One thing to remember is that when Gaiman started working on the comic, he expected that it would be cancelled before 12 issues. So he wrote the original story arcs with the idea that they needed to be wrapped up quickly. He didn’t want to leave anything hanging.
Yes, this. That was kind of an issue with the comics, that for somebody in charge of wildly imaginative dreamscapes, Morpheus acts so wooden. In flashbacks, he is more interested in his role, but eventually gets more weary of the responsibility. Death said she went through the same phase herself in episode 6.
Funny enough he’s more sympathetic and relatable here in the TV series just from seeing the first two eps.
I don’t think its a spoiler to say that there’s several issues (like the diner one) where he only appears in one scene. I wonder if they will tray and avoid that. If not…well I hope Sturridge brings a good book to filming.
When I am done with season 1 of this show, I’d like to return back to the audible recordings. They just released act 2 in the past months. Here is the description on their site:
Would that pick up more or less the exact spot Season 1 of the show finishes? Or do I need to go back to Act 1 of the audible recordings to pick up some parts not adapted on the show?
Ep 3: Far as I can tell, Johanna Constantine is much less at fault then her comic counterpart for what happened to Astra.
Havent seen the Keanu Constantine movie…but did I see Johanna pick up a crossbow and throw it aside?
They are really, curiously, cutting back on the horror here. The Astra encounter is much more intense, and I don’t even mean the demon dog butt-sex…and the getting to Rachel was much more horrific.
All that said…ep3 was great. I’d watch the hell out of a Johanna Constantine series, but we’d really need to see more of her arrogance then her cowardice. IMHO
Oh yeah…I havent heard anyone mention the music yet. Here or in YT videos. Love it. Morpheus has his own little heartbreaking motif.
None of that was ever in The Sandman itself, though, just Hellblazer. So if they choose to show a greatly abbreviated sanitized version of the story, it’s still more than was in this comic.
Also, this version is a dream, not a memory, so some editing is par for the course.
Dad-smeared walls and talking dream-slime aren’t essential to that part of the story, I think. But if you felt that level of gore was missing, you’ll get some that wasn’t in the comic, in a later episode.
Are you sure it wasn’t “I will show you fear in a handful of dust”? Because it’s a line from TS Eliot’s “The Waste Land”.
Regarding jokes: I do hope that they keep Thor’s dinner table joke in the script when they get to that scene. I’ve heard Chris Hemsworth do a sanitized version of it, but it just wasn’t the same.
You are correct.
Oh, wow. I did remember correctly. That hardly ever happens.
Watched the first three, husband is enjoying it. We’ll watch the rest together. But it might take us several weeks, so i guess I’m leaving the thread.
Morpheus doesn’t seem very powerful for an endless. He had to negotiate with humans, and even a raven.
I stand corrected. Maybe they didn’t want to pay royalties to the Eliot estate.
Well yes. That’s entirely the point of the first half of the season.
Also, he’s constrained a great deal by his own code. He may be theoretically able to do amazing things, but he won’t if it’s against the rules he holds himself to.
Wasn’t it highly implied in “The sound of her wings” that he could have escaped any time if he had been willing to ask his family for help? He also could have negotiated with the Magus, who probably would have released him for a fairly low price, or just given his word not to take vengeance on his son. He had the ability to escape- he just wouldn’t use it, and lost a century rather that compromise.
Lucifer is the same way- they are the second most powerful being in the universe, but seldom use that power because to win through force would be a meaningless victory. (One-punch man vibes). Instead, their pride requires that they follow the rules.
FWIW I’m intentionally slowing myself down and feel I appreciate each episode more that way. That said I’m willing to deal with spoilers.
It also drives home the longevity of the Endless. Even though Dream was trapped for a century, it was to him a short time. Immortals are wary of forming bonds with short-lived mortals, because they’ll die shortly. Morpheus might have thought it morbidly amusing to watch his captors wither away, knowing they’ll never get what they want from him.
Yeah - I had limited myself to one episode each night, after watching the first six over the weekend. I’m starting to appreciate Disney+ and HBOMax’s model of one episode per week.
Watching with the wife and daughter basically forces us to one episode a night, with some skipped nights. So only finished “24/7”.
I liked all the changes made to that one, I felt they captured the essence of the comic version without needing the exact same specifics for everything.
I thought she was saying he could have asked for help recovering his various artifacts, not with the escape itself.
Also, this slightly bothers me. Spoilers from episodes 4 & 5:
In “A Hope in Hell,” we get, “What can destroy hope?” and Lucifer has no answer, losing the duel. In literally the next episode, we get, “You took their hope away, so of course they went mad and killed themselves.”
Good thing Lucifer didn’t know about John Dee, I guess.
Feeble attempt at fanwank: “Remove” is not “destroy”.
Otherwise, the answer is “Dream” since it’s his power that Dee uses.
Which is ironic.
Disregard