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Episode Date: January 12, 2024

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a lot of very tangible punches. and as the cresting into the final episode of the season, I mean, yeah, it was a white knuckler, as they say. A lot of great moments. And, yeah, like, even though it was such an action-oriented episode, there were also some very nice and impactful moments of bonding, especially with the one-tenth that I appreciated very much. As you pointed out, some of the best flashback work this season,

probably the best flashback the season has had this far. And, yeah, there are a couple of picks, knits to pick when it comes to that, perhaps. But, yeah, I'm just so excited for the next episode. What do you think? I thought it was a really good episode. I thought it was really good. I mean, it's more of, like, season as a whole. Perhaps little criticisms here or there.

But in terms of an isolated episode, and I thought it was really good, the action has been really packing a punch. and it's been i think like they've focused a lot more on up in the effort some debate about how the action's been handled uh but i personally think the action has been really well done like last episode's action was uh i thought phenomenal and the only thing that kind of pulls me out a tiny bit is when i become aware of man they really choose like isolated spots where normally i i feel like there be some occupancy taking place here in this location outside of that um The violence itself seems to be quite brutal. And similar to some of the experience of Monarch,

there are some things here in this episode that will only be a little bit. How would I put it? I think some stuff here that they show might have aided some of the journey and making it a tad stronger, is the slightest bit stronger. if we got some of this stuff a little earlier, you know, and because, yeah, sometimes, some of the stuff of the flashbacks has been a bit of an up and down journey for me of like, I kind of feel like I'm getting like information, but I'm really emotionally invested in what's happening in these flashbacks. And while, you know, they're all, most of them are going to make it out of here alive in those flashbacks. My mind was going, you know, it might have been cool to actually see them really working together to the greatest strength a little bit earlier in this. season and then i might have been more invested in this whole like you don't mess with the

one-tenth type of deal but i understand that the dedication of the time frame is not uh solely given to the past but this was a lot of times when i'm watching the flashbacks i'm not solely invested in the flashback i'm more thinking of of like the information in the beginning i'm not just caught up in the moment of time i'm aware i'm constantly aware i'm in a flashback basically like my my mindfulness does not escape the reality that this is going to end soon and we will cut back to the present

and this was the first time I was we were there in the flashback for a while and I was there with it like as an episode I'm actually just here and I became aware of that I haven't been thinking that we're going to leave the flashbacks

you know so I thought there was like emotional weight to it and it was the first time that I really I feel like the show has been telling me a lot about the 110th and what makes them such a powerful core unit. And this was the first episode, and it's a little late in the season, but it was the first episode where I finally really felt that

instead of just being told it, you know? And so that's why I mean by, I wonder if they're like some structural things, just as me as a viewer. I know a lot of people. I see that the response on the scene, seasons it can be a little bit mixed actually um like a while the critic score is higher than the first uh season i'm noticing that with audiences it is a bit of a fluctuation where some people are

really not digging it and then other people are loving it and thinking it's better than the first season and i'm not going to say i'm in the middle i'm kind of just like i got i get both i get both the sides and i just kind of have multiple opinions about things and and and none of them are really in contradiction with each other's just yeah there are there parts of i'm like oh no this is good i was like there are elements of this that i think would have help the show out um with being a bit stronger if we just got those earlier that's not about rewriting a season it's not about just uh taking in the episode self and i like what they're doing with jack reicher uh i think he packs a great punch here and i like the i like the body language

of his performance here it's really gripping whereas he's a little bit more poised and calm and in control and while he while he's in control i think he's demonstrating power over others this time around sure and then when he's not in a position of power uh the rage within him i think seeds even more uh so yeah i think that's really neat and and uh good violence and i had to worry that Neely would die in that moment. And, yeah, very obvious that we get kidnapped when you have a whole scene of, you have more to lose. And it's like shit like that where I'm like, I feel like you could have had this expositional

conversation that's a very obvious tropey conversation. It's like, Jack, Reacher's full of tropes. Like, it is. Yeah. It's part of the fun is the, is the tropes that take place. That's how it makes the tropes feel fresh. And I think having that a bit earlier just would have, even though it's there, you know, you has a family, they talk about him having a family.

I think putting that in the forefront of everyone's mind would have helped aid this. So if he does make it out of here alive, which I think he will. I think they're all going to make it out of your life. Totally honest. I think everyone's going to live. It is cool to see them really put up against the wall right now.

If you're going to bring... This is the penultimate? I think so. I think the next one is the finale. Yeah, if you're going to bring it to this far into this season, you want to push them up against the wall and it is about if you know jack reacher himself is going to be fine it's about endangering the lives around him and i did and while i think everyone will make it out of your live i like feeling the sense of everyone else being in danger

i did the only time i was like oh maybe they'll kill off neely here um the i think it's important to have that's where the real life or death stakes come in is is not this whole, like, missile taking over, you know, like the world domination and the power. Like, that's not going to do it. It's, and Jack Reacher's life, that's not going to do it. It's the supporting cast. And I think putting our Super, our Avengers team in this peril bodes well for the show overall. Yeah, it feels like they are walking into an appropriately impossible-feeling situation at the end of it.

this and that you know is a fun prospect for the end because yeah even if you have the notion that you know yeah the rest of our supporting characters will likely survive this it's still bolstered by the fact of like i know jackson can drone he's probably going to figure this out but also i don't know how he's going to do it you know and so that's a fun prospect but i i do agree with uh some of the criticisms you brought up because it's i feel like in the first season the flashback motif was quite solidly ingrained and it was often about giving these specific moments but that feel sort of tangential that speak something to jack's character now yeah slashing out the backstory yeah yeah and i feel like this the flashbacks here have have gone for elements of that

but i feel like there are maybe ways in which they could have done it done it in a way that makes it so that you know it's like we care about the rest of the one-tenth largely due to Jack's dedication to them and we trust Jack's judgment so like we can assume that these are all great people and the ensemble they have assembled you know speaks to that as well and I do like the scenes that we have seen but I do agree that it feels a little bit a little less natural or a little less like effortlessly complimentary to what's happening in the present when I think you have a really good opportunity and they even like directly address in this episode like man i'm getting flashback vibes to operation kite runner and the stuff that happened there and we do

see the operation happen but the way it's been told through those flashbacks it mainly feels like the operation happened in this this episode and i guess it's it would be a tall order to do because i can imagine it expanding the season quite a lot but if you almost like made it that it was like a parallel like every time we cut to the flashbacks we get some notable or affecting piece of information about the ensemble, but also are sort of watching them crack a different mystery in real time. You can almost have like a dual mystery thing happening together and have the events of the past sort of complementing the events of the future and all that stuff. But again, it's that it's that thing of like for what they have presented here.

I've liked all that stuff thus far. But yeah, I can see the ways in which it might be stronger. And I do feel like this season has, even still, and even, you know, kind of coming to that place I was hoping for of very much enjoying it after starting off the season, you know, just just kind of a little less assured of what they were going for, you know, I appreciate this, but it does feel a little bit more kind of packed with things and action-oriented, and that does leave you, I think, these moments where you can kind of slip over a trope or have a trope that does kind of feel like a trope more than it would have maybe before or something like that.

So it is interesting. And I have to... I also don't like that. That they got kidnapped and we didn't see how. Yeah. Well, and the only thing that came to my mind when that happened was like, maybe you're right. Maybe Dixon's working on the incident.

You know, and I've gone back and forth in the intervening, you know, days between, you know, the last episode or two and now, you know, just thinking about that. Because part of me is like, no, I couldn't be. And you see her, you know, being tortured here. and you're like, it probably wouldn't be. But at the same time, I'm like, oh, maybe. No, I doubt or no. Okay.

I doubt or now. Yeah. But yeah, it's that thing of like we, I get what you mean because it's like we know how great all these people are and how finally tuned their instincts and senses are. So like, yeah, how did this happen when you've been nothing but leveling this dude's hensches like this whole time? Yeah, even if it's just like her neely. Yeah. Like I feel like they could have gone out of this. Yeah.

But I don't know how they got taken. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe we'll see that and maybe it'll justify it. But at the same time, it's like, what special henches did you save for this kidnapping mission that you didn't deploy already? Yeah. You know? That's about it.

Yeah. But overall, though, no, it was a really enjoyable episode. Oh, super. It was very, like, gripper from beginning and Jack Riecher, still the best part of it all. Yeah. And I love them all singing together. I thought that was, that was a moment where I really felt bonded to the 110th. And even the guy who's who we.

know the least about the black guy who's dead before all this stuff happens like even he i was like i forget he's a character until he shows back up in one of these flashbacks and i'm like i kind of am getting to that point that i would have yeah like to have had sooner of having a clear idea of who each of these people is and caring for them in a you know peripheral sense at least um and i'm glad we got there eventually anyway um yeah i just think uh i can't help but kind of just ponder. Like, I enjoy the episode a lot. Don't be wrong.

And I feel like it could be very misconstrued that. Criticism means you hate something. I mean, criticism often has this very negative connotation. The word criticism means to critique. But that doesn't necessarily mean it is a negative point of view overall. And I don't have a negative point of view overall of the episode. It just left me with a feeling. wanting of oh this might have just helped aid some of the experience sure and to know that they

could do it and that it was there as like oh if there's a way to have places earlier like oh how that feeling could have helped wash over a lot of the rest of the season yeah and helped give like different actual stakes and concerns or investment you know just the emotional side it's literally just the emotional side is what I'm talking about but yeah I mean still shot really cool so it looks really cool and it's still engaging when it's on screen it's funny at times and and um yeah i'm excited to see what happens this finale for show so last episode is still my favorite of the season yeah ripp russo it was still a very strong episode uh yeah the most i felt was probably when russo was dying that that was like yeah i feel like the emotional crescenta

to do with the one time. Yeah. And who, for all intensive purposes, is, is a distinct supporting character, but wasn't like even like the most major supporting character. No, no. So his death is funny to me because it feels like very significant and it

is, but also when you add up the pounds for pounds, you know, he's not number two or three on the, you know, list of supporting character effectiveness or, you know, even time spent focusing on them or whatever, you know? Yeah, yeah. But, uh, but, but i mean look we're almost done with the season and if i reflect back i don't think any of the

supporting cast compares to to roscow and finley yeah i don't think any of them do yeah bottom line like that that is probably the one i just don't feel like anyone even comes remotely close to the caliber of engagement that's all measuring it by yeah is being engaged in who they are not like oh i wish they had traits like them or i wish they were like this russo comes pretty freaking close sure russo comes pretty close and even if anything he's he's like an alt version of finling you know honest cop dealing with corruption yeah you know that's who his character is and and he's another version of that yeah but he's still just so distinguishably different than Finley in so many ways.

Well, and they give him beats that develop or that develop his character even in action. Yeah, for the episode that reminded me of Roscoe and Finley because they directly brought them up. Yeah. It did have me go, you know, nowhere near as anywhere near as emotionally invested in these guys as I am, as I was Roscoe and Finley.

Yeah, I would agree. It's, the first season had such a, it felt more like a book, and I don't really know how to describe that in a clearer sense, but like this, this season feels more like a movie version of Jack Reacher, whereas like the weird irony of coming into the show the first time was like, okay, I've seen this as a movie, and I know that it differed from the books that everybody loves, and apparently everybody loves this because it's capturing the essence of what the books are. And I'm sure that this is doing that in some degree as well. well, but it does feel like the way it approached characterization and atmosphere was a little different and a little more, I don't know, it's not that it was like any less action-oriented, but like there was always a lot of like really intriguing character work and, you know, dialogues, like whether it's unrelated or whether it's people dissecting the details of the case, There just seemed like a different and a maybe greater, more lively intersection of just like the life of the characters, whereas so much of what we're doing here is mostly about the convoluted plot and the first season also had a convoluted plot. But I felt like I was able to kind of balance out those things and I wasn't as concerned if maybe certain details were overwhelming.

Whereas here it's a little bit like, okay, I got to make sure all the details are on point because that's mainly what we're doing. and yeah, it's going to take the final episode to really be able to process the season end. And it's also extremely straightforward. Yeah. Like this is an extremely straightforward season. Yeah. It's a straightforward action procedural in a lot of ways.

Yeah. With a lot of its charms still intact. But I feel like, yeah, like the whole thing about the music, which seemed like a personal motivator for Jack's character, like a personal detail that might persist. It doesn't really feel like it's. engaged here and like little things like that or even just i don't know who who he is is a nob we're just not doing much personal stuff strangely even though we have you know like this intimate

connection with dixon or whatever we have the camaraderie of the team i don't feel like we're diving beneath the surface all that frequently this season whereas the first one had so much of both you know i think into it i mean to be fair i think the darkness that jack succumbs to and the acceptance of the darkness that, like, Neely is always, Neely's ever like, Jack, you're going too far or you need a whole bit. Like, no one's ever encouraging him to pull his punches, you know? If anything, they are dishing out, like, the pain in a way that's beyond a military unit doing a mission. I mean, that guy in a hospital was straight to murder something.

Yeah, he tortured and murdered someone. who did not need to be murdered. They're just in a hospital bed. Yeah. And so when it comes, that's why I'm saying Jack is still the most compelling character. And that's a good thing because it's the title of character. Is that watching the darkness he falls to,

even though perhaps there's an argument we made that if people were like kind of like, yo, you're going pretty dark, man. I mean, I don't think Rousseau would have wanted you to do that. definitely not yeah all things considered yeah if there should be supposed maybe there could be a bit of a contrast which would only shine a light further on the darkness and and enhance the characterization of that uh i i think you know what it is if i got a level with you guys i i think everything on a technical level is pretty fine um it's pretty strong still honestly i do it's um i think it's the writing of the season that is just not as

strong. Like, that's the, that's the, that's the, I know everything I'm talking about when it comes down to, like, is the one specific section. I'm like, it's, it's the writing itself. Yeah. The writing itself has, hasn't been as strong. And, um, and not like the writing is spectacular in the first season, but there's a, there's a life to it. And, and I think that that there are qualities here that I, uh, if we're talking about a book adaptation for an action series at the end of the day there's only so far reading text of an action scene will take you you have to be very invested in everything else outside of the action to keep turning the page yeah you know you can't just keep reading descriptors of fight scenes and and uh this season

seems to accelerate at its best when it is in a and about tension and action and action in some way even if it's not like a full-blown fight scene if there's like the torture of murder scene in the hospital is like a variation of an action scene it's not like a choreograph fight punch but it's a violent scene and there's a menace to it so I feel like that I could see how that's compelling in like a book something like that right or the chase through the hospital or the fight there like this is when I feel like this season is really firing on all cylinders And that's what this episode mainly demonstrated. That's what the last episode really demonstrated really well.

Although up until the finale, it was some pretty compelling ass to scenes. Like the scenes themselves were really. That's why I thought that episode was the best because I thought the scene work was great. Yeah. And here it kind of, it didn't, I don't want to say it completely reverted back,

but I felt like once we got to episode, four, I was like, oh, that was much better. Yeah. Then five was, oh, that was great. And then six was, that was amazing. Yeah. It just kept getting better, better, better. And I thought, like, all the things that I've been working really worked here in the

flashback sequences really worked strong too. And it was the stuff in the present day that wasn't as compelling to me as I'm like, ah, but it's been getting like progressively more compelling. And then it, the present day, so weirdly, I was like, oh, the flashback stuff got way more interesting with the present day stuff didn't be as interesting as strong I would say yeah and

unless we were in some type of violent adjacent thingy taking place well yeah and I think Robert Patrick is a terrible villain I think he's a I think he's awful here it is a bummer I think the writing of him is awful not the acting I think his acting is strong I think the writing of him

that doesn't demonstrate any real strength, and it's just cliche. And AM is this weird thing developing off the main timeline. It feels like it's like off the main time line. It is on the main timeline. It's all very connected. He even picks up the missiles and shit. But it just, there's no like real interaction or a cat and mouse game with him.

I should be excited. I should be feeling like, oh, my God, they're finally going to. collide and I just had to remind myself oh yeah I guess the next episode they'll have to collide because they haven't yet and it's too I think the flashback this episode

gave you something that spoke to the characters in a way that if that was about what we've been doing in the main plot but also was about that just them as characters and I feel like the inverse in this episode with the present timeline that kind of makes things feel a little

funky is that you do have this dark streak in Jack that yes is partially badass But I, as a viewer, and I'm sure many viewers, depending on your sensibility, looked at that scene in the hospital and was like, this feels like it could be crossing some kind of a line, even though, sure, like the guy had it coming for what he did to Rousseau and all that. But at the same time, that could be something worth unpacking. Like, hey, man, you're really getting dark here, you know, and that's part of Jack's soul. I feel like we love Jack because he has a good grip on the line, and that's a fascinating thing to explain. explore but I ran gonna pack that unpack that in like one episode next week you know no that's I don't use the word murder lightly like that is a murder moment yeah you know getting into the a firefight

with the buyers uh is not I would not be like these guys are murdering they technically a heart killing yeah yeah but murder to use that word is like this there was no reason to kill other than revenge, you know, and it was cold. It was brutal. And it was a compelling ass scene. And I hope it's not just dismissed. I even like, I even like the idea of Neely being in on, like Neely was game. Because Russo died in her arms. You know, so I think the scene is really strong. And it's like, but will a moment like that amount to a moment like that amount to anything or are we just supposed to go badass you got the revenge yeah for you jack go go yeah yeah yeah yeah and it's and it's yeah and in a season that didn't have some of the elements we've been discussing

here i don't think i would be feeling that necessarily or i think it would be unpacked or it would be a theme because he's been a darker more direct kind of ruthless version of himself this season which is again compelling but yeah i don't feel like it feels like a choice they made for how the character behaves but not a choice they made for like the life of the character and the exploration of the character yeah but those are our thoughts it's interesting it's like an immediate moment it's like that's really enjoyable and I but there's something like kind of itching in the back of my head I'm like I'm not sure what it is about this particular episode there's something like kind of because you've experienced the greatness that the writing on the show can

have before yeah no and it was like it was like it was pretty much there it was getting like I said it escalated to there and then And I did feel like a, it was the same thing I happened in a Monarch. Like, oh, it was a great episode. Why wasn't this kind of greatness here? And I'm like, they could have done that earlier. Yeah. And it just makes me like, had this be a thread throughout the season.

Yeah, yeah. Like that, that thread that grows, that blossoms throughout a season is very important for a, for a hook. I'm not saying it's like a little too later, some bullshit. Maybe it was better on a rewatch. I don't know. And, you know, everyone's going to have different viewing experience. People who just watch season one, people who read the book and watch this. Everyone's going to have, like, people, some people might not have even read this specific book,

but they read other richer books and watching this, you know, and like everyone has, like, a different viewing experience. And this is just ours. And all our experiences affect our immediate experiences with the property. It's the way life goes. It's life experience at the end of the day. Food for thought. A bunch of potential mumbo-jumbo bullshit

All righty guys What'd you think about this episode? Leave your thoughts down below Thank you for being here Check us out for the finale Going in with With over the top Just way skyrocketing high

Expectations Yeah, I want to feel like I never have to watch anything ever again I'm not expecting a 10 I'm expecting a 1 million And if it does not come close I will leave Incredibly disappointed

I am ready to walk out of here with my expectations not being fulfilled, but I'm going in expecting them to be fulfilled. Isn't that ironic? All righty, guys? Well, let's send this to the paper. Ricardo Martinez, it is 2024. We have entered a new year of shoutouts for you, Ricardo. So I've got to guess where your resolution is going to be this year. And I imagine your resolution will be to pop the zits on your back. Because let's face it, man. Once in a while, you might be standing in the mirror and you're going,

oh, I got this big zit on my back. I don't have anyone to pop it for me. Do I want to ask my lover? No. She might be turned off by that. What's the big deal anyway? You know, like most people don't see my back. Most of the time I have a shirt on.

Do I need to pop this Zit? Really, is it going to affect my life? It's imperative. Well, my friend, I got to tell you, for those who see it, they're going to want to pop it. And I'm telling you, if you run out of a conversation starter, it's going to come in handy. You want to pop my Zit? Who could say no? It is an instant way of intimacy, relatability, because we all have access.

We just lie about it. We all do. Think of the hottest girl you can think of. Bam. Back covered in zits. Kate Beckinsale at 50 has backsits. Kirsta Dunst at 50. Back zits.

And you know what? She's had them her whole life. Boom. All that's kissing Totoa McGuire while he was upside down. Fucking raining on zits the entire time, my friend. Yeah. So and it's like. dude, I'm telling you, it'll just make things, you'll feel lighter, too.

Yeah, you'll get a catharsis. So pop your backsets. Thank you for serving in the military for us, by the way. Appreciate you.