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Jack Reacher From the Show Reacher Is neither a Relatable Character nor a Realistic Personality
You can’t have both Se and Si
As I was watching the pilot episode of the brand new Netflix series Reacher, I thought to myself that something about it was off. I could feel it before I knew exactly what was wrong. But by the end of the first episode, I realized the main source of the issue: the main character wasn’t relatable.
The main character isn’t believable — he’s beyond human
The character of Jack Reacher might work if he was Superman — some non-human supernatural being from another planet, crash-landed here to save humanity. If he was a superhero, this would have worked. But in the show, he is portrayed as a human being. A human being operating from an impossible set of cognitive functions (i.e. both Se and Si).
The main character has too many strengths — he has both Se and Si
It seems like the writers tried to make the main character’s main strength to be both introverted and extroverted sensory perceiving functions — both Se (Extroverted Sensing) and Si (Introverted Sensing). Usually, people either gather or store sensory info — they don’t do both, and they at least certainly…
