cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/22187363
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman had the longest of mistiest paths to becoming a TV show, three decades after the DC Vertigo comic’s debut. The hesitation was down to the fantasy author resisting several awful movie attempts, and too much could have gone wrong in adapting the infinitely layered fantasy story, but Netflix brought a lugubrious and stunning spectacle to screens (full of Life Amid Death) as the first three graphic novels were initially adapted.
The second season has taken years to come together, which isn’t unheard of for a Netflix fantasy series with heavy VFX. Sadly, this could also conceivably be the final season, given that several Gaiman projects (like Amazon’s Good Omens) have been cut short, cancelled, or apparently indefinitely paused in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against the author (as initially reported by Tortoise Media). Those accusations do make the show’s bonus “Calliope” story hit differently than when the episode first surfaced, but that’s not a discussion for today. The Sandman‘s second season is still coming, so let’s (awkwardly) sift through what we can expect.
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How many episodes will we see? The first season brought 10 initial episodes and a bonus hour, but Netflix has not offered a count for the second season. However, Redanian Intelligence has passed on the rumor that we could see 12 new episodes of The Sandman when the show returns. This seems too good to be true, so we will await official word on that note, but the second season will leap headlong into Season Of Mists, the fourth graphic novel (considered the favorite volume of many The Sandman fans).
He was a pretty hard core libertarian and misogynistic. Even for his time. He said himself, he only wrote Stranger as a joke making fun of the hippies. Still one of my top 5 favorites though.
What’s wrong with libertarians? I think they get a bad rap and some of their ideas might be unworkable but their hearts are in the right place.
The few times I’ve dug into it with someone, it always comes down to, “I don’t want to pay so much to help people I don’t know or like?”
There definitely are some of those and I’ve met them. But when I’ve dug further with them I found there were plenty of government programs they benefited from that they would be unwilling to give up. In other words, “government benefits for me but not for thee!”These people I would call selfish hypocrites rather than libertarians.
No, when I think of a libertarian I think of someone like Milton Friedman. He believed everyone would be better off with less government intervention in people’s lives. In the few cases where he thought government was still necessary (such as law enforcement, national defence, and the disbursement of a negative income tax benefit) he believed it should be kept.
Libertarian , sure, but more old school one before Ayn Rynd and co ruined it? Misogynistic? I thought he had female characters achieving things and mixed gender militaries in his work?
I might be remembering things wrong, I read his stuff decades ago
However, given what we now know about the other two pillars of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, his reputation is the least tarnished. A low bar, perhaps, but still…
