Goldshirt, that's exactly how you're supposed to feel about Jack Ryan. He's a professor forced into a world of intrigue. Unfortunately, the show mostly forces him into a Jason Bourne archetype, which is incorrect for the character.
Over decades of trauma, Jack Ryan becomes a hard, cold operative. And he STILL gets shocked by the brutality of the system. Ford did a great job displaying that in the movies, when everyone is cheering the raid of a terrorist training camp like a video game, he is appalled.
One of my favorite Jack Ryan scenes comes from another Ryan, Alec Baldwin. As an academic, Baldwin Ryan has done the research and presented the best possible analysis of Halsey. Connery Ramius is a man who has walked the walk rather than talk the talk but is also a highly educated man. He tells Ryan that Halsey was a fool.
It's a fantastic nerdy scene in the middle of an action thriller.
(Also, Ramius kills political officer Putin in the opening segment of the film.)
