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How many comic fans like this show?

posted 8 years ago by ZenShark
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I'm a huge fan of the comic and really wanted to love this show. As it stands, the show is decidedly average. It's a decent enough time pass, but it's no where close to greatness.

To me it seems like a grade school version of the comic. Even though the comic was way over the top, it had a thick layer of subtext and social commentary that seems to be entirely stripped from the show.

Most of the changes made are either worse, or fundamentally alter the story and characters from the comic.

Jesse and Tulip are nothing like the comic at all.

[–] matt197981 8 years ago

I watched the first two episodes on Netflix a few days ago and found myself eeally disappointed, it just isn't good. Far to much was changed around the only good thing about the show is Cassidy is still awesome but it is not enough to keep me watching.

[–] complex_passions 8 years ago

Been a massive fan of the comics for a few years now. I cannot stand the show.

When this was announced, I remained cautiously optimistic. For sure a faithful adaptation was highly unlikely. The gore and depravity are a bit over the top, and much of it would either be too costly to reproduce or wouldn't translate as well in live action. In spite of the obvious constraints, the first episode was spectacular. Exceeded all expectations.

Then somehow everything went to *beep* Of all the potential problems I foresaw in a Preacher TV series, mind-numbing boredom just was not one of them. I've tried to watch the last episode three times and struggle to stay awake. I'm not loving the changes to the main characters and plot at all, but these would be tolerable if the show was at least consistently entertaining.

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[–] twelveboar 8 years ago

Even trying to ignore the changes and how much of a wasted opportunity this was, the show is mediocre at best. There's simply no flair or identity to it. The script isn't smart enough to be memorable, nor has any kind of fun rhythm to it (bar perhaps Cassidy, yet his 100 year homespun wit seems relegated to lazy pop culture nuggets about the Big Lebowski). Visually it doesn't have much going for it either: Nice credit sequence and booming title cards but beyond that? Yellow filter, close ups and bad sets. Breaking Bad did New Mexico and made it look beautiful and lonely. Preacher has Texas and it looks... Like the corner of a church in a weird yellow light. Even scenes more or less taken from the comic, in this case Jesse's dad getting shot- are so ham-fisted and directed with such dull-ness they lose all impact. The show just seems like a run of the mill, cheap, 'supernatural' thriller in the same vein as any other of the many comic book adaptations doing the rounds at the moment. Only a bit more violent.

[–] typhoon0000 8 years ago

Let's be honest, the comic isn't god tier level either. Horrible drawing style coupled with an okay story.
The show is doing just fine...

Except for Tulip

[–] twelveboar 8 years ago

What's wrong with the artwork? Dillon's best work was in the 80s and he got a bit lazy toward the end of Preacher, sure, but the man's a solid workhorse when it comes to doing this stuff.

[–] magicmtn 8 years ago

I love both. Sue me.

[–] hoove 8 years ago

I like the comic book, but I find the show boring.

[–] PapaMihel 8 years ago

It's dull.

[–] lazlopanaflex 8 years ago

The OP prompted me to dig out the Trades for a re-read and I'm up to issue 20 and loving it like I did 20 years ago! Just finished episode 6 of the TV show and think I'll give up and read the entire run.

[–] Phillip Marlowe 8 years ago

I liked the comic a lot (though not nearly as much as I loved Ennis' The Boys, which is far better IMO), but I found this show to be unwatchable. I tried really hard to like it, but two thirds through Episode 3, I just decided that life was too short to spend watching this--especially when there is so much great TV today that I could never watch it all. It's not that its moving at a snail's pace--so did/do Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and they are both riveting. It's not that its dramatically altered from the comic book--iZombie has almost nothing in common with the comic it's supposedly based on but the title and a portion of the protagonist's premise, but it's a great show. But this seems little more than a procession of bizarre happenings and a gallery of grotesqueries. Nothing ties them together and, worse, the characters are not interesting or fun to watch. They're just annoying. The one almost fun character to watch, Ruth Negga's Tulip, was still more annoying than anything else. As i said, life's too short.

[–] PapaMihel 8 years ago

not nearly as much as I loved Ennis' The Boys, which is far better IMO

Oh yeah!

[–] cicerobuck 8 years ago

The Boys is what made me quit an Ennis Book for the first time since his very first Crisis days, so to each his own...

[–] nickm2 8 years ago

Now I ain't read the comic but from the show (which may or may not be an accurate rendition) I'm pretty sure Ennis don't know 'jack' about Texas or US History...and I've also read some 'Guardian' stories RE: guns in the US & how we're all addicted to over the counter opiates & we should all be disarmed for our own good, so I'm pretty sure THEY don't know jack either.

Which has made me cautious about reading US news stories about what's going on in Europe & the rest of the world.

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[–] hoove 8 years ago

Forget the show and read the comic.

[–] draivin 8 years ago

Love both the comic and show, don't much care for the purists who don't.

PS: This horse has been beaten beyond to death. Let it go and don't watch it.

I have EXORCISED the demon

[–] javier1976 8 years ago

It´s an abomination, they´ve changed absolutely everything and 8 episodes in basically nothing in the show happened in the comic.

[–] hoove 8 years ago

Last night I watched the sixth episode - great hotel scene and then... pure boredom.

[–] tintin1-2 8 years ago

Because it's a kind of a prequel to the comics.

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