Logo text [This story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Man on Fire season one.] The past few years have seen the rise of a new generation of high-quality shows about heroes in the mold of Jack Ryan or Jack Reacher : military veterans who use their battle-tested skills to protect the innocent and make sure the bad guys pay. At first blush, the new Netflix series Man on Fire seems like one of these shows. Executive producer Steven Caple Jr. , who directed the first two episodes of the series starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (which dropped all eight episodes on Thursday), explains what’s so appealing about the genre. “It’s wish fulfillment,” he says. “People love to see themselves in the shoes of a Jack Reacher or a Jack Ryan in terms of an espionage thriller.” But there’s a difference between Man on Fire ’s John Creasy and his peers like Reacher or Ryan, and that difference goes to the heart of what Caple and Abdul-Mateen wanted to accomplish with the show in the first place.…