THE SANDMAN 1x1 Reaction/Review! "Chapter 1: Sleep of the Just"
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- I've always heard people speak high praise of THE SANDMAN comics but I'd never read them. As a novice, I'm excited to experience this world Neil Gaiman crafted with fresh eyes! #TheSandman #Sandman #Netflix
The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series based on the 1989-1996 comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. The series was developed by Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg for the streaming service Netflix, and is being produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. Like the comic, The Sandman tells the story of Dream, the titular Sandman. It stars Tom Sturridge as Dream, with Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry, and Sanjeev Bhaskar in supporting roles.
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from Neil Gaiman : Tom Sturridge’s voice in the series was entirely his own. No alterations!!! Impressive
Fun fact, they had pretty much settled on Tom Sturridge for Dream quite a long time before production actually started. They in fact paid him not to take on any other projects until they were ready to start shooting. He used the time, among other things, to find a diet and exercise regimen that would give him the very particular physique he wanted for the character.
The "sleepy sickness" thing was real. Some people think it was a side effect of certain strains of polio. Many years later, a doctor managed to wake some of them up for a while with a drug trial - they had gone to sleep as children and woke up in their sixties. The movie "Awakenings" with Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro is about that.
Holy shit! I'd never made that connection. I always thought it was something Gaiman made up for his comic book. That's amazing.
Super interesting! Thank you for this comment!
Fun fact: Morpheus' mask was made from the bones of a dead God
Never read the comics. Didn’t even knew they making the show. Didn’t even watch even any trailer. Basically I dive into the show with zero knowledge. And it does not disappoint me. I finished season one all in one night. This season basically like an introduction to The Sandman universe. ❤
in audible there is 2 audio book,the voice of Dream is James Mcvoy
Cant wait for it to have more seasons and us to dive into the endless family and see more destiny, death, destruction, desire, despair, and delirium
The cool thing for me about that shot you mentioned, when Alex sees that Morpheus has gotten free and sees him sitting in that chair, is that in the comic book Dream's eyes are nearly always just black and shadowy. You don't really see them. But sometimes he'll have these glowing points of light coming from that shadowy space. And that's what they did in that shot, he stood up and was just a silhouette with two bright points of light where his eyes would be. I think that one shot made me as happy all on its own as the rest of the episode combined. They definitely changed some things around from the comic but it all works really well. I'm so happy it's so good.
yeah some comic book fans were a bit iffy about the eyes "not being dark with stars in them", but I kinda see the point of why they didn't do that. Tom's eyes are expressive so hiding them would be dumb
I LOVED the cat turning into Morpheus bit tho
@@ayaehab I don't think it would have worked so I'm glad they did what they did. And that one moment was a nod to it and I'm happy with that. Tom Sturridge is so good.
yup honestly I have no complaints of that at all!
Couldn't agree more! I've been pleasantly surprised with the show so far.
@@srae1971 I watched a video only a few minutes ago that straight up said they did numerous tests to see if they could make it work, and decided against it in the end. Also remeber, Neil is in heavy control, so i is not like it went against the original creator.
The mask is based off the original DC Golden Age Sandman, Wesley Dodds, who’s mask was based off the WW2 gas masks.
Also the comics canon explanation is that it was the skull of an old God I believe he once felled
The WW2 gas mask was retconned into his origin with the Sandman Mystery Theater Spin off that came out after the Neil gain man sandman comics. Before mystery theater he just had a weird looking custom gold gas mask
@@mrrd4444 yeah the one of three that he most respected, the other two made the Gates of Horn and Ivory.
They cover some of that in Overture
It also started as more of a gas mask and they added the vertebrate later in the artwork. Which looked much cooler.
Does anyone know how Morpheus killed the Old God & took its skull & spine? I'd love to know what weapon was used to slay such a powerful being.
another thing I enjoyed about this was Dream's voice, it's the perfect blend between James McAvoy voice in the audiobook and Tom Sturridge's voice. it's otherworldly.
Time stamp is current time 2022 I believe. Dream was imprisoned for 100 years, in the comics it was 70 years. they wanted to makes it more modern.
I was a little annoyed that Alex received eternal sleep.... his punishment is supposed to be eternal waking.... eternally waking up into a new nightmare, each more horrific than the last
Eternal waking is SO much more worse
I think it’s meant to be the same thing since Alex was obviously not sleeping restfully.
I think they omitted it so Dream didn't come off as a dick straight away
@@jmack8767 According to Neil('s tumblr), it was actually shot but the test audience didn't really receive it well because they wanted to know about Dream instead, so it ended up being cut.
@@jmack8767 Neil has said that it may (possibly) end up on some extras somewhere in the future.
The Sandman is like "damn it, I already denied his offer to free me, now I can't back out of it anymore, it would be too embarassing."
The mask is meant to be a nod to a previous Golden Age DC comics character also called The Sandman, who was a vigilante detective named Wesley Dodds who solved crimes while wearing a gas mask and using a sleeping gas gun. This Sandman comic mentions that Dodds fought crime during the years Dream was imprisoned because he had dreams that compelled him to, implying it was a side effect of Dream's imprisonment and part of the Sleepy Sickness. Neil Gaiman later wrote a mini-series about the Wesley Dodds Sandman. So Dream's battle helm which is made from the skull and spine of a dead god is meant to look vaguely like a gas mask as a homage to the older character.
First. Never clicked so fast. This show RULES
The mask dream wears makes me think he’s about to ask “are you my mummy”
the mask was a reference to the golden age hero, Wesley Dodds/Sandman from DC @Omn1media
Clara Oswald is in this!
@@Ragdefender I seen that from the trailer we’ll see what this version of the impossible girl has been doing
I binged the whole serie today, I just couldn't stop watching it. Great season 1, I really liked it. Slow paced at times, but that just works with this show.
I did too! I got stuck on a few episodes too but overall it was a great series!
Neil Gaiman is a really good Author in a variety of different genres of literature not just comics if you get a chance you should look him up
There have certainly been a few changes made from the novels to the show. But both are great in their own way. I would still recommend reading the novels to know about the little changes here and there.
This is a great beginning to the Sandman. This was one of my favorite titles to read back in the 90s. I haven’t read it in a long time, so it’s great to relive it through this series. Thanks for your reactions.
Such a great adaptation of the material! Dream looks spot-on! Some of his scenes look taken right from the artwork.
This is my favorite comic, so I was waiting for this to drop at 3 am. I thought I would watch 1 episode, then go to bed. I ended up watching the entire season. I literally couldn't stop watching I loved it so much. I was so happy to see that you are reacting to this.
I just finished reading the books last week, and as a fan i can tell that this adaptation is amazing.
I thought this was a great first episode. I read the comics when they came out, but not all that often since, so I know in general how the stories go, and all the great characters we haven't met yet, but I know there's a lot of details I've forgotten. Which is fine with me.
I think the most striking thing about this episode, beyond even the writing and acting and so on -- all of which were excellent -- was how great it was to look at.
By the way, I liked your comments on dreams (giving us reasons to move forward), and it also made me think that (I believe, based on things I've read) that if someone is kept awake for a very long period of time, unable to dream, they will start to hallucinate (essentially, dreaming while awake). Dreaming is apparently a big part of how our brains process information (whether or not we remember the actual dreams), and it simply has to happen.
A couple of nuggets of knowledge for people's noggins, Dream's helm - according to Canon - was crafted from the skull and spine of a defeated enemy. It was Neil Gaiman's way of explaining the gas mask used in the original Sandman comics from either the 30s or the '50s, I can't remember when.
The original punishment dream dealt out was not eternal sleeping, but eternal waking. You know when you've had a nightmare and you think you wake up only to find yourself in another nightmare because you were still in fact asleep. That is eternal waking. Basically he's trapped forever in a nightmare.
This actually streamlines some characters and makes Alex a lot more sympathetic than he was in the comics. In the comics here originally get Morpheus captive after his father's death in an effort to gain the things his father wanted. And because it got him laid. By making it an effort to protect the man he loved, and by showing his obvious sympathy for Dream, the show makes him a bit of a tragic character. With a different father, he might have been good. He's basically just a horny old goat.
I'm a sleeping sickness actually happened. If you've ever seen the Robin Williams movie "Awakenings", Robert de Niro's character suffered from it. It was largely overshadowed by the Spanish flu hitting a year or so later, and by world War I itself. But it was terrifying.
My father's mother was born in 1901. She had a brother that ended up with it and died because the family couldn't take care of him properly in the Appalachian Mountains. When I was very small, she used to talk about it occasionally. She said for a while everyone was afraid that they might go to sleep and never wake up. Neil Gaiman does a lot of lovely research and puts effort into his work. That's why this comic actually won numerous prestigious awards, including fantasy awards that were supposed to be given out for serious works of fantasy, and not comics, which will look down upon in the late '80s and early '90s.
That defeated enemy was a God
@@Smokey1419 Explanations like that would require me to go into the differences between the gods ( except for the creator of the Silver City and Lucifer in the angels), The Endless, which gods came out of the Dreaming, etc. Not only is that going to be time consuming but it could ruin plots for later stories.
So far, it has met my expectations, and threw in some bonuses.
You are correct that Dream’s capture was a mistake. Burgess didn’t really know what he was doing. It was very much beyond his true understanding. Yep, Dream just happened to be in the waking world, and concentrating so much on taking the Corinthian back. In the Dreaming, that spell wouldn’t have even been worthy of his attention.
As for perception of time, in the grand scope of his existence, a decade, a century, even a millennium is less than a grain of sand on Tatooine. He can wait. However, each fraction of a second is also everything, and he is very aware of its passing.
One of the best ways to experience the story it's also through the audio book at Audible, it's completely immersive and translate the pages really well.
Oh, the Audiobooks were great! I'm loving what I'm seeing with the show too. They're doing a great job so far (3 episodes in).
Haven't watched yet, very excited to see your reaction as someone who has read and re-read this series ad nauseum. I think they did an EXCELLENT job of staying faithful to the source material, while making things just slightly different enough to keep me on my toes.
Actually, he says (at least in the audiodrama and I think i remember that in the comic too) that they experience time no faster than humans so it was actually agonising for him.
Since you were wondering, the shape of the helm is inspired by a WWI era gas mask.
Nice I honestly was wondering if it was a nod to the space jockey from Alien
That’s what I was thinking interesting choice any idea why it’s inspired by a WW1 gas mask
@@DrWatson4 The first DC character that used the name Sandman used a WWI gas mask as his costume. That was in comics back in the 1930s, and is not the same character as Morpheus, but the helm is modelled as a reference to the original Sandman.
In the comics canon, the inspiration goes the other way - Wesley Dodds puts on a gas mask and takes the Sandman moniker inspired by Morpheus and the helm.
@@Obdormio thank you. I tried 3 times to reply this little bit of comic trivia but my phone was being dumb.
Yeah...what he said. Just do an image search on "golden age sandman".
@@Obdormio And one great detail is that the universe is trying to fill the void left by Morpheus's capture. It's a great way of retconning previous Sandmans.
The Sandman is my favorite work of all time and this show is a perfect adaptation imo.
Reading the comic years ago. Soo many concepts and ideas that no other comic did. This show did it Justice
It’s so refreshing to hear a positive perspective from someone who hasn’t read the comic books! I am a long time Sandman fan and first read in the mid 90’s and have been waiting a long time for this! It’s been disheartening to see so many negative reviews from people who aren’t fans of the source material. You have picked up so much insight from just the first episode makes me think that you would really enjoy reading the series. Thanks for your reaction and perspective! Excited to see more of your content!
Shoutout to Omni for always puttin in the work where other channels fall flat.
The transitions in that opening scene were breathtaking. I'm sold too!
Figured you may have realized this already but the actor that plays Corinthian is the main Reaper from Logan.
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I've been reading Sandman for 20 years and I loved every second of this show. In the comics, Overture specifically which is a recent story, he was trying to stop the Corinthian and got called elsewhere and that weakened him so much he was able to be summoned.
been waiting for this adaptation literally for decades lol, so excited
In the comics Dream's mask is "crafted from the bones of a dead god " that is heavily implied to be Cthulhu who he butchered for trying to take over his realm. As for the design it's supposed to resemble an old fashioned gas mask mixed with an old fashioned diving helmet
Cthulhu? I don't recall that at all. As I remember, Morpheus mentioned that dead god was a 'she' and he made his helmet from her skull and the Gates of Horn and Ivory from the bones of the two other gods who also tried to take over. But the helmet was made from her skull because Morpheus held her in the highest respect. Mind you, this is from memory, I could be mistaken. But I don't think it was Cthulhu.
@@Sesharon it was in one of the spinoffs and it was never stated directly to be Cthulhu but it was a reference to Lovecraft's Mythos as there Hynos ( one of the Greek gods of dreams like Morpheus and Oneiros was one of the enemies of the Great Old Ones; also worth noting, the Dreamlands were a central recurring locations in the mythos) I think it was a case of there being several tellings of where he got it and it's left ambiguous which is the true one if any, I've just been drawn to that one because a) the idea of Dream being able to not just fight but brutally butcher an eldrich terror that blindsided him is just cool and b) I like there being synergy between lovecrat's mythos and Sandman especially since has said part of the inspiration for the concept of the Dreaming came from Lovecrat's Dreamlands
@@daltonmortimer7735 Totally fair, and I may just not have read the spin-off you're referencing. I like both ideas anyway, and I may go and look for what you're talking about.
I'd describe it as a gas mask designed by H.R. Giger.
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Which spinoff was that? I must have missed that one.
@@elbruces I don't remember which one I THINK Endless Nights but that might be the other backstory
I've just finished watching sandman now I'm watching UA-camrs react to it 👌😌
big love, came over after the one piece reactions, loved Sandman so glad to see your takes on it!~
Fun fact: The score for this show was done by David Buckley, who previously scored Batman: Arkham Knight and the first Jason Bourne film
This was a brilliant first episode! The world building is incredible and the casting is excellent too. I was thinking about about first thing I ever saw Boyd Holbrook in and funnily enough The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal as well, was in Narcos. That is a brilliant series about how they took down Pablo Escobar in Colombia. It’s based on the stories of the real Pena and Murphy. It’s 1 of my all time favourite series!!! It is mainly Spanish with English subtitles as Murphy is American and doesn’t speak Spanish, which I think put a lot of reactors off it, but it is well worth a watch anyway.
Boyd is terrifying! It's really good tho
I'm only on ep 4 and already obsessed!! The guy who play dream aka morpheus Tom stirridge is hot af in this role!!
He's summoning my goth phase back into existence! haha
@@Omn1Media lmao same only I'm still in my goth phase, I never really grew out of it🙃🤣
@@danielleyoung3133 You rock it well! I used to be the trench coat and chains kids now I just casually wear black and dark clothes :P
Really enjoyed this one glad you are reacting to it
By the same token, he's never left the Dreaming for even a fraction of 106 years in a row.
Loving the higher quality these past couple videos Omn1 did you get a new camera or doing something different cause it’s been looking very crisp
Awesome that you’re reacting to this series-I watched the first episode yesterday and was pretty damn impressed-especially with the choice of actors (Charles Dance! :D) and the sets are spot on. It feels very much like a Gaiman creation, which is just like nothing else-he’s great at atmosphere, and world building so that the result is both dream-like and a heightened reality. Can’t wait to see the next episodes and your reactions! 😃 Also you asked about the mask-it’s a cool variation on a plague doctor’s mask from the 1600s.
I'll come back after watch The show but get my The thumps up
I love how they did this show so far, 3 episodes in. From the books to the show, Netflix has done a great job.
@Omn1Media,the actor that plays Alex is the same person from another Netflix series,"The Haunting of Bly Manor"-Miles if none of the commenters catch that certain detail during their watching episode 1 ,so in some case the young actor is being type casted,ha?. With both series deals with grief & death.
21:00 Not a god. The endless are concepts personified very important distinction for later on in the series.
I also skipped the tease at the end, mostly because I felt like it would just be showing me in advance what would be different from the books... and I really wanted to experience that in the moment. Weird choice to throw that in there, but again, I didn't watch it so I have no idea if it spoiled anything.
Skipped it too
Really solid opening episode, very glad you’re reacting to this show, I hope it does well viewership wise so we can get the whole story told over multiple seasons.
I’m now 5 episodes In and I’m loving the show so much. Can’t wait to see all your reactions🥰
The way the spell works is that it summons one of the endless, in ways they cannot avoid. It doesn't say which endless specifically. This isn't mentioned in the show but in later comics.
is it ever explained why none of the other endless got dream out? in the show dream says he won't go to his siblings for help because they abandoned him, but then he's on great terms with death :/
@@blueskybelyr Well he doesn't say that in the comics and he's always had a close relationship with Death. So I'm not sure what that line was about, there is a family meeting, he may bring it up there in a season 2.
@@blueskybelyr It makes sense for all the other Endless to not help him, except Death (Destiny rarely interferes, Destruction is gone, the twins hate his guts and Delirium is... well, Delirium). Particularly since she had to be there for Burgess when he dies in the cellar (which is a kind of pointless change in my opinion).
Seems like a bit of a plot hole to me, one which could be explained away in the comics by the circle isolating Dream from the Universe so as long as no one died close, Death would have no way of knowing he's in there.
@@ImVeryOriginal (Spoiler for a later episode)
Death says in episode 6 that she isn’t there for everyone’s death. Just for the ones who need her there. Roderick just wasn’t one of the people who needed her to take him to the Sunless Lands, so that’s why she wasn’t there when he died. As for why she didn’t help him, I would assume that she likely wasn’t allowed to and that Destiny (this is purely speculation) likely had something to do with that.
As for why they chose to have Roderick die in the cellar, it was probably for that moment between Dream and Alex. Now that Roderick is dead, Alex has a choice. In his haze after his father’s death (given away by the ringing he hears and the faded volume of everyone’s voices) he appears to almost choose to let Dream out now that he isn’t under his father’s influence. But at the shout from the guard, “What would your father say?” He snaps out of it and chooses to carry on his with father’s ways rather than help Dream. All of that could happen in a single scene with Roderick dying in the cellar and adds a bit more impact with Alex accidentally killing him, freeing himself from him at last, but then still refusing to free Dream, revealing that he is still influenced by his father.
@@lostleopard1224 She clearly says this as a reference to people who are immortal (Mad Hettie, Hob Gadling). There is nothing there to imply she just isn't there when someone actually dies.
Oh also in the comics Paul didn't believe in magic and so the circle was more of an accident that he regretted due to the eternal sleep thing.
But I like the change.
Paul breaking it on purpose to try and free Alex of his obsession and burden was a nice bit of character building. One of those adaptation changes that actually cotribute to the story. :)
@@ImVeryOriginal agreed! It was one of those moments (along with calling out John Dee's parentage more overtly, something I had never considered) where I went, "oooo, that's nice." It also makes his entire speech in the Kindly Ones even more tragic.
Read the comic with the audiobook playing in the background. The audio book is narrated by Gaiman himself and stars James McAvoy. It’s basically a 1:1 of the comic.
This show is awesome...already on episode 9!!!
The Neil Gaiman's screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's literally work
It was bound to success I would say
I was honestly hooked after the first ep 😂 can't wait for all the reactions
I'm new to the sandman and I must say as I finish it I like it 9/10 and hoping for a new season cause that tease at the end is intriguiing and also episode 6 is something excited to see u react!! Been here since the arcane reaction awo!!!!!!
Loved this. Thank you, Omni. Liked and shared.
Love this
In comics Morpheus has been the manifestation of Dream since its very beginning his the 3 eldest since the very first life stated to imagine and dream (stars and planets are living beings in the comic and can dream) he’s came to be in the comics its said the universe is over trillions and trillions of years.
I suspect the mask is loosely based off of the original Sandman’s gas-mask, since he used a gas-gun to put criminals to sleep, he needed a gas
I highly recommend Narcos for Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal, an amazing series
I'm enjoying it so far.
This was such a great first episode!
I know... right?
YES! FINALLY!
I didn't like what they did to Alex in the show. I'd much rather he be the smart sociopath like his father, so that Drean can give him the Eternal Waking punishment, aways awakening to a new nightmare. Other than that, this episode was great.
Yeah and he didn't really elicit empathy either, I felt they tried to give him some depth but it doesn't really work for me.
I still can’t believe this is real
I haven’t seen it yet just here to say hi
You are going to like it a lot
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You have this reaction in your movies playlist...in case that matters.
Whoops Thank you!
Apparently this the most expensive series produced by WB... Surpassing GOT ... Reportedly $15 M per episode...
They got their money's worth! I was blown away.
I'm watching this and I can't help but imagine what a Harry Potter series would look like (since this was made by Warner too).
May I ask what the release schedule is?
One a day by noon is the plan
I don't like it, sorry.
Can I ask why?
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed ep 1, looking forward to the rest of the season with the exception of Oswalt. We're kind of burned out on him. He seems to be in many shows/moves we watch. I did have to pay my wife a dollar as we always bet if there is going to be a gay character inserted 🤷♂
Is that really an “insert”, though? That’s not just something put in for the show. Alex was gay in the comics as well.
@@0okamino Really? I don't remember that at all. Thanks for the correction - 30 yrs is a long time to remember I guess, coupled with my expectation as of late to have the gay agenda shoe horned into almost every show.
@@Marzen216 How much of it did you read? In the comics series, there are already at least 4 gay men, 5 lesbians, some characters which exhibit bi or pansexuality, a trans woman, and then Desire who is everything.
@@Marzen216 There's like 10 gay characters in the comics dude, they didn't insert shit. If you think "the gay agenda" is a problem, Sandman was never for you and you never understood it.
the mask was a reference to the golden age hero, Wesley Dodds/Sandman from DC @Omn1Media