I felt the same when he was in the car with Lazslo AND when he out the truck 🛻 at the house! I had to pause the show and take a walk into the kitchen. If you are going to give me implausible, then give me FULL on implausible. Throw in magic and teleportation! 😆
OK, since you did your follow-up rant from last week about "Osi" being the mole, I get to do my follow-up rant about Charles' wife. Last week, I said the worst plot-point for getting Charles/Jackal out of being caught by the Unknown Guy in Hungrey would be if Charles called his wife for help. Welp, he did. Not to ransom him, but to bring him his disguise suitcase. Just as bad IMO. To me, this is illogical. He spent years (they have a 3 or 4 year old) hiding his secret identity from her--and now he's involving her? She's obviously going to be compromised/questioned by the police...probably by tracing Laslo's phone that Charles used to call her. A real Super-Assassin would never get married; and the Jackal wasn't married in the book, original 1970s movie, and even the Richard Gere/Bruce Willis remake. But, for some reason this tv Jackal has a family, and is suffering PTSD of a family dying from his last military (?) mission; that doesn't make sense for a cold-blooded killer for hire. I have no problem with new writers putting their spin on an O.G. source material. But it really needs to be logical and make sense for the characters. As you mention, the tension in this tv adaption is based on illogical & stupid actions by the characters. I feel really, really sorry for the actors. They deserve better.
Okay I was going to say the ending really pissed me off like why did he have to go down that road they could have just had him take the guy out for drinks Spike his drink and then kill him and then do all that steady hooks up with the guy like I was like oh so he's gay now but now that I'm thinking what you said maybe he's doing that I mean if he doesn't then I don't know why they just made him gay after six episodes of building this character up they should have had that in episode 1 that he was gay on top of having a wife and a kid it just didn't make sense to me I'm like oh so he's gay all the sudden okay great not that there's anything wrong with it it's just why is it almost in every f****** thing I'm watching now a character has a sexual complex where they are by or you know gay I get people are people and they have sexual interest I don't have anything wrong with it but I just feel I'm tired of it forced in shows that I'm watching it feels like they push it in there somewhere for no reason and also just to as an example House of dragon where they make raniera have a love interest in Melisandre that had no standing there was nothing there just like why did you even throw it in there. Anyway it's a great show I agree I think if there's four more episodes they definitely have to make more s*** start to happen because it seems like it's already coming to a close
The gay thing was in the book and both movies, but didn't go against logic because the Jackal was not married. He simply used gay sex as another disguise--it afforded him a place to hide. In this tv version, the Jackal has established himself, in his non-assassin life, as a straight family man, with a child. So, having a gay sexual liaison when he simply could have drugged Rasmus, is off-kilter. The sex act was un-necessary. As One Mike says: bad writing.
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I felt the same when he was in the car with Lazslo AND when he out the truck 🛻 at the house! I had to pause the show and take a walk into the kitchen.
If you are going to give me implausible, then give me FULL on implausible. Throw in magic and teleportation! 😆
OK, since you did your follow-up rant from last week about "Osi" being the mole, I get to do my follow-up rant about Charles' wife. Last week, I said the worst plot-point for getting Charles/Jackal out of being caught by the Unknown Guy in Hungrey would be if Charles called his wife for help. Welp, he did. Not to ransom him, but to bring him his disguise suitcase. Just as bad IMO.
To me, this is illogical. He spent years (they have a 3 or 4 year old) hiding his secret identity from her--and now he's involving her? She's obviously going to be compromised/questioned by the police...probably by tracing Laslo's phone that Charles used to call her.
A real Super-Assassin would never get married; and the Jackal wasn't married in the book, original 1970s movie, and even the Richard Gere/Bruce Willis remake. But, for some reason this tv Jackal has a family, and is suffering PTSD of a family dying from his last military (?) mission; that doesn't make sense for a cold-blooded killer for hire.
I have no problem with new writers putting their spin on an O.G. source material. But it really needs to be logical and make sense for the characters. As you mention, the tension in this tv adaption is based on illogical & stupid actions by the characters. I feel really, really sorry for the actors. They deserve better.
Okay I was going to say the ending really pissed me off like why did he have to go down that road they could have just had him take the guy out for drinks Spike his drink and then kill him and then do all that steady hooks up with the guy like I was like oh so he's gay now but now that I'm thinking what you said maybe he's doing that I mean if he doesn't then I don't know why they just made him gay after six episodes of building this character up they should have had that in episode 1 that he was gay on top of having a wife and a kid it just didn't make sense to me I'm like oh so he's gay all the sudden okay great not that there's anything wrong with it it's just why is it almost in every f****** thing I'm watching now a character has a sexual complex where they are by or you know gay I get people are people and they have sexual interest I don't have anything wrong with it but I just feel I'm tired of it forced in shows that I'm watching it feels like they push it in there somewhere for no reason and also just to as an example House of dragon where they make raniera have a love interest in Melisandre that had no standing there was nothing there just like why did you even throw it in there. Anyway it's a great show I agree I think if there's four more episodes they definitely have to make more s*** start to happen because it seems like it's already coming to a close
The gay thing was in the book and both movies, but didn't go against logic because the Jackal was not married. He simply used gay sex as another disguise--it afforded him a place to hide. In this tv version, the Jackal has established himself, in his non-assassin life, as a straight family man, with a child. So, having a gay sexual liaison when he simply could have drugged Rasmus, is off-kilter. The sex act was un-necessary.
As One Mike says: bad writing.