📚The Sandman Episodes 11-14: Listen/Read Along & Analysis
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The Sandman Episode 11:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11LDN2wJWA-jdjL54smz-Oak_oH4kObVJ/view?usp=sharing
The Sandman Episode 12:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12tUk8UagzkVRIV4EO6dzLrEGVGUNFlfA/view?usp=sharing
The Sandman Episode 13:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Jo1nvpgKNz4_P1A9eIlfAiTd3bmKlOg/view?usp=sharing
The Sandman Episode 14:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m9tQQAQX7z4f7R7eqrjBiIHgFdx6CPDF/view?usp=sharing
The Sandman Episode 14 (Part 2):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_5C_HJ0b9hPbNdCNYVtXcZQgnEhBPOJN/view?usp=sharing
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Alright I think why comments on the last set of uploads got eaten again and again. I don’t think Patreon likes me using the word Death so much, so I’m going to try again but from now and for undisclosed reasons Dream’s big sister will be referred to as Didi.
Ryan
2021-10-31 19:14:19 +0000 UTCThe Collectors, it’s a hell of an issue and it’s really good storytelling but it is deeply unsettling, especially for someone who has been to his fair share of conventions big and small. This is another episode like 24 hours where I’m left wondering if Gaiman is a genius or an evil genius. The conceit is incredible and the Corinthian is legit nightmare fuel, hope you like him he’s getting an expanded role in the show. Dream always has very inventive punishments and his punishment for the Collectors was very fitting. But I’m left wondering why Funland was given a happy dream, is this just another instance or Morpheus being indifferent to humans or did he figure his punishment for all the Collectors sufficed for him as well. I do like to think those little kids were leading him right off a cliff in his last panel. The opening and closing narrations are another brilliant piece of writing, the b____ wind of fall that brought them and dirty foul wind of winter that left with them as the darkness swallowed them. Both monologues ending with “Perhaps it did” gives the issue such a nice symmetry. I love the title page for this one, I had a poster made of it a long time ago, wish I still had that.
Ryan
2021-10-31 19:02:54 +0000 UTCAs to why they changed the issue order for the Audible, I think it was for narrative flow. Dream even says at the end that he has a prior arrangement to go to, which is his appointment with Hob. Which means in the midst of everything happening to Rose Walker’s family and her being the Vortex, Dream has to go have a beer with his old buddy Hob. I like Men of Good Fortune being placed ahead of the Doll House arc. Speaking of which you’ll be coming up on another instance of the issues and the episodes being out of order. The last two episodes Facade will come first in the Audio but will be last in the book behind a Midsummers Nights Dream. Again I would recommend going with the Audible order.
Ryan
2021-10-31 18:37:00 +0000 UTCUnity Kinkaid and her family return showing that there is no wasted motion in The Sandman, everything that happens matters to the overall narrative. Rose Walker takes center stage in the tale. I like Rose as a stand in for the reader, a young woman with a quest of her own but is of greater importance than she knows. Jed and the Land of Marvelous Dreams! Yeah this one is rough, that part where he wakes up and the rat is gnawing on him is just shudder inducing. Jed’s portion of the story is a twisted homage to Little Nemo in Slumberland, not sure if you all are familiar was a comic strip which ran from 1905-1911 it was a weekly strip and took up an entire page. It’s a hugely influential comic and each comic was a dream Nemo would have and the last panel would always be Nemo waking up, either by one of his parents or from falling out of bed. Except Little Nemo would be safe at home when he woke and Jed was locked in basement being eaten by rats and peeing in a hole in the corner. On the audio side I absolutely love Dream’s monologue as he navigates the barriers in Jed’s mind and his interactions with Hector Hall. The production on those scenes are wonderful. Now Dream’s interactions with Lyta Hall on the other hand. From them we can see how Dream’s interactions with human can wildly vary. From Burgess to John Constantine to Doctor Dee, Nada, and Lyta Hall. From cruel to kind to almost uncaring and indifferent. But his interactions with Hob show that Dream is changing.
Ryan
2021-10-31 18:29:14 +0000 UTCI’ll have more to say once I get to those parts but we’ve met Hypolyta Hall who is the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor.
Ryan
2021-10-31 15:30:00 +0000 UTCWelcome to the Doll’s House in which we meet Desire and Despair the twins of the Endless. I like the idea of Desire and Despair being linked as twins. If the Endless are aspects or functions of life. Then Desire and Despair would be twins, and Desire would be the older twin as our desires can lead to our despair. I love that opening by Gaiman describing the Threshold and the line “Desire lives in the heart” that man can really turn a phrase. This is the first time we see how the Endless can communicate with each other. In each of their realms are displays of each siblings sigil Dream’s Helm, Death’s silver ankh, the empty place for their missing brother, and whatever’s going on with Delirium. Of course the only sigil for Desire could be a picture or a reflection of Desire. But of them all Despair’s hooked ring is by far the creepiest, the way she tears at her flesh with and the sounds of that tearing sound and her moans in the audio, it makes me shudder. I’ve always enjoyed Desire, their androgynous and non binary nature. But Desire has been the source of some criticism of these stories. You’ll notice in the speech bubbles Desire described as “It” or “Itself” or “brother/sister” and of course these are terms that are no longer acceptable in society. Gaiman was trying to write an open and inclusive story in 1989 and unfortunately we did not yet have a good vocabulary locked in. Gaiman has said that if he were telling this story today he would not write Desire the same way. In the audio we can see an how they are trying to get the pronouns and descriptions of Desire more in line with with modern speech.
Ryan
2021-10-31 15:22:13 +0000 UTC
