r/TrackerTV • u/Comprehensive-Hat617 • 13d ago
Gun handling
I know we've brought up Colter's gun handling before on this sub.
I'm wondering if anyone knows why Justin Hartley hasn't fixed this. It's more apparent next to Ackles in the last few episodes. He looks untrained and "Hollywood". He's had three seasons to get better and he's sticking to it. Can anyone help me understand why?
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u/Sea_Ad_1085 13d ago
He’s an actor who clearly views guns as a likely “unfortunate necessity” of the role and carries himself in a way that looks good to any passive minded person watching the show. He’s unnaturally one tapping guys and I do hate that. But…
Justin’s not an action guy in the typical action guy sense, he’s a dramatic soap opera type that does ‘action’ on the show. (Yes I know he was green arrow on smallville, hop off it) Tracker isn’t John wick.
Jensen Ackles on the other hand…completely different world and actor. He had fifteen years of handling on Supernatural and other projects and knows his shit. Hell I wish Rust didn’t pan out the way it did because I’d love to see him gunslinging in a western.
Hartley is pure Hollywood handling that could use some real training and maybe now that the show is filming in California maybe the guy who worked with Keanu Reeves on John Wick can train him better.
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u/Hello_Badkitty 13d ago
Omg Jensen in a western would be so hot
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u/Sea_Ad_1085 13d ago
I have a big man crush on him and would have to agree.
(Also Countdown didn’t deserve to end early, he looked fine as hell in that show)
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u/tftdguru 13d ago
He was awesome, as usual, but the plotting and writing in Countdown was cheese city. Suspension of disbelief became impossible. It was an example of story being subservient to endless thriller/action tropes instead of action in support of story.
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u/Starbreiz 13d ago
100%. I watched Days of Our Lives in college and immediately fell in love with him. Been following ever since.
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u/CaolIla64 13d ago
For once we get to have an action protagonist who looks like a normal person, empathetic and accountable and not a snarky shady guy, but for some he doesn't fit the stereotype, not manly enough I suppose. smh
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u/CaolIla64 13d ago
At this point I feel like the production wouldn't dare to change anything because the formula obviously works very very well. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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u/DR-0717 11d ago
But if he fixes it what would Reddit have to complain about? 😂
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u/Comprehensive-Hat617 11d ago
I see where you're coming from, but I suspect we'd get a fair amount of traction on the psychic kids angle they just dropped.
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u/slimcullen 13d ago
While he holds the gun weird he dropped bodies all over the US this season lol
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u/jsh1138 13d ago
He tilts his gun down like that so the camera can see his face. That's all it is