It makes sense that death would have a friendly and welcoming personality, its the only comfort between living and non living. Death is the last familiar experience in life you'll ever have.

I've watched hours and hours of analysis on this series for years, and I can safely say that this is the best in-depth analysis I've ever seen. Thank you very much for putting together such a well-made video, both with the narration and editing but above all with the breakdown and your way of approaching your analysis. Besides that I can see that it involved actual social studies and properly applied to this series, you touched on points that I had not seen anyone else notice. I feel that it's one of those readings that every time you read, depending a little on what part of your life you repeat the reading, you can learn or notice different things, I read them once or twice a year and even then it doesn't stop surprise me how much you can continue learning or identifying through them each time Thank you for your dedication❤

not gonna lie, this kind of immortality would be a pretty sweet gift 😃

Zhu/Bob Moses ending credits tune...banger!

Omg. Is he. Is he... Saint Germaine?

5140 Zieme Track

I honestly loved Hob. I'm tired of the trope of immortals getting tired and depressed from life, or being inherently evil just because they want to live forever. Just by mere probability there should be at least one person who wants to be immortal not because they're evil, they simply must love life so much they wouldn't get tired of it, at least for a very, veeery long time.

Imagine living more than 500 years and not become a billionaire?

i like how dream's 3 names come from his dynamic with different characters, in the endless hes dream, to his people and allies hes lord morpheus, and to humanity hes the sandman

Sad, this show could have been fantastic like the comic that it was based on. However, it was made in the time of moronic wokeness, and that very wokeness pissed off the fan base. So much so that the show failed. If one can over look the moronic woke stupidity, it was not half bad. Too bad. Oh, and Gaiman showed us all that he is a woke cuck. What an idiot.

Death grants immortality, isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?

So happy this got cancelled.... Hope one day we will get a proper and authentic adaptation free of work and agenda

I haven’t watched the live action series, but I loved this relationship in the books as well. It simply showed how little Dream truly understood humans and those with the indomitable will to live.

11:00 Dream is also the interface between the Endless and humanity. Through the Dream, the Endless have their human bodies and minds. Sentients didn't make them, but did make them who they are.

Hob being like the Methos of The Sandman univers.

Sometimes i rewatch this with the sound off, and ad-lib pretend its robert smith pf The Cure and Trent reznor of nine inch nails debating over what company manufactured the best synthesizers. While my cats pretend im sane, because i buy the food.

Hob Gadling needs a Spinoff! even if its a limited series, his tv series would be highly rated if written correctly someone should reach out to Netflix and make this happen

just finished reading the series for the third time, such a masterpiece

Thank you for this detailed analysis! I also find it interesting that his singular passion for his work not only helps connect him with people like Katherine, it even seems like it is the only reason he can connect with them in the first place. He starts visiting Katherine under the pretense of helping her in her dissertation, bringing her books and such. He also connects with his daughter this way, with her sitting in his study and them working together. After she is taken away by Edith, he struggles to connect with her at all until the end of his life. I think his work is the only reason he found a connection and love for his daughter and Katherine, so while it might seem negative that he is only focused on his work and nothing else, it does open doors for him and helps him find love :) like you or the author said, it is his identity.

So the moral of the story is, kill the kittens and the mother, or the cat might dstroy mankind. Gotcha.

This dude is high as a kite. Cats eat their young, abandon them when they're inconvenient, and other species do even worse. Humans are superior and cats lives are meaningless.

The animated episode of season one was the first time we heard the Gatekeepers speak and their voices were provided by Nonso Anozie, Diane Morgan, and Tom Wu. Perhaps they'll reprise them in the upcoming season. That might be a possibility.

Will you be breaking down the rest of season one after this episode breakdown?

I rewatched the movies recently as an adult and listened to the audiobooks for the first time a couple of days ago and I can't believe how good and carefully crafted this story is. I loved this analysis. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Everyone praises Kirby Howell-Baptise's performance, to feel politically correct. Not only does he not act like Death, but that character must have been East Asian, or at least Asian-Caucasian. We all know that this was part of paying the Netflix toll, stop the hypocrisy. "Giving justice to black women and lesbians" was on their agenda, so they forced representation in as much as they could. She's a good actress either way. I'm only commenting because it's unnerving to see so many people jumping on the bandwagon for the sake of fell self-righteousness. And for those who want to quote Neil Gaiman, giving approval to this choice for the character... he knows his game. One of the main triggers of controversy and word-of-mouth publicity for the program was this casting decision. Rose Walker was another character who was meaninglessly blackwashed. The only sense I can see is so that there was no confusion in some way with Delirium... a character who could have switched races, and now will be important in the second season.

Going on the list!

thanks for the rec ❤

"It's Joana ConstenTEEN" "Really, I don't care"😃

Great breakdown I've watched the series 2xs and everytume I find something new I missed or dnt understand im not into comic books but ur breakdown answered alot of questions I had about the characters the fight scene and nada the African girl this was awesome😊

The fact that i waited so long to watch this video because your voice is a little 🤏🏻 monotone is absolutely criminal. This video is phenomenal.

The gender and racial swaps is so over the top is actually infuriating, like, now Jon Constantine is a woman now? Death is black? Rose is black? I mean, at this point make your own universe with only black and gay people and leave the original IP alone, but Gaiman is on the pot, and he let it happen, like, what the hell man?

Episode 4 great

All this story showed was that Gaiman did some top shelf qhality drugs in the early 90s. No one is unironically asking if humans are superior to animals without being on drugs.

Looking forward to Three September storyline getting adapted

Reading it as a kid vs now as an adult gave me very different views. Now as an adult I can only see this as a reflection of how we are handling situations like Palestine and the Congo. Given this was a response to the Iraq war by Collins it makes sense why it relates to these things now. But as a kid it was about the horrors of the games as an adult it’s about the horrors of this being the real world

i do recognize the first sentence, lmao, by heart

in the comic the "friendship" is so much better the comic is such a great piece of work . loved the show mostly but man this shit needs to be read

I admit i am very strict in preferance to the origianl version in all adaptations, so when i saw this actress as death, at firs i was like "not this diverity bulls*it again, they are ruining the original representation". But when i saw her perfom i was so taken aback that i thought "well why didn't they draw her like this actress in the first place?!" But seriously, she did an amazig job and now i can't see anyone as death but her. She's just so perfect for this role

this not having millions of views feels illegal

Took me all day to get through this, in bits and pieces. But it was amazing, thanks for all the effort! This was rhe best breakdown of the series ive come across. A lot of these themes are further explored in The Balad of Songbirds and Snakes, and at least is worth a read for you, i think. I just finished rereading the trilogy, and am half way through TBOSAS, and it's amazing how different reading the books as an adult is from reading them as a teen. Understanding the themes and consequences better, etc. Anyway, wonderful review!

I am Here now buddy. Your channel is about to glow up. Kepp the amazing videos coming.

Brilliant analysis. Thank you.

Fantastic analysis! This series is one of the best well written for YA. It should be required reading.

Complaining about English food? Noway! Does he not know about jellied eel? Stargazy pies? 😂

I'm so glad they had this episode in the series. It was great.

Really Good analysis 🖤

not perfect but close. Fallout I think is perfect

I think that Hob would have seeked death if his immortality didn't make him young, like he will get older, his body shutting down but being unable to die, he gets older and older till he becomes like a living corpse. Immortality wouldn't be fun if you are not young biologically.

ranked darkest moment by Watchmojo

Great video, great series. I love the characterisation of Death, maybe dream is meant to soothe our fears of death. Gaimans inclusion of death of a baby is an incredible nod to all of us who have experience of infant death (in my case still birth). Comfort and acceptance at the other side of grief - only someone who understands death could write it like that.