“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good,” the comments read over and over again in a number of languages, including Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, English, and more.
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Interesting study in contrasts. Amazon released Reacher a few weeks ago and it sits at 8.4 on the IMDB site. Initial IMDB returns were an astounding 9.5 (out of 10) and they renewed the show for another season 2 days after it streamed. Those are huge numbers for a low budget show, a cast of unknowns, and nearly all white. There is minimal if any message in it. (But lots of beat downs, brutal shootings, and toxic white male masculinity, oh my.)
Part of me is cynical enough to believe Amazon gave it the go ahead because it was red meat to the majority white US population. They could then say they don't run their shows in only one direction. This gives cover to a reimagined LOTR, "See, see, we do all kinds of shows like Reacher so shut up you mouth-breather bigots!". But they will have likely spent a fortune on this one. No way around it and have convincing scenery of Middle Earth. Plus, the Peter Jackson films are the baseline. You could not do anything LOTR related and not have it compared.
Unless the teaser stuff reveals aren't an elaborate head fake and we don't really know what the cast composition of the show really looks like. That would be a bold move by Amazon. But, I doubt they are that sly and it will likely be exactly what we expect, a steaming turd that no one except captured media raves about. And yes I do pay attention to pop culture trends. It's a direct window into the mindset of TPTB.
Reacher will get woke next season. Count on it. By the end he'll be a tranny.
Hear that, not as farfetched as it sounds. Consider the Be careful who you follow. advice. Suck people in, get them commenting on how "Muh, he's one of us!", then rug them with their pop culture totem doing exactly the opposite. This is a very effective tactic to demoralize. Of course it could be less obvious, steer a peripheral character towards acceptance then a relationship with a transfaggot. The net effect is the same.
Come closer so I can slap you.
I call them as I see them.
By episode 4 or 5 it turned into a procedural cop show, that normalizes murder and displays naked humans and sexual content that are completely unnecessary for plot development.
I've not read the books it's based on. Were they like that also?
I don't really know; I haven't read them either. However the Tom Cruise movies were kind of fun with some memorable scenes.