I have a ton of random thoughts about the season finale & the after show:
Is Deblanc dead? I think so, reason being is he was shot by the Saint of Killers while in hell, not on earth where he can regenerate. I’d like to think Fiore wouldn’t have come back to earth alone if DeBlanc was still alive. Fiore looked incredibly sad when he got off the bus from hell.
I don’t understand Jessie’s thought process. If you’re looking for God, how does traveling around on Earth make sense? The angel said God was missing, but it seems to me that Earth is last place to look for him.
Awesome back story moment finding out that Jessie and Tulip were going to have a baby.
I loved the scenes of Annville falling apart after they were told God is missing. Also ironic that the one person (Quincannon) who believed in the God Of Meat instead of the Christian God was inadvertently responsible for killing the entire town with the methane gas explosion from his power plant.
Cassidy makes this show great. His jokes are hysterical. The Big Lebowski joke in the diner was classic!
The kid getting a selfie of mom smothering vegetative sis. The mascots, having been duking it out since the first, hanging themselves together. Fake God - but still powerful enough to snuff out the sun. The Jesse/Tulip/Carlos backstory. Emily telling her kids that everything was going to be OK just before the town explodes. The guy manning the methane overload kicking the bucket during some kinky sex and letting the town explode. Odin with his ground beef sculpture daughter. Eugene lucks out by riding the explosion out in Hell?
And yeah, after seeing the tall angel show up at the bus stop alone, and the Cowboy killing the unkillable female angel for good, looks like he’s a force to reckon with. And I don’t think Jesse and crew know the town is gone, do they? Seems like they just missed the news flash as they were leaving the diner.
Definitely going to have to watch this episode again, and I also have the Talking Preacher finale recorded.
I loved the finale! It was a great start with the music and then the static shot of Jesse running with police chasing him. The music is always great on the show, but it was perfect in this episode, especially the cover of No Rain when the town was going crazy.
I liked the backstory with Carlos being filled in, and seeing Jesse and Tulip robbing the bank in their fancy bank robbing clothes (and Jesse with his mullet).
It was strange that Cassidy was in the jail cell after we had just seen him with Jesse burying the mayor, I wonder if a scene was cut out, or they just needed him there for the story to talk to the sheriff.
Everything in the church scene was great, but I especially loved after the call, where Emily started playing 96 Tears on her organ with a weird little smile.
Yeah, they could have said something about where they would start looking for God, or why they thought he might be on Earth. But that is what they did in the comics IIRC, so it made some sense to end the season that way.
I loved the Big Lebowski joke, especially since it seemed like they were talking about the craziness at the church at first but it turns out Cassidy is talking about the movie again.
I couldn’t help but thinking that was a very bad set up to not have at least one back up guy, and have it clearer on how to prevent the explosion. But I guess if the whole town was despairing about God being missing there might be a backup guy who would usually come running in who was drunk instead. And it was a clever way to wipe the town off the map like the comic books, and with the symbolism of Annville blowing up from bull shit.
I never watch the Talking “Blank” shows, but I had a friend over to watch the finale, and it was somewhat interesting. Obviously didn’t really give any answers of what’s coming up next, but it was interesting hearing them talk about getting the show made. And Chris Hardwick gave one lucky fan a meat baby like Odin had, and I’m really curious about if she’s going to display it proudly and have to explain to everyone what it is and that she’s not a crazy person or if she’s going to hide it away somewhere and be frightened when she rediscovers it.
Wow, sticking with this show really paid off! They really got things together in the end and made the characters work, without falling into the traps of heroism—I didn’t give them enough credit for that at first.
Like someone upthread, I also thought they’d accidentally dialed hell instead, what with ‘God’ calling himself the star of morning, and the speculations that the ‘angels’ might be Genesis’ sires, and hence, one of them being a demon. I really loved how Cassidy nailed ‘God’ down, though: “I saw you picking your nose!”
So I guess the plan for this season came together: get enough of a basis for it to prove that the concept works to gather the necessary funds to get it on the road, where it belongs. I can’t wait for next season!
Rewatched it again tonite - I think the entire episode, the entire season actually just flowed so well they are ‘all’ my favorite parts - its the whole story all fit together.
Probably my ‘favorite’ part was when Emily fed Cassidy the Mayor.
Likely my least favorite was seeing Fiore sitting alone, but I honestly don’t think thats the last we see of DeBlanck.
But really - the whole thing just came together to a fabulous finale - can’t wait for season 2.
It certainly is a well told tale. Lots of mystery as to WTF is happening, but it all comes together nicely. Heroes are not always virtuous and villains are intriguing—the story of the modern antihero. This story has legs.
And yes I agree Fiore looked so pathetic at the bus stop.
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IIRC, Substitute God said something like “Maybe he’s down there! Have you seen Him?” when Jesse asked him where the real God was. Jesse wants some answers from God, and he has to start somewhere - Heaven obviously don’t know whereto look for Him, and he doesn’t have any contact with Hell, so he’s got to find someone or something on Earth that can point him in the right direction. My guess - he’s going to go after the cult that tried to kill Cassidy back in the first episode, which is probably going to turn out to be the Grail.
I loved the exchange she had with her kid in the final episode, which really showed the extent to which she’d embraced her dark side over the course of the season.
Kid: “Should we save a seat for Miles?”
Emily: “Miles isn’t coming.”
Kid: “He doesn’t want to meet God?”
Emily: “He’s meeting Him somewhere else.”
I can only imagine how she’d end up if she somehow survived the explosion.
That was probably a consideration but their stated reason is that just wanted to take time to build up the characters. Apparently, this entire season was only about 2 pages in the comics and they thought that was not good for a television audience.
Loved the fake God part. At first I was thinking “ok, this is a little hokey and anti-climactic” until it slowly dawned on me that it was bullshitty on purpose. Good stuff.
I dunno. I read somewhere the writers said they wouldn’t shy away from putting God in the show. They kinda pussied out. The “God is missing” schtick is kinda cliche. Put the real God in the show, have him be a fuck up and let Preacher kick him in the nuts.
But the whole road trip (i.e. future seasons) is about trying to find God. It’s not pussying out at all -they were setting up the quest. They no doubt plan to introduce him at a later date.
Interesting. But I wonder if they inadvertently created a monster: fan displeasure that so many intriguing situations and characters were so summarily wiped out.
I’m also a bit concerned that the “road trip” concept will seem random and conventional, in comparison with the skillfully-established plotlines of the town setting. There are so many road trip stories out there; will this one seem fresh?
Anyway, I’m sold on the show’s first season–beautifully accomplished by the entire production team of writers, producers, actors, and all. I will keep up my hopes for Season Two.
Well, that’s a gamble they were taking. They wanted the town blowing up to mean something, not just be a distant mushroom cloud on the horizon to start the show
I hope so but come on. There’s a hell of a lot of “weird small town” stories out there too. Not like that would have been fresher ground if they’d stayed.
Haven’t read the entire thread because, inexplicably, I don’t want to be completely spoiled yet. (Me? Really? The guy who reads the last couple of pages of a book before reading the rest of it?)
I didn’t see this on TV, because I’ve gotten spoiled by binge watching. First took a look at this last week and as I said in a pit thread, Comcast just sat in a loop of commercials when I tried to watch it on-line.
Until last night. Was up past my bedtime watching the first three episodes, and I’m hooked.
Well, there’s PLENTY of material and even weirder characters left from the comic. I mean, we still haven’t met Herr Starr!
I’m wondering if the bulk of Season 2 will have do to with…
Marie L’Angelle Jesse’s evil fanatic grandmother who, along with T.C. and Billy Bobbs, inbred swamp hicks, who helped her terrorize and torture young Jesse. My guess that they’re the ones who killed Jesse’s father that they’ve been showing in flashbacks.