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The Sandman 1x01 Full Reaction (Patreon)

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2023-08-10 13:46:00
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Dean Nolan

Well this is a fantastic surprise!

Ryan

I'm so thrilled every time someone starts this show. I've `been a Neil Gaiman fan for most of my life, and as much as someone with such a long and varied career can be said to have a magnum opus, I say The Sandman is his. And he spent decades fending off people wanting to do an adaptation because he didn't trust them to do it properly, so seeing him finally getting the chance to oversee the adaptation itself, and have it turn out this well and reach a whole new generation of fans, is just marvelous. There was also a scary period where it looked like the show's huge budget (and as you can probably tell just from this episode, every single dollar is on the screen) was going to get it cancelled no matter how high the viewing numbers were, but that very fortunately didn't happen and we're getting a second season which will probably be even better knowing how the comic goes. As I mentioned under one Good Omens video, of the two Gaiman shows out right now, this is very much the Oppenheimer to GO's Barbie, and it still doesn't quite feel real that both of them get to exist and be this great. And it's the cherry on top that you've remained so unspoiled, because more than perhaps anything else you've ever done, trying to predict where this story is going is an exercise in futility. Have fun with that.

Ryan

The sleeping sickness of 1916 was a real thing, by the way. In 1969 several of its victims were temporarily woken up by a new drug, which inspired the film Awakenings with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

Thomas Corp

This is unexpected. But not unwelcome. As you discovered, a most intriguing prologue to the story. The reaction you had upon seeing Charles Dance appearing in this was shared by me. Lovely to see him in anything, here was no exception. Fantastic to see Charles kill it with how immensely unsympathetic his character, the Magus was, both with his imprisonment of Mister Sandman, and with his mistreatment of his son. I loved that you lived for the stubbornness that was exhibited by Mister Sandman. It of course makes sense. The young man shot his beloved bird, were I in his place, I would take that somewhat personally. I anticipated your reaction to the aforementioned bird getting shot. Difficult to say how much sympathy one has for the Magus’s son. He made his choices if nothing else. One thing for sure, I’m glad I never remember my dreams past five minutes after waking up, save for when I have the feeling that in whatever dream that was had, I was visited by/saw family that have died. Other highlights of the reaction were when you noted the others all having names that start with the letter D. I presume they favor alliteration. It does, after all, make language more colorful. I got a kick out of you saying you wouldn’t wish to meet Death. To die would be a great adventure, but I would rather wait until God has decided my number is up, whenever that may be; all in due time. As to you saying you wouldn’t wish to meet Despair, I would concur, were it not for the fact that Despair doth remain a most persistent and consistent companion over the decades. I loved how you expected Lucienne to greet Mister Sandman by saying, “Where the FUCK you been?!” A lovely first reaction to this show, Jess, thank you.

Ryan
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One interesting adaptation choice (and keep in mind that every bit of that has Gaiman's full support) is that Alex gets off much more lightly here than in the comic, where his punishment is eternal WAKING. Meaning, while he's just asleep in our world, for the rest of his life he's going to be stuck in an endless cycle of thinking he's just woken up, only for his new reality to also turn out to be a nightmare a few minutes later. Apparently Gaiman came to think that was being too hard, especially for one of the extremely few explicitly LGBT characters in comics back in 1988 (I imagine people who haven't read it are very surprised to learn that every bit of the non-hetero material in the show comes straight from the original, back when basically no one else was doing it).

Nicole Sutula

Sesska, you have NO idea how happy this makes me! I wanted you to react to this show so damned much!!!!!