Mick


As much as I enjoyed S1 and S2 I can’t help thinking that I’d love to see the villain, Mick, ‘challenged’ a little more. I realise the characters are put in impossible situations with few resources at their disposal while this vile, evil murderer is after them but it would be great to see Mick hurt in return in some way. Obviously I know he cannot be killed off because there would be no show but it’s about time one of the characters got a bit of payback for all the grief, upset and suffering that Mick has caused. Anybody agree?

Maybe we’ll see something happen to Mick in S3. I wonder how long the makers can keep this series going.

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Who knows if we will get a season 3. There hasn't been anything new since 2017 and John Jarratt is facing rape charges from something that happened 42 years ago.

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You can’t really “challenge” him, since he’s a supernatural character.

The show would have to dig further into that aspect, which would be pretty lame.

I think just the fact that he can be temporarily overpowered and taken off guard is enough.

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Obviously I know he cannot he killed off because there would be no show but it’s about time one of the characters got a bit of payback for all the grief, upset and suffering that Mick has caused. Anybody agree?


That was S1 although he wasn't really challenged.

Going back to the main point of your argument about Mick being challenged more, I was thinking that rather than going against tourists, he could go against criminal elements like the biker gang shown in S1.

Of course, he goes for tourists because he hates them and they are harder to trace but this biker/criminal gang could be coming in from the underworld of one of the main Australian cities where they would be harder to trace as well. As to Mick's motivation to get involved is that they are in words city wankas who has been in the wrong place at the wrong time and missed with the wrong guy. While they may be 'city wankas', they are hardened criminals and more than a match for Mitch although of course, Mick will come out the better man eventually.

The biggest flaw about this story is the moral dimension as it would just end up as a unappealing and grimy vigilante bloodfest. A possible way to get round this is that one of the gang members could be a possibly naive teen who gets in way over his head and tries to escape both the gang and Mick with the help of his girlfriend who is trying to get him out of that life?

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