Warning: SPOILERS for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan season 2.
The other changes in Jack’s passport are logical; Clancy’s original Ryan was born on May 17, 1950 but that would make Jack 69 years old. Since Jack Ryan is a reboot, Krasinski’s version is understandably now born on May 17, 1982, making Jack 37 years old. Jack Ryan season 2 also referenced the accident Jack suffered as a Marine where he spent months in traction recovering from his injuries so that the fundamental aspect of Ryan’s backstory still applies to the reboot. But changing his first name to Jack is nonsensical.
Jack Ryan has made some exceptional updates to the patriotic analyst; Krasinski took Harrison Ford’s cerebral action hero template for Ryan and ran with it while James Greer has been intriguingly rebooted as a converted Muslim but purposely making Ryan’s birth name “Jack” isn’t one of them. Krasinski’s Jack Ryan is a worthy incarnation of the hero for the Peak TV era but it’s a shame the producers of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan mistakenly seem to believe some people would be left befuddled if his full name was John Patrick Ryan, the way it’s supposed to be.
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