Especially since they made that joke in the comic?
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Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre AdventureI can honestly say that I feel like this adaptation missed the point. Either that or it just wasn't what I wanted it to be. It ended up being exactly what I thought it was going to be based upon the trailer. Andrews will survive and I'm not sure if I will continue to watch this show. The sardonic feel of the comics is there, but I just don't think it will be nearly as interesting with the setup put forward.
Having not read the original (it's on my "I'll eventually get to it" list along with From Hell, Bone, and The Walking Dead), but having seen the first episodes, I'm definitely hooked.
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Fair warning for if/when you do read the comics. They are quite different.
Like, I'm not sure what overall plot elements this series is retaining aside from the obvious ones, but the tone and story of the comic is quite a bit darker.
Most obviously, the congregation gets nuked by the thing that gives Jesse The Word. So pretty much 90% of the characters on the show with the exception of Arseface are dead in canon.
So yeah, it seems like they wanted the show to be more episodic and tied to a sense of place, with a big ensemble cast. I can see where they're coming from, with hits like Breaking Bad and AMC's own The Walking Dead in recent memory (I could see the story moving out of Anvil, TX eventually, but not before the end of the current season).
I'm missing those elements of Walking the Earth from the comics, though, in part because there aren't many series in any medium using what used to be a pretty standard premise. Seriously, just because Supernatural did it doesn't mean no one else can.
Also, what nobody seems to mention about the comic, and Garth Ennis's work in general lately— it was dark, violent, deliberately offensive, sure, but it was also very funny, and not just Cassidy, either. The degree to which the comic was gory, vulgar, and irreverent was always a big stumbling block to why it was considered unfilmable, after all. They seem to have gotten around that by treating the subject matter more seriously, treating its subjects with greater sympathy rather than mockery. Which isn't bad in and of itself, but Preacher was made with shock value in mind, to laugh in the face of horror, to be entertaining rather than grim— and then to be surprisingly, poignantly humane beyond that. I have to wonder if it all won't collapse under its own weight without that release valve. Especially given that they're seemingly trying to combine every single arc of the comic into a single season.
Seriously, I kinda love this cast, but this is not the tone I'd hoped for (yet).
I'm really loving this show so far, though I never read the comics.
Don't worry, I'm sure that a Jerk Ass Realization is coming soon.
Apparently this season was supposed to serve as a prologue of sorts to the story written in the comics. A different perspective of sorts, and still a much different continuity.
Still, this was a drastic departure from the comics, that's for damn sure.
I'm not sure that I like the rather huge shift in that Jessie feels responsible for his father's death because he prayed for it. When then gets him all bent out of shape about everything. When you look at Jessie in the original comic he does come off as a Flat Character in some regards in that he's portrayed as very much above the influence in some regards, but this might have been too hard of a 180 for some people to stomach.

Probably to draw in a more 'mainstream' audience.
I fully expect the reveal of Genesis to be played as a total suprise.
edited 2nd Nov '15 7:52:24 PM by zam