Discover Top Posts Tagged with #queen nada

I find it very hard to not to side with netflix!Dream on most things to be honest.

which doesn't help the ending, which was supposed to be bittersweet, partly because he was sympathetic (with such a terrible/non-existant childhood, ofc he is!) but partly because he was an asshole who brought a lot of his own problems down on himself.

take Nada. in the comics it's incredibly easy to hate and blame Dream for his treatment of Nada.

She's 16, pressured by her peers to find a husband, and developed a childish crush on Dream (who she doesn't know the identity of) after seeing him once.

When she discovers who he is, she tries to cut things off, which he refuses to hear and instead literally hunts her down.

even after he pressures her into having sex with him, and her kingdom is destroyed, he continues to hound her despite very clear "no's" from her. She literally kills herself to get away from him, and he still follows her as a ghost to give her his ultimatum.

and while this is all presented as a "version" of the story (as told by a grandfather to his grandson) it's the only version we get, so the only version we're able to judge him on.

but netflix!Dream is so wildly different that it's hard to see any of it as his fault?

Nada is an adult, and has fallen in love with Dream for qualties that she has seen in him after meeting him in dreams for a while before meeting irl. Dream refuses her, and actually leaves despite the fact that he is love with her (and considering that this is Dream, who feels love very intensely... that's kind of huge).

It's Nada who pursues him into his own realm. Nada who accepts his proposal which he gives her an immediate out for, to lessen the pressure of a positive response from her. She admits to knowing the risks of loving an Endless and still accepts his proposal!

and in the show it's really hammered in that Hell is not a place that you're sentenced to, but a place you send yourself.

Dream couldn't have banished Nada there because you only go there if you feel you deserve it - which Nada blatantly admits to! She chose Hell!

but for some reason the show itself doesn't seem to understand it's own established rules? They have Death, Desire (who also is a huge fucking hypocrite this season since they admitted to manipulating the Nada situation purposefully to try to kill Dream!), Nada and even Lucienne blame Dream for this?!

Dream who proposed to an adult who knew the risks, knew who he was and deeply, truly loved him back, who accepted his proposal. Dream who asked her to choose his love over condemning herself to Hell?

What "ultimatium", Death???

That's a question at best! and if we use the comics to fill in the blanks, it was Nada who killed herself in order to go to Hell faster, to be punished for the destruction of her kingdom.

How is that Dream's fault? How is that even remotely his problem??

It seems to be a repeated problem with the show that they establish Dream as having done something terrible,

when the reality actually seems kind of like.. it was a shitty situation, maybe the communication could have been a touch better, but overall he was within his rights to have a reationship with another informed adult???

Worse still, Dream acts like it was his fault too? At least the comics left the situation up for debate, presenting it as simply a "version" of events/one of many stories. That left the particulars of Nada's condemnation open to audience interpretation.

The show presents the whole thing as the truth, and goes out of their way to change it to make Dream more palatable. But then it doesn't take the next step, and adapt the rest of the show to follow that principle. If Dream is a better person in this adaptation, you have to make the consequences of his actions reflect that?? but they didn't.

and now Nada's reaction feels out of proportion.

like, as far as surviving torture and capture goes, she's very polite about it. but still cruel. Dream even adds in this conversation that he warned her prior to their relationship what marrying him would look like, she was informed, she was an adult, and she made a choice. Not Dream. Nada.

I'm supposed to think Dream deserves half the shit he's forced through, yet at the same time the comics content is watered down to make him look good. Not even better, but just straight up good?

The show does one thing, and says another?

#the sandman #dream of the endless #queen nada

Calliope is stunning and Nada is breathtaking. We can't argue with Morpheus' taste in women. (Except for Thessaly in the comics. But here I'm talking about the TV series.)

#the sandman #dream of the endless #lord morpheus #sandman #calliope the muse #calliope #calliope the sandman #queen nada #nada the sandman #the sandman season 2