I intended to get more work done this weekend but found myself watching seven episodes of Reacher instead — and wondering why.
I’d watched the first episode of Season 3 when it was released back on Feb. 27, but I stopped after that one show. The gratuitous violence gets to a person after awhile, and I reached my fill.
But something drew me back in this weekend, and I’m a little miffed at myself. For one thing, I ended up staying up till midnight Sunday to finish my homework; I could have used the six or seven hours that instead went to watching bodies dismembered in various ways.
I could call it research into what is popular in modern adventure stories, but I’m not going to write that kind of story anyway, so it qualifies only as something I might watch when I don’t want to use my mind. And, again, why?
Reacher, as depicted on this TV show, is a serial killer. Yes, he only kills unpleasant or evil humans, but he relishes being judge, jury and executioner — especially the executioner part — and the producers mean us to applaud that.
Is life precious or isn’t it? Are we to love our neighbors or aren’t we? Those rhetorical questions are why I stopped after the first episode — it’s a mystery why I picked it back up and raced through seven more episodes of that. It’s well crafted violence porn, but that’s all it is.
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