Then he goes up to shoot one of the Big Bad Duumvirate without saying a word. Reacher muses that in the tales told by the firelight, this is how you should kill bad guys, because it would give peace to the people the bad guys have hurt. Lampshaded in Make Me, but then played straight at the climax of the book.Then Reacher dismisses that idea and instead decides to just smash the guy's head in, without any warning or explanation. Subverted in Killing Floor, where Reacher contemplates how, if he were a movie character, he would avenge his brother by dramatically confronting the killer and explaining the exact reason he wants vengeance before fighting honorably. Alone with the Psycho: In Gone Tomorrow a suicide victim's son picks up a woman in a bar who turns out to be a terrorist.Airport Novel: According to The Other Wiki, Child explicitly writes these books as such.She's also the only person in the series that Reacher notes that even he might be scared of. She's a tough-as-nails sergeant and Reacher's most trusted ally. Action Girl: Neagley, the series' most frequently-recurring character.He doesn't do anything very spectacular, but he is described as moving with surprising grace for someone of his weight. Acrofatic: Downplayed with Beau Borken in Die Trying.Subverted because the Big Bad isn't Hobie at all. This wasn't enough to save him from getting shot down, though, and when he came back to the States, he was on course to be the Big Bad of Tripwire. He served as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, and while he was second to top of his flight training class, he easily outperformed the first place pilot during wartime because of his lack of all meaningful emotion, including fear. Ace Pilot: Downplayed and deconstructed and subverted in the case of Victor Hobie.He's also fantastic at doing math in his head, has excellent time and direction senses, and knows a great deal of random useful facts even though he doesn't do much reading onscreen.The Ace: Reacher's resume establishes him as an ace at all forms of combat, rating him as "Beyond Outstanding" in hand-to-hand combat, as well as noting that he has won both the Wimbledon Cup (one of the premiere rifle-shooting competitions in the nation) and the U.S.The next book in the series after Killing Floor is 1998’s Die Trying. While it’s not clear yet what shape season 2 will take, we can expect another faithful novel adaptation. Shows including, The Boys, Jack Ryan, and Invincible have all done well, and all were renewed for future seasons. ( Wheel of Time appears to be Amazon’s recent gamble.) There’s reason enough to think that Amazon holds a large enough audience for adult action. Reacher couldn’t be in better hands.”įollowing the success of HBO’s Game of Thrones, networks and streaming services have all been traversing the adaptation trail, hoping to land a blockbuster success with a bounty of source material to help it along for several seasons. This is very exciting news, and I can’t wait to get started. So, I’m thrilled we’ll be working together again, for Season 2. On the second season, author Lee Child had this to say: “Partnering with Amazon Studios for season one of Reacher was a total delight – they had our backs every step of the way, and it really shows, in every line and every frame. Amazon said that the series was both one of its most watched ever-landing somewhere in the top five (of all time) for views over a 24-hour period-and also its most highly rated with viewers scoring it on average 4.7 out of 5 stars. Just three days after Amazon premiered the series, the company renewed Reacher for a second season.
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