Taken, the TV show - Bullshit

So I was a big fan of Liam Neeson's movie franchise Taken, until Taken 3, that is. Liam Neeson makes for a great tough guy, ex CIA agent Bryan Mills, and the show's first two movies were right on. In fact, at the end of movie 2 it had set up a third movie. It went something like this: The sons of the Albanian father Neeson was about to kill would come after him. "For sure," the father said. After which Neeson's Mills character says, "Then I'll kill them too."

Okay. All set for Taken 3. But what happens in Taken 3? None of that. It was as if someone from CAIR complained that the heavies were Muslims. Never mind they were Eastern European Muslims, and not Arabs, just the fact that they were Muslims seemed to be enough for the franchise to drop them as heavies. Instead they made up a complete bullshit story line about Mills' ex-wife's current husband as the new heavy.

To that I say, WTF? Which leads me to the Taken TV show. I had not watched it for the same reason I never watched the Transporter TV show, nor did I bother watching the 4th installment of the Transporter franchise, because it was sans Jason Statham. And it was Statham who made that show, so without him, forget it. I wouldn't bother.

But my wife and I were searching for something to watch, so we went to Netflix and gave the TV show of Taken a try. The first two shows were okay. Only okay. Cllive Standen plays the main character of Bryan Mills, and he's no Liam Neeson, not even close. Worse, they changed the Bryan Mills character completely. He's a young guy, now and not a former CIA agent as Neeson's Bryan Mills was in the movies. Instead, he's a former soldier who served in Afganistan and Iraq. Yeah, he's still a badass, but not quite the same kind of badass. He's more of a sniper type of badass. Still I was able to stomach it at first. It was watchable.

It was the third show where the bullshit came in. As if in deference to CAIR, they have an Iraqi immigrant, (Muslim, of course) be the victim of an AMERICAN terrorist group. (Terrorists planning to kill Americans, that is.) Say what? Yeah, they kidnap the innocent Iraqi man so as to frame him for a terrorist attack against Americans, so the American politicians will up American's involvement in the wars in the Middle East. And then we had to watch a Muslim woman, the man's wife, decry how persecuted she is in this "terrible, racist, Islamophobic" country of intolerant Americans where she suffers from fear every single day. Yeah, right.

To set the record straight, I have no problems with Iraqis. I have had friends from Iraq. They are great people, (like any people,) and not once has any of them relayed to me how they live in fear everyday from the terrible American citizens among whom they live.

I know about the horrible incidents, like Oklahoma and Las Vegas, and several other homegrown horrors that have happened in this country. But that happens in every country, and it has been happening throughout history in every country. But to ask me to watch Americans as terrorists is not agreeable to me. And because of that I say the Taken TV show is Bullshit. That's all.