JIM FROM THE OFFICE is JACK RYAN

dumb jock

“the CIA is something that we should all not only cherish, but be saying thank you for every single day.”

impossible to listen to this guy for 5 seconds without snort laughing pic.twitter.com/NptG4QkfIB

— (don’t laugh!) (@dewybleach) November 19, 2019

oh i guess he's "method acting"

I saw an episode where a terrorist is trying to trigger a nearby bomb with his cell phone but can't bc they jammed the cell signal at the location of the bomb. There is an intense sequence where terrorist travels continuously further away from the bomb, Ryan in pursuiy, to try and get cell service and blow up the bomb. But the bomb itself never leaves the jammed area.

*pursuit

Anyway, dude could have had 5G across town. No signal was ever reaching that bomb in the jammed area. Show for idiots.

How dare you say that about the adapted work of Tom Clancy.

Im another Bosch loyalist in these ongoing Clancy vs Connelly wars

Latest season of Michael Scarn is wild

D Perrin calls Tom Clancy "the Stephen King of imperialism"

lol it is Michael Scarn!

need to know what Billie Ellish thinks of Jack Ryan.

Tom Clancy seemed to give a shit about some level of accuracy while concocting his potboiler dramas but post-death there's just this churn of increasingly implausible plots

I will cautiously admit that I watched both seasons of this show, and that I strongly advise others not to watch it. Season two is politically and dramatically incoherent in brave new ways

Bosch is great, though

S2 is the dumbest shit I've ever seen (three episodes of before I couldn't take any more).

I can ignore terrible politics long enough to enjoy something like The Unit but Jack Ryan is also boring so that's impossible

I have this compulsion to watch things starring Noomi Rapace that I couldn't shake

her character's plot arc in this is especially incoherent

i am still hoping someone will explain how that bomb could have possibly been set off. like they were only jamming transmission to a nearby tower, and the trigger could have come from another tower. somebody has to know. i want to believe the stakes were real.

someone set them up the bomb

I keep seeing these photos of new Jim from Office, with a beard or whatever, and he looks like Dan Birzelian.

he got a Birzelian

it Bilzerian, though

He has a face which defies seriousness. I mean, I think this is in part because he was Jim for a decade+ but also just because he seems like kind of a goof and not even a little bit like a grimdark CIA warrior.

it's the perfect disguise

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weird to think that jim from the office was radicalised into becoming a cia propagandist because he lost out on the role of captain america

what's the deal his politics irl?

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I found the first season just brain-numbingly entertaining enough that I was willing to take a chance on the second even with its repulsive "the Russians are turning the Venezuelans into reverse vampires!!!" plot. I lasted one episode.

will they be brave enough to do that book where japan does sneaky economic war on the US and after being militarily and economically defeated by jack ryan a japanese commercial airline pilot crashes a plane into the capitol during a joint session of congress and jack ryan, who was about to be declared vice president, is sworn in as president? (i read the book as a child)

xpost thanks mookie that was good!

everyone reads tom clancy as a child. adults most of all. his war tool stories take us back to our childlike innocence.

Any sense that Krasinski "will publicly yell at an empty chair in the next 50 years," as the Ringer's Alison Herman predicted, doesn't stem directly from his personal life. While Krasinski has generally kept his leanings to himself, Emily Blunt has spoken out about Trump before (and faced blowback because of it). Krasinski pals around with Aaron Sorkin, with whom he wants to make a show about the Chateau Marmont, and with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, with whom he cohosted a fundraiser for Elizabeth Warren in 2012. No, any niggling suspicion that Krasinski could someday pull a Clint Eastwood comes from the recent roles he's taken and the careful type of nonanswers he's become prone to giving in interviews. Like when, for instance, the actor, who comes from a military family, told the Daily Beast about how bothered he was that 13 Hours was being seen as political: "The truth is, we should all be proud of these guys, and the moment you politicize it, the more you’re moving us toward a world that I don’t want to be living in; a world where people want to score political points at all costs."

Krasinski has sidestepped readings of A Quiet Place as a metaphor for the country's political turmoil, telling the Hollywood Reporter, "That's not what I was going for, but the best compliment you can get on any movie is that it starts a conversation." When preparing for Jack Ryan, which starts with his character working as a mid-level CIA analyst, Krasinski shared some similar-sounding observations with Entertainment Weekly regarding getting to go to the actual agency: "I was blown away by a lot of things with the CIA — how incredibly diverse the place was and how apolitical. There was no politics being discussed, it was about objectives of protecting people and getting to the truth of the matter, which I thought was really interesting." On one hand, you can't blame the actor for wanting to avoid quotes that could possibly be lifted out, aggregated, and result in him dealing with a news cycle and the now-standard round of anger and apologies. On the other, presenting the CIA or a movie about Benghazi as somehow existing separately from politics is either a willfully oblivious or astonishingly convenient way to see the world.

the first time i heard of Tom Clancy was when a sixth grade buddy of mine brought The Hunt For Red October to school. i never read one of his books but i like the movie adaptation of that one, w/its somewhat quaint-seeming optimism and the hero's mission being that he really doesn't want to do anything or go anywhere, he just wants to make sure nobody blows anybody else up. It's a pretty sharp flick.

That good ol' apolitical CIA.

a japanese commercial airline pilot crashes a plane into the capitol during a joint session of congress and jack ryan, who was about to be declared vice president, is sworn in as president? (i read the book as a child)

LOL i remember listening to that book on tape with my dad on a long car trip and when jack ryan becomes president even my dad was like "these are starting to get a little too silly"

So basically Jim from the Office is one of those almost pathologically uninformed undecided voters. Makes sense.

'almost pathologically uninformed', rather, dammit.

i would heartily recommend that anybody considering wasting a second of precious life trying to parse jim from the offices irl politics take a deep breath and step back from the ledge

a japanese commercial airline pilot crashes a plane into the capitol during a joint session of congress and jack ryan, who was about to be declared vice president, is sworn in as president? (i read the book as a child)
LOL i remember listening to that book on tape with my dad on a long car trip and when jack ryan becomes president even my dad was like "these are starting to get a little too silly"

― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, November 25, 2019 10:09 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah it's nuts

an intense sequence where terrorist travels continuously further away from the bomb, Ryan in pursuiy, to try and get cell service and blow up the bomb

sometimes you just can't get hold of a bomb!

jim from the office is a lib who loves the troops and the cia basically. nothing too hard to grasp

otm, he is a common or garden peteist

also intellectually he's a" jock that likes to read" type. didn't he direct a dfw adaptation or something?

wow this new season of decker is wild

as much as i liked the shhh movie with the listening monsters i think this guy is maybe a numbskull

D Perrin calls Tom Clancy "the Stephen King of imperialism"

I get that this is a zing but i also cant actually make sense of it. In this formulation is Stephen King understood to be an apologist for monsters?

stephen king writes popular novels

Stephen King reliably pro-Randall Flagg, approves of the use of shit weasels, etc.

A lot of people write pop novels, idgi. King is a lefty, no?

I still think Hunt for Red October is a great movie

call him the danielle steel of coulrophobia

I get that this is a zing but i also cant actually make sense of it. In this formulation is Stephen King understood to be an apologist for monsters?

― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, November 25, 2019 1:34 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If I said 'Morbs is the Stephen King of disseminating D Perrin tweets' would that help your understanding

King is a standard-issue lib iirc

often depicts the military as literally in league with demons/the devil

Stephen King is seen by some as an idea guy who is not very good at crafting prose, but has a number of successful movie and television adaptations of his horror novels

Tom Clancy was a sort of idea guy who wasn't good at crafting prose but had etc. etc. only they're about imperialism

now we've put way more thought into what dennis perrin means than he presumably did

it's a lazy comparison and I am not sure why people didn't get it!

Tom Clancy was very good at allowing others to paste his name onto a few dece videogames he presumably had nothing whatever to do with.

"he churned out books on this topic" makes sense, the fact that its perrin threw me off in that i wld never expect him to use the term 'imperialism' in a value-neutral way

like trump saying the beatles were the Obama of rock and meaning that 'they were once very powerful'

Sufjan Stevens really was the Sue Grafton of indie music

No worries, the standard response to 'Dennis Perrin said ___' is 'who tf is Dennis Perrin' so

“I can’t go to Yemen! I’m an analyst!”

(Never seen this, but that line makes me smile when the ad comes on)

the best jack ryan moments are when he discovers or solves something by being a total wonk and then... oh shit, he's found himself in a fistfight or has to do some action stuff despite being a wonk with a bad back

there's virtually no wonkery in season two. they just jettisoned everything that makes him anything other than an action guy past the first episode, where they gave him some incredibly dumb sub-wonk material when he's teaching a class

So like if Indiana Jones was just like 'fuck these artifacts, time for some MMA'

we don't know who you are, Lunchie, but i don't mind giving credit when you come up with your semiannual good line.

mh at 2:22 25 Nov 19

Stephen King is seen by some as an idea guy who is not very good at crafting prose, but has a number of successful movie and television adaptations of his horror novels

Tom Clancy was a sort of idea guy who wasn't good at crafting prose but had etc. etc. only they're about imperialism

this is otm but maaaaaan that's a harsh toke to compare King to Clancy he's a far better, weirder, more interesting writer

first season was surprisingly good

second "" "" "" shit