Television hates a one-punch fight. But these are mere policy changes. Their Spenser differs fundamentally from my Spenser because television differs from books. My novels are told in the first person. We see everything from Spenser's point of view.
Television is by definition third person.
We see everything through the camera. In my novels we see Spenser from the inside. On television we see him, as we must, from the outside. He blended with the august Bostonian exterior of the Copley Plaza like a hooded cobra. People glanced covertly at him, circling slightly as they passed him, unconsciously keeping their distance.