"Preacher" Trailer- New AMC Series

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Saw the trailer for this during “The Walking Dead.”

They didn’t really reveal much- not sure about the Cassidy casting, and is Tulip a brunette???

But to me, it looks like the series will pick up where the comics left off, and the comics will be done in flashbacks. I think this because the Kid who approaches Custer says “he used to do things,” then there are flashbacks (to the car thievery and what looks like Genesis seeking Custer out).

And the bar fight scene has a much more self-assured Custer than the one bar figth he was in as a preacher in Annville.

That said, the comics implied that he’d run off with Tulip at the end of it all, and that doesn’t seem to be the case in what looks like the present day as depicted in the trailer.

Thoughts?

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I don’t really think changing Tulip’s hair color is all that important.

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Instead of the characters on the run through the U.S., escaping from several threats, supernatural or not, it’s them in a small town.

That’s a big one.

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I don’t know, trailers can be misleading. Those might not be flashbacks, just the trailer is structured that way to show that though this guy is a preacher, he’s done and will do bad things, and to also show exciting action in the trailer. Gets across what type of show it is.

I do wonder exactly what the show will cover. If it’s super faithful to the comic books, it seems like some of those concerned mother/religious groups would never stop protesting that it’s on air.

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Indeed. I can’t see the sex detectives or fallen angels making it to TV, to name two.

And why, when Jesse and Tulip had anywhere to go and no one to stop them, would they go back to the same type of pissant place where Jesse ended up after his will had been broken?

I’ll watch episode 1 just to see where it’s beginning. After that, I’ll need to be impressed.

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Indeed. Also Custer and Cassidy are clearly meeting for the first time in that cell: “What kind of a Preacher are you?”

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Not necessarily. You could know someone for years and say to them, “What kind of X are you?”, when they do something contrary to their identification with whatever X is.

I do agree that I don’t see this sticking too faithfully to the comics. The stink that would be raised!

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All I know is, if nobody ends up fucking a giant woman made of meat, I’m not watching.

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In the trailer, isn’t the actor playing the Kid, the same actor that plays Peter Pan in the current Geico commercials?

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But isn’t it ‘used to do things before he became a preacher’, thus probably not referring to the things in, well, Preacher?

And I feel like there should be a thread making guesses as to who’ll play Assface…

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Here’s the trailer.

So far I'm not impressed. I'll have to wait when they put out more content. But regardless I'll be checking it out when it starts airing.
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I read it as “before you became a preacher HERE, in this particular town.”

But I could be wrong. The trailer was pretty damn disjointed.

That said, the comic had a beginning and an end. So if you’re going to break containment on that, the only way I can see to do so would be as a continuation.

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I assume they are just going to have the stories come to them, instead of them moving around and finding them.

So Arseface may be the son of the local Sheriff, for instance, and instead of them going to New Orleans and meeting the annoying Goth vampire, he’s the one crashing the town attracted by Cassidy, and Odin may be a local big wig, and Angels, Saint of Killers and Starr go there because of the Genesis.

It could work, I guess.

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The comic started off in a small town. Then they left. What makes you think that the show will; be any different?

I think it refers to his history as a car thief and Frenchman lyncher, which happened before the main comic.

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I just want to see The Saint of Killers on the Throne of Power.

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In the trailer it looks like he breaks the kid’s father arm, is locked in the town’s jail, and there he meets Cassidy. In the comic the scenes devoted to his time as an actual preacher in a small town are just a few pages.

Also, it makes financial sense to have any TV show in a single setting with the same cast of supporting characters.

I could be wrong, of course, and there’s plenty of shows with comparable budgets and characters travelling around (the similarly-themed Supernatural, for instance) but that’s the impression the teaser gave me.

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I really don’t have much desire to watch the show. It’s definitely not going to be actual Preacher, not on non-premium cable (hell, probably not on premium cable either.)

And honestly, I’m not sure how I’d feel about the comics if I went back and read them again now. I think it might be a bit like a twelve year old kid cussing because he can, you know? Maybe I’m wrong, but I doubt I’d like it as much these days.

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Preacher is my favorite comic of all time. The story was incredible and entertaining from issue #1 on. It had a very specific beginning and an unambiguous ending. I don’t see how or why they would try to continue the story.

The most puzzling thing about this trailer is that it doesn’t even hint at what the show is about. It would be like a trailer for The Walking Dead that showed a bunch of people running the Chicago marathon. The whole story revolved around Jesse, the Word of God and his mission to find and kill him. This trailer doesn’t even hint that there is anything special about Jesse. I have no idea how this trailer could possibly spark interest in the show.

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I don’t regard Tulip’s hair color or the Sex Detectives as terribly important.

I do kind of wonder about how they’re going to change Cassidy, if he and Jesse meet in a jail cell.

If the Saint of Killers ain’t in there, we riot.

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Donald Trump?