A Return to Blissful Ignorance (My Final Blog)
In both the graphic novel and Netflix re-imagining of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman , there are many moments that are quite poignant. In the graphic novel, a lot of them were 'woke' well beyond their time. In the TV series, the 'woke' manages to out-do itself considerably many times. The common denominator nonetheless is the same and that is it was intended to be 'woke' so creative liberty does not accord it much damage. What it did damage though is the writer himself. The more experimental the fantasy, the more insidiously it encroaches upon reality. There is one scene in both versions which I find to be quite clairvoyant: it is when Morpheus, i.e. the Lord of Dreams (hereby to be referred to, in keeping with the book and TV tradition, as Dream) visits Lucifer i.e. the Devil, in Hell to enquire about his stolen helmet. A woman had confiscated it when he'd been accidentally imprisoned on Earth by a powerful magician, Roderick Burgess, who had wished to captu...