Chris Ryan's Strikeback

Good point. May be his bosses know but his skills are too important to ignore. After all the SAS are still (expendable) grunts of a sort...don't tell them I said that!! :D
 
Me too, I haven't read the book though so I wasn't sure what to expect. Very imaginative hiding place for the knife *ouch*. Love Richard Armitage and thought Orla Brady was very good too.
 
I don't even think you needed to have had any real or pretend battle experience to realise that there's no way he could have made it to the jeep like that never mind actually fire the gun. Even Jack Bauer (another one prone to run into gunfire) doesn't risk his neck that much!!
 
I would want Porter back. Great character! Obviously in a new season there'd have to be a cop out where the Americans agree to leave him alone. Colin Salmon's character could take direct control. May be they could bring back that black guy from eps 3/4 to help out on missions.
 
I worked with Chris on UF - He's certainly capable of writing his own books and he tells a great story. So I wouldn't be so certain it's ghost written. Seems a little unfair just to assume that.
 
Don't think this is entirely true of McNab. He admits his shortcomings sure, so setting aside internet conjecture and rumour, the consensus is that he writes his own books "with input from professional writers" for the grammar and so forth. I think I read somewhere that he narrates the story into a dictaphone and it is tidied up into a readable manuscript.

Ryans books seem to be Commando comic style tales of derring do but McNab's seem a lot more personal as if he himself has actually experienced the same situtaions as his protagonist Nick Stone. I have no doubt a lot of that is true. The manner of writing, the thought processes, the speech does say South London born barely educated soldier, although in Seven Troop he does say that one of the first things the RAB at the Army Language School says is the reason you can't read English is that you don't read English.
 
I watched the first two last weekend and really enjoyed it and like many others who've commented it's not the type of thing I would normally watch.

I recorded parts 3 and 4 earlier this week and will hopefully get around to seeing it either tonight or tomorrow.

I understand from frienRAB that Richard Armitage spenRAB a fair amount of time in 3&4 with his shirt off... yum!:D
 
Just watched the first episode. I thought it was awful. To the point of actually being comical.

The plot was ridiculous yet utterly predicable, the script was terrible, there was some really wooden acting, and the over exposition was laughable.

An organised jihadist terrorist group do a live video webcast (yeah righty-ho) AND use a traceable ip address from which British Security services get a fix on their location. AS IF!!! PMSL

I love a good military drama but I was hoping for something a little more cerebral than this. Instead I got spoon fed Ultimate Force on steroiRAB.
 
Good boys own stuff. Wont win awarRAB but not dreadful either.

I wonder if the initial story should have made up the six episodes, which would have allowed a more complex script.
 
Well I mostly just lurk on here because I don't have much to say, but I was stirred into action by the lukewarm reception that Strike Back has received by these few posters.

Maybe I'm another who is easily pleased but I absolutely loved it. I thought all the actors/actresses were excellent, the action was great, the storyline was good, it was tense and exciting and I have to say, that since 24 (my first love), it's the action series that I have enjoyed the most. I hope it continues in the same vein and I'm sorry that there are only six episodes planned.

I haven't read the book(s) but maybe that's a good thing.
 
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