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Taintrunner posted:Great episode. My guess is this is only temporary because the Saint is locked in there with all the gear - including the soul extractor. Dude wasn't particularly sure what a television is, I'm fairly certain, so I'll find it pretty hilarious if he figures out how to use the soul extractor on himself.
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Does it even matter if the SoK's gets out? He's always going to be vulnerable to Genesis with a soul? He's not Milhouse.
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Jul 27, 2017 10:55
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Is it ever explained why he can track uses of Genesis anyways? Is it an ability the angels gave him somehow to aid in hunting down Jesse or is it some innate thing he has? Does it have to do with not having a soul?
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Jul 27, 2017 16:52
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Not NASA. SpaceX. He wouldn't need oxygen or life support, just a rocket strong enough to get him to Mars and crash land him into it. Pretty sure Elon Musk would play himself. I think the walls and refridgerator door just slowed it down enough it happened to come to rest in the yogurt. Not too complicated. The bullet did travel through like 6 walls. Dave Syndrome posted:the yoghurt is simply boiling because the bullet is hot.
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Jul 27, 2017 16:54
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Krispy Kareem posted:Does it even matter if the SoK's gets out? He's always going to be vulnerable to Genesis with a soul? He's not Milhouse. He was vulnerable to it, period, in the comics. He's still a very big problem.
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Jul 27, 2017 20:45
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Yeah, even if you can tell the SoK directly to leave you alone, there's still a whole bunch of other ways he could exert control by holding innocent people hostage and causing general mayhem. Does Genesis induce expire after awhile though? He should have told him not to try to escape the truck  .
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Jul 27, 2017 21:52
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bull3964 posted:Does Genesis induce expire after awhile though? He should have told him not to try to escape the truck In the comics it doesn't. In the show no one lives long enough to find out. Also what's the fun in telling him not to escape? It's not punishment if he doesn't want to leave.
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Jul 27, 2017 22:02
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bull3964 posted:
There's a few points in the book where it's clear that you do exactly what Jesse says to do. A major plot point involves him sentencing the guy to count the grains of sand on a beach, and "Hell, I'll let you stop at a million", which comes back around years later to show the character rail thin, teeth missing, hair grown out, finally getting to a million. One of my favorites is Jesse yelling at some dudes to run off and one looks at the other and says "...f-f- forever?".
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Jul 27, 2017 23:22
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Jul 27, 2017 23:41
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I still want to see Jesse say "Eat it" to some dude pointing a gun at him. So the goon busts out all his teeth trying to eat the gun. Not a spoiler but it is from the comic.
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Jul 27, 2017 23:58
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Data Graham posted:while they're booking it full tilt of course And of course I had to find it for context. 
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Jul 28, 2017 00:05
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The question is... Do you ever stop loving yourself?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Well, as I recall, any wound inflicted by the SoK's Walker Colts is lethal, and the rounds even went through tank armor in the comics, so 1800s masonry should be no problem. The one thing that seems they left out from the comics is that whenever he fires at a target, he hits his mark. Also, and I had to look this one up, they left out the part where if someone other than the SoK lays a hand on the Walkers, they see the 'mutilated spirits of the victims of the SoK.' It does appear that they never miss, poo poo just gets in the way a few times. Like the bullet stuck in the car at the gas station that would have probably hit Tulip (or whoever was driving) and another time the SoK shoots at Jesse just to have a truck driver get in the way and it splatter him instead.
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AbbadonOfHell posted:It does appear that they never miss, poo poo just gets in the way a few times. Like the bullet stuck in the car at the gas station that would have probably hit Tulip (or whoever was driving) and another time the SoK shoots at Jesse just to have a truck driver get in the way and it splatter him instead. There's a whole lot of scattershotting in the first showdown on the highway. I'm fine with that change from the comic, a Gunslinger who only shoots a few times is scary, but they needed to ramp up how tough he was. Now, the shooting the intestines out of a dude and Tulip then siphoning gas through said intestine, that was dumb. For non comic people who want to know a bit more about the Saint (spoiling even though it looks like they're going a bit different direction, but major spoilers if not) his bullets were deadly one-hit one kill because he was technically the Angel of Death. He met the original Angel of Death in Hell, and agreed to take his place. They melted down the Angel's sword to make his Colts, and thus "any shot fired from them would kill it's target, no matter who the target." Which led to this when Satan mouthed off...  It seems they're going a pretty different direction with him just being a badass stuck in Hell, though I do think they're headed the direction of (again, book spoilers)God causing his delay getting back to his wife because he felt the world "needed" a Saint of Killers. They made sure to mention "He was delayed by the great storm of 1866" when they were doing their research.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Does it even matter if the SoK's gets out? He's always going to be vulnerable to Genesis with a soul? He's not Milhouse. They said in the ep that if the soul isn't a match, the body would eventually reject it. My guess is once the Saint's body finally rejects the soul, he's going to easily punch his way out of that armored truck.
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Davros1 posted:They said in the ep that if the soul isn't a match, the body would eventually reject it. My guess is once the Saint's body finally rejects the soul, he's going to easily punch his way out of that armored truck. I couldn't make out the number on the fake soul-checker, but I think Jesse's ended in "A" and SoK's ended in "C," but the numbers matched. I think the more likely scenario is that the higher the percentage of the soul is harvested, the longer the effect. So since Jesse only gave 1%, it's not going to last long. It would also make sense that Happy Happy Soul Go would deal in a temporary extension on life, ensuring their clients keep coming back and referring new ones their way. Here's hoping they don't delve too much into the "Soul DNA" thing and make the stupid decision to say that Jesse and thus his family is somehow connected to the SoK by blood or that they were always ~Divinely gifted~ or something. This was a cute aside, but I don't want any loving Midichlorians in my Preacher. The :heh: thing is that evidently New Orleans is a hub for soul traffic because the poor people down there are so utterly broken that they don't even give splitting their souls a second thought.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Does it even matter if the SoK's gets out? He's always going to be vulnerable to Genesis with a soul? He's not Milhouse. The Voice has limits, if he snipes Jesse from far away and he doesn't see it coming he's toast. Saint almost had him when they first encountered him if not for all the cars on the road. Just gotta ambush him. Also poo poo, Saint may be smart enough to just buy some earmuffs or something and then hunt Jesse down.
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Zaphod42 posted:The Voice has limits, if he snipes Jesse from far away and he doesn't see it coming he's toast. Saint almost had him when they first encountered him if not for all the cars on the road. Just gotta ambush him. Or stab out his eardrums because 'badass' and Jesse's stupid enough to keep using The Voice, meaning he'll always know where to go, and not needing to sleep, he'll always have an edge. He's effectively a sentient zombie with a really wicked ranged attack. Also, are *you* a bad enough dude to tell someone who looks like the SoK that he needs to PAY for those earmuffs he just shoplifted? Dude ain't *buying* poo poo, he's TAKING it.
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Zaphod42 posted:Also poo poo, Saint may be smart enough to just buy some earmuffs or something and then hunt Jesse down. What Billy Joel song would the SoK’s listen to? I’m going for the easy answer and ‘Only the Good Die Young’.
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Krispy Kareem posted:What Billy Joel song would the SoK’s listen to? "No Man's Land." There's also "The Ballad of Billy the Kid."
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Jul 30, 2017 04:02
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"We Didn't Start The Fire" Dude's got a lot of history to get caught up on
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Saint of Killers: *learns about World War II* gently caress, and they picked me to do this job? Why can't that guy do it? *returns to Hell* oh.
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Davros1 posted:"We Didn't Start The Fire" That's how I got education of world events before the internet.
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holy lol @ asian kid in 'Atlanta Falcons: Superbowl Champs' t-shirt
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Jesse's hair is out of control
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Aug 1, 2017 02:10
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That was an incredibly convoluted way to rob a bar
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Aug 1, 2017 02:16
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Oh god NOLA vampire time
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Hitting Starr dead on center there
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Gory gory whatahelluvaway to die 
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The Starr stuff was fabulous.
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mallratcal posted:The Starr stuff was fabulous. Too bad the *rest* of the episode was utter dogshit. =/
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That bit with the guys shooting each other for money was... weird. Something felt wrong about that, like... it just didn't work. Also Tulip kissing Cassidy was hosed up. I still don't know how y'all have anything against Cassidy, he's been nothing but a proper mate and Jesse and Tulip just keep loving with the poor guy for no reason. Tulip is borderline making the show unwatchable for me. Starr is amazing though. Cassidy and Dennis is also amazing. I wanna watch the Cassidy and Son show.
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This season's getting better and better. An Atlanta Falcons and Donald Trump reference in the same episode.
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Aug 1, 2017 04:19
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Give me the microfiche, you bitch, or i'll kill you and your family.
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Aug 1, 2017 05:38
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Gonz posted:Give me the microfiche, you bitch, or i'll kill you and your family. I figured it was going to go the way it did, or it was going to be a jump-cut to Starr just bending her over the table with the guys in the background looking on uncomfortably yet approvingly.
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In earlier years I worried that the millennialism angle of Preacher being published prior to 2000 would be an issue with any adaptation that took place afterwards. Like I seemed to remember the comic making a bigger deal out of the then-upcoming Y2K and how that played into apocalyptic scenarios for the Grail. But I guess it really doesn't matter that much after all. E: Ennis couldn't have predicted Trump in any case, probably would have considered it too unbelievable Or the Cubs winning
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Gonz posted:Give me the microfiche, you bitch, or i'll kill you and your family. "And thank you for this... Opportunity" was pretty fuckin' amazing too, I like this guy a lot better then SoK
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They absolutely nailed Starr. I was sold when he broke the guy's combat hold on him and beat him up, but seeing him in the background walking off, getting a bar, coming back and beating in the guy's head with it was absolutely pitch-perfect Herr Starr. I am so happy with how they handled him
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I know this isn't the most serious or plausible show, but that whole recruitment process was really dumb. Especially the way they were just OK with him killing their dudes and other recruits. That isn't the sort of behaviour you want in a recruit for anything! Even assassins have to be restrained enough to only kill the people you want them to kill! And which part of "violent psychopath with poor impulse control" says "leadership potential"?
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