Has anyone watched the Sandman on Netflix?

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[–]Newzok 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The comic was woke for its day but I still consider it damn good. The show, though? I really don't understand why they'd undermine their artistic integrity this way. A token is still a token and don't tell us it isn't. Anyway, if you're going to go that way, like I've posted before, be fucking consistent. If Death is black, well, so are the rest of the Endless because they're family. But of course you can't do that because that's not really how this works, is it. So brave.

[–]LyingSpirit472 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If Death is black, well, so are the rest of the Endless because they're family. But of course you can't do that because that's not really how this works, is it. So brave.

Shit, if you want to be woke- they're the Endless. Make each one of them a different race, and make the real message "...they're the Endless. They're the embodiment of different aspects of life. OF COURSE they'd each be a different race; that's a part of life too!", and you get the same message, only you do it in an even more powerful way to really hammer it home.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, but that would actual equality, not the sort that favors their (the creators') extra most specialest minorities. And that sort of equality went out the window and into the burn pile around the time that Obama got his first term.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

BUT, it also promotes Netflix equality of "we know damn well that woke viewers are ultimately just mindless sheep who'll pay us 20 bucks a month to baa when they see a sheep that looks like them or wants to have sex with things they want to have sex with", while also making sure you get almost no BAD complainers- the ones who'll get you fired.

[–]Newzok 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well there's also the fact that they're a different race or animal depending on who they interact with.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The comic might have been woke for it's day but that was never enough to satisfy people.

When they had a transvestite character who died heroically it was all "oh my god, I can believe they kill off all the minority characters because 'they are just too good for this cruel world."