The Sandman

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  1. Illinihockey

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    starts slow, especially episode 1
     
  2. DUCKMOUTH

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    I enjoyed it. Lead actor is meh, but overall I enjoyed the season
     
  3. RJF-GUMP

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    "Your father was a cunt that wanted me to abort you." We need to make that into a gif.
     
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  5. Hoss Bonaventure

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    So the voice actors.
     
  6. hogfan

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    I liked the series. I had listed to the audible adaptation when I was doing all my traveling in my car.
     
  7. RJF-GUMP

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    The dialogue leaves a lot to be desired. And the writing could be better. The best part about it is the concept itself and the visuals. I'm not sure if I'm going to watch the 4th episode. Episode one was cool. Episode 2 started to go downhill. Episode 3 was just very mediocre bordering on bad.
     
  8. Fidelio

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    keep watching
     
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  9. Aussie

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    They may just not like it. I personally thought episode 3 was one of the better episodes. But maybe that's because I've always enjoyed the Constantine character and a lot of that episode was ripped straight out of Hellblazer.
     
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  10. Fidelio

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    True, this isn’t for everyone. although, i almost stopped after ep 3, but glad I didn’t. 4, 5, 6 got progressively better, with 4 and 5 alone being well worth watching the entire series
     
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  11. Fidelio

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    meant 5 and 6
     
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  12. Aussie

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    Those are probably the best two episodes. 5 is a hell of a ride as everything descends into madness. And 6 is just a good episode. Hob Gadling was one of my favorite characters from the books.
     
  13. DUCKMOUTH

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    What’s this cat episode? Not sure why
     
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  14. Fusiontegra

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    Watched 5 last night but my 9yo is the room tonight. Is episode 6 more like the first 4?
     
  15. Aussie

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    He'll be fine watching this one. Shouldn't be anything that would upset him.
     
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  16. Aussie

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    Actually there is one brief scene where a guy basically gets blown up. But the rest of the episode has no action of any kind.
     
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  17. RJF-GUMP

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    I’m giving up. An entire episode in a restaurant with previously unintroduced characters enduring the minutia of their lives was just too much to take. The episode in hell was relatively cool except the contest was lame.
     
  18. Shawn Hunter

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    I like the comic book series but for whatever reason I just can’t get into the TV show. Just started episode 8 and don’t really know why I keep bothering.
     
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  19. GrizzliesDrew

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    :choke::choke:
     
  20. Fusiontegra

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    Watched episode 6 & 7 last night. Show has taken a completely unexpected turn after he got his tools back and I have no idea where we’re going.

    episode 7: the timelines seems off. Ruby’s great grandma was 12 when she fell into a coma…and had a baby during that? Are we not even going to address that?
    Ruby is 21. Jed’s caseworker says he’s 12 when trying to warn him her about finding him, implying she’s 9 years older than him. She was definitely not 9 years older than him when they left. We don’t exactly how old she was when they left but assuming she was 15ish, he was definitely not 6.
     
  21. Fusiontegra

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    Also, without blowing the ending, is this something we’re getting multiple seasons of? It doesn’t feel like the main character can carry multiple seasons of adventures.
     
  22. WhiskeyDelta

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    Yes, there’s lot more comic left to take from. Netflix nor Gaiman have announced an S2 yet though.
     
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  23. Shawn Hunter

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    I liked Dream of a Thousand Cats
     
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  24. Aussie

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    Enjoyed the extra episode. Got to see Dream be a little bit closer to how he is in the books. A little bit more cold. But even then they didn't go all the way with it.
     
  25. Shawn Hunter

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    The Calliope part of the episode was very nice as well.
     
  26. Celemo

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    Finished the regular season last night, will watch the bonus episode tonight.

    Overall I thought it was pretty good, don't really have any nit-picky stuff since I haven't read the source material. Only thing I'll say was the Corinthian story arc was a tad anti-climatic but whatevs. Would like a second season please
     
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  27. Fusiontegra

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    Finished it last night as well. I'm really all over the place. I think a larger scale fight against Hell/Lucifer could be great and I'm intrigued by more of his sibling fighting. I'm still not sure the lead is very good but like you, I don't know the material so I'm not sure what I should be expecting.

    I thought they wrapped this season's storyline up well. The ending was really indicative of Gaiman's writing, which I appreciated.

    Liked it, didn't love it, but will definitely watch a season 2.
     
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  28. Aussie

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    I think the lead guy does okay. Characters like this are always super difficult to pull off I think. There's a reason people always said these books were impossible to adapt.

    But overall I really enjoyed the season and hope we get more. Sounds like far from a slam dunk though as it was very expensive to produce apparently.
     
  29. Fusiontegra

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    I read this comment somewhere around episode 3 and couldn't get it out of my head at least once per episode for the rest of the season.

    By the end, my partner and I were adding emotions to the spaghetti comments.
    "He's doing happy spaghetti."
    "Aw, mad spaghetti"

    It's equal parts Zoolander and Twilight. :laugh:
     
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  30. WhiskeyDelta

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    Happy to help
     
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    in the scene immediately prior, he commands them to put the knives down after they looked like they were ganging up on him. i took it as him "turning the knives" onto themselves as punishment.
     
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  32. skiedfrillet

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    8 episodes in so far. i was skeptical to start it bc it looked like something i wouldn't enjoy but i reallllly like it so far
     
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  33. Aussie

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    Glad people are watching this. I really want another season.
     
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  34. Aussie

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    Awesome. Was beginning to get worried it might not happen.
     
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  35. Shawn Hunter

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    Wonder if Netflix adding ads will allow more shows to get renewed? At least that gives Netflix a new metric to measure shows against instead of "did it add new subscribers or bring subscribers back?" A show might have strong viewership amongst it's current subscriber base that doesn't generate much in the way of new/returning subscribers and that would potentially have value to an advertiser.

    Like I know Sandman was watched a lot, but it probably didn't really move the needle in terms of increasing the subscriber base. If it had debuted during the age of ads, it might not have had to sweat out renewal as much as it did.
     
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  36. Fusiontegra

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    I'll probably watch a second season...I'm just not entirely sure why. I think it's based entirely on potential tbh
     
  37. Hoss Bonaventure

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    There’s a ton of source material for them to work with and the author is part of the writing and producing.
     
  38. Celemo

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    totally down with S2. Want more Lucifer/Hell stuff
     
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  39. Fusiontegra

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    That's all well and good...but I'm really struggling to outright say I enjoyed the main character.
     
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  40. TLAU

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    Have you tried the “spaghetti!” method yet?
     
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  41. Squints

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    Love this show.
     
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  42. You

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    I thought the show was great until rose walker showed up. Her and Lyta had some of the worst writing I’d seen since Rings of Power past episode 5. Rose and lyta actors were pretty rough, too. Jed killed it though, and Gault’s conversation with Dream were good. Corinthian was also a great character
     
  43. Celemo

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    great news, opened this thread hoping for a S2 release date but whatevs