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Reacher: Fly Boy (2024)
Predictably goofy, yet deceiving.
This season ends with a chapter that stretches the goofiness to a whole new level, with levels of impossibilities that would "fly" in the 80's and 90's but that are subpar on current standards.
Basically, the protagonists are immortal, able to withstand any wounds, to overcome any impossible physical feat, and they carry an aura of dumbness that make the enemies act like they want to die.
Considering how the last chapter ended, figuring out what would happen in this one was no feat. Reacher can take on 7 armed guys, who, bear in mind, know, they're going to kill Reacher eventually, and still, they succumb to Reacher while he's cuffed. Reacher is a monster of a guy, but I picture myself there as a goon, and the first thing I do the moment he's feisty, is putting half a magazine on him. But well, I'm no goon, so who knows.
The chopper scene is also kinda hilarious. The amount of sheer strengh and agility you need to actually do that, if it's even possible, is just godly. But well, it's fun.
In the end, and this is what bugs me the most, Reacher and his friends leave no loose ends. Exactly as the main antagonist did. They relentlessly kill everyone AND steal the money for themselves (kinda) with no consequences, or rather, Homeland's seal of approval. How on earth does this not make Reacher a bad guy? In essence, he acted as Langston did, and I don't think that using the money to compensate for the deaths of his friends serves as redemption.
I loved the 1st season, and I enjoyed the movies, but Reacher stroke me as a "big brother" kind of guy. The sort of guy that goes around solving trouble and helping those in need, always with a good heart. Yeah, he might kill a bad guy if that guy would be able to evade justice, but he wouldn't otherwise. In this season, he just kills everyone, and is constantly itching to keep killing more, even instilling fear in the heart of children. ("we just need to kill a few more guys", said in front of the girl).
Anyway, this season is a whole new world compared to the 1st, and in a bad direction.
Reacher: The Man Goes Through (2024)
Military Narcos and Sociopaths
The more I watch this show, the most baffled I get by its weirdness.
All the flashback plot revolves around the military's brass being ok with having a Pablo Escobar type of deal going on, because "it looks bad" on someones resume. I mean, letting narcos getting away with unpacking tons of dope into your country is a better look than busting them, we all know that, right?
Then again, we have Reacher, who's not only more jacked after each episode, to the point that I'm wondering how many more episodes will take for his musles and veins to just pop and explode. Also, Reacher is the coldest guy on earth. I don't know wether they're implying he's got Aspergers with all this Clark's bar, and explaining a child how they only need to kill a few guys, but really, they should consider to try and make him a little human, if anything, because it's getting really hard to have any connection with the guy, "we live and then we die".
This episode is not as terrible as the last one, but it's still bad. The action scenes all this season have been horrendous. This episode, there's a fight with the narcos, and it couldn't be more stupid. Guys bring assault rifles to a potential gun fight, but somehow forget to bring extra magazines to reload. The bad guys act so stupidly it's embarrasing, taking their sweet time when they have a lined up shot, and moving in the most obvious ways. It still wasn't as stupid as Russo's death, but it was close.
The worst part about the action scenes this season, besides their overall stupidity, its the huge amount of cuts they need to film them, and the weird angles they use, so that you can't see anything usefull that's going on.
All in all, this episode adds nothing really new other than placing all the main characters and antagonist (except for their ghost friend) in the same place for another flaming ending.
Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend: Battle Medieval (2022)
Medieval? Whatever.
The theme for this episode was Medieval Times, and they were given three secret ingredients around 20 minutes apart from each other, being game birds, mushrooms and grapes. With those, they should prepare a 4 course meal using every ingredient at least once, while, supposedly, sticking to the theme, and this is what I've got a gripe with.
Cheffs Samuelsson and Camara basically did whatever they wanted, sticking to their own backgrounds. So medieval you say? You know what? Screw that, let's do some etiopian, mexican and all over the world except europe, why the hell not.
Cheffs Creen and Stone really tried harder on going medieval, the best dish, in my opinion, being the hunter's soup, which looked absolutely fantastic. These cheffs also went above and beyond in their dishes presentation, really bringing the theme into the table. They even created a foraging scene for their fist dish, which I'm probably not mistaken, not a single medieval person have ever eaten, but still, it looked compelling.
Anyway, the final decision to give the victory to Samuelsson felt strange to me. They did nothing special, or at least nothing they wouldn't do at least 100 times a day in their restaurants, so why awarding them the victory? They didn't play along the lines of the challenge, they absolutely ignored it.
The judges in this show really need to lose the script and get real.
The Orville: Into the Fold (2017)
The episode that killed.
I like the star-trek vibes that this show has, they share enough of the philosophy, at least up to this point.
I was sort of enjoying the episode up until the point where Claire decided to set an ambush for her captive, which wasn't exactly a danger to her life that anyone knew. We saw the other feral aliens acting mad towards them, but this one? He almost seemed civilized. He rescued her, offered her food (a rare commodity) and even went on a trip to get her medical supplies, only to be repaid with a knife to the gut and few bullets to the chest.
Again, I love the star-trek vibes, but this episode put those vibes to the knife. This could've been written in a more elegant way that saved the preparationist alien, killing him was inmensely cheap.
Remembering star trek, the doctors always seem to have trouble deciding to kill anyone, even those who basically left them with no other choice. This doctor? Nah, she straight up plans murder. Picks up a knife and says, I'm gonna gut this guy, to put the cherry on top, she says, in the end "they might not value life, but we do". Rofl, I chuckled, that was just rich. Then again, when they're about to get rescued, the shuttle comes blasting hardcore lasers all around like "yeah, to hell with these aliens", they don't seem to actually hit them though.
Honestly, this episode seems like the kind of filler episode where everything a show stands for gets thrown outside the window, only they forgot to made it fun. Imagine The Simpson's tree house of horror, only it's difficult to watch.
Well I wish I could delete this one from this mind, because this one doesn't feel all right.