So.

[lavenderfrost]

Eric Kripke May Be Doing Sandman For TV.

Yes, THAT Sandman.

On the one hand, OMFG YES.  On the other?  I doubt any network will give it the budget it needs, and allow it to show everything featured in the comics.  Let's face it - a Sandman that's not dark as all get-out is a Sandman that's not worth watching. It's not exactly something you tame

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[aurora_84]

I am...intrigued.

[semiramis]

I am... not at all certain I trust Kripke to handle the women in Sandman. I mean, unless it's like. A spin-off, and they leave Rose Walker and Wanda and Barbie and all them alone? Hopefully they wouldn't do anything too terrible to Death and Del, although I can't imagine how mainstream TV in this era could deal with Despair gracefully, being as she's a homely fat naked woman.

...of course, Gaiman is one of my favorite dude authors wrt how he writes women and I was pretty disappointed with what they did to the gals in Stardust too, so.

[lavenderfrost]

That's another reason I'm on the fence about this, myself.

For all that I love the show, SPN does not have a good track record with regards to female characters. Only one hasn't gotten fridged, and she's the Token Girlfriend who's probably going to get dropped in ep 1 of s6.

[semiramis]

Yeah, I sort of. Stopped being able to watch SPN after the sudden culling of female characters started in the middle of S5. Which. Yes, I get that they were killing off all the relatively expendable secondary characters who'd gotten enough development for the audience to grow an attachment in order to drive home the fact that this plot is serious business, but. It got to that point, where all the major characters who've been crucial but not quite crucial enough to be spared are women, and that's problematic

[semiramis]

Oh, uh, also. I want to make clear because I hear there's been wank about this--I'm not judging anyone for liking SPN; I really, really wanted to like it too and I know it's possible to like a work while acknowledging its issues. It's just. I couldn't take it any more and it was getting too uncomfortable for me personally orz

[darthanne]

It's always a worry when something you love is adapted for the screen. Some I've been happy with. Others just make me twitch.

[ren_aleria]

Yeah. I kind of went a little nuts when I heard.

[just_ruth]

I am . . .suspicious.