![]() Charlie's excited about breaking into Gitmo and begs Sam to let him hack into MI6 (even after having it explained why it's a bad idea), but nervous about breaking into QODS Force HQ? A shoehorned COD drone section has no political repercussions despite killing Iranian citizens/Special Forces on Iranian soil and ruining Iranian infrastructure (Really? A "drone malfunction?")? Sam makes himself a liability despite his entire team telling him his vitals are alarming, and then has the gall to accuse Briggs of putting the mission in jeopardy? And Sam of all people to get angry at Briggs for questioning or refusing to follow an order to abandon a team member, despite always giving Lambert crap about morally grey orders? All of this shows utter disregard not only for the source material, but for logic itself. ![]() The dialogue in general was generic at best, cheesy at worst, and again, makes no sense at times. Dansky's characterisation of Sam really isn't convincing, and I doubt Ironside would have accepted the script as it was had he been on the project voicing Sam. When putting aside the fancy visuals, very little of Conviction's plot makes any sense, and the same could be said of Future Soldier (what the hell did all of the missions of FS have to do with each other? The plot was an unfocused mess).īut I digress. He has no regard for subtext or subtlety (or as he would probably put it: everything has to be explicitly spelled out), he doesn't seem to understand the source material of the games for which he writes, he doesn't appear to do any research that could enhance his narratives (which always feature considerably more fantasy than realism), and he has a track record of penning plots with no regard for continuity, with Splinter Cell: Conviction and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier being the best examples of all of these offenses. I really don't care for Richard Dansky's writing style. I think the writing is really what ruined it more than anything else (not even Ironside could have saved it). ![]() He doesn't look, sound, or behave like Sam, and this is all made worse by the shoddy writing in Blacklist. I didn't like Eric Johnson as Sam, but not because of anything he did.
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