OK, so they'd already made that decision before Gaiman became a toxic association. That, I find bizarre. "Only one more season of Dream material" in the rest of the Sandman comics? OK, a lot of The Sandman is material more akin to the bonus episodes like the Muse, but Dream's story still fills, IMHO, far more than one season to properly bring off. Many of the side stories introduce key elements for Dream's journey. So, I can get that it's expensive and there might not be sufficient audience to justify it. That's the breaks with big investment shows. But for the main creators to say it only had one more season in it is weird.
I can imagine they could be warned by Netflix that they'd be unlikely to get a 3rd series. And if they wanted to wrap things up nicely it would be best to do so in series 2. But I agree with you that there was much more to Dream's story than this says. I'm also wondering just how accelerated series 2 is going to be ...
I'm glad Good Omens will complete - good thing Gaiman backed away from it.
Gaiman strikes me as a man who is partially blind to 'coercive control'. Any woman living in your household is by definition in a dependent situation and risks losing both job and home if she turns you down sexually.
That can lead to a forced consent, that the two parties may view very differently.
But I would have thought there would be the body language that anyone could read if they looked for it.
I remember someone I knew in a similar situation (later served a jail spell for rape). Again, dependent woman in a household... He was into that grey area of willing/unwilling consent, and where it blurs. For him (not saying Gaiman was same or different), I think the guy I knew liked situations where there was consent, but it was forced by circumstances.
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Date: 2025-02-04 12:01 pm (UTC)Gaiman strikes me as a man who is partially blind to 'coercive control'. Any woman living in your household is by definition in a dependent situation and risks losing both job and home if she turns you down sexually.
That can lead to a forced consent, that the two parties may view very differently.
But I would have thought there would be the body language that anyone could read if they looked for it.
I remember someone I knew in a similar situation (later served a jail spell for rape). Again, dependent woman in a household... He was into that grey area of willing/unwilling consent, and where it blurs. For him (not saying Gaiman was same or different), I think the guy I knew liked situations where there was consent, but it was forced by circumstances.