04-03-2017, 06:24 PM
"Preacher" has been mentioned in a couple other threads but, since I binge-watched the season I thought it deserved its own space.
After watchig season 1 I went back and read the graphic novels.
They are two different animals.
Fanboys are right when they say the show is similar to the comics only in name. The characters and core elements were imported into a new environment and history. But that's OK. The TV show was well written and well acted. There were a few differences I thought were important.
"Arseface" is Sheriff Hugo Root's son (Eugene). In the comic, Hugo Root is a nasty, homophobic, racist cop. He blames any mysterious deaths on "nigger martians". He is a horrible human being. His son enters into a suicide pact with a similarly abused high-school friend to kill themselves like their idol, Kurt Cobain. His friend succeeds but he just blows his jaw off.
On the TV show he is portrayed as a murderer who failed to kill himself after being rejected by his girlfriend.
This is huge. He goes from being a sympathetic, abused kid to a psycho killer.
That being said, if Garth Ennis is truly involved I will accept the changes that embrace the spirit of the story and help the script evolve.
Hopefully there's a season 2.
After watchig season 1 I went back and read the graphic novels.
They are two different animals.
Fanboys are right when they say the show is similar to the comics only in name. The characters and core elements were imported into a new environment and history. But that's OK. The TV show was well written and well acted. There were a few differences I thought were important.
"Arseface" is Sheriff Hugo Root's son (Eugene). In the comic, Hugo Root is a nasty, homophobic, racist cop. He blames any mysterious deaths on "nigger martians". He is a horrible human being. His son enters into a suicide pact with a similarly abused high-school friend to kill themselves like their idol, Kurt Cobain. His friend succeeds but he just blows his jaw off.
On the TV show he is portrayed as a murderer who failed to kill himself after being rejected by his girlfriend.
This is huge. He goes from being a sympathetic, abused kid to a psycho killer.
That being said, if Garth Ennis is truly involved I will accept the changes that embrace the spirit of the story and help the script evolve.
Hopefully there's a season 2.
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