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Why ‘The Sandman’ Final Season Changed a Key Character From Neil Gaiman’s Comics


The final season of Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" graphic novels opens with a storyline dear to many fans: "Season of Mists."

In Netflix’s “The Sandman,” she rules over a people from a millennia ago who live in a thriving Afro-steampunk-esque city blanketed in snow, rather than the savannah setting from the comic’s panels. “First of all, I’m just glad that we were able to do a version of Nada and the First People,” Netflix’s “The Sandman” co-creator and executive producer David Goyer told Variety. “If you think about it, people were trying to make ‘Sandman’ forever, and I was even involved in a feature version at one point, but so much was left on the table, and it’s such a — and I mean this in the most loving way — the story is such a shaggy beast.”

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