Since the beginning of time, stories have been swapped from one medium to the next. The Golden Age of Hollywood used the Bible a lot for it's major epics, to NES's Donkey Kong ripping from King Kong, to today's graphic novels and comic adaptations. Over all the years, it's one thing that has never changed about adaptations and that is pissing people off for not being faithful enough or to faithful. I, myself, was immune to this for many years. I never cared for a lot the early game to movie adaptions but not to the point of hatred, and most of the novels I read were not taken to other mediums. Enjoyed the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy. But one adaption finally got to me. I've tried holding my tongue. Look at it from a different way, but still pissed every time I turn this show on.
Based on the first comic series I completed, Preacher is a huge disappointment. My issue with the Preacher television series can be applied to all adaptations of any kind. I know you have to acknowledge the difference between medium formats. It doesn't' have to follow every detail, but every adaption should be thought of how far are we gonna get away from the source material to the point where your saying why should we title this off the property, other than the money. You just get the licensed characters to attract fans of the source and wash your hands of everything else, which Preacher does. And would even be fine with this if these adapt, stories wouldn't be told so lazy and just getting by on the name itself.
It's like let's tell our story, oh wait, people might not buy this so let's just throw the name with characters of a license property, instead of buying that property and saying hey I love this, I tell it a with my own spin.
