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Ruth Negga is excellent in this.
I think its that blind faith in God that will rock his character to the core, making his morality more like that of the comic as it's upon his own grounds and not the will of a deity meaning he has no real control over himself, when what we know as comic book readers happens.Enjoying the show but the character development is a bit weird for me. Jesse seems to have a strong morality in the comics and that's what makes him different (better?) than the angels. In this he's not in control of Genesis and he's not careful about the repercussions of his actions. Also, his blind faith in God's way is strange. I'm curious to see how they develop his character more.
I don't think there are any rules, because there's a few spoilers openly on the first page. I'm pretty far along reading the comics and i'll try to keep comic talk in spoilers.Is this a thread for discussions about the tv show and comics? I am only watching the show, have not seen the comic before.
Yes and No.Apparently, first season is like a prequel to the comics, second season will start where comics begin.
After reading the comics this feels more like fan fiction to me though.Yes and No.
I'd say most of the show is set up as a prequel with an origin story (for the cowboy from Hell) but they changed a lot of things from the comics.
Spoiler tag in case some people don't want to read the differences but I am avoiding all TV spoilers.
- Jesse's character and sense of morality are very different from the comics but i'm guessing they'll develop this more slowly.
- A character close to Jesse is missing entirely from the show (the cowboy pictured on page 1).
- The comics are extremely critical of religion although some of the recent dialog with Quincannon losing his family and questioning God is more in line with religious themes in the comics.
- Speaking of Odin Quincannon, he comes into the comics much later. Don't google image his name because there are spoilers.
- Jesse's father was a vietnam veteran, not a preacher and this is part of a major story arc (Jesse's origin) in the comics.
- The relationships between Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy are completely different.
- The Sheriff is portrayed as a complete dickhead in the comics. Not the sympathetic father and enabler of assisted death (for the angel) we've seen in the show.
- Arseface never goes to Hell (haven't finished the comics yet so maybe he does later but i doubt it).
- There's other little things but it's either nitpicking or hard to discuss without spoilers
Those aren't criticisms of the show. I think the way they've approached a lot of the source material is quite clever and well executed. The writers have done a fantastic job.
Thanks for avoiding the comic spoilers, i don't think I've made to the crazy part of the comics you mentioned. I can definitely understand why you feel that way about the show because that's exactly how i felt after the first few episodes. The set up of the 3 main characters is very different from what I was expecting.After reading the comics this feels more like fan fiction to me though.
It's a feeling I just cant shake. The characters and their arc of where they began was perfect in the comics so the rewriting of all that just seems off to me no matter how good the writing is.
No real spoilers here but the first half of the comic run doesn't need to be touched imo, the second half is beyond ridiculous ( for a subject matter like this that is reallllly ridiculous) so that is where the rewriting should have came in.
This is the sane part of the story.
Thanks! Is there a table read one too? If there is I couldn't find it.These Comic Con vids are worth a watch just for Joe Gilgun.
I'm not sure you have ignored it. Anyway, "ill informed"? I watch the show like anyone else. What am I missing? What did you disagree with?Ignoring parkthebuslads ill informed and useless comments an OK episode, a bit filler for me though and the repeating sequence went on for to long. I want them to get on with the grail story line.