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#Joanna Constantine
the-breath-in-air · 2 years
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I don't know the details of decision making in production of The Sandman on Netflix, obviously, but it feels like some of these good changes were like...
'Hey maybe now that Constantine's ex girlfriend is a queer Black woman, she shouldn't also be a thief and an addict. Let's not fall into that stereotype.'
'And maybe the nonbinary Desire could get, like, quasi-dream-consent from Unity Kinkaid instead of just flat out raping her in her sleep...especially now that Unity is a Black woman. Actually, wouldn't Desire want Unity to...desire...them before fathering the child anyway.'
'And what if The Corinthian fucks a guy and doesn't kill him because, like, maybe let's separate his queerness from the fact that he's a nightmare & serial killer.'
Some folks might claim these kinds of changes are 'sanitizing' the story...and maybe so. But really, it feels like adjusting some of the 'edgy' 'grimdark' remnants from it's 90s origin.
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currentlyonstandbi · 2 years
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denebthestar · 1 year
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lukotacon · 2 years
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The Sandman + Onion Headlines
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fowjiyo · 6 months
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thereifling · 8 months
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Fantasy-ish John Constantine redesign-ish
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neil-gaiman · 2 years
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Ahoy, sir.
I know full well it's not going to sound great, but it's a question and you might have the answer, so here we go. It's about Johanna Constantine in Sandman.
I saw a tweet you wrote about Johanna being her own character - it was, i believe, in response to her being cleaner than John. You said she can be cleaner for the simple fact that she isn't John, or at least she isn't a gender-swapped John.
I have a question about that. If she's a different character, why is there so much that she takes from John ? Why giving her a Newcastle (even if it's not quite the same), why not modernize or reinject a version of her story with Pandora's box ? I think it's awesome to see a modern version of Lady Johanna, but I wonder what were your ideas behind keeping so much of John's in her episode, and why she wasn't push more into what makes her character different - money, sure, but also henchmen, guns and magic instead of tricks, to name a few.
I know how it sounds like - I met a few fans ever so annoying about the casting. I'm not trying to complain or bash the work you and so many talented people put behind the Sandman. I like this serie, I want more, I like Jenna Coleman as well as I'm thrilled by a Johanna Constantine in modern setting. I'm just curious about how she was thought about.
I also know you must get a whole lot of asks of the type, and i suppose it ends up souding like I'm asking for some justification. I'm not, I'm just curious - and if it seems to mean anything else, note that I'm sorry and that it's not what I meant.
Thanks, anyway, for all you do and have done, and for your attention ~
Because when you move the life essence of a character from universe to universe you keep some things and you change others. I grew up with DC Comics having Earth 1 and Earth 2, and a Batman and a Superman and a Flash on each. Both Batmans were Bruce Wayne, both Supermans were Clark Kent and Kal-El, but one Flash was Jay Garrick and one was Barry Allen. And these were ways of solving problems of time, of dealing with three decades of continuity. The John Constantine in Vertigo who was in his mid-thirties in 1989 is now a pensioner. And the Morpheus of that world escaped in September 1988.
In those terms, the TV version of Sandman exists on Earth-Sandman, a world that starts three decades on. It's not beholden to 1988 comics continuity, but it uses it when it wants to. The person holding the Constantine life essence in this world is Joanna. She didn't sing in a punk band in the 1970s. Her Astra Logue went to Hell, but it wasn't Joanna's fault in the way it was John's in 1979 in Hellblazer 12. She didn't spend the time in Ravenscar Secure Facility from 1979-1982.
She's smart, not grubby, a lot more like the original dandyish John Constantine who showed up in Swamp Thing in 1984 than the unshaven wreck of a man he became.
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And we will get to see a lot more of Lady Johanna in Sandman, if we get future seasons.
Does that help?
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designtheendless · 8 months
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“It might make it hard to strike a really..romantic note”
“Point taken”
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misticarts · 2 years
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Sandman episode 3: Bastards in Trench Coats
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wintersmitth · 1 year
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The Sandman characters as Barbie posters.
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maagicmiss · 2 years
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Hob was allowed to throw a ‘birthday’ party cause he did the doe eyes to Dream and he couldn’t say no lol
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sailorbowie · 2 years
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I feel so bad for neil gaiman right now, he has every right to be proud of what the Sandman has become, but now he has to sit here and watch us all drool over Dream, simp for Constantine or Desire, and even us sickos who were rooting for and are down abysmal for the Corinthian.
neil. neil. if evil then why hot? riddle me that.
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notallsandmen · 5 months
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Johanna Constantine — Resident disastersexual
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Rewatching the sandman (bc 3rd time's the charm skndksbf) and i repeat: morpheus, sTOp hAvIng cHeMisTRy wiTh evEryOnE, but i also add: joanna and morpheus being angsty queer emo bffs ✨
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missmissyworld · 6 months
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Gorgeous!
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fowjiyo · 6 months
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