re: The Terminal List Discussion. *Spoilers*

Ben was sus from the beginning. There were no other logical choices besides the SecDef for the Unknown Beneficiary. If it wasn't Ben, I fully expected it to be some weird connection that I would've hated. I half expected to get a cliffhanger at the end to open it up to another chapter/season.

On to Ben's death, I agree that it was some shock value that Reece would actually go through with it. As I thought more about it, I'm glad that it ended that way. Reece's morals were reinforced there and he vowed to avenge his family with the list. No doubt that he didn't want to kill him but Ben had to die as he "had made it onto the list".

Final question. Do we get another season? I haven't read the books so I don't know the arc of the story and if there is even any room to continue it. Does Katie uncover another conspiracy and use deathbed James Reece as an instrument of destruction? Do we see Reece go full vigilante and live out the rest of his days thinking a palm tree is his daughter while he takes down a cartel? Do we get Ben as the angel on Reece's shoulder telling him to remember his training?

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There is plenty of great material for 5 seasons so far

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I like this post.

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Final question. Do we get another season? I haven't read the books so I don't know the arc of the story and if there is even any room to continue it.

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Definitely more material for more seasons from the books. You could do a season per book. The revenge list plot essentially ends in the first book. There are some ramifications that come from it but that story is essentially done. At least as far as the books go.

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Was thinking the other day that I might have rather rather had Kitsch cast as Reece over Pratt. I didn’t dislike Pratt as Reece, but I think Kitsch in the role would’ve been sweet. I should say that’s an opinion without any knowledge of how the character is described in the books, maybe Pratt was a better fit, and truer to the character in the books.

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The author actually said he had Chris Pratt in mind when he wrote the character. Hopefully this doesn't give too much away from the books but
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Reese actually has a side kick in the rest of the books. If they knew multiple seasons were going to happen I would have preferred Kitsch be that character

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Sidekick will probably need to be Queen Latifah for tv though

Read the book over the weekend and excited to get this show started.

Honestly one of the best shows i've seen in a while. It had me hooked from start to finish. Easily one of the best military shows out there. Kinda bummed for Kitsch character to be gone. He was so good. But you can tell Pratt put in tons of work to nail this character. He definitely brought the juice.

They did a really good job of not giving away if there was truly someone calling the shots or if Reece was actually losing his mind. There was multiple times in the first couple episodes where i was like man he really might be losing it. But that all changed once he shot that hitman in the car and found the target package lol. Katie was shook.

Potential book spoilers


Overall I enjoyed it. I spent the first few episodes being pissed about changes from the book and then finally just accepted it for what it was, an adaptation.

Biggest complaints were the fact that his family wasn’t killed while he was at Boozer’s apartment before he every made it home. The fact that they were taken from him before he ever gets to see them again and that his wife was pregnant with another child really helps set up his rage in the books.
Another is the funeral scenes. The most heart wrenching part of the books is when the other Seals Honor Katie and Lucy by hammering their trident pins into their coffins. A honor generally reserved only for team members. That shite got me in my feels when I read it and I was disappointed to see the show take it out.
Last major complaint was the whole Hartley character. I feel like Amazon didn’t want to paint the US government in to much of a negative light so they really watered down her involvement in the whole set up and events that transpired. I’m the books Her and her husband are basically the Clintons.

Things I liked

I liked that they have Ben a better story line, yeah he still fricked Reece over but at least in the show he had some redemption for his actions. Book Ben basically fricked over his best friend for cash and was involved throughout the whole process.
Terminology and weapons handling was pretty good. There was still a few screw ups but for Hollywood it was a significant improvement.

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there is a TV series of Most Dangerous Game that actually came out during covid. it had the less awesome Hemsworth brother and Cristoph Waltz if i remember.

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It's on prime now. Haven't seen it though