Yeah. Gaiman needs a subtle touch. Kripke can say some impressive things, and let some other impressive enough stuff stay unsaid, but that's not the same thing as being deft.
Death? Delirium? Desire?
Hmmm.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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§ ita § - Sep 01, 2010 7:06:47 pm PDT #13261 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-t - Sep 01, 2010 7:09:14 pm PDT #13262 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I agree with the link that TV is probably a better medium for Sandman than film. Other than that, I don't quite know how to react. Wait and see if anything comes of it, I suppose.
Cass - Sep 01, 2010 7:12:03 pm PDT #13263 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Um... A lot of Gaiman things fall through? Which is to say, "But do I trust Kripke with Death from the Sandman?" No, not so much. But I like to be pleasantly surprised, so I can be hopeful? Okay, I can try.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 01, 2010 7:12:41 pm PDT #13264 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Get ahold of this rumour: Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ Moving to TV, Possibly With ‘Supernatural’ Creator Eric Kripke on Board.
Wow, so Seasons 4 and 5 really were the world's most elaborate pitch meeting to woo an author!
Atropa - Sep 01, 2010 7:14:13 pm PDT #13265 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Death? Delirium? Desire?
::clutches head::
No, I don't trust him with any of those characters. Sorry, I just don't. I fear he'd fall into the trap of making Death and Delirium too cutesy. Death is charming-but-pragmatic, and Del is charming but unsettling. (IMO, and I admit that I may have irrational attachment issues about the Sandman characters.)
Atropa - Sep 01, 2010 7:14:45 pm PDT #13266 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Wow, so Seasons 4 and 5 really were the world's most elaborate pitch meeting to woo an author!
Bwhaahahahahahahahaha!
-t - Sep 01, 2010 7:18:41 pm PDT #13267 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I think I'm with you, Cass. Willing to be pleasantly surprised.
Atropa - Sep 01, 2010 7:22:08 pm PDT #13268 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I want to be willing to be pleasantly surprised, but Sandman is one of the few things I will get irrationally fangirly about.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 01, 2010 7:39:43 pm PDT #13269 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hopefully Neil will have creative control of all the major aspects, particularly casting?
Typo Boy - Sep 01, 2010 7:57:39 pm PDT #13270 of 30002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I totally get what Jilli is saying. The Endless are NEVER harmless. They are more powerful than Gods. But like Gods, they will fuck up humans to win a bet, or on a whim. They will punish as ruthlessly for minor offenses as for grand attacks.
Think of "cute harmless" (something I know nobody here would say but I fear Kripke) Delirium ordering little chocolate people filled with raspberry creme in Brief Lives, bringing them to life:
... the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.
And yet Delirium is also genuinely vulnerable and and friendly and curious. And it takes a heck of a touch to get both aspects. Poor broken girl. Delirium who used to be Delight. Friendly, well meaning. And yet also deadly dangerous. Will cut you (metaphorically) and does not need a reason.
And Dream and Death are much more difficult than Delirium. Desire may seem more 1-dimensional, and yet shehe too is complex and takes careful understanding. Desire is unstoppable lust and obsession, but also the sibling who is insanely jealous of his/her brother Dream, yet loves that brother more fiercely than she/he can admit.