Preacher (TV Series)...

[DrRocka]

You say potato, I say potahtoe.... 

[Tiplodocus]

Episode 3 was very boring. Lots of scenes that went nowhere and did nothing but foreshadow for fans.

[Tiplodocus]

Am I the only one watching? Another slow episode. This is making BETTER CALL SAUL look fast-paced.

[radiator]

Still need to catch up on the last two eps...

[blackmocco]

It's one boring fucking show. I'm done.

[radiator]

Really? Wow. I'm kind of dreading watching eps 3 and 4 now... 

[DrRocka]

I'm out after 3, continual bloody exposition and by God, Tulip's annoying.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

I don't remember the comic being this slow.

[Theblazeuk]

Welp I had little to say about 3, will let you know when I see 4.

[Satanist]

If you all want an exciting, action packed show watch Banshee, its like a porn version of the A-Team. Its terrible.

I'm loving this show but then I also really like BETTER CALL SAUL.

[Tiplodocus]

I don't mind slow. And some of the little bits of character exposition are well done.

But Episodes 3 and 4 seem to have taken the with and inventiveness and pace that was in Episodes 1 and 2 and said "Fuck it, we don't need those".  I think it's the contrast that has got to me.

[Satanist]

Yeah I know what you mean but I think it would also get quite tiresome if it was crash,bang, whallop week in week out. I see the same said about GoT (what no murders this week) and with TWD (what no zombies this week).

Mind we're not even at the half way stage so I'm sure it'll ramp up again.

Also Dr-X its been a while since I read them but I remember the comic arc set in nam which runs for a good few issues and all it really tells you is where Jesses lighter came from and that Ennis really wanted to write war comics.

[Keef Monkey]

Episodes 3&4 have felt a little less manic but there's still some pretty big stuff going on in each episode. We're only 4 episodes in and if you think about all the elements they've introduced it's actually not moving very slowly at all. There was a line last night from Cassidy that struck me as being a nod to comic readers wanting them to get on the move ('C'mon Jesse, roadtrip! You know that's where this is going!'), but I think it's doing a good job of easing things in fairly steadily.

I've never really gotten the criticism of Better Call Saul (which I love) being slow either, I know people who complain that nothing happened in an episode because there maybe wasn't a big plot revelation or what they would class as story progression, when the sheer amount of character development that is happening in every episode of that show is pretty amazing. I guess to some folk that's a whole load of talking and 'nothing happening', but there's tons happening. When a colleague comes in the morning after an episode and complains that 'nothing happened in Better Call Saul last night' I always just wonder if they're watching the wrong show, because the minutia of the characters and interactions are what that show is all about, and if that's not floating your boat then it probably isn't the show for you. I guess Breaking Bad had more weekly shocks so perhaps that's what they're after, but BCS is a whole other beast.

Each to their own I guess (and I'm not implying that Preacher has the same level of deep dive character development as BCS, just saw that show mentioned and wanted to throw my tuppence in!).

[radiator]

I've never really gotten the criticism of Better Call Saul (which I love) being slow either, I know people who complain that nothing happened in an episode because there maybe wasn't a big plot revelation or what they would class as story progression, when the sheer amount of character development that is happening in every episode of that show is pretty amazing. I guess to some folk that's a whole load of talking and 'nothing happening', but there's tons happening. When a colleague comes in the morning after an episode and complains that 'nothing happened in Better Call Saul last night' I always just wonder if they're watching the wrong show, because the minutia of the characters and interactions are what that show is all about, and if that's not floating your boat then it probably isn't the show for you. I guess Breaking Bad had more weekly shocks so perhaps that's what they're after, but BCS is a whole other beast.

Ha, I remember the same being said about Mad Men week in, week out, which was always utterly baffling to me. Yeah, it rarely had big soap opera theatrics or melodrama, but there was so much 'real' drama in that show - I found every single episode absolutely gripping.

The same is also regularly said of midseason Game of Thrones episodes ("boring, slow, nothing happening...."), and it often makes me wonder if others watch the show for the same reasons I do. GoT is a show about characters first and foremost, and those big dramatic twists only have any weight because we care about them. Wall to wall spectacle would make a very dull watch indeed (for me at least).

As you say Keef, each to their own.

[Jim_Campbell]

The same is also regularly said of midseason Game of Thrones episodes ("boring, slow, nothing happening...."), and it often makes me wonder if others watch the show for the same reasons I do. GoT is a show about characters first and foremost, and those big dramatic twists only have any weight because we care about them. Wall to wall spectacle would make a very dull watch indeed (for me at least).

Not only that, there's a usual chorus of moaning right from the start. GoT fans seem to suffer from amnesia at the start of every new season, because they're unable to recall that the awesome stuff at the back end of each season only bloody works because of the careful way the pieces are moved into place in the early episodes.

Cheers

Jim