I thought Gault was evil but she was just trying to make Jed's dream a place he loves and wants to be in. Gault was originally supposed to be Jed's nightmare but had a change of heart after learning of Jed's instances. Dang, Gault is a real one.
@@Jupiter.141 according to Dream, the nightmares are meant to help the dreamer face and/or overcome their fears. But Gault didn't seem suited for this job and instead wanted to be a good dream instead.
@@bored_potato gault has good purpose, to make people more understand about what should they afraid and ready to face it but instead he choose not to do his job, he dream for something not like him, not suited him.
@@davidgeslani48 I thought of that too, and as much as I like the more callous/sinister/enraged “dream” we get to see so much of towards the beginning of his overarching (far from complete) story arc, you gotta recognize hypocrisy when you see it, and I respect him for not doing that to one of his own creations, much the way he doesn’t “punish” those to whom came objects of immense power & influence like the dying lady in the apartment or even the “kid” all grown up in a sanitarium who literally tried to destroy him, he just puts him back where he was and grants him an endless sleep.
When I found out that Gault’s goal with Jed was just to give him a place where he can run away from abuse made me instantly fall in love with it. What a nice character
Except if she did her job right he would have faced the torment of his life. Instead he’ll continue to face torment in the real world and hide away in dreams. She was compassionate but shortsighted.
@@johnj4471 Did you even watch the show? The kid is fine. There was no fear to overcome. He was being physically abused and Gault was giving him a escape from that reality. He doesn’t need a nightmare to face his fears cus he already does that. He tried to sneak a note asking for help, that took some balls to do cus his uncle threatened to break all his bones if he did something like that. Also he was brave enough to try and escape many times. He was living a nightmare in real life already. The dreams he was having with Gault inspired him, made him feel like he can fight, instead of making him even more traumatized with more nightmares.
@@vinicus508 you literally didn’t even watch this scene judging by what you’re saying. Yes there was something to overcome and you literally said what it was. Be ignorant more though and tell people they didn’t watch when you literally don’t see and hear dream explain why she was wrong. You don’t run from your problems. You might want to run from this one though since you’re so wrong.
Her arc's conclusion was a bit contrived and soapy perhaps, but yes, definitely satisfying. And Ann Ogbomo's performance in this scene was absolutely sublime. In fact, with the arguable exception of Jenna Coleman, I don't think there was a single performance in this season that was anything short of exquisite.
Nithmares have a really important role indeed. Makes us not want to escape our reality and face it so we can change it, if we keep dreaming, we won’t act on our reality .
I have found as I have gotten older (I am 40+), things that might have been nightmares when I was a child are just puzzling dreams to me now, so I think nightmares help us grow resistant to fear. To tag that onto what you say, as we grow, we need to be resistant to fear of normal things in life, so we can cope with every day.
I agree i love the role he gave them they are important and helpful in so many ways i felt gaults pain but i feel like morpheus was right she could not see why she was still important and special and could still help the kid other ways
So much of Morpheus' power is implied, rather then shown. I think it's better that way, but the few scenes like this where he flexes on people are still satisfying
I agree it would have been fun to see some more of him using his powers but I can also see why they didn't...the show would be so boring if he just waved a hand and every enemy and issue just disapeered
“Few scenes like this where he flexed are still satisfying” Uhhh what flex? To me Gault held her ground while being erased and showed no ounce of fear towards sandman. Idk about you but her standing her ground and choosing to stay pure instead of evil seemed a lot more satisfying than sandman being petty 🤷🏽♂️
@@eden20111 OK she still got banished to the darkness and wasn't strong enough to do anything to stop dream, she didn't even try. Like yeah she was brave and stuck to her conviction but that's irrelevant to Dreams power
She reminds me of the Tooth Fairy from the Discworld. A being who is originally the world's Boogieman. Much like the Nightmares it was responsible to teach children to be wary and suspicious of the creeping shapes in the shadows of their rooms where it was safe, to prepare them for the real threats that skulk in the dark. Yet also like Gault, it began to feel more and more protective of humanity, so it took on an extra role. It would gather and safeguard their teeth, a solid and enduring part of them that unscrupulous forces could use in rituals like a voodoo doll. That the true predators could use to control them, to harm them. It taught humanity survival instincts, and actively protected them from the threats that could harm them from afar and unseen.
In a funny way Morpheus's century long imprisonment reminds me of the times Death stopped doing his job and bad things happened in the world of the living.
This is a brillant show of Dream having failed and then learning from it to a degree. He creates nightmares, and he created one who wished to be a dream. Gault was precisely as created. A perfect mirror of Corinthian. With Corinthian he is able to admit that failure, I believe partially because of Gault.
the fault is in the superlogical way he's going about his realm instead of being a bit more flexable. Nightmares ARE dreams but he assigned an arbitrary label for their purpose. Nightmares may be ethereal but they are still full of life and essence and those things can evolve and stagnating that means to be a poor leader.
I love how Gault’s actress has been in so many Dc properties: Krypton, Justice League (both 2017 and Snyder cut), Wonder Woman, and others I can’t remember
This was the scene we finally got why everyone in the Sandman's realm ,and his two siblings and others hated him or were scared of him,he was rigid. But he learnt to listen and made a nightmare a dream.
@@Poisonedwight Desire hates him because he's very serious about his job and doesn't take lightly when his siblings break the rules. Desire had broken many, and to some pretty disastrous consequences for humanity, that Dream had to clean up (John Dee). Desire is basically the bratty teen that doesn't think the rules apply to them and likes to play with humanity like they are toys to break and hurt. Which as we've seen, Dream absolutely hates. Despair just does whatever Desire does because they're twins, and Despair is the submissive twin that doesn't like to think to much for herself. If she does it has to be very important, and not much is really important to her since she is literally wallowing in her own misery half the time.
@@ryninabin3518 ye tbh I think that’s what I like about desire he’s just a god/cosmic entity that loves to play games with the little humans who mean nothing to him. dream is obvs an asshole sometimes but he’s not a monster like desire who has no empathy for humans and I think it’s why he’s my favourite endless
Perhaps a few thousand years in the darkness will reveal your fears. The way he said that was chilling, like what's in there that so terrifying.... or is more like psychological isolation?
I don't think there is anything, simply the darkness and yourself. Can you imagine being alone in the dark for thoussand of years? No senses, no smells, nothing to see, to touch, only the void all around you. That must be horrible.
@@logologo732 But that's not just isolation, it's way worse than that, there is no sun nor stars nor sky, no wind to feel, no colors or shapes to see, nothing to touch, just a dark void. And peoples can choose to break out of isolation, here, you can't.
@@logologo732 It's literally use by Dream as punishment for Gault, It wouldn't be one if you can escape. Even if you weren't sent to rot here by a wrathful god that can't stand criticism, how would you escape? there is literally nothing to help you, no materials, no sources of power, no peoples... unless you have within yourself the power to travel between dimensions, you're lost. And i don't think you can remain sane long in a environement where there is literally nothing.
I’ve never read any of the books or graphic novels so I went into this show blind. And now I can’t believe how into this series I am! I absolutely love it! 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
If they will continue the adaptation and follow the novels relatively close, it is also a tragic foreshadowing to what will happen to Dream later on. "One must change or die, and in the end, perhaps, there were limits on how much he can let himself change". I hope they continue and explore Dreams character arc more and show him changing little by little, gaining more empathy to the various lives he touches...until the end where he finds that he cannot change anymore.
" Even a nightmare can dream.." wow This show is so philosophically, i can't make my mind in what is wrong or right . I think their is no right or wrong in the end, choosing what you think was right doesn't mean other options is wrong.
I love this change from the comics, really made it into something interesting. In comics you simply have two demons torturing and feeding him fake and simplistic dreams instead of the real stuff.
This scene cuts to the heart of man in the way that we are all inherently bad and wish to be good. It's truly heartbreaking. We're merely dreams wishing to be real, as life is but a dream.
Nightmares and dreams are the maintenance work of the brain. While we sleep, the brain uses that time to "defragment" and "reorganize" our data. That means experiences- a mix of memories and emotions associated. Like hashtags, the brain mixes and matches things that we experienced, listened to, viewed, or even though about, and tests them by creating scenes. To some of these scenes, our conscience reacts with pleasure, or happiness, or a sense of peace, and thus the brain updates the "hashtags" about them, thus making them more or less accessible, and a faster emotional reaction to the topics. Some scenes, where "we" show little reaction to, the brain will "archive" them, and deem them unimportant. But when the scene gives a strong emotional reaction, and even boosts fear, panic, or despair, the brain will quickly mark them as VERY IMPORTANT, and integrate them in our "personality". These situations will then force a reaction to us, even if we don't want to. "Brain maintenance dude" - that's the scariest monster of them all.
He brought up important points. We do not choose to be who we are we merely are and we are proud to be ourselves as a necessity for we cannot change that which we cannot control. Second, fear always drives humanity from the plains to the caves but it also creates a spark for humanity to bring about their best selves for no courageous soul is born out of happiness or complacency. Every heroic deed is from fear conquered not from running away from it. And to face your abusers is, as i deem it to be, the most courageous and heroic deed one may display.
While Dream has his reasons for creating nightmares, he was wrong this time, and in fact his entire arc, which he eventually admits to at the end of this arc. He applies the whole "facing your fears" ideal to a kid who's literally chained in a basement with nowhere to go, trapped by a grown man with a shotgun, along with rats. He has absolutely no options in his physical reality except for clinging on to hope, and that is what dreams provide (as Dream himself explained earlier to John). He's not "complacent" by any means, he even tries to escape only to have it backfire on him. Giving a kid already riddled in fear, already scared shitless of his abuser and powerless against him, nightmares so he has NO escape from his abuse, isn't going to help shit. He's not going to grow "braver" or "stronger" if his entire life is torment and hopelessness. More than likely he'll find the only escape he can - from Dream's sister.
I felt rather sorry for Gault here since she was only giving that kid something to hold onto while being abused 24/7 with nothing else to hold onto. And even though she's created purposely as a nightmare she's quite the protagonist
Morpheus, I love you like the emo and occasionally jerkish older brother I never had, but I’m 100% siding with Gault on this. I was legitimately relieved when he brought her back and made her a dream.
I always wondered why supposedly good or at least morally neutral characters who control dreams would allow nightmares to exist, but Dreams logic actually makes sense to me, nightmares exist to help us face our fears.
"She wanted a place where she could rule" If you noticed how she behaved in Jed's dream, he's not wrong, but it's like she used her nightmare talents (being the monitor, acting as a security guard/command) to be his mom and sidekick instead of something malicious. The most wholesome thing I''ve seen in a long time.
The reason why this scene is so powerful is precisely because both of them have great points to defend. Dream is not wrong, but Gault is also right, which makes everything come down to choices and consequences, where there's no good or bad. I love it.
@@tevatrox In some ways, this scene shows that Corinthian's rationalization about him being true to his nature to be completely hollow. Unlike Gault, Corinthian choose to be a monster.
@@srichael2713 Not really. He was indeed "true to his nature", which was to be a monster. Gault REBELLED against her nature, and Dream punished her for it. And just like with the Corinthian, whom he "created poorly", his assignment to Gault was also a mistake, especially if you look at how he explains the purpose of dreams to John at the diner. Dreams aren't just fantasies or lies, they're hope. What Jed needed desperately, as a child with no real options to escape his torment, trapped in a basement with rats, was hope. He didn't need any more fear than he already had. Dream may have had a point in other cases but in this one he was dead wrong, Gault recognized this, and eventually he recognizes that she was right too.
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Eu realmente amei esse diálogo Muito reflexivo e profundo. Um pesadelo que acha melhor passar milênios na escuridão sozinha, do que assombrar as pessoas. "Até um pesadelo pode sonhar, milorde" Linda cena
Gault was right. And although Dream is usually wise, here he's just an asshole unwilling to change. Like a boomer punishing his kid for questioning his unwavering support of existing hierarchies.
This almost mirrors the situation between Lucifer and God (mythology). Because of the gift of freewill Lucifer did not follow the path that was set for him by God, he wanted a destiny of his own but was exhiled because of his wicked choices.
Yet another display beside his ex-girlfriend in Hell of Dream having no chill whatsoever. He may be recovering from a century of captivity but he's clearly not in a mood to talk about promotions from a unruly and absentee employee.
Dream: Damn it Gualt you have created another sniveling . you are suppose to present the child an opportunity to overcome great fear. 1000 years of banishment for you.
I like that she didn't give him any satisfaction by screaming or begging to stay. Made him waste his time. I didn't like Dream at all he was a prick and such an off putting character with a very smug face that got on my nerves. I know he was written that way, but I never liked him even after he tried to right his wrongs. He only did it for himself. Still found the show interesting even though I know as a straight black male I wasn't the target audience. I'm a movie buff though so I will watch almost anything Sci-fi fantasy. Will be watching season 2.
That's a shame you cannot like him, tho your description is rather true. Dream is dreams, and dreams have their purpose in humanity. Dream has been created to protect and serve dreams, meaning himself. So of course, at the end, everything he does is for his very own being. That's the point of the character, he is not a hero but an anti-hero. As for myself, I found him a bit too nice and too ready to be kinder and listening. Not the way I would imagine a billions years old deity to be.
He's such a miserable edgelord, it's not even funny. Would love for shows like this just once to actually use a senior actor for the role of an old entity and not some angsty-looking weirdo with the freshest beverly hills rebel teen hairstyle...
Because brute and glob was relationed to hector hall sandman version in comics. And they exclude all super heroes stuffs for the show. i think sandman work better without super heroes.
@@arthursouza9641 Indeed. And tbh compared to Brute and Glob in the comic, Gault motive in the movie is very touching and more natural. She just wishes to protect the child and deserves to be a dream instead of nightmare because of that.
Because Gault's story fit in better with what they're trying to show here. I think a major change from the comics is the final theme - in the comics it's change or die and dream, being unwilling and unable to change chooses death. Here, he may be more welcoming of change that he doesn't need to die but adapt
El lo ha hecho desde que apareció la primera criatura con capacidad de soñar, no solo atiende a los humanos sino a todas las criaturas del universo con capacidad de soñar
The Endless are not human, they are not supposed to feel for their subjects, they just are. Death just chose to be compassionate. The Sandman is Dream's character arc though, as it was stated in the comics: everything changes, but nothing is truly lost; you either change or you die.
Dream was correct, though. Nightmares expose our fears and failings, so that we may face them and step to the otherwise stronger. It is a gift to have nightmares, not a curse. The same with Death.
I don't think Gault entirely understands her role. From what she says, I think she thinks that a nightmare is ONLY supposed to frighten, but if that were the case, then EVERY nightmare would be no better than the Corinthian, a nightmare who rejected their role because they wanted to just scare humanity, then feed on them. A nightmare's role is to confront humanity with their fears so they might wake up with the courage to overcome them in the waking world. So, in a way, nightmares DO inspire people. It's just through fear that they do it. If Gault knew that, then she might have been more okay with it.
No, she would not. Not in this scenario where Dream proves inflexible and foolish. This could apply to situations where people have the power to change their reality, but not to a kid chained up in a basement with rats by a grown man with a shotgun. The idea that this kid, already terrified to bits of his abuser in the waking world, would somehow "wake up with courage" by being subjected to more powerlessness, more brutality in the Dreaming, is ridiculous. What's even worse is that Dream himself explained the need for dreams, not as the "lies" that John believed they were, but as hope for those in desperate situations. Here he forgets this for a kid who's in a far more desperate situation than any of those in the diner. It was Dream's mistake to send a nightmare here, rather than a dream, for the child to cling on to hope.
If gaunt really cared about Jed why didn't she tell his sister where he was or the police? If the Corinthian can exist in the walking world so should she. Seems to me she was just being selfish and taking advantage of Jed to feel important.
Now i knew Sand Man a member of jehovah witness christian, he talk and preaching just like them in annoyed way, talking about responsibility thing that sound like total slavery and enslavement, they merge enslavement with responsibility into one.
Gault had good intentions, but failed to see the big picture. Nightmares are horrifying indeed, but how can we face and overcome them if not first confronted? Dreams are an escape, but not always what we need. It was not her place to decide or choose, and arguably favored her wants over the mortal's.
This is why I don't like Gault , Morpheus created her to be nightmare but she rejected and perhaps destroy the purpose that she born for. Humans need Dreams and Nightmares for living in a mortal reality.
Would have rather have seen the actual playing house issue done proper with brute and glob. That’s my one criticism of this show is that it took the very bizarre and strange elements of the comic and dumbed it down.
Just because it is changed doesn't mean it was dumb-downed. Brute and Glob were too comical and contrast the serious tone of the rest of the story. Gault provides a much better story.
@@klaojungwiwattanaporn6927 Cain and Abel were overtly comical in the series as well and they were still used. So that doesn’t hold water that brute and glob were to comical. They really weren’t quite honestly.
Gault *looked* nightmarish. She looked very much like a human but also very distorted. Her rebirth didn't make her that dreamish to me. She had the wings, but she was still too dark and human. Maybe it's a bit of an internal racism thing for me, but the huge contrast of her eyes/teeth and skin made her somewhat unsettling.
