter, just because he too is one of the main bad guys, when really he is old and would be no match. They depicted that situation aptly.