Arseface Goes to Hell (Sundowner)
As said, there are many great moments in the first season of Preacher, moments in which the characters are revealed in their entirety. This is one of them.
A stressed out Jesse Custer welcomes Arseface once again. Only this time he seems to have lost his patience. So you can imagine his wonder when he hears that the boy wants everything to be like it was before (when everybody hated him). Why? Because using Genesis is cheating. Not only that, it’s downright anti-Christian, since it robbed everybody of their free will.
Obviously, Jesse doesn’t want that. Even if he’s found out what Genesis is, he still believes that it was God’s will (or, as I believe, he wants to believe it was God’s will). And here, the roles are switched.
If before Genesis the Preacher was the one advising Arseface, now it is the boy being right and trying to make Jesse see the error of his ways. But all he does is make him lose his control. And so Jesse shouts, “Go to hell!” And poof! Arseface is gone!
Is he really gone? Can he come back? There is no point in asking that now. As it is later revealed, one can come back from hell. However, can that erase the entire experience from someone’s mind? Not really. And Jesse knows it.
