# Reacher - the full-sized version is a vast improvement {Season 2, 1st 3 episodes available 2023-12-15} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, amazon-prime\ **Created:** [February 5, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978 "2022-02-05T21:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/101 "2022-02-09T17:29:24Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > He is a competent, quite skilled, marksman, but, most significantly, the Army employs him to eliminate people (spies, terrorists, criminals, whoever), off the books: Thanks for that. It still strikes me as strange that a MP would be used like that. Locating a target, sure. Shooting the target in the head, we have all kinds of people that specialize in that. > [@solost](#): > > It’s even easier now in the digital age- he just sends a digital photo of the webbed-up bad guys to the cops along with a GPS marker on a map. I understand that replaced the Spidey trackers he used to use for that. That got expensive after awhile. GPS photos were a game changer. I’ve heard he uses Apple AirTags , but just for personal use, like tracking where Mary Jane is 24 hours a day. ---
**Author:** ![mundylion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundylion/32/3604_2.png) [@mundylion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mundylion)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/102 "2022-02-09T22:51:37Z")
I enjoyed the series but was bummed by the way they changed how the counterfeit operation worked. The book has them simply gathering dollar bills in Georgia and shipping them to SA for processing. That allowed for the great closing scene that had a warehouse piled high with dollar bills and the women slaving to put the pile into boxes for shipment. Huge mountain of cash… How will they film that, I wondered. Grr, just changed the plot so the cash was mostly already packed in air conditioner boxes. Disappointing but still ok. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/103 "2022-02-09T23:02:36Z")
I thought they were using chemicals to bleach one dollar bills and then printing $100 bills on the blank 1s, and Venezuela was just the destination of the new bills. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/104 "2022-02-09T23:48:24Z")
Just started this, on E1. Enjoyed the Tom Cruise movies, have no beef there, and am enjoying this supposedly ‘improved’ version. Who the hell wears tweed in small town, humid, Georgia? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/105 "2022-02-09T23:50:20Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Who the hell wears tweed in small town, humid, Georgia? An actor in Pickering, Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![mundylion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundylion/32/3604_2.png) [@mundylion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mundylion)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/106 "2022-02-10T00:07:55Z")
That is indeed what the movie version says. In the book, the bleaching process was found to destroy all the streams so EPA pounced, causing the company to move that process to SA. Georgia was the focal point for all incoming dollar bills (the work that the bank guy did) but the processing was moved south. That naval blockade stopped the movement south so Georgia warehouse was overflowing with loose dollar bills. Climactic scene had the women working to ship bills out, Reacher et al interfere, gas seeps into mountain of loose bills. Kablooie! The skies are alive with flaming money! So screenwriter must have said that would be impossible to film so the process was changed to make it all work. It was still ok, but I wanted to see the big fire! ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/107 "2022-02-10T00:51:09Z")
I see what you mean. I read the book something like 20 years ago and didn’t recall those details. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/108 "2022-02-10T02:39:33Z")
> [@mundylion](#): > > Georgia was the focal point for all incoming dollar bills (the work that the bank guy did) but the processing was moved south. They also completely ignored the _E Pluribus Unum_/_E Unum Pluribus_ (from one, many) clue that Joe had left and Reacher figured out. In the books, the empty trucks go out and collect the dollar bills from the cash business handlers, and the Air Conditioner boxes in the garage are filled with 1 dollar bills. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/109 "2022-02-10T11:56:53Z")
Ha, I mentioned that in another thread, the reason being: _E Pluribus Unum_ is the motto “Adopted in 1776 by the Second Continental Congress,” as Reacher puts it. Joe writes “Operation E Unum Pluribus”, and Finlay mentions that’s backwards. Then Reacher says, “Out of one comes many,” but Finlay (who presumably knows better and would not hesitate to mention such a thing to Reacher) never corrects him [Finlay even says, “It’s a reversal of the U.S. motto. So we can assume it means out of one comes many, right?”] ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/110 "2022-02-11T00:01:37Z")
> [@solost](#): > > There will be a season 2: Why isn’t there another season _NOW???_ huffhuffhuffhuff ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/111 "2022-02-11T03:37:22Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > > [@simster](#): > > > > This isn’t the movies - I had a chance to take them out and I did. > > Yep, a great line. Personally, I hate it when a character in a movie says, “This isn’t a movie.” It totally destroys my Suspension of Disbelief. “Yes, it IS!” I shout impotently. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/112 "2022-02-11T06:10:36Z")
Well, technically it is an episodic series, not a movie. I’ll see myself out. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/113 "2022-02-11T06:41:18Z")
> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > Personally, I hate it when a character in a movie says, “This isn’t a movie.” It totally destroys my Suspension of Disbelief. > > “Yes, it IS!” I shout impotently. Conversely, last night I re-watched Kingsman: The Secret Service, and the line, “[This ain’t that kind of movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OKHAzr-riQ)” still kicks ass. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/114 "2022-02-11T07:08:50Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > > > Personally, I hate it when a character in a movie says, “This isn’t a movie.” It totally destroys my Suspension of Disbelief. > > > > “Yes, it IS!” I shout impotently. > > Conversely, last night I re-watched Kingsman: The Secret Service, and the line, “[This ain’t that kind of movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OKHAzr-riQ)” still kicks ass. Now THAT I liked! ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/115 "2022-02-11T09:43:25Z")
I’m not familiar with the books, so I’m not sure how “built” he’s supposed to be (I know he’s tall), but you are right on with this. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people make outlandish comments about needing to live in the gym or have some extreme lifestyle to simply have a well-built body with definition and mass. Yes, all pro bodybuilders juice and plan their lives around meal prep and training (though most have to have day jobs for steady income), but this guy’s not even close to that type of conditioning. And big people can move fast; I’m sure some people here have seen the NFL or NBA or Olympic athletes who aren’t tiny. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/116 "2022-02-11T14:03:02Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > I’m not familiar with the books, so I’m not sure how “built” he’s supposed to be (I know he’s tall), … I’m sure others have read the books more closer/recently than I, but the main thing is they describe him as just being HUGE. His body is so large as to present a huge target for gunfire, or to make him not even try to sneak around. His hands are the size of catcher’s mitts, with knuckles the size of walnuts. I think the ballpark reference is around 6’5", 250#. But I don’t recall them EVER talking about him hitting the gym, doing roadwork, etc. Basically, just a genetic freak. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/117 "2022-02-11T18:47:55Z")
From _Tripwire_ (so still pretty early on; Reacher is of course over 60 by now): > [@](#): > > His next birthday was going to be his thirty-ninth, but he felt better than ever. He had always been fit and strong, but the last three months had brought him to a new peak. He was six feet five tall, and he had weighed 220 when he left the Army. A month after joining the swimming pool gang, the work and the heat had burned him down to 210. Then the next two months, he had built back all the way to about 250, all of it pure, hard muscle. His workload was prodigious. He figured to shift about four tons of earth and rock and sand every day. He had developed a technique of digging and scooping and twisting and throwing the dirt with his shovel so that every part of his body was working out all day long. The result was spectacular. He was burned a deep brown by the sun and he was in the best shape of his life. Like a condom crammed with walnuts, is what some girl had said. He figured he needed to eat about ten thousand calories a day just to stay level, as well as the two gallons of water he needed to drink. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/118 "2022-02-11T19:04:36Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > From _Tripwire_ (so still pretty early on; Reacher is of course over 60 by now): - I wonder if Cruise’s Reacher would have been better as Jack Reacher, Jr. Concoct a back story of Reacher trying to settle down and failing(or getting killed/dying heroically). He’s just a photo on the wall (an aged up Dolph Lundgren would be a good Reacher, Sr.) His mother is petite, thus explaining the size disparity. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/119 "2022-02-11T19:18:08Z")
Wiki says the actor is actually 6’2" and 235. I was watching **The Rundown** last night and thought that The Rock would have been an excellent Reacher. He is 6’5" and 260. Dave Bautista also would make a good Reacher. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978/120 "2022-02-11T19:19:40Z")
“Like a condom crammed w/ walnuts.” Pure poetry! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reacher-the-full-sized-version-is-a-vast-improvement-season-2-1st-3-episodes-available-2023-12-15/958978.md?page=7)