Truth. Its like their CAPABLE of writing Preacher stories, but law of drama made them stretch it out for Satan know's why? I'm ready for next week, but if they make me wait until season 2 to hear the greatest supervillain name ever I'ma be pissed.
[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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Which is ironic because watching Star Trek Nemesis made it burn when I pee, it was that bad.
I liked it. Like I said before in this thread, divorce it from the source material and treat it as it's own thing.
In terms of the ending I was, I was pissed off that they did a five minute flash-back that felt like an eternity. We were in the middle of a damn plot.
Maybe if it was half as long or after the main plot, but yeah it was not done right. It also annoys me that he is supposed to be a twist when...I know who he is. There's no twist for me to enjoy here, maybe if they were to show him NOT being a grizzled cowboy the whole time I'd be surprised, but I am not.
The show might be aimed at more than people who have read the comic. Pretend you don't know the source material, and ask yourself how a new person would see it.
Yeah...still can't though, I can feign shock as much as the next guy but I'm probably just gonna eye-roll. This ain't no "I am your father" sitch, this is revealing a guy's title.
I'm just saying, why couldn't they make it a twist who he was for the comic fans as well? Show snippets of him having a happy life, growing his hair out, re-becoming the monster he sworn not to be again, and then at ep 9 we'd be all "HOLY CRAP ITS-" and that's the shock. They could've done it better.
Eh, sometimes it works - Flash managed to surprise a lot of readers. On the other hand, most ways they could've surprised readers would've been called bullshit and a betrayal of the original just to be different, and wouldn't be accepted either.
Yeah, but Flash isn't a closed series. Preacher is a series with a beginning and an end. Super hero comics can do whatever they want, they're never ending.
For me, that ending was less about the surprise, and more about the pacing. Like I said above, it just repeated the same information over. And over. And over. There was no build up, no intensity from a plot stand-point. If they really wanted it have an emotional impact, they should have done it from Deblanc and Fiore's perspective; their nervousness about meeting him, their odds that he won't comply. Have them showing up to the deserted town, the empty saloon and reveal the Saint of Killers as the gatekeeper. It would have been shorter, stronger, and since we had already established the angels were on this journey earlier in the episode, it wouldn't have felt like plot whip-lash.
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Speaking as someone who has only read like the first 4 or 5 issues of the comic, I like the show. I really don't know what Yoshi is upset about so I assume it's something that was done in the comic. The pacing of the final scene was a bit off but I didn't mind once the reveal was finished, I mean the guy is in hell... he's been going through that loop for a while now, I think they were just trying to capture that. My wife took a few more episodes to warm to the series than I did but she likes it now too. I think AMC has demonstrated that when they adapt a comic they are going to make it it's own thing, just try and sit back and let the story play out in a new way.
Also HOLY CRAP I still have a pair of those Realistic™ Radio Shack CB walkie-talkies around somewhere.
--Patrick
It's basically three movies going on at once. The kids, the teenagers, and the parents experiences are all heavily influenced by several different films each.
Well there you have it, that the problem, you already knew what was up, while the whole repetition thing worked, at least for me, only when you're slowly figuring out why they keep repeating it over and over... then the legs confirm it... then, at the end, they spell it out in giant letter for the watchers that are mentally deficient.
PREACHER
It took them 11 fucking episodes to get to the beginning of the first issue...fuck this season. I weirdly have hopes for season 2 if its the road-trip I hope for, but fuck this season.
It took them 11 fucking episodes to get to the beginning of the first issue...fuck this season. I weirdly have hopes for season 2 if its the road-trip I hope for, but fuck this season.
But ELEVEN EPISODES?! This is a six episode plot at best!
Including the pilot a.k.a. "Episode 0".
https://www.google.ca/search?q=prea.....69i57j0l5.2395j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The pilot aka Episode 1.
10 episodes.
...well I'm wrong, whatevs. Still too damn long.
Kids - E.T., Stephen King's IT, Goonies
Teens - Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street
Adults - The Thing, Poltergeist, The Crazies
This is INGENIOUS
It's missing two loops.
Last Kingdom is fucking awesome.