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bookant t1_j60keuc wrote

Reply to comment by cbaker817 in Why is Jack Ryan S3 so terrible? by khroshan

>S3: What country can we make be the bad guys without hurting overseas views?

This has basically been a huge problem with spy fiction since the end of the Cold War.

Bond films have floundered, too, not knowing what to do with themselves. Central American drug cartels? Works for a movie or two. Ditto the Russian mob. Then it's basically variations of the "Dr. Evil" - private villain who wants to take over the world. Rupert Murdoch standin is trying to start a war because it would profitable or something.

By the last few Craig movies we're down to soap opera garbage like "the villain is Bond's long lost brother."

The huge mistake Bond films made IMHO was not making "Casino Royale" a reboot back to the proper time period. They could be doing cold war period pieces now. Maybe even actually faithful adaptations of the original books.

Ditto Jack Ryan. How much cooler would it be if the series worked up to "Red October" and beyond. Work your way through the books faithfully and you've just created the action/espionage equivalent to "Game of Thrones."

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bookant t1_j2c63r5 wrote

Reply to What was up with Baywatch? by page0rz

Streaming wasn't a thing yet. If you wanted to watch, you had to choose from what was on at the time on the few channels you had. A lot of syndicated shows like Baywatch would run at odd times like say Sunday afternoon. When it was a wasteland.

So you'd be flipping through the channels. Infomercial. Infomercial. Star Trek rerun, I've seen this episode like 50 times. Golf. Bowling. Infomercial. Brady Bunch, oh it's the Marcia Marcia Marcia one.

Hmmm. Some show about hot lifeguards. At least I haven't seen this before . . . .

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bookant t1_ixa3j7d wrote

Reply to comment by Eroe777 in For the first time in a long time, I gave up on a book. by Eroe777

Interesting. I've been a big fan of theirs since Relic first came out back in the day. I loved the early stage of their career when it was a standalone books (even if an occasional character did cross over).

They totally lost me once it became the Pendergast series and he became this ridiculously omniscient cartoon of a super hero. There was that trilogy about his evil brother. After book two of that I just up on them completely.

The Nora Kelly stuff has got me reading them again. Even if this one was a bit more "out there," for me it didn't come anywhere close to the excesses of the Pendergast series.

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