I love the show but I just can't seem to get used to John Krasinski without a full beard after watching 13 Hours (which i also really liked).
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Originally posted by smschulz: Watched two and like it even though John Krasinski is such a pussy.
Yeah, what's up with that? Jack Ryan is no John Clark or Domingo Chavez, but he isn't the indecisive, angst-ridden wimp they portray in this series.
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I'm not sure 'ol Tom would be in favor of the re-writing going on.
The first Jack Ryan scene in Ep. 1 rewrites the bad guy Venezuelan leader Reyes as a "Nationalist swept into office in a wave to power", not a marxist/socialist Chavez/Maduro. The good guy, actually a woman, is referred to as an "activist academic". Saw the same thing in season 1.
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I just finished it. It's a far cry better than any other mini-series currently airing, IMO. Not the best, but when I was scanning for things to watch, I kept coming back to it.
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It's better that a lot of TV, but if you are a Jack Ryan series fan, you can see where they get a lot of the scenes.
Unfortunately it gets pretty disjointed and there are some 'leaps' between some of the middle episodes before really going off the rails of even 'suspension of disbelief'.
There is a lot of good there - good actors, good general plot lines, but it's just mixed up all wrong.
Originally posted by jigray3: I'm not sure 'ol Tom would be in favor of the re-writing going on.
The first Jack Ryan scene in Ep. 1 rewrites the bad guy Venezuelan leader Reyes as a "Nationalist swept into office in a wave to power", not a marxist/socialist Chavez/Maduro. The good guy, actually a woman, is referred to as an "activist academic". Saw the same thing in season 1.
Chavez and Maduro were/are both socialists and nationalists. No contradiction there.
