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(Rolling Stone)   Speaking of DC properties, Netflix has dropped 10 episodes of The Sandman. Watch it repeatedly ASAP, lest The Algorithm not give a Season 2   (rollingstone.com) divider line
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leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2022-08-05 8:43:45 AM  
11 votes:

Ragin' Asian: The Sandman fans I've encountered aren't like internet superhero geeks. I hope there isn't stupid drama about a black woman being cast as Lucienne. I haven't followed the buzz thus far.


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On one hand I don't care. I even liked The Watch and Cowboy Bebop live,  otoh it's a meme for a reason
 
Herr Flick's Revenge
2022-08-05 10:20:56 AM  
10 votes:

SuperChuck: I read the first trade of Sandman and I don't get the hype. There was a lot of pseudo-philosophical rambling and it never really went anywhere. What am I missing?


Were you wearing all black, black fingernail polish,pale makeup with thick black eyeliner and cradle of filth in the background?
You might not have been the target audience.
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-08-05 8:27:39 AM  
8 votes:
Just hit play. My pants are unzipped in preparation.
 
pueblonative
2022-08-05 8:27:35 AM  
6 votes:
Is Gwendoline Christie going to do a batshiat musical number for no reason?
 
Herr Flick's Revenge
2022-08-05 1:47:17 PM  
6 votes:

Private_Citizen: Can't wait to see this!!

/I wouldn't call myself a super fan, but I do enjoy the series!.


I've watched the first episode.
It's a travesty!
The font used for the credits is horrible!
Ruined the whole thing.
 
batlock666
2022-08-05 2:26:26 PM  
6 votes:

Private_Citizen: Herr Flick's Revenge: Private_Citizen: Can't wait to see this!!

/I wouldn't call myself a super fan, but I do enjoy the series!.

I've watched the first episode.
It's a travesty!
The font used for the credits is horrible!
Ruined the whole thing.

No.... Not....
Comic Sans?!?!?


Worse ...

Papyrus - SNL
Youtube jVhlJNJopOQ
 
lilplatinum
2022-08-05 5:18:01 PM  
6 votes:

madgonad: Boojum2k: madgonad: WhippingBoi: madgonad: Am I the only one that is afraid to start it because I don't want to be disappointed? I have no problem with the casting, but I'm worried that they are going to totally screw up the story.

This is an unfounded fear. When have modern creators "re-imaginers" ever screwed up a beloved work of art?

Yeah, thanks for twisting that knife (cough) Wheel of Time (cough)

You mean Rafe Judkin's The Tire Fire of Time?

I don't know about tire-fire. More like 'hired the first people to show up for casting' and 'only skimmed the book and read what wiki said about the direction of the series'.


Meh the books are YA crap.  Watching fanbois freak out about racial diversity in it has been worth an otherwise mediocre show
 
SirDigbyChickenCaesar
2022-08-05 9:26:12 AM  
5 votes:

Ragin' Asian: The guy playing Alex Burgess looks like a teenage Wil Wheton.


Wil looks like a teenage Wil
 
Richelieu
2022-08-05 8:59:30 AM  
4 votes:

SuperChuck: I read the first trade of Sandman and I don't get the hype. There was a lot of pseudo-philosophical rambling and it never really went anywhere. What am I missing?


You just don't like a thing that several of us like. We can all still get along.

I'd love to say this very thread is likely to contain hints at what some Sandman fans think you might be missing, but this is Fark, so it will probably actually mostly contain memes and pictures of Death cosplayers. And I'm not mad about that either.
 
deadsanta
2022-08-05 10:45:39 AM  
4 votes:
"Wait, they have Nick Cave dolls?!? I waaant one."  -First thing I thought of when I saw the pic, and yes, it's obscure.
 
WhippingBoi
2022-08-05 11:18:53 AM  
4 votes:

madgonad: Am I the only one that is afraid to start it because I don't want to be disappointed? I have no problem with the casting, but I'm worried that they are going to totally screw up the story.


This is an unfounded fear. When have modern creators "re-imaginers" ever screwed up a beloved work of art?
 
Private_Citizen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-08-05 1:53:28 PM  
4 votes:

Herr Flick's Revenge: Private_Citizen: Can't wait to see this!!

/I wouldn't call myself a super fan, but I do enjoy the series!.

I've watched the first episode.
It's a travesty!
The font used for the credits is horrible!
Ruined the whole thing.


No.... Not....
Comic Sans?!?!?
 
Lusiphur
2022-08-05 7:27:42 PM  
4 votes:

madgonad: WhippingBoi: madgonad: Am I the only one that is afraid to start it because I don't want to be disappointed? I have no problem with the casting, but I'm worried that they are going to totally screw up the story.

This is an unfounded fear. When have modern creators "re-imaginers" ever screwed up a beloved work of art?

Yeah, thanks for twisting that knife (cough) Wheel of Time (cough)


Unpopular opinion: The Wheel of Time series is pretty good, except for the last half hour which is truly terrible, but it's fine. Yes, it didn't follow the books perfectly, but what's the point of that? You've already read the books, and Jordan has such word diarrhea that you should already know exactly what everyone looked and sounded like, and exactly how upturned their calves are.
 
lilplatinum
2022-08-05 7:37:11 PM  
4 votes:

Lusiphur: madgonad: WhippingBoi: madgonad: Am I the only one that is afraid to start it because I don't want to be disappointed? I have no problem with the casting, but I'm worried that they are going to totally screw up the story.

This is an unfounded fear. When have modern creators "re-imaginers" ever screwed up a beloved work of art?

Yeah, thanks for twisting that knife (cough) Wheel of Time (cough)

Unpopular opinion: The Wheel of Time series is pretty good, except for the last half hour which is truly terrible, but it's fine. Yes, it didn't follow the books perfectly, but what's the point of that? You've already read the books, and Jordan has such word diarrhea that you should already know exactly what everyone looked and sounded like, and exactly how upturned their calves are.


Look sometimes you need two pages devoted to what type of chair an aes sedai is sitting in and how comfortable said chair is.

And braid tugging.
 
Mad_Radhu
2022-08-05 8:48:49 PM  
4 votes:

EdgeRunner: And incidentally, Kirby Howell-Baptiste is fantastic in the role of Death. If I was going to nitpick anything, I just wish they'd kept the Eye of Horus makeup. I always liked that as a subtle detail of her look.
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Neil someone on Twitter wheee Neil was responding to that question when the trailers came out. Apparently they didn't start drawing her with that makeup until A Season of Mists, so in the Netflix series they didn't add it for The Sound of Her Wings.

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phlegmjay
2022-08-05 9:44:25 AM  
3 votes:

Where wolf: gnosis301: Arachnophobe: Ragin' Asian: The Sandman fans I've encountered aren't like internet superhero geeks. I hope there isn't stupid drama about a black woman being cast as Lucienne. I haven't followed the buzz thus far.

As far as I've seen all the stupid drama is centered on Death being played by a black woman.

As for me, I can't wait to watch this weekend.

This makes no sense to me, as Dream appeared in the comic in an African manifestation.  The ethnicities, hell, even the species of the Endless are entirely up to their viewer.

People that are angry on the internet rarely make sense.


This should be a law.  "Where Wolf's Law." No. That sounds like the title for a What We Do in the Shadows spin-off about werewolf law firm specializing in kidnapping and trafficking cases.
 
phaseolus [TotalFark]
2022-08-05 5:23:29 PM  
3 votes:

SuperChuck: Thanks for the replies. I can accept something is a slow burn and takes a while to get going.

mostly I appreciate getting a response from multiple people and none of them telling me I'm a moron because I didn't get it.


My own personal favorite bits are two standalone stories in which Gaiman explains his shtick ("A Dream of a Thousand Cats" and "Ramadan"), and the episode where a guy who doesn't die goes to a Ren Faire and critiques it, having actually been alive in the Middle Ages. There's so much to love, and there's a lot of material. The angels in charge of Hell is pretty amazing, too.

Kinda dreading the bit with the Diner, since horror's not really my thing, but that's just me. I've heard it's S1 Ep 5 on Netflix.

Ragin' Asian: I haven't followed the buzz thus far.


Predictably, a few stupid people were angry about Sandman "going woke", which caused much laughter
 
SuperChuck
2022-08-05 8:51:54 AM  
2 votes:
I read the first trade of Sandman and I don't get the hype. There was a lot of pseudo-philosophical rambling and it never really went anywhere. What am I missing?
 
replacementcool
2022-08-05 3:07:24 PM  
2 votes:
I was very high when I started it last night so I don't know how far I got, but I remember it looking very pretty.

I shall watch it properly today. Or maybe get high again.
 
gnosis301
2022-08-05 8:52:20 PM  
2 votes:
I don't think I like the writing.  I think I know too much about the context of the original work to understand the dialog is talking to people who don't know.
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-08-05 8:34:07 AM  
1 vote:
The Sandman fans I've encountered aren't like internet superhero geeks. I hope there isn't stupid drama about a black woman being cast as Lucienne. I haven't followed the buzz thus far.
 
Arachnophobe [TotalFark]
2022-08-05 8:45:05 AM  
1 vote:

Ragin' Asian: The Sandman fans I've encountered aren't like internet superhero geeks. I hope there isn't stupid drama about a black woman being cast as Lucienne. I haven't followed the buzz thus far.


As far as I've seen all the stupid drama is centered on Death being played by a black woman.

As for me, I can't wait to watch this weekend.
 
Karma Chameleon
2022-08-05 8:48:06 AM  
1 vote:
Ozark was probably the last series I will ever watch on Netflix. It's almost like that company is trying to intentionally destroy itself with bad decisions.
 
gnosis301
2022-08-05 8:48:39 AM  
1 vote:

Arachnophobe: Ragin' Asian: The Sandman fans I've encountered aren't like internet superhero geeks. I hope there isn't stupid drama about a black woman being cast as Lucienne. I haven't followed the buzz thus far.

As far as I've seen all the stupid drama is centered on Death being played by a black woman.

As for me, I can't wait to watch this weekend.


This makes no sense to me, as Dream appeared in the comic in an African manifestation.  The ethnicities, hell, even the species of the Endless are entirely up to their viewer.
 
Where wolf [BareFark]
2022-08-05 8:51:39 AM  
1 vote:

gnosis301: Arachnophobe: Ragin' Asian: The Sandman fans I've encountered aren't like internet superhero geeks. I hope there isn't stupid drama about a black woman being cast as Lucienne. I haven't followed the buzz thus far.

As far as I've seen all the stupid drama is centered on Death being played by a black woman.

As for me, I can't wait to watch this weekend.

This makes no sense to me, as Dream appeared in the comic in an African manifestation.  The ethnicities, hell, even the species of the Endless are entirely up to their viewer.


People that are angry on the internet rarely make sense.
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-08-05 9:06:41 AM  
1 vote:
The guy playing Alex Burgess looks like a teenage Wil Wheton.
 
shoegaze99
2022-08-05 10:59:56 AM  
1 vote:
Interesting that Netflix is still dropping series all at once instead of moving back to weekly releases, like everyone else.

The Sandman season has dropped, and that means we'll get a week of think pieces, blog posts, and message board chatter ... then it will fade away, because so many viewers will be on a different schedule from one another, there won't be a shared experience to talk about.

Released weekly, you'd have people talking about Sandman every week. It would be part of the online conversation for over two months as people watch "together," on the same pace, seeing episodes at roughly the same time as one another. It's a communal experience. Chatting about each episode the next day is part of the experience.

Instead, the binge folks and online columnists will watch it all these weekend, there will be a flood of articles and videos, and they'll all move on. Other folks will watch at their own pace, but there won't be a shared "did you see last night's episode?" experience.

I wonder what data Netflix has that keeps them on the "binge" model, because outward appearances, at least, make it seem like weekly episode releases are the way to go, when you consider how long other modern shows stay in "the conversation."
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2022-08-05 11:51:25 AM  
1 vote:

Arachnophobe: Ragin' Asian: The Sandman fans I've encountered aren't like internet superhero geeks. I hope there isn't stupid drama about a black woman being cast as Lucienne. I haven't followed the buzz thus far.

As far as I've seen all the stupid drama is centered on Death being played by a black woman.

As for me, I can't wait to watch this weekend.


Death being played by a black woman is meaningless (although it's somewhat disappointing we'll miss her iconic look). The real question is can she say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious convincingly.
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born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2022-08-06 6:14:00 AM  
1 vote:

Richelieu: You just don't like a thing that several of us like. We can all still get along.


That time is passed.
 
hoodiowithtudio
2022-08-06 12:32:37 PM  
1 vote:

brigid_fitch: madgonad: Richelieu: madgonad: Am I the only one that is afraid to start it because I don't want to be disappointed? I have no problem with the casting, but I'm worried that they are going to totally screw up the story.

Gaiman has been effusive in his praise regarding set design, costuming, and casting. He has also been involved in the script adaptation and has not wavered on his approval throughout production. I have allowed myself to be optimistic - the test will be this weekend's highly anticipated binge-watch.

Counterpoint: American Gods and the notion that Good Omens needs a sequel.

American Gods wasn't Gaiman's fault.  The showrunners got into a fight w/the suits over budget & walked.  When they left, so did Gaiman, Gillian Anderson, and Kristen Chenoweth.  Season 2 scripts were tossed and the first few episodes were almost entirely improved or written by Orlando Jones.  Then they fired Jones.


Door to door magazine seller, Orlando Jones?
 
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