Mopey Dick - his dick be mopin'

yes I realise Ennis had input; to what extent I don't know.
but it definitely doesn't evoke the spirit of Preacher for me, obviously.. glad that you're enjoying though!

the point is fandom doesn't necessarily make a person an ideal candidate to adapt the work that they idolize.
And I'm not sure to what extent the showrunners do actually understand the source material; from what I've seen so far they have made some strange choices and misjudged the tone by a long way..

yeah I will probably watch this ep, but if it's as problematic as the review suggests then I'll probably bail too; just too much good stuff to watch without committing to something that just doesn't work for me.

despite Cormac McCarthy himself saying he'd be willing to adapt Blood Meridian for a movie, I just don't think Blood Meridian could be done well in any visual medium.

ding ding; yup, nice catch ..

Did anyone pick up on the Blood Meridian reference?

a lot of people seem to disagree - I don't think I've ever seen Dominic Cooper in anything before that I'm aware of, but I've liked his performance a lot.
Comic-book Custer was cocky as hell; they've dialed it back a bit here and it works so far, for me anyway .. Joseph Gilgun is absolutely perfect as Cassidy, and…

Dawkins is angry because god doesn't just magically stop everything bad happening?
I think he's angry because people believe god can affect anything whatsoever.
Dawkins is a humourless arse, but he's right.

Clancy Brown too old?

Yes.
Preacher is a shaggy road-story.
If they didn't have the budget to put the show on the road then they should have thought twice about adapting it.

I've read the comics and loved them, but I can totally see how someone coming to the show without the foreknowledge that the readers have acquired would be confused.

I've read the comics and I'm still not sure I'll stick with the show.

that's really well said; I had been exposed to a lot of hype surrounding D9 and was looking forward to it, only to be reminded that people will cheer mindlessly for anything with special effects and violence - lazy and ugly is the perfect description of a film that took a reasonably good premise and completely…

Agreed; I can never understand all the praise it garnered.
It looked promising for maybe the first 15 minutes and then quickly degenerated into shite.
Sharlto Copley is friggin' terrible, too.

that is one of the funniest sight gags the Coens have pulled off .. you ask Stan Grossman, he'll tell ya the same thing.

yah, but no Tina = no Chris Frantz.

Me too; I love Talking Heads.
But watch their Rock n Roll Hall of Fame performance.
It was nice enough I suppose, but a little clunky, not very funky and a glimpse at what a dimmed Talking Heads might look like; not as compelling as our memories of them at their height.

As a huuuuge, longtime fan of Talking Heads, I would be way beyond shocked to ever learn they had reformed.

Agree; nothing gets a genuine feeling of disturbed fright out of me like David Lynch.
With simple stuff like lighting, sound design and angles he can conjure up nightmares; some of the early scenes of Lost Highway with Pullman and Arquette ghosting around their drab apartment are downright scary despite not a lot…