Netflix dropped a “sneak peek” scene from American Primeval yesterday. I had two thoughts in quick succession. The first was, Whoa! Blood Meridian vibes. The second was, Jack Carr’s gonna dig that tomahawk action. Heh!
Sure enough, Carr just posted an hour-and-a-half interview with director Peter Berg. I’ll be all over this after I get done at the range today…
Carr is most enamored of the Daniel Winkler tomahawk, which features prominently in his protagonist James Reece’s loadout in The Terminal List series. Carr has turned crossed Winklers into his “brand,” which both Lady Marilyn and I have on a Yeti mug that i call my “Jack Jug.”
As we have noted previously, the use of the tomahawk by SEAL operators in the GWOT was a source of controversy — but there is a venerable history behind it through three centuries if Frontier Partisan warfare.
American Primeval drops on Netflix on January 9.
Quixotic Mainer says
Whew, that was some quick work with the Ole hacha!
Matthew says
It seems to me weird that there is a controversy over tomahawks. Would they prefer that terrorists were killed with some other instrument. They would be just as dead.
Quixotic Mainer says
There’s some visceral revulsion to an arme blanche at times, even among fighting men, to say nothing of effete’ journalists.
There’s accounts of Confederate cavalry chiding Union troopers swinging sabres to use their pistols instead and “fight as gentlemen”.