The Sandman Episode 5 '24/7' REACTION!!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- With Morpheus caught off guard, John settles in at a diner to watch the people around him - and put his theory about truth and lies to a terrifying test. Here's Nikki & Steven's reaction to episode 5 of The Sandman.
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One more episode to go.
This episode was crazy! I thought it felt like a Twilight Zone episode too, & around the same time that Steven did, lol.
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@@acephas3 ?? There's 11 episodes! The last one is animated, but it's great too. Did you quit after 6? If so you missed alot! Lol...🤘😁
@@mojoriot2293 I watched them all!!
I love how Dream calls peoples' lies in this episode "dreams." The people may not be speaking exactly how they feel, but they are saying their intentions. They are trying to be nice, they are trying to be helpful, they are trying to not hurt each others' feelings. Those are all good thing, that John just calls 'lies.' But instead they are dreaming of a better world or situation and speaking to that.
yes. so good!
Interesting take, but if someone lies about not murdering someone or rpd them, are they really wishing for a better tomorrow, or are they selfishly trying to save their soul from punishment?
Yep, absolutely accurate take. Dreams are what drive us.
@@blueberrygod8275 I mean in the Sandman universe basically even the Devil and the demons of hell dream of heaven. So there is some kind of inbuilt philosophy of lies, in that universe at least
One of the most interesting things is that the power of the ruby was not limited to affect only the cafe/restaurant, and while Jhon is getting rid of the lies in the place you can also hear the news of everything happening outside as well
I need to rewatch and pay attention to get a feel of how localised it was.
I just now caught this: Dream is talking to John like an adult talking to a child. A child that is doing something immensely dangerous and the adult is trying to get them to stop, using language that they can understand. I've gotten the impression that Dream also moved the battle to the Dreaming so that the Waking World wouldn't be damaged any more than it had been by the Ruby's power, in addition to the reason Dream stated.
It make sense. Jhon spent however many years locked up in a room, and before that he couldn't have a normal socializing process while having the power to make dreams come true. It's like he stopped his growth at a level apropriate for a preteen child. His entire plan is naive like a child's idea of a perfect world: "My mommy lied to me, so lies are always bad, and if I made it so that there's no more lies, then the world will be saved, and perfect". The fact that he celebrated by taking a tub of ice cream is a huge give away as well. :)
He have some overgrown child like behavior. Also yeah he was in "prison" hospital for most of his adult life.
@@Ryuu44 Eh, at what age was he locked up? I feel his actions are more childlike, over preteen/tween, no matter what age he was locked up.
You're actually correct. In the comics John has a really childish way of speaking also, not just the childish actions. He's kind of endearing at first, even though he's locked up in Arkham Asylum (where DC villains caught by Batman go), and he is just shown as a dangerous person when he kills the lady who gave him a ride to the ruby. In the series it became much more subtle, but you got it.
Dream had compassion for John because it wasn’t his fault that the ruby came to him. I believe John was put to sleep to heal.
That seems to be the impression I get from this and the comics. Dream really understands that power of this magnitude isn't something humanity can grasp; it's almost Lovecraftian in how it inspires madness.
well it's basically the same situation as with rachel and the Sand. It came into her posession because of someone else, it had powers she didn't understand, she got pulled into it and it destroyed her without her noticing that it did so. Johanna made him recognize this. He learned at this time he didn't need someone else to make him notice.
He remembered a bit of empathy like Johanna made him feel for Rachel who was dying from the sand through no fault of her own. He's learning.
In the end Dream doesn't punish John because he knows it wasn't really his fault. The Ruby broke him, it was too much power for a mortal to bear, and as Dream said, "it came to you through no fault of your own." Dream chose compassion over retribution, which shows an evolution in his character.
Episode 5 and 6 are my favorites of the season, and they’re both so tonally different it’s crazy haha.
nikki took this episode better than i feared. 😄
@@vinsanity40k Next episode will be the true test
@@555smo The baby will devastate her, to put it mildly... 😢
Same! And the cereal convention lol
I didn't get the impression that Dream would torment John with endless nightmares and dream-loops. Dream understood that the ruby wasn't meant for human hands and it wasn't John's fault that he became enthralled with it. I think he just put him to an endless sleep, to dream whatever, so that John couldn't wreak havoc in the real world anymore, not as a serious punishment for his actions.
Episode 6 is soon upon us. Finally.
Can't wait!
So excited!!!
3 weeks later and I'm still waiting 😐
I just realized that when the fates said " you will crush the dream lord's life in your hands" they were talking about crushing the ruby. Before i thought they were just lying or merely stating different possible outcomes.
I think the reason the first part feels weird is because everyone was being "fake" which is what John decided to change. He sees things in a very black and white way, not realizing the lies people tell themselves is sometimes necessary for survival.
Glad that they fleshed the diner scene out verses the comic. Giving the people inside more development made what John did far more horrifying than if it had just been part of a montage of events across the world. The next episode is a great salve after this one.
Gaiman said that was one area he wanted to reimagine. He still wanted to start at (and get to) the same place, but he was taking a different path story-wise on the way. To me, it feels so much more horrifying. Like a creeping dread and fear where the "wrongness" of what John's doing slowly unfolds. As awful as the violence is, I'm not sure it's the scariest part.
How's this compare to the comics graphic novel series?
@@genghisgalahad8465 It's very similar, though the show focuses more on the buildup while the book spends much longer with John controlling the people in the diner. For example - in the book, the married couple just come in and eat, without any argument about the food or the texting. Later, the book has a much longer and brutal fight between the husband and the young guy, with the husband killing the young guy by tearing his throat out with his teeth. I think the creeping dread and building tension worked really well for the show, but would have been less effective in print in the book. The protracted look at how John was able to use the gem to manipulate people worked for the book, but wouldn't have been good tv.
@@genghisgalahad8465 I think some of it played a lot different. John is WAY crazier in the books and not benevolent if misguided in his efforts. The violence is extending throughout the world, and the diner scene goes on for a long time. They hold him as a God, the fingers are cut off to offer to him as a sacrifice. He gathers them around to watch the increasing horror on the news, they devolve into an orgy of violence and sex that he spectates on. To me, the cruelest part of the comic is that they're given their minds back for a little while, knowing what's happening. John is also different save a sports coat the whole time. This plays more effectively. The fight with Dream is almost identical, minus John scratching his butt while Dream has him in his hand.
Dream told John to “sleep well”, so I don’t think he gave him nightmares.
Right. Everything that dreams was granted peaceful sleep at that time if they were asleep, and for whenever they did sleep for those who didn’t sleep that night (since some would have nocturnal schedules). Nightmares serve an important purpose, but they could all clock out for that shift. The world had enough already.
Well, Dream perception about " sleep well" could be a little bit different than ours...
This is an amazing episode. Neil called the comic story some of the darkest material he'd written and they translated that very well unto the screen.
Yes indeed. I felt the show was even darker than the source material. Maybe because I was seeing it instead of imagining it idk. What did you think?
@@lissy2000us I think what primarily set it apart from me is the different take of John Dee. In the comic he is a shriveled up madman and obviously a villain that play a sick game with people peeling away the layers of their humanity.
In the show he's much more a normal man. With motives you can actually understand giving how his life has been. And somehow that makes him more scary to me. He's not set apart from humanity, he's very much a part of it with a simple wish: Let's be honest with each other. And dreams purpose and power shines brighter for it.
And they made the episode so you could cut the tension with a knife. With very simple yet effective means for every loop. As Steven said, John just feels "off".
@@QuayNemSorr well said!!
@@QuayNemSorr his fucked up childhood made him like this so cynical without hope, from his point of view in a sense he wasn’t wrong, without these social conventions and boundaries we’re no different than animals but also Dream shows the importance of his existence not to deceive humans from the so called truth but to inspire them to be better, god this is such a fine piece of mind blowing storytelling
@@QuayNemSorr They do something similar with Calliope. Madoc is so obviously a skeezeball in the comic. But in the show, they've updated him to be a Nice Guy(tm) and it just makes him more scary and hateable. Especially since it's Rory Williams from Doctor Who!
Next time you hear someone say "I'm just brutally honest lol" - this is exactly what that looks like. Brutal honesty is not cool.
Yeah, even what is usually called “brutal honesty” isn’t nearly as brutal as it truly would be.
People who say that are more interested in being brutal than being honest.
LOVE this episode, and its intimate sense of "something is wrong, but we can't yet put our finger on it." Amazing that the original comic version somehow is even darker and more disturbing.
Episode 6 is soooo good and i can't wait for both of you to enjoy it, quite possibly a perfect hour of television
This is by far the most INTENSE episode of this series, and i loved it
I watched this episode with a friend and I caught the waitress saying her son was back from college to the couple but my friend didn't so when the cook is talking about going up to the sons room me and my friend had very different reactions 😂😂
😅 Their misunderstanding is close to the comic's version of that exchange, so I can where they'd get freaked out.
It's still a vile thing to do but not illegal. Going over your friends place and then having sex with their song or daughter when you fall asleep is definitely a thing that will get you shot or beat down.
I think if they made him any younger it would of been too far in a lot of viewers eyes and veered into disturbing for disturbing’s sake
@@lanagievski1540 I think it would have been disturbing but I wouldn't think it would be for disturbing's sake because unfortunately there is people out there that do that and keep it secret so in a world without lies I think it would still be realistic. Still absolutely disgusting but saddly realistic.
Such a brilliant episode and yet the next one is even better!
I love the weird, creepy and unsettling atmosphere in this episode and the fact that most of it takes place in one setting, just adds to that creep factor and gives it an almost claustrophobic feeling!
This follows the comics pretty well -- remember, this will be a series of shorter stories; some will be longer (multiple episodes) and some shorter. Antagonists will come and go. In short, it is a story about stories.
Corinthian told us in the 1st episode that Reaper is a Family. the siblings are Destiny, Despair, Death, Dream, Desire, etc...
Absolutely loving Desire's design. Btw guys, the seven Endless are, in order of seniority, Destiny, Death, Dream, The Prodigal One, Desire and Despair (who are twins), and Delirium
Character in the end of the episode, Dreams younger sibling was Desire
Dream of the endless has family, Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium 😊
Great reaction as always guys♥️
Even though the comic was 100x more gruesome, they adapted the story so well! Loving your reactions and can’t wait to see the rest! ❤
Thank you for the reactions. This episode and the next "The Sound of Her Wings" are my favourites throughout the whole season.
Just as Morpheus said “Their dreams kept them alive, but if you rob them of their dreams, if you take away their hope, then this is the truth of mankind” as he points out the harm John had caused. I do love the idea of a more honest world, but John Dee takes that to an unnecessary extreme. With untruths such as dreams, we can motivate ourselves to walk paths that take us to places in our lives that we never thought possible.
Goddamn Neil Gaiman keeps proving once again his is of the greatest writers of our time.
Also I really loved how he changed John Dee for the show because in the comic he is like I twisted and mutated fusion of Gollum and The Joker. Here he is an emotionally stunted man who wants to wipe out lies from the world.
I found this part and what Dream says so moving. I think it’s something we tend to forget and definitely need reminding. Neil is amazing.
I think it's more than just dreams being "untruths"; I think it's an equivalence between dreams and self-told lies. As in, the lies we tell ourselves are just the dreams we wish were true.
Soo excited to see your reactions for episode 6!!
The acting in this is so good. Virtually everything they say is the kind of things they would say normally, and the way they say it almost normal, but there is just something a little off with the way they say it. That combined with the excellent background music and the camera angles combine to make it creepy, tense and disturbing. Gradually ramping up throughout the episode.
I think he showed mercy to John and just returned him. They changed what he did to Alex in episode 1 from an eternal nightmare to just sleep, so it seems unlikely he would give that level of punishment to someone Morpheus acknowledged was a victim.
Don't know if anyone else noticed, but any time someone is affected by the ruby, there's a red light cast on them. Some excellent details and an amazingly shot episode for a TV show.
Really enjoyed this very imaginative series and I'm enjoying experiencing it again through your reactions. Such a dark episode but strangely moving when Dream relates our hope to our dreams and how that gives so much purpose & meaning to our lives. You both should really enjoy the next episode which is very different in tone.
This episode gave me serious "Twilight Zone" vibes. Imagine a world where nobody lies...
Black mirror or twilight zone was clearly the inspiration for this take of the comic. It was sooo good. Can't wait to see you guys watch the next episode
The book was darker, and was so much more disturbing. Good news is the next episode is very much a cleansing and is even more different. But in a good way. John was insane, part from his father but a lot from his mother keeping him moving and hiding and telling me that the Sandman was coming to kill them. He was pretty much placed on a road into madness by that and then the gem came into his hands and he could not handle that mind bending power of it. John was probably a decent person underneath the madness, but I think Dream understood that the gem had warped him. He's probably stuck in a dream of how he could have been, how everything could have been different if the gem was never in his life.
Sandman Episode 6 is a breath of fresh air. No weird vibes...no violence or murders. I enjoyed that episode so much. Just a good trip.
Love you guys! Can’t wait for you to see episode 6. The writer says 5, is the hard work you have to do for the rewards of episode 6.
So remember how a couple episodes ago you both said you wanted this show to keep being dark and gritty?? Well here's the darkest and grittiest episode of the entire season >:)
I like how Bette mentions her son's in college yet by the time Marsh mentions he goes up to the son's room we've all forgotten and get really tense and uncomfortable and then Marsh says he's 21 and we're all like "oh nvm, that's fine then"
What I really REALLY appreciate about this episode is that it's almost as dark as the comic version in terms of messed up stuff happening but the overall theme changes and makes the story much visceral. In the comics John forces the diners to do these things for his entertainment but here he's basically just giving them permission to be themselves. So the story isn't "what happens when a man who can control people get 24 hours with them in a diner" but rather "what happens when humanity is allowed to act on its most basic impulses without any self censoring or restriction?" Forcing people to kill and mutilate each other is evil but forcing people to be honest and seeing that that results in them killing and mutilating each other/themselves leads to some very grim self reflection about ourselves as individuals and a species. Masterpiece of an episode
"It's almost like we're not even watching the same show" that's the beauty of the comic and show, it's an anthology series but there is an overarching narrative going on. Or at least the first 6 episodes (Preludes and Nocturnes arc) are like that, 7-10 (The Doll House arc) are much more linear and connected. And then there's 11 which is just in a league of it's own
John Dee is Dr. Destiny in DC comics, who, while dream was captured, used the dream stone to torture the Justice League. If you guys have ever considered reading graphic novels, the whole series is phenomenal. Can’t wait for y’all to see episode 6!! 🥰
After watching this series I've been rewatching it in part with other reaction you tubers. I'm really enjoying this with you guys and you brought out several things I haven't thought about. You both have great observations and I love your reactions, (and that's the truth, 😆). Can't wait for you to watch all that follows. I don't think you will be disappointed. There are 2 bonus episodes following episode 10 not directly a part of this story line I'm sure you will also enjoy!
I got to say, the reaction to this was really good. The next episode is my favorite. Can't wait to see what u think. I still haven't watched the bonus episode. Waiting for u guys to catch up.
This episode was BY far the craziest!
The comic version was even more violent, but also seriously random and chaotic. And John was just sort of 'chaotic crazy.'
I REALLY like how it was adapted to this live version. We understand John, and the story unfolds in a much more (IMO) compelling way.
This is the sign of a real great adaptation, when you build up on the original material while still keeping loyal to the main themes
Yeah...my friends and I decided that comic John was chaotic evil. Show John is lawful evil.
In response to the whole "who the hell was that" at the end, the siblings' names all start with D and these are all of their names (to prevent spoilers because of the OLDER brother thing) in no particular order. Delirium (once known as Delight), Dream, Desire, Destruction (in the next episode, when they refer to "The Prodigal" this is who they're talking about. no spoiler, they never mention this in the tv show so far, but it comes up in the comics), Destiny, Death, and Despair.
Dream could have easily killed John for what he did, but he recognised that John wasn't really at fault for what the ruby did to him (just like Rachel with the sand) Plus the fact that John was locked away for years, so his simplistic view of other people and being so focused on lying, was very childlike and emotionally stunted.
I feel like Dream definitely took the lesson that Johanna taught him to heart, that they're not all like Roderick Burgess, and that there are good people in the world.
Aswell as the fact that she inspired him not to just leave Rachel there to die in pain, but to help her pass on with the help of a good dream.
What I love about this episode, and as the series goes along, is that Dream is noticeably learning to be more compassionate and more understanding towards humans and humanity in general.
This was my favorite episode in season one. The way it plays on human nature and our fears and desires, is so well done. I heard the comic version of this is much darker.
what i really love about this episode and john is that john says he wants a world without lies. most people would say yes please to a world with less lies so at first youre like wait is this such a bad thing and then youre like oh no, this is REALLY bad
Oh, I've been looking forward to seeing this reaction from you guys. I think we all had that "this feels so weird" feeling that was giving me some major Black Mirror vibes. I really, really enjoyed this episode.
Edit: "Where are all these tools coming from?" that made me LOL Steven, And also Nikki feeling the Black Mirrorness of it all.
The fates lived up to their reputation of telling the future yet also omitting crucial details as well! Also I laughed when Steven said "where did all these tools come from"?!!🤣🤣
Can't wait for the next episode, you guys will meet my favorite character of the endless. She is amazing and the actress did an amazing job in the role.
This episode is so intense. Episode 6 is beautiful and heartbreaking. I cannot wait for your reaction.
Total honesty is dangerous.
So glad to see you guys experience this for the first time. This part of the story is so wild
I’m looking forward to your reaction to Episode 6. I’ve loved the stories it tells for 30 years! 😍
I remember reading the comic this episode was based on, many years ago now. I remember thinking 'Wow, they'll never be able to adapt this comic into a film or series with an issue like THIS.' Well, I was wrong.
Great reaction! This episode was so profound and very well acted; cant wait for next week reaction EP 6 it's the best ep IMO :)
This episode being set in a diner reminded me of the movie, "Legion"...you guys should react to THAT, but also rect to the FX TV SHOW by the same name about the most powerful mutant in the X-Men universe...Professor X's son David Haller.
This is one of my favorite episodes of any show I've watched. Reminds me of a Hitchcock movie if he wasn't restricted by the constraints of the time he lived in.
This episode stayed with me -- I couldn't stop thinking about it. I guess that's a hallmark of a good, and thoughtful, manuscript.
The whole "He's 21" was added on for the show to make it a little less bad, but not really. If you think about it a little longer he was with her while the "kid" was at home, and stopped coming around when he left for college. Strongly implying that he was doing things before college. You sort of have to read between the lines a bit more.
In the comics it's even worse. She thinks her son is off to the world, and he tells her he actually saw her son being pimped out in prison for cigarettes. And then he says he paid a pack for a turn. Again, keeps calling him "little Bernard" and strong implying that he abused her son at home until he ran away and got messed up in drugs because of his trauma. Or at best if you don't catch on to the implications he found her son as an addict in prison being assaulted for payments and instead of rescuing the kid he practically helped raise, had a turn too...
Either way it's a horrifying shock, and horrible.
Yeah, it was the most disturbing of the whole episode.
I think the protection amulet reads intent. Real intent to cause harm. After all, Rosemary almost ran John over. Hit him with a car. His life was in danger. Yet no one was meaning to harm him.
Could also respond to only life threatening situations as well. Maybe a punch or a fight might not activate it? No idea there.
Came here to say just this. The amulet didn't react when Rosemary hit John with her car, so the amulet clearly can tell the difference between intent, accident, and severity.
Such a great episode for a reaction! At one point both of your mouths fell open at the same time. Great stuff! And I think you’re wrong when you say there are probably deeper interpretations of this episode - you two worked out pretty much everything. I’m looking forward to the next one!
John only did two things: prevented people from lying or keeping secrets, and prevented the people in the diner from leaving. Everything else was just the consequences of that. The moral of the story is that the lies we tell ourselves are just the dreams we wish were true. If we can't lie to ourselves, then we can't hope for a better life or a better world, and all the despair and misery come crashing down with that realization.
Dream said that John came to the ruby through no fault of his own and that it wasn't meant to be used by mortals. I highly doubt that Dream would have given John continues nightmares or anything like that. He saw John as essentially innocent and therefore was merciful.
probably my favorite episode.. like a mini horror movie.
I love how the fates told John what was going to happen before it happened
Here's the thing in the last episode you went to hell in this episode you see hell on earth. Jon may say he wants a world with out lies but all he is doing as he controls these people is lie.
It almost feels like this is worse than the Hell we experienced last episode. He's been so broken by lies that he's got a very twisted view that telling no lies make for a better world. But he puts so many things (that have nuance in their philosophical implications) under that umbrella.
Exactly. This isn't really free will.
John even really seems to believe that is what he wants, and what he is achieving. I think what’s actually happening is the ruby is drawing from deep parts of John’s disturbed psyche of which he isn’t aware and can’t control. The ruby is taking that, magnifying it, and channeling it back out with some of Dream’s power infused into it. John isn’t Dream, so he is also affected by it (even if he’s unaware of that), feeding it back to him, and worsening his mental state as he uses the power. As Morpheus says, it is harming him.
If what happens to John is the same as what happened to him in the comic, Dream simply returned him to the asylum, gave him a good night's sleep then left him. He didn't consider him to be at fault really, as the ruby had damaged his mind. Possibly one of the earliest signs of the changes Dream's imprisonment has had on him, as I suspect in the old days he would have punished him for what he did.
this episode was so interesting , to see what will happen if everyone tells the truth sometimes a little lie is better
The next episode is by far one of the best
I thought the question of the consequences of giving Rosemary the Amulet of Protection is actually an interesting one. No matter what good the amulet might do in one way, extending life, keeping people 'safe', it was an amulet given to Ethel by a demon. And I can't imagine any item given by a demon not ending up having bad side-effects. To recall what Morpheus said in the previous episode, 'A demon has a hundred motives for doing anything he does, all of them malevolent.' Also, interestingly, the Amulet itself, a series of circles spinning around a single eye is not dissimilar to how artists have depicted the Ophanim, creatures mentioned in the Bible which might or might not be angels, depending on your interpretation.
Dream and his brothers, they are not gods, much less humans, they are something that exists beyond thoughts and entities, they are not good, and often they can even be evil in mortal eyes, this kind of shows why Dream didn't kill John in the end i can't wait for the next episode i really want to see your reaction
Poor John was just sick and broken. He was obsessed with truth because all of his life was filled with lies, his mother constantly lied to him, they constantly had to tell lies about who they were and where they were from so that John’s father wouldn’t find them. It was almost as if the ruby possessed him, he became addicted to what the ruby could do by giving him a world filled with “truth”. But because the ruby wasn’t intended for how John used it, it corrupted him even further and the Sandman could see that it wasn’t really John’s fault, he deserved peace, which is really what John was looking for in the end.
Omg I’ve seen this show for the 10th times now and why is this the first time I noticed who Judy was talking to on FaceTime.
This episode reminded me of the web series "The Booth at the End" . It was so good and ended way before its time.
Comic/Audible Production of tgis event is even darker
You know, as dark as this series can be, the comic is SO much darker.
The entire "feel" of that episode is really close to the general feel of tripping on shrooms
I can't wait for episode 6, it's my fav :)
Nothing on this earth could've prepared me for this episode.
Morpheus gave john a peaceful sleep. The Ruby was not meant for humans and it was not his fault that he succumbed to its power, as Morpheus stated while laying John's head on the pillow.
Was definitely waiting to see this reaction.
I love watching your reactions to the TV show and movies. I think you're the best ones out there. All the best to you
"I feel like I'm watching the Twilight Zone", or something like that... very on point! I was just watching a couple of them, both Rod Serling and the newer ones, and that's really what this episode feels like.
This episode and the next episode are my 2 favorite episodes of the entire series.
"Expecto Patronum", yeah, I keep thinking of John as Lupin. It's confusing the shizz out of me. 🤣
Next episode is my fave. Nikki will be emotional to this one.
I cant wait for you guys to watch the next episode its my absolute favorite honestly. The best
This el and the next are the ones I’ve most looked forward to seeing.
You are very good videographers.😊❤
OMG Nikki I LOVE your shirt
The order of progression for the Endless from the beginning of creation. Father Time and Mother Night. Then Destiny. Death. Dream. Destruction,(also called The Prodigal.) Desire. And the twins Despair and Delight. (For unknown reasons Delight became Delirium.) So. How would you feel about Life, if Death was your older Sister.
Like John said at the beginning of this episode, "If you keep [the story] going long enough, they always end in death."
A little foreshadowing there
Also, John might think, we might think, that dropping our inhibitions makes us out truer selves but maintaining control of ourselves because we consider the feelings of others, the harm we could do to ourselves and to society, that thoughtfulness, mindfulness, is just as much a part of us as the part that is pure ID. ID is just a part or version of us, not a truer version and it can be narcissistic. It’s not the whole story.
Watching people react to this episode is so entertaining
Episode 6 will have y'all in tears
im so happy y'all are enjoying the sandman
Think that was like the twilight zone? Just wait until the next episode. Wow
I can’t remember the name of Dream(Morpheus’) younger brother is, I’m sure it’s said by the end of the season, but a thought just occurred to me that he was introduced in this episode specifically because John D (B?) might make a return in S2. I don’t know if I’d like that or not. On one hand, it’s the return of villain who will undoubtedly have different, interesting and unique powers. On the other hand, it may be better to have a whole new roster and/or plot of villains.
Her name is Desire, Morpheus' younger sister not brother.
That burger did look crazy.
The people in the cafe were destroying themselves