Cassidy was hired to work on the plane, but when he went to the bathroom he found that Bible with all the weird stuff scrawled in it, which indicated to him that the men were part of a secretive organization that wants to kill him. Possibly because he’s a vampire, but maybe also because he seems to be working with some organization of his own indicated by his phone call at the bar. It’s unknown to us for the moment who exactly they are, or how Cassidy would know who they are and that they would want to kill him, or why they were flying him somewhere instead of just killing him at the airport or something, but I’m sure that some of the blanks will be filled in as it goes.
Tulip and Jesse knew each other and dated when they were younger, got into various troubles together and split. Tulip’s car scene was a flashback, she’s back in town wanting to get Jesse to run off, but so far he’s not going to. He said in his sermon at the end that he’s going to try harder and be the preacher that they need. But it does seem unlikely he’ll be sticking around in town for too long.
You’ve pretty much got everything right with the force from space and the power and the investigators. I’m sure that will be explained more as the show goes on.
There is just no way i can understand absolutely a single thing Cassidy is saying without closed captioning. This is very annoying. Actually i lie, i did understand his spanish.
He also said something along the lines of, but if this plane is headed to Vegas (I think?), then why are we flying towards the sun? (They likely did because, well, that’s what you do if you want to kill a vampire.) That’s when the killing starts.
And call me juvenile if you want, but damn, I thought that (meaning the pilot ep) was awesome!
“If TJ is south of Vegas why are we flying towards the sun?” he realized they were kidnapping him because they knew he was a Vampire. He thought they were all going to Tiajuana to see things that make donkey shows look tame.
Preacher wasn’t a minor or obscure comic. In the 90s it was more or less THE comic. Also, if I remember right, the cigarette smoking plays a role in the story.
You are wrong. There is no one who was a comic collector in the 90s who would agree with you. It was an adult comic book so sales are low compaired to Spawn and Gen13. But it was not obscure or minor. It was a pillar of the Vertigo Imprint.
Oh crap… tonight?! It’s already here?! As in two days ago?!
Hah! I was so looking forward to this. Feel free to spoil, because I’m not going to read anything until I watch it. How did they do arseface? Don’t answer that, I haven’t seen it yet.
It’s a minor and obscure comic, one of a couple that focuses on the major character smoking, and it’s one of the few being made into a TV show.* Ipso facto. *
Big Tobacco carefully hides it’s funding, that has been well established. http://www.who.int/tobacco/media/en/TobaccoExplained.pdf
By your own numbers above if 20,000 is good then 30,000-50,000 and 50th in sales is at least pretty good. Maybe not outstanding but neither obscure or minor. As mentioned it wasn’t targeted to a younger market so its numbers likely would never be as high as others.
And I find it hard to think that Ennis only had Custer smoke because big tobacco paid him off.
As for a TV show on it the show is produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. They grew up with this stuff. It is exactly the sort of thing they’d want to do. So again I doubt it took big tobacco money to make it happen.
Did you look at what was above it? It’s 50th in sales because it wasn’t being sold to kids under 18 without a parent. That’s a large amount of buyers who weren’t getting it. It outsold the Justice League of America, and if you scroll down your list it was the #2 Trade Paperback sold that year. Also, a top 50 anything is usually considered a hit.
You’re asking to prove a negative, and somehow even if that was possible, I get the impression you’d just say that it was “hidden carefully.”
So, instead of living in your world where Big Tobacco is pulling the strings of every aspect of human life, I think I’m gonna assume that AMC realized that they were having great success with adaptations of edgy / adult comics & graphic novels, and so Preacher was the next one on their list.
I mean, if it shows Jesse wearing jeans, is that proof that the show is secretly being funded by Big Denim?