Preacher vs. True Blood

[Joe Washington]

If Preacher had become a HBO series, it would have better or worst than True Blood? Would it have more of an audience?

 

[OmahaStar]

Another "what if?" post from JW? Oh, here we go. Obviously, Preacher would have been worse (it is not possible to have a "worst" if there are only two choices), because the Charlaine Harris books are the source material for True Blood. And Charlaine is made of 100% pure awesome.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

JW loves his hypothetical threads huh?
I'm not too familiar with Preacher, but from I've read it would tote along the same lines of a dark premise similar toTrue Blood

 

[Nerys Myk]

Dark? Preacher is pitch black!!!!

 

[Joe Washington]

Obviously it would be dark. On top of twisted, funny, thrilling, emotional, and romantic. And HBO would be the perfect place for a show like that. Either HBO or Showtime or FX.

I could just imagine the teams of fans being divided and pitted aganist each other over who should Tulip end up with. Team Jesse vs. Team Cassidy.

 

[Venardhi]

I found season 2 of True Blood to be god awful, and the first season to be meerly an entertaining but flawed guilty pleasure, so I'll go out and say that I suspect Preacher would have been quite a bit better, having only read a small fraction of it.

Of coure, Game of Thrones is gonna blow both out of the water come next spring.

 

[Roger Wilco]

I never thought the Preacher series would have been a good idea. Some stories simply work better in one medium than another, and I just don't see how a live action tv show of Preacher could improve on the comic in any way.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I never thought the Preacher series would have been a good idea. Some stories simply work better in one medium than another, and I just don't see how a live action tv show of Preacher could improve on the comic in any way.

The protests, letter writing campaigns and vitriol would be entertaining, though.