Well, I'm slowly getting back into the writing game, so let's have a good ol'fashioned RANT! Warner Bros had a merger with Discovery, after their previous one with AT&T had gone… not so well. The new executives in charge, most notably the new CEO David Zaslav promised some big things, and they delivered… the axe to a whole lot of stuff. Now a lot has been affected here, including stuff disappearing from HBO Max, but the most egregious things were the shelving of both the almost complete sequel to Scoob!, and the much anticipated Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace for tax purposes. And not long afterward we got the news that the proposed new Supergirl movie, starring Sasha Calle who was to make her debut as the character in The Flash, was probably not going to move ahead. To sum up my feelings in short…
Dusting off this again for a new little project. So I have this month paid my membership dues to the BFI again. As a champion member I get first dibs on all tickets, and I've been using it to get tickets to some TV previews in the coming months. So I thought, since many aren't on Letterboxd and I can't talk about them there, I'd do some little reviews of them. Now as the title suggests, it's only a first impression, as obviously I can only talk about the episodes I actually see. Still, I think in most of these that will be a good indicator of if it's worth catching and sticking with these shows when it’s time for their full releases. Also, I'll be keeping things as spoiler-light as I can, however in order to get deep into if/why something works/doesn't work, I might have to hint at a few things, so I'll always give fair warning of that.
So, to kick us off, let's look at something that has been in the pipeline for a live-action adaptation for a VERY long time, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. It's funny how many of Gaiman's works have shifted from medium to medium, from Neverwhere to Good Omens, and now the series that really made his name and cemented his reputation is coming to Netflix. Well, now it’s coming after A LOT of attempts of making a film exploded before getting to the launchpad… and given the stories of some of these, probably for the best they did. (One was by producer Jon Peters… yes he did try to put a giant spider in there.) Now it’s being done in a very faithful form by Netflix, developed by Gaiman himself, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg, and I was one of the lucky ones to get to see the first two episodes on the big screen. So, was this a dream come true? (Sorry, couldn’t resist!)
