History Headscratchers / Preacher2016

* In the finale, Cassidy kills Humperdoo to prevent the apocalypse. God asks Jesus to dance in Humperdoo's place as a last resort. Humperdoo wasn't killed by The Saint Of Killers, so his soul either went to Heaven or Hell. We previously saw God being Jesus back from Heaven and Jesse back from Hell, so why doesn't God simply bring Humperdoo back from either Hell or (presumably) Heaven?

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* There are a bunch of clocks in the head office of the Grail. When you have multiple clocks in a row, it's invariably to reference the time in different time zones. For a global organization like the Grail, this would make a lot of sense. However, the clocks are unlabeled and their minute hands are all in different positions, so they're not showing the time in different time zones. What could their purpose possibly be?
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** He's reliving his worst moment over and over again, with all the same emotions that drove his actions to begin with, and powerless to make any changes in spite of knowing that he's stuck in this loop. It's hell.

** The preacher who shoots the Cowboys horse mentions that the Cowboy seemed to love killing more than any man he ever saw before. He might actually enjoy an eternity of killing on an infinite loop.[[/folder]]

** No, I don't think he was aware at all. He is constantly repeating the worse moment of his life and making the same decisions. If he was aware maybe he just gave up trying after hundreds of year. After all that, what would be the point of changing? This isn't the real world. Those aren't his family. Changing things will only last until it resets again. Or hell changes things right back to make things end up even worse no matter what he tries. Maybe that's the real hell for him - FailureIsTheOnlyOption.[[/folder]]

** In the episode in question, he had previously stated that he wouldn't use the word again as long as he could help it. He realizes this is a mistake later, but for the episode he only uses the word to tell the DeBlanc and Fiore to '''COME IN'''. Sure, it would have made more sense, but he was hardly in the right state of mind.

*** He's used it them before, so he knows it works on them.

** You may also notice that police sheriffs are also not meant to, you know, strangle people to death. The scene may have started as a mercy kill but was depicted to show that Root is growing more and more unhinged over the course of these past trails. He's son tried to kill someone and himself, his wife is catatonic, his town is going to hell and the mayor is a coward and the real man in charge an uncaring monster. Preacher escaping after confessing to killing his son was the final straw. So by that point he has officially stopped giving a shit and is starting to lose his mind more and more. His expression as he killed her seemed to show he was expressing all his rage and hatred of everyone in his life. And the horror afterwards show he is terrified of what he did and how willing he was to do it.

* So, MercyKill or not, Root is still the Sherrif. Isn't killing the torture victim highly against regular investigation procedure? Shouldn't he at least try to ask her who did this first?[[/folder]]

* So, MercyKill or not, Root is still the Sherrif. Isn't killing the torture victim highly against regular investigation procedure? Shouldn't he at least try to ask her who did this first?[[/folder]]

So The Cowboy's Hell is living through the last days of his life on repeat, the same things happening over and over and over and over again, until the angels showed up and broke the cycle. That's all fine and dandy, but why did The Cowboy go along with it? What if he did something different, like helped intervene when he saw what was going in that bar the first time, or brought his guns with him to Ratwater, or, hell, not even went there in the first place? Surely he must be aware that the events are repeating, right?
* No, I don't think he was aware at all. He is constantly repeating the worse moment of his life and making the same decisions. If he was aware maybe he just gave up trying after hundreds of year. After all that, what would be the point of changing? This isn't the real world. Those aren't his family. Changing things will only last until it resets again. Or hell changes things right back to make things end up even worse no matter what he tries. Maybe that's the real hell for him - FailureIsTheOnlyOption.

So The Cowboy's Hell is living through the last days of his life on repeat, the same things happening over and over and over and over again, until the angels showed up and broke the cycle. That's all fine and dandy, but why did The Cowboy go along with it? What if he did something different, like helped intervene when he saw what was going in that bar the first time, or brought his guns with him to Ratwater, or, hell, not even went there in the first place? Surely he must be aware that the events are repeating, right?