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I like that in the end....Neagley broke her "no touching" rule, to give Guy some peace as he passed on, by holding his hand and cradling his head. Nice character development there.
The O'Donnell issue is that Langston CLEARLY did not know about the team being at the meet, it feels like no one is dirty, because when they show Langston in the car with no members of the team around he was surprised that it was a setup. It just wouldn't make sense that none of them could warn him.
O’Donnell being dirty would be a dumb twist done a million times before…..if anyone I think it’s Dixon since she offered up to kill Swan out of nowhere that was odd and she’s an easy distraction for Reacher
@@kdizzle901 wouldn't really be out of nowhere if she's dirty. because if she's dirty she's currently hunting swan anyway, and using reacher's team to do it.
I don't believe any of the 110 are dirty. The whole season boils down to good ex-cops vs dirty ex-cops. I think Swan has been kept sedated and restrained to a gurney like they showed when they threw the one out the helicopter. They plan to have Swan as the fallguy for the fallout from this deal and probably for his body to found in the rubble of what is left of New Age when they get their money and split. As for how that Dixon telling Reacher she would kill Swan scene, it felt genuine to me. She cares enough to carry the burden of killing their old friend so Reacher doesn't have to do it himself. I hope we get some more juicy flashbacks to show exactly how Reacher handled that direct order.
To be fair to AM: he's clearly low-key panicking. He said himself, he expected this to be a smooth deal, and it's gone wrong at every turn. He's had to ditch his identity, take a new one, and now might have to ditch THIS one too because of the cop giving him a warning. He's calm on the outside but the man is floundering as everything keeps going wrong for him. You can't just kill a COP and walk away with nobody following up on it, he wouldn't have done that if there was ANY other option.
“I am a first person shooter” is my new favorite one liner in the show. I believe Dixon is the dirty one. Simple reason, she was that bold to have alone time with him in Marlo’s bed btw (weird) lol. A woman doing that is sus she’s 100% up to something. Let’s not forget didn’t she come in episode 1 or 2 saying she was undercover without explanation as to why. Also, who wouldn’t want to be close with Neagley cause she is fine 🥵
@@davidnora7272 If you are a good card counter, it's not really gambling. That's why a casino will throw you out on your ass if they think you are doing it. Her going to a casino to get money is like Reacher going to the local drug corner to get money and guns. Dixon's whole thing is math, and pattern recognition.
I don't know if there is a dirty one but my mind drifted back to the one who supposedly died in a car wreck a year or so ago. We rarely see him at all and the one other time I remember him is he was usually grouped with the kids of the team, all of who are dead now. But something I remember hearing about this story, is that the team members are being tortured, and not just in the way the three we know are dead. So Swann might be in more trouble than we think.
You were totally right seeing the super hero connection, Russo became one by sacrificing himself to save an innocent life. Plus I also think his admiration of heroes showed in his standing up to his corrupt boss. I hope we get to see the team honor him at some point! Can't wait for the next episode!
What I don't get is why his breaking cover to shoot at the bad guys was supposed to be more effective in saving the girl than him staying behind cover to shoot at them.
@@GreatOutdoors1 because he was intentionally trying to draw their fire so the girl could escape. He didn't know how far away Neagly and co were, and was outnumbered. That's why they show the whole bit before he opens the door to get the girl out and tell her to run, he sits there for a minute just breathing, because he knows what he's about to do will likely kill him, but he's doing it to protect the girl.
The fact that 911 should have been called still makes me mad. And that they killed the best new character...mad mad. Yes, I know that "the cops are dirty" is probably everyone's response but statistically, not all of them.
Dixon works in that corporate forensic accounting world. She has that inside into “well maybe she got sent to new age to do her work. She saw what was going on and decided she wanted in”
I also got a lot of slasher film vibes from this episode with AM walking up to the cop and u see him coming though the dash cam and Reacher acting like Michael Meyers killing everyone in one bus and then dragging the other guy under and starts screaming even the split diopter shots it’s felt like Brian De Palmas influence and John Carpenters influence are all over this episode
I think it would have been a disservice had Swann been actually involved. Reacher only works if his methods and influence are unassailable. If anyone on his team had gone dirty, it puts up for debate whether his methods, his training, and his influence are right. If Swann had been dirty I think the loss in confidence to Reacher would’ve been detrimental. Then you just have a character that’s more introspective and unsure than who he is. Reading the books you can see that Reacher functions as he does because very much the results do bear out that the means were necessary. If Swann had gone dirty, that’s a bad result all on Reacher.
@@gustavoclarindo101 It’s not that I don’t think he makes mistakes. There’s a lot of areas where he isn’t perfect. But when it comes to people he’s got good instincts. If he can’t size you up immediately, he’d definitely size you up working side-by-side with him over the course of years. Yes, people break bad, but I think it would be something more extreme than greed to get somebody Reacher trained and vouched for to go to the dark side. If anything, I wouldn’t want to have that guy looking for me for betraying his trust. Eff that.
@@gustavoclarindo101 It’s not that I don’t think he makes mistakes. There’s a lot of areas where he isn’t perfect. But when it comes to people he’s got good instincts. If he can’t size you up immediately, he’d definitely size you up working side-by-side with him over the course of years. Yes, people break bad, but I think it would be something more extreme than greed to get somebody Reacher trained and vouched for to go to the dark side. If anything, I wouldn’t want to have that guy looking for me for betraying his trust. Eff that.
@@mojoshivers i wasn't saying that was your opinion. What you said makes sense, it would be weird for anyone he trusts to go bad. Like when we think of the people he trusted in season 1(who we follow the whole time, rather than just flashbacks),none of them would ever turn bad.
@@gustavoclarindo101 Totally. You really have to earn somebody the main character trusts ending up being dirty. Secondary characters are fine. But somebody’s inner circle is sacred. There better be good setup for a heel turn of that magnitude.
Just wait for the next couple EP'S... For those who haven't read the books, you're in for a treat! Reading these books since the 90's I'm so glad they FINALLY made a series that's going to continue for years. The movies are ehh... These first two series are so badass! As long as they stay true to the IP I'll be so stoked! Alan Ritchson is the perfect Reacher! I hope these seasons go on for years so we can see the progression of Reacher! 💪🏻 LFG 🔥💯 btw IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE NEAGLEY. No spoilers there. Any show watcher or book reader knows she would never disrespect or not follow an order from Jack Reacher!
I think you may have missed in the last episode they said Swan had to be still alive because, not just a digital fingerprint, but also a retinal scan, which I'm pretty sure doesn't work on a dead eye after a little time. So, if Swan is dead, it'll be recent.
The only member of the team that I think could be “dirty” is possibly Lawery. Neeley mentioned at the diner when she and Reacher first met up that he had died in a car crash. He could have faked his death. It would be a fun little twist since it seemed to be a throw away line and he’s not on anyone’s radar. Other than that crazy possibility I think everyone is clean.
Russo’s death makes me mad on multiple levels. First of all, he was a good foil for Reachers methods and I was enjoying his presence in the story but secondly….does no one in the 110th know how to apply pressure to a wound? Neagly…holds him while he bleeds out, and he dies….a minute before an ambulance arrives? And Dixon is doing what while O’Donnell is calling 9-1-1? Is she casually walking over to Russo and Neagly? I just can’t help but be angry that the writers decided that Russo succumbed to wounds due to the Special Investigators inability to apply pressure.
The whole scene a rare case of bad writing in the Reacher series. There was zero reason for Reacher's team not to see him safely away. There was zero reason for him not to call it in to NYPD. There was zero reason for him to drive to a dark, unoccupied spot in the city that is literally famous for never sleeping. There was zero reason for him to split from the kid. There was zero reason for him to break cover to try and take out three guys alone when he knew he had help on the way. The last two episodes have been really disappointing to me from a realism perspective, which was a massive part of what was so good and refreshing about Season 1. This season just has too many moments where the writers clearly thought "we want to shoot this scene, how do we shoe-horn it into the show somehow".
@@lsaria5998 well one of those things is bad luck but totally justified in the script. He swerved to avoid hitting a truck and that funnelled him to that area he got stuck in. And him breaking cover makes sense to me because he wanted them shooting at him and not her. She had a 100 foot hallway essentially to run down before she could get behind something else, so he needed them to point their guns at him. He couldn’t call 911 because he had his line open to Reacher’s crew because they needed constant location updates from him. They couldn’t see him safely off because they had to get Marlo to the meeting site immediately, didn’t have the time to drive all the way to queens and back and Russo wasn’t ready to go anyway. Maybe that doesn’t fly with you and that’s cool, but all that is fine with me. For me, it’s only the last 30 seconds that is bad but it’s REALLY bad. Nearly unforgivably bad. If they were going to kill Russo off and not make the 110th look like incompetent fools, have him succumb to his wounds as Neagly (and Dixon) run to his aid. Have him roll over and see Jane and her mother so he confirms that he got her out of there, smile thinking “worth it”, and then die. It’s just…so bad and weird the way they did it. The show is consistently so good that rare terrible details like this hit me like a roundhouse kick to the side of the head.
@@lsaria5998 I'd also like to know how many mags the bad guys had to be shooting from full auto handguns for that entire chase scene. They probably would have to be changing magazines every few seconds.
Everyone in this show aim like Storm Troopers. I know that crazy precise aiming is unrealistic, but so is missing too much like that as well. The "car chase", with 3 guys shooting non-stop at Russo with automatic guns, for like 10 minutes, no tire shot, front window barely damaged. Hell, these guys were supposed to have a formation with firearms, right? I can hear the "Oh but they were in / shooting at a moving vehicle". Still. Sorry but that was dumb. Then the chase end, Russo been on the side of that car for a while, with the girl inside. If he just stayed there for 2 more minutes, he would have been fine with the others joining him. The shooters showed no sign of moving towards them at all, they were shooting at nothing. And yeah none of them shot through the door where the girl was hiding, so no reason to believe that they would have 'cause at this point we already know that they can't aim and they are dumb. After Russo was shot and the girl kept running, then one of the shooters suddenly gets in front of her, coming out of nowhere. Not behind her, in front of her. WTF. I love this show, really, but it's the first episode that made me think that it was a bit dumb. When watching Reacher I don't expect full realism, but at least a bit of realism. It has in previous episodes, not always ofc, unrealistic stuff happened before, but they somehow make it look badass or something. This whole scene was just plain stupid, and it makes me feel like Russo's death was useless. Would have loved to see him fight Reacher after the whole plot was resolved at the end of the season. Just my opinion, now let me dry my tears.
The shooter didn't quite come out of nowhere. We see him separate from the others at the car to give chase as the girl starts her run and Russo starts his charge of the light brigade. The questions of how he makes up the ground, why we don't see him overtake her and why the girl doesn't notice him are a little more problematic but I agree with others that Russo and the girl should have stayed behind the car a bit longer and that you'd expect the ex-MPs to apply some basic first aid, even if they thought he was going to die anyway.
@@malcolmrowe9003 Russo would have been more effective in providing cover for the girl's escape if he had retained cover. Also, I would like to know how a guy in a helicopter with a machine gun can't hit Reacher who runs out from cover to stand out in the open to fire at a helicopter that is steadily getting farther away.
Great reaction again. I'd be disappointed - story-wise - if O'Donnell or Dixon is dirty. It would be dumb storytelling. They've both almost died a couple times now. What kind of a plan would that be? Putting yourself in mortal danger like that? It would be a twist for a twist's sake. And that isn't the Reacher I know.
I just want to vent that Reddit did this episode dirty. It's not the best, but Reddit really made it like it's the apocalypse. I watched the episode and hooked to every second of it. And you have the most entertaining reaction by far. It's a breath of fresh air compared to what I've seen over the Net. For me, this episode redeemed what I opined the lowest point of the last one; i.e., Russo and Reacher arguing before the XCOM scene. And of course Reacher's the FPS. 'Alan Ritchson doom slayer' is a Google autocomplete. 😝
i think you might be right about dickson being dirty to be honest. the woman at New Age tells Reacher's team that Swan's actually been trying to put a stop to it all, and when Dickson and Reacher are chatting her whole "Well i'll kill him when we find him so you don't have to" was a hell of a leap. But if she's dirty she'd absolutely want to kill him, because she's already looking for him anyway.
Maybe the general who cancelled the drug case has a grudge against the 110 especially reacher and he’s making it seem as if the team are dirty, plus he’d have all the info on them and connections of course… But I’m still guessing lol I cried for Russo 😢 didn’t want to see him gone.
As much as I love Reacher, especially season 1, I really dislike how much stormtrooper syndrome takes places in this season. Also surprised by how naive the bad guys are this time around and how amateur-ish most of the hired killers are. Every single one of them were pretty mush push-overs. They are no threat in close combat, falling for simple baits, ec. In season 1 Reacher was fighting trained militaries and had some genuinely hard fights, not in this season tho. Still not sure how to feel about this season, I like the character work tho.
I still suspect O'Donnell and Dixon. The reason for this is because the cops that were trying to take out Russo seemed to know about the girl. If it had just been Russo they were after, they wouldn't have known anything about her. That's why I think perhaps the 110th has a dirty member. O'Donnell seems like an obvious choice, which is why I suspect Dixon. Her being dirty would be a real shocker. She could have been working for them from the beginning, and lets them know what's up when she gets a chance. Taking out Swan would be a way to cover her own ass, too.
Although Odonell is still number 1 in the circle of suspected traitors for me, it occurred to me today that Dixon could be the traitor. First, the drop height for Reacher would be greater due to their relationship. Second, she was amazingly randomly right there when they first met, so Reacher . Thirdly, she can also be the link to the past. She was infiltrated and was supposed to get close to Reacher, which didn't work that way at the time. She could have foisted the coke on Swan at the time. Und Swan könnte auch Dixon um hilfe gebeten haben, nicht wissend dass sie schmutzig ist. Btw Robert Patrick will be kicked out of the helicopter and unlike Reacher's friend he will fall screaming.
Everything people loved about season one is absent in season two. This time Reacher is everything but composed. In the first season he was the world's greatest detective, now he's overly emotional all the time. And in the first season they killed his brother so why was he so cold then and not now. The action and the writing is so obviously sub par this season. Really killer has a girl at gunpoint on a completely silent street and here comes a car from another dimension and hits him saving the girl. What is this.. Looney Toons. Also look at Reacher after he crawled from under the bus. Man almost had a heart attack. And the way he got rid of those two guys on the bus is so lame and beyond stupid. What the f did become of this show. I'm really biting my nails at the thought of Reacher fighting 65- year old Robert Patrick in the finale. He's gonna push him down the stairs maybe. Lame lame lame.
I would also add why the whole subterfuge with cutting the bottle to make a fake silencer to threaten the guy with. He could have just threatened him with the switchblade and it would have had the same effect. The guys chasing Russo must have had a huge box of ammo to be able to shoot full auto for that entire chase scene, and then they continued to shoot at the car without changing their position or seeing a target while the cop had a touching conversation with the teenage girl.
@@GreatOutdoors1 There is a ton of things in ep. 6 that make no sense. The worst one being this: The best assassin/weapons dealer the world has ever known (they call him The Ghost) in a dark street with no witnesses lets a police woman call in and check his fake ID and stolen vehicle that ties him in with previous murder and then kills her. Now police knows it's the same guy and even in which direction he is heading. How 'bout killing her before she did that you absolute moron!
Jesus Christ this was a bad episode. Loved the first season but this is Walker Texas Ranger bad. It is clear as day that A.Ritchson is so involved in movies that he has no time to choreograph fights so he mostly strangles his enemies. Six episodes down and still not one great fight or cool moment like in season 1 (except for biker fight). And the writing omg. This super assassin waits for the police woman to call in his fake ID and vehicle and then kills her. Give me a break. And the last scene is pure stupidity. It seems that when Ritchson bulked up for season 2 he lost ability to move at all. I swear to you, in this episode he makes a grimace on his face by just taking his shirt off. Pathetic.
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I like that in the end....Neagley broke her "no touching" rule, to give Guy some peace as he passed on, by holding his hand and cradling his head. Nice character development there.
Great catch
It shows how much she grew to respect him, that she would voluntarily touch his hand.
Do we know that he died
@@kdizzle901 not that hard to catch tbh...
You also saw the detail that she had to build herself up to doing it. It was a good character detail that I really liked.
The O'Donnell issue is that Langston CLEARLY did not know about the team being at the meet, it feels like no one is dirty, because when they show Langston in the car with no members of the team around he was surprised that it was a setup. It just wouldn't make sense that none of them could warn him.
O’Donnell being dirty would be a dumb twist done a million times before…..if anyone I think it’s Dixon since she offered up to kill Swan out of nowhere that was odd and she’s an easy distraction for Reacher
@@kdizzle901 wouldn't really be out of nowhere if she's dirty. because if she's dirty she's currently hunting swan anyway, and using reacher's team to do it.
Also Dixon makes sense since her job is corporate she has a connection to that world
I think Dixon’s offer to finish Swan is more like “If you hesitate, I got your back.”
I don't believe any of the 110 are dirty. The whole season boils down to good ex-cops vs dirty ex-cops. I think Swan has been kept sedated and restrained to a gurney like they showed when they threw the one out the helicopter. They plan to have Swan as the fallguy for the fallout from this deal and probably for his body to found in the rubble of what is left of New Age when they get their money and split. As for how that Dixon telling Reacher she would kill Swan scene, it felt genuine to me. She cares enough to carry the burden of killing their old friend so Reacher doesn't have to do it himself. I hope we get some more juicy flashbacks to show exactly how Reacher handled that direct order.
To be fair to AM: he's clearly low-key panicking. He said himself, he expected this to be a smooth deal, and it's gone wrong at every turn. He's had to ditch his identity, take a new one, and now might have to ditch THIS one too because of the cop giving him a warning. He's calm on the outside but the man is floundering as everything keeps going wrong for him. You can't just kill a COP and walk away with nobody following up on it, he wouldn't have done that if there was ANY other option.
I don't think there is a dirty 110th member.
I really hope that Guy is not really dead.
I was happy to hate him as Kingpin’s dad, but I love him here.
You should watch The Wire. You will like him at first and hate him in the end. Best cop show ever made
@@chrisfoster27 To me, he will always be the guy from The Wire. It was his best role!
THAT'S why I know him lol
“I am a first person shooter” is my new favorite one liner in the show.
I believe Dixon is the dirty one. Simple reason, she was that bold to have alone time with him in Marlo’s bed btw (weird) lol. A woman doing that is sus she’s 100% up to something. Let’s not forget didn’t she come in episode 1 or 2 saying she was undercover without explanation as to why.
Also, who wouldn’t want to be close with Neagley cause she is fine 🥵
Plus we saw that Dixon has a vice - gambling and we’ve seen that vice destroy good people before.
@@davidnora7272 If you are a good card counter, it's not really gambling. That's why a casino will throw you out on your ass if they think you are doing it. Her going to a casino to get money is like Reacher going to the local drug corner to get money and guns. Dixon's whole thing is math, and pattern recognition.
I don't know if there is a dirty one but my mind drifted back to the one who supposedly died in a car wreck a year or so ago. We rarely see him at all and the one other time I remember him is he was usually grouped with the kids of the team, all of who are dead now.
But something I remember hearing about this story, is that the team members are being tortured, and not just in the way the three we know are dead. So Swann might be in more trouble than we think.
I was really hoping we'd get to see a Guy cameo in season 3 like we got with Finley this season...
You were totally right seeing the super hero connection, Russo became one by sacrificing himself to save an innocent life. Plus I also think his admiration of heroes showed in his standing up to his corrupt boss. I hope we get to see the team honor him at some point! Can't wait for the next episode!
What I don't get is why his breaking cover to shoot at the bad guys was supposed to be more effective in saving the girl than him staying behind cover to shoot at them.
@@GreatOutdoors1 because he was intentionally trying to draw their fire so the girl could escape. He didn't know how far away Neagly and co were, and was outnumbered. That's why they show the whole bit before he opens the door to get the girl out and tell her to run, he sits there for a minute just breathing, because he knows what he's about to do will likely kill him, but he's doing it to protect the girl.
The fact that 911 should have been called still makes me mad. And that they killed the best new character...mad mad.
Yes, I know that "the cops are dirty" is probably everyone's response but statistically, not all of them.
Dixon works in that corporate forensic accounting world. She has that inside into “well maybe she got sent to new age to do her work. She saw what was going on and decided she wanted in”
I also got a lot of slasher film vibes from this episode with AM walking up to the cop and u see him coming though the dash cam and Reacher acting like Michael Meyers killing everyone in one bus and then dragging the other guy under and starts screaming even the split diopter shots it’s felt like Brian De Palmas influence and John Carpenters influence are all over this episode
I think it would have been a disservice had Swann been actually involved. Reacher only works if his methods and influence are unassailable. If anyone on his team had gone dirty, it puts up for debate whether his methods, his training, and his influence are right. If Swann had been dirty I think the loss in confidence to Reacher would’ve been detrimental. Then you just have a character that’s more introspective and unsure than who he is.
Reading the books you can see that Reacher functions as he does because very much the results do bear out that the means were necessary. If Swann had gone dirty, that’s a bad result all on Reacher.
I was sure he wasn't dirty because the whole premise of the show is that Reacher makes no mistakes lol
@@gustavoclarindo101 It’s not that I don’t think he makes mistakes. There’s a lot of areas where he isn’t perfect. But when it comes to people he’s got good instincts. If he can’t size you up immediately, he’d definitely size you up working side-by-side with him over the course of years.
Yes, people break bad, but I think it would be something more extreme than greed to get somebody Reacher trained and vouched for to go to the dark side. If anything, I wouldn’t want to have that guy looking for me for betraying his trust. Eff that.
@@gustavoclarindo101 It’s not that I don’t think he makes mistakes. There’s a lot of areas where he isn’t perfect. But when it comes to people he’s got good instincts. If he can’t size you up immediately, he’d definitely size you up working side-by-side with him over the course of years.
Yes, people break bad, but I think it would be something more extreme than greed to get somebody Reacher trained and vouched for to go to the dark side. If anything, I wouldn’t want to have that guy looking for me for betraying his trust. Eff that.
@@mojoshivers i wasn't saying that was your opinion.
What you said makes sense, it would be weird for anyone he trusts to go bad. Like when we think of the people he trusted in season 1(who we follow the whole time, rather than just flashbacks),none of them would ever turn bad.
@@gustavoclarindo101 Totally. You really have to earn somebody the main character trusts ending up being dirty. Secondary characters are fine. But somebody’s inner circle is sacred. There better be good setup for a heel turn of that magnitude.
He can’t be dead I hate that cliffhanger
Oh man. That ending got me. 😢
I never even thought about Dixon, but I think you're probably right.
Just wait for the next couple EP'S... For those who haven't read the books, you're in for a treat! Reading these books since the 90's I'm so glad they FINALLY made a series that's going to continue for years. The movies are ehh... These first two series are so badass! As long as they stay true to the IP I'll be so stoked! Alan Ritchson is the perfect Reacher! I hope these seasons go on for years so we can see the progression of Reacher! 💪🏻 LFG 🔥💯 btw IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE NEAGLEY. No spoilers there. Any show watcher or book reader knows she would never disrespect or not follow an order from Jack Reacher!
Guy who playes reacher really needs to be the new batman
Wait, you can't hang air freshener on your mirror, but you have absolutely no pedestrian safety laws. That country is getting weirder every day
Illinois(I think) just got rid of a similar law last week.
9:48 Almost works. It was just missing cotton wadding in the bottle.
I think you may have missed in the last episode they said Swan had to be still alive because, not just a digital fingerprint, but also a retinal scan, which I'm pretty sure doesn't work on a dead eye after a little time. So, if Swan is dead, it'll be recent.
The only member of the team that I think could be “dirty” is possibly Lawery. Neeley mentioned at the diner when she and Reacher first met up that he had died in a car crash. He could have faked his death. It would be a fun little twist since it seemed to be a throw away line and he’s not on anyone’s radar. Other than that crazy possibility I think everyone is clean.
Russo’s death makes me mad on multiple levels. First of all, he was a good foil for Reachers methods and I was enjoying his presence in the story but secondly….does no one in the 110th know how to apply pressure to a wound? Neagly…holds him while he bleeds out, and he dies….a minute before an ambulance arrives? And Dixon is doing what while O’Donnell is calling 9-1-1? Is she casually walking over to Russo and Neagly?
I just can’t help but be angry that the writers decided that Russo succumbed to wounds due to the Special Investigators inability to apply pressure.
The whole scene a rare case of bad writing in the Reacher series. There was zero reason for Reacher's team not to see him safely away. There was zero reason for him not to call it in to NYPD. There was zero reason for him to drive to a dark, unoccupied spot in the city that is literally famous for never sleeping. There was zero reason for him to split from the kid. There was zero reason for him to break cover to try and take out three guys alone when he knew he had help on the way.
The last two episodes have been really disappointing to me from a realism perspective, which was a massive part of what was so good and refreshing about Season 1. This season just has too many moments where the writers clearly thought "we want to shoot this scene, how do we shoe-horn it into the show somehow".
@@lsaria5998 well one of those things is bad luck but totally justified in the script. He swerved to avoid hitting a truck and that funnelled him to that area he got stuck in. And him breaking cover makes sense to me because he wanted them shooting at him and not her. She had a 100 foot hallway essentially to run down before she could get behind something else, so he needed them to point their guns at him. He couldn’t call 911 because he had his line open to Reacher’s crew because they needed constant location updates from him. They couldn’t see him safely off because they had to get Marlo to the meeting site immediately, didn’t have the time to drive all the way to queens and back and Russo wasn’t ready to go anyway. Maybe that doesn’t fly with you and that’s cool, but all that is fine with me.
For me, it’s only the last 30 seconds that is bad but it’s REALLY bad. Nearly unforgivably bad. If they were going to kill Russo off and not make the 110th look like incompetent fools, have him succumb to his wounds as Neagly (and Dixon) run to his aid. Have him roll over and see Jane and her mother so he confirms that he got her out of there, smile thinking “worth it”, and then die. It’s just…so bad and weird the way they did it.
The show is consistently so good that rare terrible details like this hit me like a roundhouse kick to the side of the head.
@@lsaria5998 I'd also like to know how many mags the bad guys had to be shooting from full auto handguns for that entire chase scene. They probably would have to be changing magazines every few seconds.
Everyone in this show aim like Storm Troopers. I know that crazy precise aiming is unrealistic, but so is missing too much like that as well. The "car chase", with 3 guys shooting non-stop at Russo with automatic guns, for like 10 minutes, no tire shot, front window barely damaged. Hell, these guys were supposed to have a formation with firearms, right? I can hear the "Oh but they were in / shooting at a moving vehicle". Still. Sorry but that was dumb. Then the chase end, Russo been on the side of that car for a while, with the girl inside. If he just stayed there for 2 more minutes, he would have been fine with the others joining him. The shooters showed no sign of moving towards them at all, they were shooting at nothing. And yeah none of them shot through the door where the girl was hiding, so no reason to believe that they would have 'cause at this point we already know that they can't aim and they are dumb. After Russo was shot and the girl kept running, then one of the shooters suddenly gets in front of her, coming out of nowhere. Not behind her, in front of her. WTF. I love this show, really, but it's the first episode that made me think that it was a bit dumb. When watching Reacher I don't expect full realism, but at least a bit of realism. It has in previous episodes, not always ofc, unrealistic stuff happened before, but they somehow make it look badass or something. This whole scene was just plain stupid, and it makes me feel like Russo's death was useless. Would have loved to see him fight Reacher after the whole plot was resolved at the end of the season. Just my opinion, now let me dry my tears.
The shooter didn't quite come out of nowhere. We see him separate from the others at the car to give chase as the girl starts her run and Russo starts his charge of the light brigade. The questions of how he makes up the ground, why we don't see him overtake her and why the girl doesn't notice him are a little more problematic but I agree with others that Russo and the girl should have stayed behind the car a bit longer and that you'd expect the ex-MPs to apply some basic first aid, even if they thought he was going to die anyway.
@@malcolmrowe9003 Russo would have been more effective in providing cover for the girl's escape if he had retained cover. Also, I would like to know how a guy in a helicopter with a machine gun can't hit Reacher who runs out from cover to stand out in the open to fire at a helicopter that is steadily getting farther away.
Great reaction again.
I'd be disappointed - story-wise - if O'Donnell or Dixon is dirty. It would be dumb storytelling. They've both almost died a couple times now. What kind of a plan would that be? Putting yourself in mortal danger like that? It would be a twist for a twist's sake. And that isn't the Reacher I know.
I knew when Russo became the moral compass with his boss, he wasn't long for this world. And not the " stormtroop aim." LMAOOOOO
Hey Omn1👋🏻. Have you recognize the cop guy? He played Fisk dad.
I just want to vent that Reddit did this episode dirty. It's not the best, but Reddit really made it like it's the apocalypse. I watched the episode and hooked to every second of it.
And you have the most entertaining reaction by far. It's a breath of fresh air compared to what I've seen over the Net.
For me, this episode redeemed what I opined the lowest point of the last one; i.e., Russo and Reacher arguing before the XCOM scene.
And of course Reacher's the FPS. 'Alan Ritchson doom slayer' is a Google autocomplete. 😝
i think you might be right about dickson being dirty to be honest. the woman at New Age tells Reacher's team that Swan's actually been trying to put a stop to it all, and when Dickson and Reacher are chatting her whole "Well i'll kill him when we find him so you don't have to" was a hell of a leap.
But if she's dirty she'd absolutely want to kill him, because she's already looking for him anyway.
I think the actors said they actually had a real helicopter for that scene. I might be wrong but it’s worth another check
I was genuinely ANGRY when they killed Russo. To me, he was the best new character introduced this season.
Maybe the general who cancelled the drug case has a grudge against the 110 especially reacher and he’s making it seem as if the team are dirty, plus he’d have all the info on them and connections of course… But I’m still guessing lol I cried for Russo 😢 didn’t want to see him gone.
I can't see any of the 110 betraying each other tbh.
They’ll put it on her tombstone
She was a stickler for the rules
What about the older team member Lowry who died in a car accident? Weird how he just got such small screen time.
I will like to watch again this are awesome 👌🏾 😁
There might be a small chance they kept Swan alive until the deal is done to place all the blame on him?
O'Donnell is not dirty man. Why do you think that?
As much as I love Reacher, especially season 1, I really dislike how much stormtrooper syndrome takes places in this season. Also surprised by how naive the bad guys are this time around and how amateur-ish most of the hired killers are. Every single one of them were pretty mush push-overs. They are no threat in close combat, falling for simple baits, ec. In season 1 Reacher was fighting trained militaries and had some genuinely hard fights, not in this season tho. Still not sure how to feel about this season, I like the character work tho.
So who is going to meet their end worse Langford or Lieutenant Marsh?
No way Reacher is going to let him slide.
I still suspect O'Donnell and Dixon. The reason for this is because the cops that were trying to take out Russo seemed to know about the girl. If it had just been Russo they were after, they wouldn't have known anything about her. That's why I think perhaps the 110th has a dirty member. O'Donnell seems like an obvious choice, which is why I suspect Dixon. Her being dirty would be a real shocker. She could have been working for them from the beginning, and lets them know what's up when she gets a chance. Taking out Swan would be a way to cover her own ass, too.
Although Odonell is still number 1 in the circle of suspected traitors for me, it occurred to me today that Dixon could be the traitor. First, the drop height for Reacher would be greater due to their relationship. Second, she was amazingly randomly right there when they first met, so Reacher . Thirdly, she can also be the link to the past. She was infiltrated and was supposed to get close to Reacher, which didn't work that way at the time. She could have foisted the coke on Swan at the time.
Und Swan könnte auch Dixon um hilfe gebeten haben, nicht wissend dass sie schmutzig ist.
Btw Robert Patrick will be kicked out of the helicopter and unlike Reacher's friend he will fall screaming.
You should do the movie reaction
Everything people loved about season one is absent in season two. This time Reacher is everything but composed. In the first season he was the world's greatest detective, now he's overly emotional all the time. And in the first season they killed his brother so why was he so cold then and not now. The action and the writing is so obviously sub par this season. Really killer has a girl at gunpoint on a completely silent street and here comes a car from another dimension and hits him saving the girl. What is this.. Looney Toons. Also look at Reacher after he crawled from under the bus. Man almost had a heart attack. And the way he got rid of those two guys on the bus is so lame and beyond stupid. What the f did become of this show. I'm really biting my nails at the thought of Reacher fighting 65- year old Robert Patrick in the finale. He's gonna push him down the stairs maybe. Lame lame lame.
I would also add why the whole subterfuge with cutting the bottle to make a fake silencer to threaten the guy with. He could have just threatened him with the switchblade and it would have had the same effect. The guys chasing Russo must have had a huge box of ammo to be able to shoot full auto for that entire chase scene, and then they continued to shoot at the car without changing their position or seeing a target while the cop had a touching conversation with the teenage girl.
@@GreatOutdoors1 There is a ton of things in ep. 6 that make no sense. The worst one being this: The best assassin/weapons dealer the world has ever known (they call him The Ghost) in a dark street with no witnesses lets a police woman call in and check his fake ID and stolen vehicle that ties him in with previous murder and then kills her. Now police knows it's the same guy and even in which direction he is heading. How 'bout killing her before she did that you absolute moron!
This seasons has been okay to watch, but it sure feels a step down fro Season 1. This season is a little too goofy.
Guess who's daughter father ?
Really didn’t like this episode much. Their plan was half-assed - and Reacher is never half-assed.
Jesus Christ this was a bad episode. Loved the first season but this is Walker Texas Ranger bad. It is clear as day that A.Ritchson is so involved in movies that he has no time to choreograph fights so he mostly strangles his enemies. Six episodes down and still not one great fight or cool moment like in season 1 (except for biker fight). And the writing omg. This super assassin waits for the police woman to call in his fake ID and vehicle and then kills her. Give me a break. And the last scene is pure stupidity. It seems that when Ritchson bulked up for season 2 he lost ability to move at all. I swear to you, in this episode he makes a grimace on his face by just taking his shirt off. Pathetic.
Also the fights are set at night, with very fast cuts, so you can’t see who’s doing what to whom.
This season fell off.