![]() To be really clear - there is nothing inherently wrong with trying to make something better, assuming of course you do not end up making it worse in the process. ![]() In other words, the current story and the characters driving this series are less about the original Stephen Hunter character, and more the kind of thing you would expect from focus groups. Bob Lee's "friend" at the FBI, Nick Memphis, has also been re-imagined - from a man to a woman. Now Bob Lee is very young and graceful, already married (not so in the book) and, as portrayed by Ryan Phillipe, something of a pretty boy and a smartass at the same time. This new TV series re-imagines the already-reimagined character from the Hollywood version. The movie was a mild commercial success but fans of the original hated it and believed it could have been so much better if the original template had been followed. ![]() Hollywood came knocking but found the character as written did not fit their "star mould." So Hollywood re-imagined the core story (from the first book in the series) with Bob Lee as a much younger, shorter, big city type hero, no accent, and cast Mark Wahlberg in the lead. He is, and will always be, a wonderful read. His fans to this day still cannot get enough of Bob Lee. Hunter even tried to phase Bob Lee out completely and start a brand new series based on Bob Lee's son. Hunter was so overpowered by the strong response to Bob Lee that he actually tried to hobble his character through the series of later novels (Bob aged quickly, he was wounded, beaten, crippled, etc.). The character was a surprise smash hit, much like the Bourne character in the popular series of movies was equally a "surprise" to his original creator. (Some of the book reviews called Swagger "the greatest" American hero in modern fiction.) 2. A top-tier fiction writer named Stephen Hunter over a long period of years penned a series of books about a character he created, one Bob Lee Swagger, a tall rangy ex-Gunnery Sergeant with a deep southern drawl, probably one of the greatest snipers on the planet, and a true American hero. First, let's start with the REAL backstory. What this IS is a review that will tell you what the show was trying to do and why, in the opinion of this reviewer, it is not succeeding as well as intended. When we say that we can't have large events, it’s to keep the entire community safe.I "get" that it is a time-honored tradition on IMDb that the first reviewers of any new series are usually fans in the making who have fallen in love with the show and want to sound the trumpet for others to follow. So it is very important that as a community we have a zero tolerance for this activity, that we support the Metropolitan Police Department, and the community is going to have to understand that may mean that some people will have to go to jail. When you put illegal guns in the hands of people willing to use them it means that some person could lose her life or some people could lose their lives. Sadly several people that have no regards for human life opened fire. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated “We had a lot of people in a dangerous situation last night. Ten men and eleven women received non-fatal injuries including 22-year-old Charlee Brown of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, who was off-duty at the time. The sole fatality was 17-year-old Christopher Brown. Police were present at the block party but did not have enough officers to handle the large crowd. ![]() The block party's attendance exceeded the limit of fifty people to a gathering set by Mayor Muriel Bowser in response to COVID-19. Police state at 12:30 am EDT (4:30 UTC) at least four shooters exchanged gunfire, firing more than a hundred rounds, while hundreds of people attended a block party promoted as the fifth annual “34th-n-EAT”. ![]()
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