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2021/06/10 12:02:07
Subject: Re:Netflix's The Sandman - Cast Announced
Turnip Jedi wrote: Bit of a mixed bag with David Thewlis as the standout as John was bonkers even by Arkham standards and he does unsettling rather well
Also can someone explain the pronoun thing, especially as it only really applies to Desire ?
Basically this looks like the equivalent of the common and ever-cringe inducing 'nonbinary person walks into the room, all the woke straights decide it's time to go 'round the table listing their pronouns and staring expectantly at the one nonbinary person '
Looking forward to all of this, honestly. Steven Fry is legitimately the single most perfect living actress I could come up with for fiddlers green, and while I can get the hesitation from folks about Death I think being gaunt and skinny and having a gigantic disproportionate shock of hair is more important for recreating the iconic comic images of death. I feel like with a white lady filling that role if you actually tried to get her hair as big as it is shown in the comic, she'd look like one of those awful netflix live action anime adaptations where they put a dude in a wig and group his hair into the big 'anime hair bananas'.
Lance845 wrote: And it doesn't mean they won't appear as other people in flashbacks/single shots from anothers point of view. People cast in such small segments don't necessarily get top billing/announcements. They just get a mention in the credits.
Brie Larson was cast as Carol Danvers. The child and teenager who got cast to play her younger selves didn't get announcements.
Fair point, I could see them pulling something like the Coming to America segments in American Gods for the side storys
Also is the show covering just the first run or more, as Fiddlers Green (splendid casting there) and a few others dont show up till the 2nd arc
I mean yeah, it is almost inevitable that we're going to get some surprise cameo appearances of other actors and CGI woobldy-woos as other forms of the endless momentarily.
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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"
Cronch wrote: Is that one with the super creepy and uncomfortable roadside diner section? I think so but it's been a while...
Yes, that scene happens in the first volume, when Dream is recovering the artifacts lost during imprisonment and one of them has fallen into the hands of a would-be supervillain.
That specific issue is my least favorite one of the run; not because it's bad but because for whatever reason I find it to be sort of a hard read. I just feel bad for the people in the diner.
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Cronch wrote: Is that one with the super creepy and uncomfortable roadside diner section? I think so but it's been a while...
Yes, that scene happens in the first volume, when Dream is recovering the artifacts lost during imprisonment and one of them has fallen into the hands of a would-be supervillain.
That specific issue is my least favorite one of the run; not because it's bad but because for whatever reason I find it to be sort of a hard read. I just feel bad for the people in the diner.
I think that means it is doing its job effectively, then.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Cronch wrote: Is that one with the super creepy and uncomfortable roadside diner section? I think so but it's been a while...
Yes, that scene happens in the first volume, when Dream is recovering the artifacts lost during imprisonment and one of them has fallen into the hands of a would-be supervillain.
That specific issue is my least favorite one of the run; not because it's bad but because for whatever reason I find it to be sort of a hard read. I just feel bad for the people in the diner.
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2021/06/15 13:40:46
Subject: Re:Netflix's The Sandman - Cast Announced
I've been listening to the audiobook adaptation and I have to say it's really good.
This makes me nervous on some levels because American Gods did not turn out well, but unlike American Gods The Sandman doesn't need to be twisted into a TV series. It already fits fairly well into one.
That little teaser looks great imo. Great casting of the few we see in the little bits we see of them. His items of power look awesome. Looking forward to it.
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I always forget how much of a career Charles Dance (the cult leader) has had. I have a bad habit of thinking of him as discount Vincent Price, but he's done multiple projects a year basically since the 80s (and a couple 70s productions). Not big stuff, but a lot of stuff.
But for this... Sardo Numspa rides again
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2022/06/25 08:53:30
Subject: Re:Netflix's The Sandman - Cast Announced
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
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Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian was pretty impressive in that trailer.
I’ll prob resubscribe to Netflix for this.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
I'm not going to re-read the lunacy that is the last few pages of this thread, but I'd be very surprised if anyone actually said that. Even that one guy banging on about how relatively difficult it might be for an Inquisitor to acquire power armour, I don't think even that guy said that.
Looks cool, will definitely check it out. Don’t really know anything about the setting or story. Still wanna whine about Death’s casting because she is the only character from it I was previously aware of and they changed her aesthetic so much from what I thought was neat.
2022/07/25 20:23:02
Subject: Re:Netflix's The Sandman - Cast Announced
Watched the first episode, its rather spiffy, a tweak here and there from the book, nothing that stuck out, most likely binging the rest over the weekend (also Tenbones !)
3 Episodes in, still going well, Jenna nails the whole Constantine vibe with bonus points for old Hellblazer references with Rick the Vic and Kit Ryan, she doesn't look like like String mind, and still waiting for my head cannon of Mad Hettie being the bird lady from Mary Poppins, as she needs well fed pigeons for her haruspexy (divining with entrails), to be confirmed
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"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
I think is very good. I am not an officiando of the comics having only read some of them back in the day, so apologies if it’s making other folk howl in indignation.
Binged first six episodes last night. It’s a boring ‘I loved everything about it’ kind of review. Story and characters are interesting with decent acting and effects.
My only issue is that the guy playing Dream reminds me so much of a young James Marsters that it’s off-putting.
I am enjoying the show, didn't even notice many of the changes untill I re-read Preludes and Nocturnes as they fit well. Even genderbent Constantine makes sense for the telling of the story in a visual medium...
Spoiler:
Only real thing I didn't like was the duel in hell, as it's shown in the TV series, I think Dream should have lost for hesitating too long or for Matthews interference.
In the comics, I feel like he basically curbstomps his opponent making it much more of an embarrassment both versions make it out to be...
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2022/08/11 10:01:48
Subject: Re:Netflix's The Sandman - Cast Announced
Up to Episode 9 now, dear dear Mr Fry being. like I've gushed before, is perfect casting
Only hhhmm I have is Unity, if she was 12 in 1916 she's now pushing 120, adding an extra generation to the Walker family makes sense but doesn't fix Unitys unlikely life span
Spoiler:
unless its linked to the vortex somehow
And and the tweak to the Lyta. Hector and Jed plot was fine but I hoped for Brute and Glob, yes they are kind of goofy but I liked them
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"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
I wonder if they learned lessons from Good Omens? Specifically “Mr Gaiman knows what he’s doing, bloody listen to him”, because that’s two for two on decent adaptations.
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