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Entertainment Weekly says<\/a> TV\/film producer Allen Heinberg (whom once wrote a few comics himself), in charge of the now-canceled Sandman<\/em> adaptation, has addressed Neil Gaiman\u2019s sexual abuse scandal<\/a>, and insists the staff planned just two seasons all along. Interestingly enough, at the start of the article:<\/p>\n

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Much of The Sandman<\/em> season 2 is about reclaiming the narrative. It\u2019s true of Dream (Tom Sturridge). After the odyssey to retrieve his artifacts and restore his kingdom in the Netflix drama\u2019s freshman go, the one known as Morpheus believes it\u2019s business as usual,\u00a0until his past mistakes, made across thousands of years, come back to haunt him<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the entirety of the second season:\u00a0how to reckon his idea of who he is with who he was to all the people in his life<\/b>,\u201d Allan Heinberg, showrunner and executive producer, tells Entertainment Weekly. \u201cDream has a very secure narrative about who he is, what his story is, what other people have done to him, and\u00a0what he\u2019s done to them<\/b>. But he\u2019s the hero of that story.\u00a0In season 2, he realizes, \u2018Oh! I\u2019m the bad guy in Nada\u2019s [Deborah Oyelade] story, I\u2019m the bad guy in Lyta\u2019s [Razane Jammal] story, I\u2019m the bad guy in my son\u2019s story<\/b>\u00a0[Ruairi O\u2019Connor as Orpheus]. And it rocks him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Good gosh, the description they give here is eerily reminiscent of how one could describe the Gaiman scandal. Did he oversee these particular teleplays in development? Real life certainly can be stranger than fiction. But seriously, a guy who doesn\u2019t deliver sound punishment to fit the crime in issue 14 and 17 of the original comics<\/a> series is a \u201chero\u201d? I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s quite disputable, and there\u2019s no \u201csecure\u201d narrative in that.<\/p>\n

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Reclaiming the narrative is true for the creatives, as well. Netflix\u2019s January announcement that\u00a0season 2 would also be the final season came at a time when several sexual misconduct allegations were made against Neil Gaiman<\/b>, the co-creator of the original Sandman comics who also developed the series.\u00a0The assumption was that the two events were related, since multiple other Gaiman projects were either delayed, reworked, or canceled entirely<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Heinberg sets the record straight: \u201cIt was a decision we made three years ago,\u201d he says of season 2 being the final season.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Please. I realize these scandals are embarrassing, but all the same, sometimes it\u2019s best to just admit that, with a scandal that serious emerging, it puts a whole cloud over the production, and leaves the production company with little choice but to end any further filming. In the next decade, these productions will surely be forgotten, and some who\u2019ve seen them may reevaluate them too. They really aren\u2019t worth the celluloid they\u2019re filmed on, any more than the paper the comics were printed on.<\/p>\n

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