Why is there so many gay people in the sandman
The Sandman showrunner turned Loki and Puck into male lover dads
In Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics, Norse god of mischief Loki teams up with the faerie Puck to steal a child conceived in the Dreaming, seemingly with no greater goal in mind than having fun and causing trouble for Dream of the Endless. But when showrunner Allan Heinberg brought the characters to the screen in the second and final season of Netflix’s The Sandman, he decided he needed to flesh out their partnership and motivation.
“It was one of my favorite things about this part of the series,” Heinberg told Polygon in a Zoom call. “We fulfill all the beats of the comic, but in a way that let me know so much more about who Loki is and who Puck is, and why they execute what they do. […] Each of them has sort of a moral core, even though they behave in ways that from the outside could appear to be immoral or anarchic. Loki very much believes that his purpose is to arouse people up to life, to wake them out of their delusion, and Puck is there to hold a mirror up and [speak] truth to power and all of that stuff.”
Like in the comic, the show introduces Puck (Jack Gleeson of Game of Thrones) at a production of Shakespeare’s A Mid
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When Sandman was written there WERE NO stereotypes in Media of Trans women. Want to know why? Because there was no representation at all in media so there was nothing to stereotype. Until Wanda there were no Trans characters in any DC Comic that anyone could name.
Also how can she be a stereotype if your complaint is she doesn’t conform to a popular trope?
Every reason you’ve given for not being happy at the representation has proven wrong.
You claim that all the LGBT+ characters are abusive or cheat on each other. This was proven false but you keep repeating it anyway.
In fact there’s only one abusive LGBT+ character in all of Sandman. And that’s Judy. And she dies in the very issue she’s introduced.
You claim Wanda represents a negative stereotype but you’re the only one stereotyping by calling her a “Man in a dress” because she doesn’t fit a sexist idea of beauty.
You won’t acknowledge the GLAAD award, and you twist Desire out of context, ignoring that they are literally the living embodiment of desires, definition good and bad ones. But how dare they do bad things while being a complex character! Desire, admittedly, is an as
This Friday, August 5th sees the launch of the visually stunning and thrillingly expansive season one of The Sandman, based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning DC comic book series. Although the first issue hit newsstands back in 1989, it has taken decades to view a screen adaptation realized. “For 30 years, people who weren’t me tried to make Sandman movies”, Neil Gaiman—who wrote the first comics and has developed this series for Netflix along with fellow executive producer David S. Goyer and showrunner Allan Heinberg—tells The Queer Review.
“At this point, I’ve probably read about 15 to 20 alternative Sandman movie scripts”, Gaiman shares. “All of them tried to take 3,000 pages of story and cram it into two hours. All of them were terrible. Even the good ones were terrible, because they weren’t really Sandman. The biggest thing we had going for us was that we would have moment to tell the story.”
Throughout the first season, a range of Homosexual characters is introduced. Revealed in a casual way, none of them are defined by their sexuality or gender identity; it’s just one aspect of who they are, in line
Even before Hagrid delivered Harry’s first Hogwarts letter, the realm of the fantastical had me in its thrall. As a child I remember devouring Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne, Bagha Byne films—about two ostracized musicians who are blessed with magical powers by a ‘King of Ghosts’. While my love for the fantasy genre remains unabated, what disappoints me is that it does not have greater queer inclusion. When, a few years earlier, J.K. Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was indeed gay, it almost felt like a gimmick thrown at the realization of her substantial queer fan base. It feels prefer such a missed opportunity because the very element of fantasy lends itself to subverting the conventions of a normative world.
Then I stumbled across the Netflix series “The Sandman”, which was adapted from Neil Gaiman’s comic manual series of the alike name. The Sandman aka Dream (Tom Sturridge), is one of the seven ‘Endless’—eternal beings who regulate over various aspects of human life like, Want (Mason Alexander Park), Despair (Donna Preston) and Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste). At the very outset, Dream is inadvertently captured by a group of occultists led by Roderick Burgess (Charles
Neil Gaiman Explains Why LGBTQ Characters Are Essential to Sandman's Story
The Sandmancreator Neil Gaiman shared why LGBTQ+ characters are such an integral part of the comic's story.
In an interview with Logo, published just after Netflix's series adaptation of the comic premiered, Gaiman explained what drove him to feature characters belonging to the queer community in The Sandman. He said he realized his comic series was steadily acquiring a large Queer fanbase when he began meeting more and more people from the people at conventions. "The people in the [signing] lines, I would be starting to meet more and more LGBT people who were just not the kind of people who would ever read comics, but they were discovery Sandman and they were finding themselves in Sandman,"Gaiman stated."That was huge."
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Gaiman then went on to say that his decision to comprise many LGBTQ+ characters in his story stemmed from his desire to produce an accurate inclusion of his society, noting that The Sandman is first and foremost about people. "I'd position all of the