A Tale of Graceful Ends

Won't get 66 minutes of my life back. How can you waste one entire episode doing nothing? No progression in story rather only change of the lead actor justification that lasted 66 minutes. It's so slow that it tasted my patience and I was tempted to stop it at any moment. But since I loved Sandman and all previous episodes I continued, but this is a dreary dreadful episode.

..than you must not have read the books. And you should go do that now.

This was masterfull.

Ofc some of you out there that are fans of the books may not like this either. But I hope most of you do.

There are so few differenses, or there are many, depends on how picky you are.

But when one has one hour to show one book, they realy got the essence. And summed up acordingly.

One can say that about the whole series, but here we are talking about the last episode.

I started the episode(or finished the last one) thinking "Noo! Dream is suposed to look the same! Only blonde!" But it took me about 7 minutes, and it felt perfect.

I read somewhere that when they first started filming they had Morpheus with "stars in his eyes and shiny endless hair", or something to that abeit. But they decided to make him more human. He would stickout too much compared to the rest if they did it like that.

And I now feel cind of the same about changing actor, or maby more correctly the oposite. If they had keept him, people who havnt read the books wouldnt get it, and just thought it was a reincarnation or something.

The only thing that realy anoyed me during the whole series was Despair. She looked more like she could be gluttony or something. Google "Sandman comic Despair" and you will truly see despair. I REALY dont se why in the he*l they chose to picture her as beautiful.

I am so grateful the creators got to make a closing ending after the cancellation. It was slow paced and beautifull. The entire two seasons subjects were about change and to see the siblings also changed warmed my heart. This is the most beautiful show of the last decade and the rewatch value for me is through the roof. Absolutely love it.

This is one of those tales that you wish would never end. Acting: good Storyline: good Actors: Great (except for 1,we will get to that).

How the moral message was revealed was absolutly heartbreaking. You can understand Why it needed to happen but you didn't want it to. To see how it all comes full circle was a delight. To see how Shakesphere's works were used was absolutly heartstopping when you finally get "it". The little easter eggs and references used is more than brillant.

But, as in life, there is always disappointment. Lylas character. She did ALL that, only to have no concequenes at the end. While the actress may be lovely, she lacks depth to her character. Here is a mom, grieving for her son, a wife, still grieving for her man, and there is no anger in her performance. She was the reason for Dreams downfall and at the end, nothing... no punishment, no reflection from her about her actions. It felt, awful, like we have been cheated almost. Everyone in this show had a epifany,a character arc, but her. Everyone got the message but she was still crying about herself. It didn't feel Like that was a proper ending. I had expected for everyone to be mad at her for trying to kill Dream and yet she was just walking around like it was her house.

Anyway, this was a fantastic show. Loved the visuals, so beautiful some looked like paintings, all the actors, 'cept for 2, (Lyla and Rose) were outstanding. Hate the fact that it is tainted with you know who allegations.

Yet, i leave you all with this....

Langston Hughes 1901 - 1967 Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

I feel like this story is worth watching by everyone, this is such an intense and complex story of Dream and his world, omg it's so good, never seen something like this, unique and exquisite, enjoyed every single episode, amazing story. This is what you want to see when someone wants to replicate hours of writing that have gone into the book, it's breathtaking, all the decors , everything, I dare to say it's one of the best interpretations of the book as a show that I watched.