Preacher being adapted as an HBO TV series! (Possible NSFW pics)

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

When I first saw the casting, I never thought it would work, and now I can't think of the characters any other way.

Also saw Joseph Gilgun in The Last Witch Hunter last night, and thought he was woefully underused.

Big chunk of them are in the Warcraft movie.

ranalin wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

When I first saw the casting, I never thought it would work, and now I can't think of the characters any other way.

Also saw Joseph Gilgun in The Last Witch Hunter last night, and thought he was woefully underused.

Big chunk of them are in the Warcraft movie.

It actually took me out of the Warcraft movie a bit watching Jesse and Tulip talk about orcs and stuff. Super distracting.

Also, did anyone else hate Emiliy? She was such a weird mix of values and decisions, I didn't really understand half of the motivations. I mean, one thing is to pity f*ck the Mayor, but feeding him to Cassidy? Yikes...

IMO, she was constantly being stalked by him, showing up at her house. Classic case of not taking no for an answer. I guess she had enough after years of it.

Perfect way to destroy Annville.

Holy sh*t, that last episode was just f*cking bonkers.

Any thoughts/guesses on which Annville residents survived?

The Sheriff seems like an obvious option, since his and Eugene's arcs are left unfinished.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Holy sh*t, that last episode was just f*cking bonkers.

Any thoughts/guesses on which Annville residents survived?

The Sheriff seems like an obvious option, since his and Eugene's arcs are left unfinished.

Kind of hoping that Emily survived, she just now got some of that edge that would build her character. Probably unlikely.

someone posted earlier that the creators/showrunners confirmed it's a clean slate. It's supposed to allow our three 'heroes' to start afresh. All residents are gone.

I'm sure this will be subject to popular demand, I can't imagine the show runners letting Jackie Earle Hayes go just like that. He was a BRILLIANT part of the show.

Only they can't start entirely afresh with Eugene occupying that spot in Jesse's psyche.

Well, it's not like Eugene was in the blast zone at the time. He'll be back, I'm sure.

Yeah I believe the news reporter says the explosion was so big that anything within its radius would be gone.

Finished this the other day. Damn....

Not knowing much about the comic, except that it's from the dark period of catoonish, wannabee mature 'edginess' I wasn't very hopeful, but it was pretty much perfection.

Motivations were believable, characters were even inconsistent in ways that feel right. They weren't scared to slow the pace down to allow the weirdness to breathe, the humour was beautifully dark. The violence wasn't too gratuitous while still being unflinching. The fight with the Seraph in the motel, holy crap. And the ending, oh man the ending.

Oh yeah!

Yep! I am stoked for the new season.

Caught the first episode since it's now up on Hulu - I have no experience with the source material, but enjoyed the pilot immensely. Several "WTF did I just see??!" moments.

The source material will put anything they put on screen to shame, tremendously.

I have the entire run in graphic novel form and absolutely loved every sick and twisted moment.

I think this is one of the rare moments where I like the show better than the source material. The comic is good but it's very unfocused, there's practically no character growth, and even though it's barely twenty years old large parts of it haven't aged well.

cartoonin wrote:

The source material will put anything they put on screen to shame, tremendously.

I have the entire run in graphic novel form and absolutely loved every sick and twisted moment.

I love (and own) the comics, but I'm really liking the direction they are taking with the show. I don't think I'd want to watch a direct adaptation of the comic.

Spoiler:

If only to avoid seeing Odin's pastime.

The first two episode of season 2 were great.

So good! That musical montage.

I was actually a bit down on season 2 until the most recent episode (ep. 4), I loved pretty much everything about it and it feels a lot more like the madness of the last few eps of season 1 than the previous three meandering, unfocused episodes. I especially loved the informercial with Frankie Muniz. Also tired Hitler being bullied by a teenager.

Oh man, Herr Starr was great in this episode.

Agreed!

"Do you validate parking?"

I knew that last test would end the way it did! I saw it coming.

Finished season 1 on Netflix and itching to watch Season 2 but don't have cable. Anyone know where I can stream it?

Oh wait, apparently AMC has full episodes now on their website? I'm at work so it's partially blocked but am I seeing that correctly?

Sydhart wrote:

Finished season 1 on Netflix and itching to watch Season 2 but don't have cable. Anyone know where I can stream it?

Oh wait, apparently AMC has full episodes now on their website? I'm at work so it's partially blocked but am I seeing that correctly?

Correct, AMC had all episodes of this season last I checked.

maverickz wrote:

I knew that last test would end the way it did! I saw it coming.

Yeah. Called it out loud the moment they zoomed out to show the guy shooting. Also, called the balcony outcome the moment they walked out. And the village the moment he said it's resolved.

MoonDragon wrote:
maverickz wrote:

I knew that last test would end the way it did! I saw it coming.

Yeah. Called it out loud the moment they zoomed out to show the guy shooting. Also, called the balcony outcome the moment they walked out. And the village the moment he said it's resolved.

..... are you a wizard?

Sometimes...

Spoilerish comic info...

It's been interesting seeing how things change from the comics. The way the show portrayed Jesse's history, I was sure that they were dropping his family backstory... but then out of the blue he mentioned his family name to the store owner in New Orleansm, and in a way packed full of meaning. So I guess that means we'll meet them eventually (they're shuffling the order of events a lot, with Quincannon being at the start of the series).

The Saint of Killers changes were meh. His name makes no sense now. And if he's permanently out of the picture, it's going to make some big changes to the Grail storyline.