The novel has a detailed explanation about why he opens with a headbutt. Other than what you said, he also does it because no one expects it. They focus on the hands and feet, not the head.
Hes CID..not a "regular" mp. And a "special investigations unit" of CID. I believe he also was regular infantry at some point. Also, he's smart because his character is a super smart character lol. Not because he's House or Sherlock lol. Also also, lol, when u watch more episodes youll find out why he was sent to and attacked in jail.
@@fionagallagher984 check out season 2 to understand what I'm talking about. He was part of a fictitious special unit put together by the DOD...he was not "just" an mp. Not even close.
@@fionagallagher984false. CID has both a civilian and military component. You can join the army and become a CID Special Agent with both military and civilian arrest authority. In the real world it’s not a very cool job though. Much like ncis they mainly investigate petty crimes. Ncis is structured differently, and from my understanding a fully civilian organization. CID is a totally different military job from an MP.
He was an MP. Was moved to CID and was commissioned with a new undercover unit called Special Investigators. These guys aren't being given all the information to conclude what the books/show are actually about.
The way the 'law works' and how the law works in a small town in the South is something different. Up North today some DAs let murder suspects out without bail, in the South they still use chain gangs and jail is sometimes used as a punitive punishment simply because you looked at the Sheriff wrong.
The prisons have been privatized, corporations now run them. because it is legal to use prisoners as save labor. The slaves were freed by Lincoln, except in prisons. So the prisons pay cops to arrest the poor, and people of color, then make up charges to send them to prison, to keep the slave population numbers up. The United States has the largest prison population in the world, over 2,500,000 in prison, a lot of them for non violent offenses.
Sean I’ve worked in both state and federal prisons… A lot the stuff you are saying is completely wrong. Lol. Inmate’s absolutely have sunglasses along with a ton of other things that could be used as weapons, as far as starting a race war??? That would definitely depend on the politics of the particular state, and prison. For example the inmates are not segregated in NYS prison, and they don’t bang based on what race you are. They have almost 0 politics of a state like California. Many of the white inmates belong to the same gangs as every other race. I love beers and breakdowns and always appreciate the content, but some of what you are saying is incorrect.
Wow. Thanks for posting that, I would have never known. 👍 Hope Buck sees it. He has a tendency to think his experiences are universal. It's slightly annoying. LOL
The books “Reacher” by Lee Child are very good, and I enjoy the series as well. He was CID in the book in a special investigative unit btw. They go into it in the second season.
@@SemperFi_EDC_GuyYea I can see what you are saying. I enjoyed both seasons especially compared to a lot of the awful shit on TV now. It’s a matter of opinion I suppose and I respect yours.
@@HowieAnderson-jg5yb no no, lol. I definitely definitely enjoyed it! I love Reacher! Definitely not saying I hated it, just thought it was kinda lazy in certain ways compared to season 1. Especially having the final fight on the same set...I think. Don't wanna give spoilers but check out the "final fight scene" in season 1 and compare it to the one in season 2. Keyword...warehouse. lol Anyways, good to meet a fellow Lee Childs Reacher fan! Have a great day!
I was an MP injured in the line of duty. I always looked out for fellow soldiers. If you were drunk, I took you home. Performed all the duties of a civilian officer. Ft. Hood, Ft. Belvoir were cities in themselves. Keep up the good work
Same here bub, I was 64th mp co at ft hood and I treated it the same when I did work the road. We didn't work the road as much as we prepared for deployment to iraq.
MP's DO DETECTIVE WORK. They are called MPI. Military Police Investigators, they work out of the Provost Marshal's office. MP's btw have a wartime mission that has NOTHING to do with law enforcement. Former 95B30V5. Military Police investigation NCOIC.
(The original post was heavily edited after I posted this comment) Any other obvious information you need to get out?? The only point they made about MP’s is that they aren’t not anywhere near real police, which is absolutely true. MP’s are like the kindergarten version of cops.
Ok, FIRST, I'm OLD, VN old. Second, my first MOS was MP, BUT, as an MP for FORCES COMMAND HQ, Fort Bragg. NC-specifically a former XVIII Abn, Spcl Serv/Wfare "SKYDRAGON" here. Just so you know, in those days, units within my jurisdiction were primarily- XVIII Abn, 101 Abn, 82nd Abn, 75th Rangers, SpclForces (these "Green Beenie" types), Marine Recon, the UDT peeps, and a few more official (and 'un official') 'snake-eater) type units. My personal function? Well, it wasn't writing traffic tickets...Primarily I guess you could say I was one of the guys that got sent out to 'secure' ' members of the various "elite" forces, both in and out country, who for one reason or another, went 'off the reservation' and engaged in 'unauthorized behavior' as we called it back then: This ranged all the way from bar fights, drug trafficking; National Security concerns, to just plain going bat shit crazy and engaging in unsanctioned homicides /mayhem etc; Now, remember this was wartime i.e. LOTS of people were out killing people. As a consequence, along the way, I "assisted" a number of other units (got 'farmed out' :) ranging from CID, MPI, State, the FBI (who almost got me killed) a host of other Alphabet type units as well as being sworn in as a US Marshal (I was one of the first "Air Marshals"" after the Patty Hearst(SP?) incident). For Treasury I would run Customs inspections for contraband on some of the 'skull f*cking' type ' forces returning to Bragg from overseas in un marked aircraft- most often at like 2-3 in the morning, I was also the initial cameraman for the team investigating the Golden Knights crash disaster(all died) back in like 72, or 73- (sorry for the vague dating as I've done my best (unsuccessfully) over the years to wipe those images of the crash site/debris field from my mind :( I also had some success as a young Abn,/Naval Diving qualified LEO 'DC' ("Deep Cover") investigator: as a Ranger Trainee (homicide); as a Navy ship's Finance Officer(embezzlement); a Marine Private (homicide/fragging); and even as a principal 'song and dance'member of a noted USO show (drug trafficking .) There's a bit more, but my point is , though it might be different today, I would still caution against unilaterally dismissing the importance of MP's/SP's etc. - EVEN if only because they are armed at all times, and are Officially Sanctioned to dish out deadly force when circumstances permit which, at least in my time, happened quite a bit more often than you might suspect. PS. one other thing, I've used zip ties in a pinch before...AND, haven't you ever seen anyone break a pair of standard police hand cuffs? Stings a bit...but NOT all that difficult.
"Hacksaw Ridge" The best war movies are based on real events. The first MOH recipient who was a conscientious objector. The citation states he saved 75 soldiers through the night on enemy held ground by himself as a combat medic. Desmond Doss acually proved himself on Saipan, but in the interests of time it showed him starting out on Okinawa.
On the aspect of him being zip tied, they claim that the extra large cuffs were kept at the station. Presumably not used because he was not being combative. As far as him being arrested and sent to jail, supposedly it's due to it being a small town and the chief wanting to clear him before he's released. Technically a violation of the law, doesnt mean it wont happen in a small town.
The REacher actor played a linebacker character in Blue Mountain State so he is an experienced actor but he has gotten jacked up since then-in the Army the investigators are CID
Small town PD in a town run by the wealthiest person in the county. We've had real world examples of police departments doing not legal things. From arresting people based on made up charges to people who found their family murdered, called the police, was arrested and convicted for murder only to be released years later and cleared of the charges.
@@DanMason2025 If I don't tolerate corruption in my politicians, why would I tolerate it in police officers? I live in Los Angeles and have lived in other states in my 50+ years. I remember the sleeping woman who was shot multiple times by a cop because she was startled by the cop when banged on her car window with his metal flashlight. I remember Kelly Thomas who was beaten by 6 "fine upstanding" officers who broke his face so badly that he choked on his own blood. Kelly Thomas died 6 days later. That's just 2 examples from the top of my head. You have PD's using civil forfeiture funds to buy personal vehicles, big screen TV's. Let's not get into the civil forfeiture itself, one of the most abused means to steal money from innocent people.
@@pogo1140they only show the worst side of cops but never the good ones is the problem. Stereotyping cops is no different than stereotyping people based on socioeconomic status, work, or race
Totally unenjoyable review.... guy on the right put down almost everything about the episode. Some of his comments indicate that he did not comprehend the full flow of the plot.
You find out later why that prison fight scene occurs and you find out why Reacher is skilled at fighting and why he lets people get hurt before helping them. To paraphrase from the book, "I don't give a shit about the little guy. I hate the big guys pushing them around."
You guys need to watch Blue Mountain State. It'll be so much better for you experiencing Alan Ritchson in that order than how many of us know him from BMS and then seeing him as Reacher. You'll love it.
It's also basically plagerism, of "Dispatches" by Michael Herr. which is kinda hilarious in that some of the crazier shit (like the the infamous m79 shot at a screaming NV shoulder in the middle of the night scene) was ripped from actual first hand reported events in Vietnam. Whoever did Apocolypse script stole about 5-6 scenes of actual events in Dispatches and plugged them in movie based on JC's HEart of Darkness. If you're a fan of the movie read "Dispatches", it's full of little stories of "no way that could happen" but it did. Think Fear And Loathing meets up with a war book.
I love y'alls contents!! My wife is the one who got me into reacher. It's a good popcorn action show, and that's what i took it as. I think you guys should do a video on Sniper Ghost Shooter. I had the pleasure of watching all these Sniper movies while on a netfix binge when I got out of the military and they are all "masterpieces". If you Couldnt tell that was sarcasm, but i think it would make for a hilarious video. Thank you for all you guys do for the the community!
In the books they talk about how MP's aren't liked and how when he was still in the army, it was hard to get information from other soldiers. So far, all the movies/series made are when Reacher left the Army, but there are some when he was still in the Army and they deal with this. Need to remember, this is some small rural town in GA, probably small budget, would a police station like that have XL cuffs or those zip ties?
Unlawfully arrested? 🤣 It’s a small rural town that DGAF. Go watch some channels about interactions between police and citizens. Rights get violated all the time. And on the same note, plenty of contraband makes it into jails/prisons. In this case the “rich family” runs the town and LEO just do their bidding .
Honestly I'd love y'all to finish watching Reacher. I never read the books and only watched the movies, but I've really enjoyed the show and can't wait for season 3. A lot of people are pointing out he was not just a regular MP but there's some nuance to the show.
The TV show is loosely based off of the books written by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child. If you read any of the first few, it will give you the character Jack Reacher's military background. As ex-USAF military working dog handler (76-86), I worked with Army MP's as well as Army CID and Army Provost marshals while stationed in Europe. I can say I never came across a character quite like Jack Reacher. I did work with many troops that if you combined their traits, you could come up with someone like him. So being its hollywood and they really stretch realities for entertainment, I can understand how the character was invented. Compared to most of the crap that comes out of hollywood and how they portray our military, this show is better in the sense that it is entertaining and most of the cast are pretty good actors and actresses in the show. I joined the military because I was too young to be a civilian police officer and thought it would be a good way to serve my country at 17 year old and bide my time until I was old enough to pursue a career in the real world. After 30 years as a civilian cop in a large city and a small rural towns. I retired from LE, knowing I fulfilled my dreams working my way through the ranks. I do agree with you, that the movies with tom cruise were terrible and at least the this new TV show follows the books a bit more. Thank you both for your service in a very tough MOS to get into...but K-9 leads the way!!! lol
I spent a year as an MP at Ft Campbell while the division was deployed. The only Soldiers on post were broken, or 18s from 5th group. Every traffic stop I made, mainly for speading seemed to be these 5G 18s. They almost always replied to my request for ID and driver license with "Hey Sarge we're with 5th Group". Being half civilian on my mother's side I generally let em go if they agreed to do better, but they had a severe entitlement attitude. Gotta love what they do though
You need to read a book or two. He's been a certified genius with a photographic memory since he was a little kid. Also big and brave. It's hard to give that background on a series.
Don’t know if you’ve seen it yet but “Danger Close” battle of long tan starring Travis fimmel from Vikings. Close to my heart this one - I have fought in that environment too.
Shout out to K-16! Was stationed at Youngsan went there a few times. I miss the Yaki Mandu & Katusa Snack Bars man. Another great reaction gents! Take care and stay safe.
At least you started with the first season. The second season blatanly comes off as it's written by somebody who has no idea how military structure works.
Boys!, this is a case of perfect casting, in the books Lee Childs paints Reacher as literally that big, that strong, that smart, therefore, little tommy cruise couldn't fill the shoes or reach the height of the character, despite being an awesome actor, no amount of shoe lifts makes him 6'3 and 320 pounds. The special investigators will clue you into why Reacher is such a good Sherlock.
You guys are wrong they’re not displaying their selves as MPs. There’s special investigators kinda like a jag so you guys have to understand that that’s why it seems a little weird to you I guess anyway, I really like this reacher I like it better than than the other Tom Cruise did a good job, but , Alan Ritchson is putting his own spin on this program and does an excellent job and by the way, he’s a Christian and he makes no bones about it about Hollywood either accepting him or not accepting him and apparently they have !
the thing with prison, is you can basically get anything you want. you want a giant birthday cake, you grease the right palms. you getting that cake, there's always someone corrupt or paid off to look the other way. so something simple as sun glasses is believable
The guy on the right seems to constantly forget that this is nothing but a "TV DRAMA!", and can have it's moments of realism, and moments of not right or real at all! THAT'S TV! He's criticizing EVERYTHING, like he thinks we're not smart enough to know these things ourselves. I'm a 20 yr retired combat vet, with 3 tours in Iraq, and so many other places your head would spin. While I already KNOW, by just watching, how some things are "not realistic", I let it slide for the most part, bc it is "made for TV"! While realism, or as close to it as possible, is a good thing, I don't expect it on "made for entertainment" shows. Settle down, and try a little bit NOT to be such an "expert"! Tks for your service, by the way.
You just said that small-town cops are different than big-city cops. How do you know that they wouldn't automatically arrest the stranger? Isn't it possible that things work differently in a small town, where the sheriff is usually elected by the people?
The same can be said for RU-vid channels scratching it out for content. It’s a TV show guys. Every person clicked on this video knew that and was shouting that at you.😂
These dudes know nothing about jail or prison. They keep talking like they know how jail or prison politics work but it’s different in every state. Before people who dickride them come after me like “good for you you’ve been to prison” I’m just pointing out they don’t know what they are talking about. People who think they do don’t have experience and that’s the end of it
For me, it was just an expansion on Cruise's movies, Reacher can fight anyone and win, knows everything so he runs over city/county cops, etc. They did all the goofy crap (like arresting him) so he'd end up in prison (corrupt PD's and SO's do this and we all know it) for the fight scene. The rest "you keep a pack in your desk" and such was to make it look like MP was a cover and he was an uber uber uber spy or something. TL:DR - "We need a show with badass fights, a smart guy to solve the crimes, and that guy should also be the size of a small car, oh and have the girl cop fall for him and get nekkid."
@FNG, Sean, if one doesn't want too much in the way of online profiles and you don't want none at all. What is the Goldie Locks zone for an online presence? For example, just a LinkedIn professional profile? Thanks
There actually is a part of the MP that are investagators. It is the Detective portion and does investigations that don't go to CID. I haven't read the books but from the little that I do know his charcator is supposed to extremely intelligent and observant.
Reacher has photographic memory in the books, which helps him seem "House"-ish. Also, all the "that's not how the law works" doesn't apply in a town run by corruption.
Here’s a couple of movies you should checkout. Fire Birds with Nick Cage and Tommy Lee Jones. Next one is an older movie Bravo Two Zero about an SAS mission with Sean Bean.
So, one thing about Reacher knowing how to fight. It's not because he was an MP. It's because he got into a dozen fights a day as a kid. And in season 2 we see that he's not a regular MP anyway. He's got a CID badge on his BDUs, and was a Special Investigator, so it's not a stretch that he was investigating murders
Reacher and his team were not just MPs. They were special investigators. Handpicked by reacher so they’re not gonna be the goofballs that you had interactions with.
He was in custody vs detention. Also they’d probably stay in the station jail until arraignment which is supposed to happen within 48 hrs. I love it but there’s some goofy stuff too.
