I can’t remember if I’ve asked this before BUT two questions: have you listened to the audiobook and if so what did you think of it, and following on from that, what did you think of Destruction in the show? I was expecting to be really disappointed by him the way I was with Despair and Delirium, especially since he’s my favourite (largely thanks to the audiobook!) but I found him very enjoyable! There were some changes to his dialogue/motivations that I remember being frustrated by but I don’t remember enough right now to fully elaborate LOL. I think the “love is the only thing worth anything” messaging bothered me a lot because of how IN YOUR FACE it was but that’s just kind of how the show writing is…
Yes, I love the Audible. Well, I used to, it’s a bit more complicated now because of the narrator 🤮
David Harewood in the Audible really is as I’ve imagined Destruction from the comics (very Brian Blessed-style booming voice, but unlike Brian Blessed, he can also dial it back 🤣 You can really tell he’s had excellent voice training. And if you’ve ever seen him as Othello, you probably don’t ever want to see anyone else in that role again, but that’s just me). Also, there’s much to be said about the fact that a black actor was apparently okay as voice talent for this part, sooooo… But people already got their knickers in a twist about Barry Sloane’s hair (I mean, the wigs and hair pieces were just altogether awful in S2, that includes Dream’s in certain scenes. And some people are STILL arguing it’s all his own hair at all times, and I’m just like, “You can trust the former theatre person when she says ‘yeah but no’” 🤣), so a black Destruction would have probably made the same people lose their shit as the ones who couldn’t handle the fact that Death wasn’t a white goth chick 🙄
After that detour: I sort of liked Barry Sloane. I think the few bits that I didn’t like were more about the writing, but you know how nauseating I find the constant over-explanations and emotional exposition, so nothing new under the sun 🤣 And adding the love line was just… thick (in the “layered on” sense, but maybe also in the other 🙈).
But I liked Netflix Destruction a lot more than Delirium. I’m sorry, I know she’s a fan favourite, and I don’t think it was Esme’s fault. I think she did the best with what she was given. But unfortunately, what she was given was, “Slightly frazzled, always a bit depressed but not much else of what you’d expect from the personification of madness, and really quite sweet”. And that is NOT Delirium. But we’ve talked about this before, it’s as if the writers were terrified of giving ANYONE any nuance, or as if they wanted to avoid giving them any not so likeable traits like the plague. Which just made everyone more boring (that unfortunately includes Dream for me) but I know it’s probably not the common consensus (I don’t mind the pariah status 🤣). Not saying I hated the show because I really didn’t, it’s just not a faithful adaptation while the Audible is, and you really have to see the comics and the show as two separate things. I like the show more when I don’t compare it with the comics, but it’s not that I can pretend I don’t know the comics and bleach my brain, so some days it works better and on others it doesn’t. C’est la vie…
Part of me is a bit sad we’ll probably never get the last instalment of the Audible because I think they did great, and I feel really sorry for Dirk Maggs and all the amazing voice actors who made this happen. But I’d lie if I said I still enjoy listening to NG’s voice in any shape or form, and I think the only reasonable alternative would be to re-record his narration. Which is not gonna happen I guess, so I think they’ll probably just quietly shelve it, and that’s probably also the best thing to do…
'The Sandman: Act III' Gets A Surprise Release On Audible
'The Sandman: Act III' Gets A Surprise Release On Audible #TheSandman #AudibleOriginal #TheSandmanAct3
Audible has recently given fans a wonderful surprise as they’ve released the next installment of their hit audio drama based on Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, with all 19 episodes of The Sandman: Act III available right now.
It’s been just over a year since Act II released, which adapts collected volumes four (Season of Mists) and five (A Game of You) of the comics in their entirety, and most…
The Sandman audiobook bts: 'You’re getting people who normally would get a marquee, who were coming in as part of the ensemble, and everybody kind of checked their egos at the door.’ ~ Dirk Maggs (DC FanDome Aug 2020)
Michael Palin stars in the Terry Jones/ Douglas Adams sci-fi comedy.
Radio adaption of Terry Jones' novel set in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe and based on the computer game of the same name. The adaption is done by the same team who adapted the latter three books for radio (Dirk Maggs directing and Philip Pope composing, with the script by Ian Billings who wrote a fantastic biopic of Spike Milligan in 2018, and concerns the fate of the Starship Titanic, a hotel spaceship which was mentioned in Life, The Universe, and Everything as undergoing a Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure as it was being unveiled.
As it turns out, many corners were cut during the development of the ship for the purpose of destroying it to claim the insurance, so the robots don't function properly and key safety features are missing. Following its Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure, the Starship ends up in Oxfordshire, and three of the four witnessing humans are invited aboard, where they discover that they don't have enough money to be considered worthy of adequate heat and oxygen, and that there is a bomb on board programmed to be very friendly, and also to go off imminently.
