Welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 things you missed in the Sandman caution Princess Barbara, I sent strangeness in the air.

What manner of thing martin, 10 bones the cuckoo, the hero, Mansour knowledge for this list.

We're looking at subtle details and references in the netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman's celebrated comic book series.

Some of these required close attention while others required a bit of knowledge from the source material and other comics.

What details did you love in the Sandman?

How did you like the first season?

Let us know Number 10 dreaming details.

But there is another life which awaits you when you close your eyes and enter my realm.

Dreams domain.

The dreaming is home to thousands of denizens, both dreams and nightmares.

The opening scene of the series showcases this realm from the Gates of Horn and ivory to Canaan Abel's houses of mystery and secrets to dreams.

Magnificent Castle.

When the waking world leaves you wanting weary sleep brings you here to find freedom.

An adventure.

The name of the Gates derives from a literary image that first appeared in Homer's odyssey playing on the similarities between the greek words for horn and fulfill and ivory and deceive.

We also catch brief glimpses of martin 10 Bones and Mervyn pumpkinhead who reappear in later episodes voiced by the legendary Lenny Henry and Mark Hamill respectively.

Number nine, starry eyed among morpheus most iconic features in the comics besides his wild very eighties hair are his eyes for going the humdrum of ordinary human eyeballs.

The king of dreams gazes out at the world through distant stars.

Sandman creator Neil Gaiman who serves as executive producer on the show, said that in pre production tests, contact lenses and C.

G.

I diminished the magic of tom Sturges performance.

The eyes convey a lot of emotion, helping to make dream relatable, no mean feat given the abstract, metaphysical nature of the endless.

Having said that there are a few shots where lights in his eyes reflect the star fields in which dream stands, you destroyed the ruby and released the power inside it.

I would never have thought of that.

It's a nice nod to his appearance in the comics.

Number eight Matthews origins, you know who I am?

Not entirely, but I don't even know who I am anymore.

A couple hours ago, I apparently died in my sleep and now I'm a bird Neil Gaiman sites Alan moore swamp thing as having gotten him back into comics in his twenties and moore's influence pervades the Sandman when Matthew the raven mentions that he wasn't always a dream.

He's referring to his life in Swamp thing.

If I were Joanna Constantine, I'd be up there cutting a deal with Rachel to keep the sand and cut the dream stand with real sand and sell it to the highest bidder but then I wasn't the best person when I was a person as investigator Matthew cable, he suffered damage to his mind that allowed him to alter reality, leading him down a dark path.

He ended up in a coma and chose to end his life john Constantine who appears in the Sandman comics also originated in the pages of swamp thing.

In the netflix adaptation, Joanna takes his place with a similar backstory involving Astra and the same exes you did not.

Which ones, Sarah Oliver, her ancestor, Lady Joanna Constantine was created by Gaiman for the Sandman comics number seven apocalypse live.

I don't think it is.

You think it's him.

Does the news seem darker these days?

Well, it certainly is on the Sandman as john D uses the ruby to wreak havoc in the diner.

The world outside begins to fall apart.

Even a feel good fluff piece on the news takes a sour turn.

The presenter announces that after 10 years together, captive pandas have made it a real story by the way from april 2020 although the pandas have different names.

However, she unexpectedly segue into a cynical polemic against procreation reports are that the pandas Ballon and have made it after a decade long courtship effort by zoo staffers Foreally.

I don't blame them for not wanting to procreate six, they're two of only about £2,000. We later hear about a wave of violence, traffic pileups, plane crashes and other tragedies.

The diner is a microcosm of the carnage in the wider world, no wonder the three saw fit to appear prophesying through the women in the diner.

You tell me my future, there is no future for you, john D it is bound by walls and guards and the sour smell of madness.

And then the skein of your life is cut, Son of your mother, number six, Hunting grounds.

Where do you hunt?

I have a great place.

There are thousands of people there.

Funland is a particularly creepy character with a monstrous predilection.

There are chilling hints about where he finds his victims described as a place with rides and thousands of kids.

He claims to have met the voice actor behind the big bad Wolf, A character who's featured in numerous Disney animation's actually got to meet him once you met the big bad wolf, the actor who did the voice in the comics, he also professes his love for the song.

It's a small world which plays in fantasy land at various Disney parks the ears on his hat might be pointed and wolfish rather than round, but we're pretty sure we know what Gaiman was getting at.

That's really dark kevin smith actually brought Funland back for the limited series Batman, the widening gyre.

Number five, Shocks Bird.

If Bill and Ted had a literature assignment, they'd do well to just follow Hob gatling through history in the year 13 89 when hab first encounters dream a man is singing the praises of William Langlands allegorical narrative poem, piers plowman to his friend Jeffrey.

That's what people want.

Geoffrey, not filthy tales in rhyme about pilgrims, but Edmund, I enjoy writing and I enjoyed tavern tales told of an evening.

That's actually Geoffrey chaucer, renowned author of the Canterbury tales in 15 89.

The ins visitors include Kit and Will shacks Bird.

Well, Kit, your theme as I saw it is this for one's art and for one's dreams one may consort and bargain with the darkest path.

Kit was the nickname of Doctor Faustus.

Author, Christopher Marlowe Shocks Bird of course, turns out to be Shakespeare.

So why shacks bird?

His contemporary spelled his name dozens of ways and shocks.

Berg was one of them, by the way.

Listen attentively and you'll notice that the same conversations are recurring across time periods.

You you can't escape death taxes and apparently sneaky Vickers number four, an ironic symbol at the end.

I'm there with them.

I'm holding their hand and they're holding mine just like in the comics.

Death wears a surprising symbol around her neck.

It's an on an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that actually means life.

The bank is also seen in desires residents.

The threshold and dreams castle, I stand in my gallery and I hold your Sigil, the other schedules, our destinies book dreams, helm, desires glass heart or mirror in her own dwelling despairs hooked, ring and delirium swirl of colors.

The missing Sigil belongs to dreams.

Younger brother destruction referred to as the Prodigal because like the Prodigal son in jesus parable, he's abandoned his home and responsibilities.

Number three serial convention.

It's a serial convention.

I thought they'd be cereal.

You can forgive Jed for thinking a serial convention would be all about breakfast.

The attendees describe themselves as collectors but they're not collecting cornflakes just in case the penny hasn't dropped cereal really refers to serial killers.

The convention episodes also work in some clever comic book crossovers.

It falls to us to come up with a suitable replacement for the family man.

So we need a new guest of honor.

Immediately if not sooner.

The missing keynote speaker, the family man is a former policeman who went on a killing spree until being shot dead by john Constantine in hell blazer.

The disappearance of the real boogeyman is another illusion to swamp thing.

He drowned in volume two, issue 44.

The boogeyman is dead.

He drowned in Louisiana three years ago.

Number two finally alive, fictional characters should pay close attention to whatever's on T.

V.

It's always pertinent as Jed sits in a room at the convention, the episode toys in the hood from the animated series static shock is on tv.

Our sister will be here in a few hours and I need you to do me a favor and just stay in the room until she gets here.

Okay I can't go with you.

Trust me, you don't want to.

It's just a bunch of boring grown ups down the episode features Darci Mason and android with free will who flees her creator, Toy Man, wanting to lead her own life.

She promises to love Toy Man if he gives her a new body modeled after a human girl, but betrays him and runs off again, only to melt due to a failsafe device.

She's ready, She's ready.

I'm alive, I'm finally alive.

This story closely parallels the Corinthians.

He also transitioned into the world of flesh and blood betrayed his creator in the pursuit of an independent existence and is destroyed.

As a result, you're not going back, I brought you into this world to serve humanity not to feed upon it.

Do you know why I do it so I can taste what it's like to be human Before we continue, be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos.

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This looks like a job for the Sad man time.

I put the pipe in the back morpheus, isn't DCs first Sandman.

In fact, he's the fourth, the first was Wesley Dodds and the second Garrett Sanford who was replaced by Hector Hall.

Originally, Neil Gaiman had wanted to revive Garrett Sanford story but was asked to dream up a new character instead in the Sandman comics, Hector's story is Read Con so that he only exists within Jed's mind.

The netflix adaptation still includes Hector, but as late as deceased husband in her own dreams.

So if you can choose to be here, maybe you can choose to stay.

Think about it.

We can have the life we always wanted.

It's Jed who thinks he's the Sandman, complete with the old school costume king of nightmares, both to Dreamland and lita, you're looking at Hippolyta, Wonder Woman's daughter with steve Trevor.

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