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RE: The True Blood thing: I also hope it does not go that way, and almost said as much in my original post. <<shudders>>

Ummm, I loved it. What everyone is saying is true--its not following the comic--its more of an adaptation of the idea. Kind of like True Blood. But I have to say, I am genuinely excited to see what comes next. I have a few criticisms but nothing major. All in all this show is a blast. Comic spoilers

slight book spoilers

IT WAS AMAZING. Binge watched the entire season this weekend. Fucking fantastic.

WHITE. BEAR.

Nice gif DOJ. As this show goes on, I'll have to be sure not to check this thread before breakfast again.

Theories on who the hell I know, just wondering what unspoiled people think.

Response to DOJ's book stuff.

Well, how did everyone like them apples??

Too much gore? yeah, because Preacher is soooo much more gory than heads on spikes or or that episode of the Sopranos where dude gets beheaded. Or everything on True Blood ever. Or the entirety of The Wire etc etc etc. WTF?!

Eh...I have a similar perspective on Theon. Although i don't think he dealt with that conundrum as best he could... The whole story is really about the nature of good and evil and how those two things are never as clear as we would like them to be. There are characters you think are pretty fucking evil--until you meet one that is really evil. Its a story that almost forces you to have compassion for those who are characterized as villians but really, they just make some very poor, sometimes impulsive decisions. Then you find out that the "good" characters actually have created just as much trouble as the alleged villians and it gets really complicated. For example:

Shit's getting real.

The first two episodes have been A LOT of exposition. Don't judge the whole season by that. They have been a little slow--especially I think for non-book readers. I don't find that the series has diverged too much from the books at all--in fact a lot of the dialogue is verbatim. However, they have cut ahead of a lot of the book plot and I understand why. Book 3 is super exciting, and a lot of crazy shit happens--but there are also several hundred pages of characters travelling that would be simply IMPOSSIBLE to render to film/TV. I mean, seriously characters be all over that shit in the book. This would be a 13 season show if we followed each character on every step of their epic journeys that were documented in book 3. So they show skipped a lot of travelling stuff and brought us right up to speed with the main action. I think this Sunday's episode is going to start to get really good...

I just discovered Little Britain! AWESOME. I know I am behind, but that is one hilarious sketch comedy show.