I just finished watching the 3 episodes of Reacher and the final season of Jack Ryan. Which leaves me more confused at the state of show production at Amazon.
Reacher so far has been great, he's not ever belittled or sidelined for a woman to take the spotlight (in fact his nickname is 'the big guy' and a running joke is not to mess with him as he'll hit you like a freight train)
Jack Ryan was more questionable in the beginning, first season was good in proof of concept though that UAV pilot sidestory was unnecessary, 2nd season was weakest with Venezuela. 3rd season really improved from secret Soviet Union plots, using NATO to bait WW3, coup and false flag nukes. 4th season that I just watched would probably be something everyone here would like since the bad guys are NGOs using their fame as cover to run drug, exploitation and terrorist operations with the help of corrupt US officials in Government and CIA. Then we have something like Invincible too which haven't caught the second season yet but heard it's good.
Now I try to counter that with something like Rings of Power or the Wheel of Time and now you get where I'm confused. How can a company that can bring an audience to niche franchises flop SO hard with established well known franchises? The reason I'm MORE concerned than ever is because of this that there finally seems to be movement on a 40k production with Cavill as a producer but if the same people that did Rings of Power are involved, this might be used to bring in the worst thing imaginable: Female space marines..
Is it just which team is working on it as it sounds like after Rings of Power, that team has been largely demoted or how the contracts for adaptation are in place? I've not watched Netflix ever since Cuties was on there but they seem to be sticking a lot closer to the author's intentions with things like One Piece and Quiet on the Western front and been more successful for it so is that the main thing to look out for?
Sorry for long post just TDLR; trying to know how Amazon makes stuff so I know if 40k gets Rings of Power treatment or is actually good.
It's propaganda. They need people to trust the government so they portray the three letter agencies as the good guys.
Considering how the main story line of the 4th season was a corrupt former CIA director was the one greenlighting and funding operations to use black ops to help triad and cartel organisations, don't think it's that good.
Plus both Reacher and Jack Ryan seem to have the message that the organisations or institutions are corrupt or too slow to respond and you need a 'great man' to come in to fix the situation quickly, which is more popularist/right leaning than left.
Sure, but that still feeds into the boomer myth that the FBI and CIA are mostly good guys and it's a few bad apples.
"Former" being the key word there.
I just re-watched Die Hard 2 -- hadn't seen it in many years. The bad guys (spoiler!) were corrupt US army ... anti-communists.
It's funny, because at the time this came out (80s/90s), I considered anti-communists to be kind of kooks, because clearly nobody would ever think communism is a good thing. Turns out the reality is just that actual communists are decent liars and good at hiding when there's no pressure on them.
Even then in the movies the anti-communists always accused the US of being cozy with foreign communist governments, which could always be countered on real-politick grounds, instead of a more "the call is coming from inside the house!" style argument.
No Hollywood movie would dare talk about the net negative fiscal impact of Blacks and Hispanics and use that as evidence of US domestic policy being inherently communist in nature.
Exactly. It's why I've always found it so loathsome that every "manly" piece of entertainment is either military man fighting terrorists, or government man fighting terrorists. I don't relate to any of those groups, except maybe the terrorists, lately