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Netflix is 100% gonna take that as "okay we're greenlighting season 2, but rewrite it so it becomes more bingeable."
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My Lovely Horse posted:Netflix is 100% gonna take that as "okay we're greenlighting season 2, but rewrite it so it becomes more bingeable." To be fair, apart from the one-shots in Dream Country and Fables & Reflections, the upcoming storylines (Season of Mists, A Game of You, Brief Lives etc.) are a lot more coherent and streamlined plot-wise than Preludes and Nocturnes was. Dave Syndrome fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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Netflix: drop Dream Country and Fables & Reflections
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My Lovely Horse posted:Netflix: drop Dream Country and Fables & Reflections Noooooo
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Netflix: okay so Emperor Norton was Alexander Burgess all along, good writing there, Neil. we need a huge twist at the end of S2 or people won't binge it. how about after their sword fight, Dream learns that Desire is Burgess' father too and has engineered his entrapment from the start, and re-traps him! Neil Gaiman through gritted teeth: stories are mutable. stories are mutable. stories are mutable
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Netflix are apparently looking into dropping the binge model because turns out it does lead to more engagement for an individual series if it's released on a weekly basis, unless it's insanely huge like Squid Game or something. I'd gather this is why they've been doing more Part 1/Part 2 poo poo recently as well. Hopefully that factors into their considerations but who loving knows, the whole thing is a gamble.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Netflix: okay so Emperor Norton was Alexander Burgess all along, good writing there, Neil. we need a huge twist at the end of S2 or people won't binge it. how about after their sword fight, Dream learns that Desire is Burgess' father too and has engineered his entrapment from the start, and re-traps him! Needs more giant mechanical spiders
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Hakkesshu posted:Netflix are apparently looking into dropping the binge model because turns out it does lead to more engagement for an individual series if it's released on a weekly basis, unless it's insanely huge like Squid Game or something. Squid Games proves the problem with binging, because the tug-of-war episode ends on the most perfectly executed cliffhanger in TV history, and people would have gone loving insane online and around the water cooler if they had to wait a whole week to see its resolution.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Neil Gaiman through gritted teeth: stories are mutable. stories are mutable. stories are mutable "p..pinkie pie?" "ugghhhhh..princess barbara, ack dying ack, equestria.... needs.... you" *pinkie draws black xs over her eyelids then flops onto her back holding up a calla lily* *upbeat pop music begins to play*
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I have a sneaking suspicion they are saving the announcement for their big circle-jerk TUDUM event at the end of the month. This just in, the whole event passed without a single mention of Sandman 
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Hakkesshu posted:This just in, the whole event passed without a single mention of Sandman I am putting on my clown makeup for thinking this as we speak.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Netflix is 100% gonna take that as "okay we're greenlighting season 2, but rewrite it so it becomes more bingeable." I hope they take it as: release one episode a week, because GODDAMN this show was good.
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Hakkesshu posted:This just in, the whole event passed without a single mention of Sandman 
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looks like I can buy the full boxed paperback set for $225, new what is the magic incantation to buy this on the used market, for half the price, please
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There’s plenty used for like $15/volume on eBay
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They released a new publication of the whole run of the comics to tie into the show that comes in four (with a fifth on the way with Dream Hunters/Endless Nights) books that are like 20-30 dollars each. They are pretty nice tpb editions that are easy to collect without spending hundreds of dollars.
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If people want more Sandman; the audiobook for Act III just dropped; sadly no BRIAN BLESSED for Destruction
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achillesforever6 posted:If people want more Sandman; the audiobook for Act III just dropped They cast KJ Apa in a role -- not the one you blanked out -- loving wild lmao.
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Hadlock posted:looks like I can buy the full boxed paperback set for $225, new Here in Brazil, the local publisher re-released the whole Sandman collection in 2011, "now in classic horror Black&White style", for over double the price of any similar book. Meaning basically "We save money by printing without color and get to rip off nerds who missed the original run."
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I picked up vol 1-3 for $30 shipped on ebay, arrived yesterday, thanks. Looks like they are unread color trade paperbacks from... looks like 1995? That is the latest copyright date I see on there, but it says 11th printing so Didn't realize there's like 11 volumes, I thought this was more like The Watchmen. This is more like Bone where you have 1000 pages
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Yeah it was a whole series, 75 issues I think, and there's even more supplemental material and spin-offs that came out later. speaking of which I recently read Overture for the first time and, if you like Sandman and you haven't, you're gonna want to.
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The Voice of Labor posted:"p..pinkie pie?"
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look, there's only two ways this can play out: 100% exact word for word panel for panel fidelity with the source material or... *smiles and taps giant mechanical spider*
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My Lovely Horse posted:Yeah it was a whole series, 75 issues I think, and there's even more supplemental material and spin-offs that came out later. I really recommend Lucifer too. It's a fantastic series and nothing like the dumb TV show of the same name.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Was the death spinoff comic any good? The High Cost of Living is excellent. The other one I forget the name of, and that sums it up really.
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Soysaucebeast posted:I really recommend Lucifer too. It's a fantastic series and nothing like the dumb TV show of the same name. Seconding this, Lucifer was loving incredible and I was so excited when they made a TV series of it. And then it was just a cop procedural. Bizarre choice.
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The High Cost of Living was my introduction to The Sandman/Gaiman and it was definitely great. Actually, I should read it again since it's been probably over 10 years since I did.
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Soysaucebeast posted:I really recommend Lucifer too. It's a fantastic series and nothing like the dumb TV show of the same name. This may be construed as heresy, but as great as Sandman is with hindsight I rate Lucifer more highly. Gaiman could not have got The Thunder Sermon to land the way it did, for a start.
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Jedit posted:This may be construed as heresy, but as great as Sandman is with hindsight I rate Lucifer more highly. Gaiman could not have got The Thunder Sermon to land the way it did, for a start. I think Sandman is objectively a more impressive artistic work, but I've reread Lucifer several more times than the former. It's a great series.
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Lucifer is really great and perhaps even has a greater overall scope than Sandman, but there some artistic styles that I just plain don't like. Sandman has less of those. Also Sandman has more emotional weight to me, even though I have mad father issues.
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Jedit posted:This may be construed as heresy, but as great as Sandman is with hindsight I rate Lucifer more highly. Gaiman could not have got The Thunder Sermon to land the way it did, for a start. I agree. Sandman walked so Lucifer could run. (Lucifer absolutely couldn't exist without Sandman doing some very heavy lifting in the 90s, but I adore Lucifer in a way that Sandman can't quite compare to. I also think Carey's The Unwritten manages to nail the "Story About Stories" thing in a way Gaiman never quite could)
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Wait, that Lucifer TV show is loosely based on the graphic novel, which is based on The Sandman's version of the character?
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happyhippy posted:Wait, that Lucifer TV show is loosely based on the graphic novel, which is based on The Sandman's version of the character? The show Lucifer borrows the basic ideas presented in Sandman, that (comics spoilers and  stuff not in the show yet ) Lucifer decides to give his father a big middle finger, retire from ruling Hell, has Dream cut his wings off and hands Dream the Key to Hell (hijinks ensue in Sandman), and Lucifer goes to Earth. This is where the comic book run Lucifer roughly picks up. The TV show Lucifer takes some names from the Lucifer comic like his club and Amenadiel etc., but that's about the extent to which the TV show Lucifer is related to anything in either comic book run.Whew.
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Rappaport posted:Whew. Thanks, and mind blown. I know the Sandman series, seen bits and pieces of the show, but just didn't connect the dots.
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cptn_dr posted:I agree. Sandman walked so Lucifer could run. On that note, Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing is also definitely worth reading if anyone liked The Sandman, it's basically proto-sandman.
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Rappaport posted:The show Lucifer borrows the basic ideas presented in Sandman, that (comics spoilers and I know it's not a faithful adaptation of the comics, but I've always been fond of Lucifer because Tom Ellis is just so drat charming as Lucifer. It being set up initially as a police procedural show is weird but also a product of it being on network TV I think, since those are the most popular TV dramas (Law and Order, NCIS, CSI, all that jazz)
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I know it's not a faithful adaptation of the comics, but I've always been fond of Lucifer because Tom Ellis is just so drat charming as Lucifer. At the same time, having the Lucifer being charming is one of the biggest cliches. I liked how the comic Lucifer is an rear end in a top hat and while he won't go out of his way to kill you he won't be sad if you die either.
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Joe Chill posted:On that note, Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing is also definitely worth reading if anyone liked The Sandman, it's basically proto-sandman. Totally seconding this. There’s even a filler issue where they visit a part of the Dreaming with an appearance from Cain and Abel.
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