Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
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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.)
Wow, so Seasons 4 and 5 really were the world's most elaborate pitch meeting to woo an author!
Bwhaahahahahahahahaha!
Yeah, I think I'm with you, Cass. Willing to be pleasantly surprised.
I want to be willing to be pleasantly surprised, but Sandman is one of the few things I will get irrationally fangirly about.
Hopefully Neil will have creative control of all the major aspects, particularly casting?
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.
From what I can tell, Neil is not yet on board though they'd like him to be. It seems he does not hold the tv rights.
ETA: I'd really like to see a shared product from the minds of Edlund and Gaiman.
This picture deserves it's own post.
Sleepy, sexy, leather ... Mrph.
Oh ehab. Thanks to you, my morning is so much better. Guh.