His Cordell Walker is a contemporary Texas Ranger working out of the Dallas office who believed in dealing with criminals the old-fashioned way-by beating them up. Walker's approach closely resembled the "eye for an eye" school of crime fighting. Despite the rules that governed the way law-enforcement officers were supposed to act.
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But after watching the Walker pilot, it’s hard to want to watch another episode, let alone a full season (which The CW has already ordered).Summary: Cordell Walker is a contemporary Texas Ranger working out of the Dallas office who believed in dealing with criminals the old-fashioned way-by beating them up. Pilots are, by their very nature, incredibly hard to pull off well: a lot of establishing information has to be given to the audience while also introducing the plot in a way that invites continued investment. The seeds planted feel generic, and the more timely elements - like the situation at the border - not particularly well-engaged. It’s hard to see a world wherein this show gets interesting, based on the pilot alone. The more procedural case of the week is little more than set-up for an ominous drug cartel and a tiny, not particularly impressive fight. Problems are not really problems, and the exposition we get from these moments lands with a thud. The inclusion of these new parts doesn’t really add much interest to what plays out, in the end: a bunch of inconsequential, family drama filler.
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Unfortunately, he’s also not handling it in a particularly interesting or edifying manner, either. And guess what? He’s not handling any of it well. Ramirez, too, has a lot riding on her new partner and his ability to follow orders and not ruin her chances in an extremely white, male-dominated profession. Now that he’s returned home from an undercover assignment after two years away - seemingly immediately following the death of his wife - there’s a lot of tension with his kids and the rest of his family who stepped in to fill the void while he was gone.
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The Ranger’s new partner, Micki Ramirez (played by The 100’s Lindsey Morgan), also plays a fairly large role in Walker’s life. The show, its showrunner Anna Fricke posited during a recent Television Critics Association panel, is about the entire Walker family. But not even the charm of Padalecki can liven up this one-trick pony. (The show even shoots in the actor’s hometown of Austin, Texas). This is clearly the reason the series was made: to keep one of its bread-and-butter attractions on the network and happily employed. In place of Norris’ cheeseball “badass” is the much softer, more subdued Supernatural star Jared Padalecki. Gone is the ass-kicking Cordell Walker fans of the old series are used to in his place is a tired, possibly alcoholic widower who - we are told but only once is it allegedly really seen - plays by his own rules. Alas, that doesn’t mean what we get is much better.
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In short, The CW's Walker is the complete antithesis of everything the older version was, which itself wasn’t particularly good. In fact, there is nary a similarity at all to its predecessor, save the name Cordell Walker, and the fact that he is indeed a Texas Ranger. The CW’s take is absolutely nothing like that. It was very much a series of its era and home network, CBS. Imbued in all of this was an often cheesy, overriding sense of machismo - ass-kicking and bad guy-busting in the name of protecting the good ol’ US of A. Its lead, Chuck Norris, is a very specific man. Walker, Texas Ranger was a very specific show with a very specific audience from a very specific time.