The The Fast Saga began its family-based tale with humble origins in 2001's The Fast and the Furious, while the early modesty of the series has long since vanished. The steady shift away from its street-racing roots is a component of how the Fast & Furious series has changed, but an even bigger one is what has taken its place.
Since 2011's Fast & Furious 6 is the moment when the franchise graduated from implausible to ridiculous.
In the highway chase of Fast & Furious 6, Letty is propelled into the air when the tank driven by Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) is brought to a sudden stop. Dom, on the parallel over, saves Letty by crashing his car into the guardrail and sending himself flying from a perched position to catch Letty. With Dom and Letty landing unharmed on the hood of another car, the heroism of this moment is great, however, it plays as something more at home in a Marvel movie than one about high-speed car chases. It also paved the way for the future of The Fast Saga, Dom himself leading the way.
Dom's Rescue Of Letty Is Ridiculous, & Set-Up The Fast Saga's Transformation
Dom's saving of Letty in Fast & Furious 6's big highway chase has a virtually non-existent relationship with physics. Even if Dom's plan to shoot himself into the air was angled and timed perfectly enough for him to catch Letty, there's no chance either would have survived slamming into each other at that speed. Still, that abandonment of reality in Fast & Furious 6 can be directly pinpointed as the moment when the series made such absurdity one of its main attributes. Furious 7 followed that up with action scenes like Dom leaping a car from one Abu Dhabi skyscraper to another, and the Fast & Furious franchise simply grew crazier from there.
Considering how much the series has changed, it is increasingly easy, and perhaps even best, to interpret Dominic Toretto using his car expertise to rescue Letty in Fast & Furious 6, and the later fortunes of the Fast & Furious series owe a lot to it.
