The shape of things to come

[selenak]

Hard at work at my Yuletide tale now.

Doctor Who: New trailer for the next season, which unless I misunderstood is starting in January. With the exception of one episode, I had liked the last season, though I'm still waiting for a truly fantastic episode featuring this Team TARDIS, which I've grown rather fond of. (Last season had some good and some okay episodes, as well as the one I truly disliked, but not one that immediately me go "future classic!!!")

MCU, tv division: According to this article there is some hope Disney will pick up the Netflix versions of Jessica Jones, Daredevil and Luke Cage, but Danny Rand/Iron Fist will get a complete reboot.

And speaking of tv shows based on comics:
Sandman:

: will indeed happen. Neil Gaiman says the first season will be based on Preludes and Nocturnes, plus a few other things. I'm torn. On the one hand: a tv/streaming series is pretty much the only way you could hope to approach Sandman and convey some of what made the comics series so compelling. On the other: American Gothic has rather let me down in terms of Gaiman-based tv involving mythological storylines and suburban fantasy. The first season contained some things I thought great and some I thought meh and already was only loosely based on the book, and the second season managed to both lose the original to tv aspects I had enjoyed in the first season and practically every bit from the book characterisation and plot that had still been there. So that's a bad omen, no pun intended. Which of course brings me to the non existant third hand: Good Omens was excellent, and it's the first of these filmed versions Neil Gaiman had complete creative control over. Then again, hand number four: it's based on a book that's co-written with the late Terry Prattchet and thus sui generis in the works of both authors anyway.

Comments

[ginger_rude]

Yeah, I loved S1 of American Gods, and still haven't watched the second based on everyone's negative reviews. I understand that it's a lot to do with the chaos on the creative/managerial team, though. Do we know anything about who's working on Sandman yet?

[selenak]

Season 2 of AG: keep it that way. Alas, it's not worth it.

Sandman team assembled so far: I only know what is in the article I linked, to wit: "Writer and showrunner Allan Heinburg, with David Goyer and Gaiman as writers and executive producers".

[chelseagirl]

Except Mike Colter has a 22-episodes-a-season network TV show now, and Krysten Ritter has indicated she's done -- although she might have said that because she was, in fact, done. Those two shows ended on such downers that I would really like to see them continue with some kind of redemption, like we saw in Daredevil season 3.

I have great hopes for Sandman, but I'm done with American Gods, after season 2, despite liking both Ian McShane and Ricky Whittle in the lead roles.

[ginger_rude]

I'm pretty over Jessica Jones, myself--was after S2, in fact. Never did watch the others. I'm a bit tired of grimdark.

[chelseagirl]

I was counting on season 3 to have a redemption arc, and they . . . just made things worse. I will rewatch season 1, but then in my mind, things just veer off towards the comics and happy Jessica, Luke, & daughter Dani.

[ginger_rude]

Never read the comics. I'm not a huge superhero comic/Marvel/DC fan in general, tbh.

[chelseagirl]

I loved season 1 and had heard of the character's comics-story through friends, so I sought them out. I"m not typically a comics fan, but if I like a movie/series enough . . . .

[maplemood]

I haven't seen American Gods yet and at this point probably won't, just because, again, I heard things kind of went sideways in season 2. On the other hand, I'm cautiously optimistic about a Sandman show. Cautiously. We'll see, I guess.