What I love about this episode is it's literally teached me a life lesson. There's no problem with being scared of death. But thanks to the this episode I feel more confidante and comfortable when I think about death. Alsa as a person who's an introvert and struggling with friendships I can say that this episode really helped me. I'd never think I would say something like that but I really hope I'll have someone like death in my life LOL
me too that small but incredible moment when this infinite being thi very personification of dreams themselves admits that yes he is a friend to this mere mortal being just hits you right in the sweet spot
I say he's one the of best of us. But yeah, humanity will live on to reach the stars and touch the edges of the universe, but not before fighting each other to the brink of total annihilation once in a while.
no but can you imagine the torment and grief dream mustve felt when he realized the inn was gone before seeing the sign. his one friend in the whole universe and the centuries they spent together, gone because of his pettiness and being captured 😭
I think a lot about what Dream felt, just as you say ,he arrived and realized that The White Horse was completely closed, I wasn't worried that he didn't know where to look for Hob, I'm more than sure that being an Endless he could easily find a human, even in his dreams but the thought about that Hob just got bored or tired of waiting for him is painful.Much more after he returned to the dreaming and realized that everyone just got tired of waiting for him (except Lucienne who waited patiently,or Cain and Abel and Gregory who really don't have anywhere else to go ) and they just left him and went on with their lives. It must have been super comfortable when he saw the arrow pointing to The New Inn and went in to see Hob and that he was totally happy with no resentment that he didn't arrive last time, I think that greatly reevaluate the kind of connection they have.
@@normang.210 oh yeah 100%. i think the closing of the inn was more symbolic of their friendship being ended rather than an issue with finding Hob physically. thankfully it wasnt the case though!
It was a strange episode, but beautiful and profound. Definitely the best episode of the show, and one of the best episodes of anything that Netflix has profufed
@@algill5079 You could strongly argue that Death of the Endless stole the comic, too. I don't think it would be controversial to say that she's the most beloved of the Endless by fans.
That's Neil Gaiman an excellent story teller, this series gave me hope that more people would be exposed to his work and be inspired, he's one of the men who shaped my teenage years and fed my imagination to create art.
@@paulmasters8666 , looking at Gaiman's work people have to realize that he is the Master of contemporary English literature. And more, he wrote more, better and with more depth than Shakespeare and all before and after him. His knowledge about humanity's humanity, the psychology of humans and the inner workings of all part of society is uncontested penmanship.
I didn't expect it, but I think this version of the story worked even better than the original in the comic. Having Hob wait in vain cutting to the image of Morpheus imprisoned, no doubt thinking of the missed meeting, made it even more powerful. Love how Hob's face lights up when he looks up and sees Dream standing there.
Every season starts with them meeting at the pub and exchanging pleasantries and then Dream proceeds to ask Hob to describe his life and we go from there with Hob narrating everything, the last episode of each season is them saying goodbye. The seasons where they don't meet up they could tell them from Hobs perspective struggling to find his missing "friend", succeeding in life but finding no joy in it because deep down he misses Dream.
4:34 I love the detail of Hob grading what looks like history tests. Makes sense too, I mean the guy has been around for over 600 years; he would be a near perfect history teacher.
I think he was sure of the exact date of their meetings (for small background references they apparently meet on June 7th) ,possibly that time that Morpheus did not arrive he has questioning whether he was on the wrong date or probably thinking for another excuse for why he would not have come, apart from the fact that Dream would continue to be upset about what happened in 1889, 30 extra years is enough to think of many different reasons.... I don't know how long it has been since Morpheus is released and the events of The sound of her wings in the series , at least from what we know from background dates Morpheus is free on May 25th It would be awesome that the day that he finally sees Hob again is June 7th
@@normang.210 no I meant the first time. He had his conversation in passing with dream. So somewhere around 20 yrs or so when he start to notice his agelessness he barely remembers this old conversation he had that one time and spent the majority of that year in the Tavern.
@Tedus987 Yeah, but think about it. There had to be a period where he wasn't sure he wasn't getting any older. So it was less than shock and more of a denial. But still try to remember an insignificant day in your first 25% of life and tell me that's easy
Netflix had also better bring Morpheus and Calliope together again. Hob can be the best man at that wedding. Calliope and Dream can be together again. Both more in love and happier together after suffering through years of captivity and suffering and in Calliope's case after suffering from such horrible trauma and abuse at the hands of her captors.
@@sultankebab1587 i never said he's a man. And i was talking bout how the first reply was making all men look really down just bcoz he thinks it like that💁🏻♂️
I could tell from Dreams face when Hob was talking about his children he knew it wasn’t gonna last, he knows from experience inmmortals don’t keep what they love
I love the way he lets him “learn his own lesson” about slavery & the way in which men make their fortunes, causes him to “grow” in a very genuine way / to experience the heights and lows of humanity over some hundreds of years
This was one of the most powerful and moving episodes for me in the series. The development of Morpheus and Hob's characters into a friendship over the course of the centuries was one for the ages. I have watched this episode several times and it still is as powerful in its feeling as it was during the first viewing.
I love Hob’s response to Dream asking him if he finally wants to die after the Hell he went through for 80 years. “ Are you crazy? Death is a mug's game, I've got so much to live for!”
Yeah, honestly I think that that's just humanity. People might suffer, we might struggle and yeah, some people consider living to be too hard and end up offing themselves. But nobody is ever ready for death. Honestly, people always portray immortality as something miserable, as something that people either go extremely depressive over or become monsters trying to cope with it. And I agree in a way, immortality would be absolutely freaking misearable. But in reality, if you put a human through it, if you actually made someone immortal, I'm not sure if they would actually seek death. Even if they are absolutely misearable, people still crave life. There are probably people in the world right now that are going through the most horrible stuff imaginable that are still clinging to life with everything they have. That's just survival instinct I think. No matter how bad things may get there is always some part of us that desperatly wants to live. Honestly, I think immortality would probably be a case by case thing. It would probably be a hellish existence for most people. But while some would probably seek death, others would seek to keep living, no matter how bad things get.
The point of this is, even if your immortal. Even if you're a concept in physical form. You always need a friend. Someone to chat to about some of the most mundane ideas in your head. Someone who can give you an outside and contrasting opinion.
Yeah. Rightly said. that's one of the imperfections of being human. You always do fucking need someone to be there for you, how much anyone denies that
I just read the source material for this story last week. It's very sweet. The twist about the pub closing and being moved by new ownership is new to this production.
There is such a HUGE difference between never dying and never aging. If Hobs had continued to age as he should since he didn't ask to stop aging, he'd be begging for death the first time he saw Dream.
I agree. But in a way, old age is due to our cells being unable to regenerate. So in a way, to not die, one must not age? Or maybe his cells stopped ageing
There's actually a Greek myth about that very concept; it's not one of the well-known ones, it's one of the minor myths that involve one of the minor gods within the overall mythic canon. It involved the Dawn goddess Eos who fell in love with a mortal man Tithonus, and she asked one of the Zeus to make the man immortal so that she could always be with him... but she didn't ask for eternal youth, so as time passed he grew older and older, well past the point that any mortal man would've died, but since he was immortal he just kept getting more wrinkled and bent over until finally all that was left was a cricket, and all she could do was keep him in a basket as a curiosity.
You are right. And I think this is because the bet was to prove a point to Hob; that immortality wasn't as grand as he thought and that death was indeed a necessary tool in the circle of life. If Hob aged, then that would turn the bet as pointless, since Hob would be seeking death as any normal mortal.
Hob is so human. I love him. The guy who played him, if I had a film project in Hollywood I would want him in it. The sheer richness of subtleties in his performance is chef's kiss.
I’m in love with the title “A timeless friendship” watching this makes me wish I can be immortal to watch an feel the sadness of watching the world grow and eventually watch it crumble..gods must so lonely
Brilliant edit - with the flashbacks & all: I find this episode so beautiful that it’s ‘locked in’ my consciousness: Heart & Mind - it’s rare to find something so perfectly thought through, photographed, & depicted by such stunning actors: Thank you so much for your thoughtful presentation! 🙏🏽🌹🙏🏻
@@haveyouseenlouispigeon ok! warning though, its really depressing. i cried for 3 days after finishing it so essentially, the whole plot of the sandman and the reason it took place in the time period it did is because each story is really just an account of morpheus' last moments in the world. he had been wanting to die for at least centuries, likely millennia. and after he escaped the prison, he came out a new man who was indeed guilty of how he had treated the world in the past. at the beginning of the series, it seems like he is on a redemption arc to fix things and become better. but truly, as revealed later, he was just tying loose ends before ending his own life. how this all ties to Hob is that morpheus never got to experience the freedom and feelings that a normal human does. he felt trapped in his role and every century, would meet with Hob, shocked at how someone could learn to love the world the way Hob does because morpheus never got to see the beautiful sides of it. Unfortunately, even meeting with Hob wasn't enough willpower to inspire Morpheus to keep on living in the end
@Ali Nooooooooooooo........ Not even after rescuing Calliope. Not wanting to be with her again after all they both suffered????? Hobs could have been their best man. His best friend..... They could have had more children who wouldn't die tragically like Orpheus..... Awwhhh come on..... 😭😭😭😭😭😭
It's not the only amazing thing that their immortality friendship, it's amazing that same building remain a bar for centuries despite its different era and appearance
A friend is timeless- ever changing but nostalgic to familiarity A friend is someone who care. Who made the effort to know. Who chose to be in another’s story. A friend is someone knowing the person is imperfect, but yet still acknowledge his potential and loyalty with interest A friend never give up, always hopeing, always believeing, in a mutual understanding and appreciation of both
The only reason he didn't show, is because he was trapped. His friend thought dream really abandoned him for 200 years. When dream escaped, visiting his friend was his top priority among gathering his stolen tools.
I used to seek death, an escape. The mind does that sometimes. Life gets hard. But really, maybe I havent really put much effort into living thats why I become miserable. Indeed, there is so much to live for. Thats why I'm still here. I tried many times, but Im still here. So I will live and make life good for me and those around me instead of putting effort in forcing my way into death's halls in my head. 🙏
I find it funny how you give a human a few hundred years and he becomes this incredible wealth of experience and wisdom yet this eternal being took a while just shed his arrogance.
It's cause god are perfection incarnate conpecte manifest so they can't change can't adapt 2:47 yet a human makes mistakes can make mistakes an yet never be perfect and yet will always surpass gods in ways they can't think no god can be both perfect and make mistakes so they never learn they may not die but they can never grow
I don’t know if it’s said in the episode or in the comics but I like to think when they reunited after Dream was kidnapped, they made up for the last visits and talked for a very long time.
A beautiful, beautiful series that shows in all it's detail what humanity and the human condition is all about. It grabs you from the insides, shakes you about and says..."this is life, start living". Add in other such series as After Life and the Midnight Club, the message is the same. Life is short, enjoy the moment.
Interview with a vampire. Antonio Banderas(Immortal): The world changes, yet we do not, there in, lies the irony, that finally kills us.’ ‘do you know how few vampires, have the stamina, for immortality.’ - Earth is a nice place to visit, but I’m glad I don’t live here.
There many examples in fiction where immortal beings suffer due to loss, love and loneliness. So if you ever got a chance at being eternal, you should go into to it expecting pain or go into knowing you will cause it. You would need to be a truly egotistical person to survive immortality; it's the only way to do what you want without any consequences. To be immortal is also to recognize your not like everyone else and usually that is a hard thing to do because everyone likes to compare themselves to others and connect. Change is typically a constant, but to an immortal change can only go so far because eventually, everything around you will be different from what you are used to. I'd only be immortal if my selfish nature was absolute to the point I dont care because it would be the only way to live each year, decade or century in relative comfort without despair.
Hob is easily my favorite character in the whole show aside from Dream, himself. I aspire to have that much love for life, even when there’s 80 years of misery
With this music played for the background, I was hit with the funny thought of at the end of the video when they finally met again at the new tavern, the tenth Doctor would suddenly sit down with them and join their merry meetings of immortality.
I think that Hob would have seeked death if his immortality didn't make him young, like he will get older, his body shutting down but being unable to die, he gets older and older till he becomes like a living corpse. Immortality wouldn't be fun if you are not young biologically.
i would take immortality as well. since i was born with a mental disability and time for me seems to be moving faster than my mind can comprehend, being immortal would definitely help with understand what being human really is. Immortality would probably be the best gift i could receive, I've suffered with mental disabilities, suffer loss, suffer from being alone, suffered from being abused, lied too, treated like a joke, made fun of, many bad things life has thrown at me and i'm still here.
Personally I think that it was a "set up" of sort's by his sister to get him a friend but I think that his sister Death is one of the nicer of the bunch frome everything that I've seen of her in the comics anyway....
honestly this could genuinely be the greatest ad for a beer commercial, like at the end, "peroni, always here to bring friends together" or something lmao
Who Vandal Savage could have been. I also like how Hob has been alive for over 500 years, and yet he is getting advice from someone far younger than him. You arr never to old to learn.
Brilliant sorry, love this one, one of my favorite Sandman stories. I may have learned from my mistakes, but it doesn't seem to stop me from making them.
The series is great but this episode particularly stood out. especially the part when he talks about how cruel life was to him in that one century and yet he still can't get enough of life.
Living for so long wouldnt be so bad, if only our friends and family would live just as long. If they all leave. Even i dont think i wanna stay. I cant come to terms still that one day. Everybody would be gone, and is uncertain if we would all see each other one day...
Friendship goes beyond all relationships. Because it is something that is not given to us. We are not bounded by blood. But what bounds us are our comraderie and fellowship. Fellowship that transcends time...
What I love about this episode is it's literally teached me a life lesson. There's no problem with being scared of death. But thanks to the this episode I feel more confidante and comfortable when I think about death. Alsa as a person who's an introvert and struggling with friendships I can say that this episode really helped me. I'd never think I would say something like that but I really hope I'll have someone like death in my life LOL
"All anyone wants is just a kind word and a friendly face"
He's not "Death", he's the "Sandman" aka Dream aka Morpheus :)
@@smeyer208 I'm not talking about dream, I'm talkin about his sister death
@@mieefsanesi277 respect 💛
"All anyone wants is just a kind word and a friendly face and a dictionary for the harder words"
Their smiles at the end just destroy me in the best possible way dear lord
me too that small but incredible moment when this infinite being thi very personification of dreams themselves admits that yes he is a friend to this mere mortal being just hits you right in the sweet spot
@@catsi563he’s no mortal is he now 😖
Hob is the image of humanity. we fuck up A LOT, we hurt the people we should love. but ultimately we learn, we do better. we learn to love.
we try
Some of us do. Some can't. They're called sociopaths. They end up with all the money and power.
I just puke here
I say he's one the of best of us. But yeah, humanity will live on to reach the stars and touch the edges of the universe, but not before fighting each other to the brink of total annihilation once in a while.
Dude, this is beautiful
no but can you imagine the torment and grief dream mustve felt when he realized the inn was gone before seeing the sign. his one friend in the whole universe and the centuries they spent together, gone because of his pettiness and being captured 😭
it's hard to imagine how he feels, though I know he was likely feeling a bit guilty.
I think a lot about what Dream felt, just as you say ,he arrived and realized that The White Horse was completely closed, I wasn't worried that he didn't know where to look for Hob, I'm more than sure that being an Endless he could easily find a human, even in his dreams but the thought about that Hob just got bored or tired of waiting for him is painful.Much more after he returned to the dreaming and realized that everyone just got tired of waiting for him (except Lucienne who waited patiently,or Cain and Abel and Gregory who really don't have anywhere else to go ) and they just left him and went on with their lives.
It must have been super comfortable when he saw the arrow pointing to The New Inn and went in to see Hob and that he was totally happy with no resentment that he didn't arrive last time, I think that greatly reevaluate the kind of connection they have.
@@normang.210 oh yeah 100%. i think the closing of the inn was more symbolic of their friendship being ended rather than an issue with finding Hob physically. thankfully it wasnt the case though!
No, Dream should’ve walked and taken a note from his mom, night, that its better to be happy being alone then finding happiness in others.
he could have tracked him down do when the guy fell asleep
I love how this is the highest rated episode of the series
what episode is it? I am not really into watching the full show but this particular episode looks good.
@@MrObveous777 I believe episode 6 - The Sound of Her Wings
I think most of that has to do with Death she stole the show
It was a strange episode, but beautiful and profound. Definitely the best episode of the show, and one of the best episodes of anything that Netflix has profufed
@@algill5079 You could strongly argue that Death of the Endless stole the comic, too. I don't think it would be controversial to say that she's the most beloved of the Endless by fans.
The fact that their were so many different plots in 11 episodes but all of them were enjoyable is honestly astonishing.
That's Neil Gaiman an excellent story teller, this series gave me hope that more people would be exposed to his work and be inspired, he's one of the men who shaped my teenage years and fed my imagination to create art.
@@paulmasters8666 , looking at Gaiman's work people have to realize that he is the Master of contemporary English literature. And more, he wrote more, better and with more depth than Shakespeare and all before and after him. His knowledge about humanity's humanity, the psychology of humans and the inner workings of all part of society is uncontested penmanship.
@@AlexanderVollmer Shakespeare is washed lmao
It was the best 11 storylines from a comic that gave them hundreds. Not surprising they were all good.
@@AlexanderVollmer
I disagree, I think Tolkien and Lewis wrote better stories than Neil
I think Hob is the single human being in this earth that can proudly say that he is Morpheus' friend
In the universe*
I didn't expect it, but I think this version of the story worked even better than the original in the comic. Having Hob wait in vain cutting to the image of Morpheus imprisoned, no doubt thinking of the missed meeting, made it even more powerful. Love how Hob's face lights up when he looks up and sees Dream standing there.
Imagine if they did a tv series about Hob, where each season covers 100 years and once a season he meets Morpheus.
Every season starts with them meeting at the pub and exchanging pleasantries and then Dream proceeds to ask Hob to describe his life and we go from there with Hob narrating everything, the last episode of each season is them saying goodbye.
The seasons where they don't meet up they could tell them from Hobs perspective struggling to find his missing "friend", succeeding in life but finding no joy in it because deep down he misses Dream.
I would watch that.
There is something about it. It's like a folklore story.
Peak storytelling
Yeah it's so simple yet so beautiful it's like inventing the wheel
4:34 I love the detail of Hob grading what looks like history tests. Makes sense too, I mean the guy has been around for over 600 years; he would be a near perfect history teacher.
He's doing paperwork for the inn because he owns it.
@@GHMYahookaI thought so too, but I paused the video to see the paper and it had Multiple Choice Questions written on it
Technically no. As a person he only has knowledge of what he has experienced or read
@@GHMYahookano he’s grading tests
@@shoaib2593 And the person who lives through it all. Sort of first hand knowledge.
if you think about it, he probably didn't remember the exact date so he might've spent the entire year from day to night in that tavern...
I think he was sure of the exact date of their meetings (for small background references they apparently meet on June 7th) ,possibly that time that Morpheus did not arrive he has questioning whether he was on the wrong date or probably thinking for another excuse for why he would not have come, apart from the fact that Dream would continue to be upset about what happened in 1889, 30 extra years is enough to think of many different reasons....
I don't know how long it has been since Morpheus is released and the events of The sound of her wings in the series , at least from what we know from background dates Morpheus is free on May 25th It would be awesome that the day that he finally sees Hob again is June 7th
@@normang.210 no I meant the first time. He had his conversation in passing with dream. So somewhere around 20 yrs or so when he start to notice his agelessness he barely remembers this old conversation he had that one time and spent the majority of that year in the Tavern.
@@jiko26shock can give sobering clarity.
@Tedus987 Yeah, but think about it. There had to be a period where he wasn't sure he wasn't getting any older. So it was less than shock and more of a denial. But still try to remember an insignificant day in your first 25% of life and tell me that's easy
I fet what you mean. Its becauze he didnt realize at first that day was significant @@jiko26
This is my favorite story from The Sandman universe.
Same
Hobs probably the one who wrote the New Inn on the gate, so he'll find it. 😊
I like to think that Hobs actually had the New Inn built so Dream and he could meet.
Yess he did
@@donedwards5301 that's exactly what the episode implies
That’s why he’s doing paperwork…he owns the Inn.
@@samrhee3880 gonna burst your bubble here, he's grading history homework, he's a history teacher
Thank you for this beautiful vignette. I hope Netflix does a spin-off with this intriguing and powerful storyline between these two characters.
Netflix had also better bring Morpheus and Calliope together again. Hob can be the best man at that wedding. Calliope and Dream can be together again. Both more in love and happier together after suffering through years of captivity and suffering and in Calliope's case after suffering from such horrible trauma and abuse at the hands of her captors.
@@maekanikhan amen!! And they can have little dreamers and be happy forever 😃❤️
@allisongutama8110 .....I don't want to spoil anything but I'd recommend reading the comics.
This episode has a deeply beautiful definition of friendship the kind any person should wish for
Morpheus such drama queen 😅 always run from affection and truth about him like from 🔥
all of us men act that way, we get uncomfortable with affection because we usually never got any
@@Archonsx ok, take some hugs than 🤗
@@Archonsx no, not all, some just have too much of pride like Morpheus but he changed and saw the different sides.
@@smiley_wiener Yeah but he isnt a man, hes a cosmic entity.
@@sultankebab1587 i never said he's a man. And i was talking bout how the first reply was making all men look really down just bcoz he thinks it like that💁🏻♂️
I could tell from Dreams face when Hob was talking about his children he knew it wasn’t gonna last, he knows from experience inmmortals don’t keep what they love
I love the way he lets him “learn his own lesson” about slavery & the way in which men make their fortunes, causes him to “grow” in a very genuine way / to experience the heights and lows of humanity over some hundreds of years
This was one of the most powerful and moving episodes for me in the series. The development of Morpheus and Hob's characters into a friendship over the course of the centuries was one for the ages. I have watched this episode several times and it still is as powerful in its feeling as it was during the first viewing.
subtle things... the way Hob sits at 5:04 is totally different (he looks at ease) once he gets to know what Morpheus thinks of him as a friend...
Hob is the Sandman's hope. He is Necessary to Morpheus.
Hob: Yeah so, cotton and slaves and-
Dream: Yeah don’t do that
Hob: Are we friends?
Dream: HOW DARE YOU
I love Hob’s response to Dream asking him if he finally wants to die after the Hell he went through for 80 years.
“ Are you crazy? Death is a mug's game, I've got so much to live for!”
I envy Hob
My response exactly! Life is an end unto itself.
Yeah, honestly I think that that's just humanity. People might suffer, we might struggle and yeah, some people consider living to be too hard and end up offing themselves. But nobody is ever ready for death.
Honestly, people always portray immortality as something miserable, as something that people either go extremely depressive over or become monsters trying to cope with it. And I agree in a way, immortality would be absolutely freaking misearable. But in reality, if you put a human through it, if you actually made someone immortal, I'm not sure if they would actually seek death. Even if they are absolutely misearable, people still crave life. There are probably people in the world right now that are going through the most horrible stuff imaginable that are still clinging to life with everything they have. That's just survival instinct I think. No matter how bad things may get there is always some part of us that desperatly wants to live.
Honestly, I think immortality would probably be a case by case thing. It would probably be a hellish existence for most people. But while some would probably seek death, others would seek to keep living, no matter how bad things get.
The point of this is, even if your immortal. Even if you're a concept in physical form. You always need a friend. Someone to chat to about some of the most mundane ideas in your head. Someone who can give you an outside and contrasting opinion.
I would love to be immortal. But I get what you are saying. It would get lonely after 500 years to have nobody to relate to.
This is why God created us
Yeah. Rightly said. that's one of the imperfections of being human. You always do fucking need someone to be there for you, how much anyone denies that
I just read the source material for this story last week. It's very sweet. The twist about the pub closing and being moved by new ownership is new to this production.
I love how the music is so loud that you can't even hear the dialogue
There is such a HUGE difference between never dying and never aging.
If Hobs had continued to age as he should since he didn't ask to stop aging, he'd be begging for death the first time he saw Dream.
I agree. But in a way, old age is due to our cells being unable to regenerate. So in a way, to not die, one must not age? Or maybe his cells stopped ageing
There's actually a Greek myth about that very concept; it's not one of the well-known ones, it's one of the minor myths that involve one of the minor gods within the overall mythic canon. It involved the Dawn goddess Eos who fell in love with a mortal man Tithonus, and she asked one of the Zeus to make the man immortal so that she could always be with him... but she didn't ask for eternal youth, so as time passed he grew older and older, well past the point that any mortal man would've died, but since he was immortal he just kept getting more wrinkled and bent over until finally all that was left was a cricket, and all she could do was keep him in a basket as a curiosity.
You are right. And I think this is because the bet was to prove a point to Hob; that immortality wasn't as grand as he thought and that death was indeed a necessary tool in the circle of life. If Hob aged, then that would turn the bet as pointless, since Hob would be seeking death as any normal mortal.
@@sauravj4934Point not proven, though! 😉
Hob's having a grand time, and I look forward to when we cure aging!
Yeah, realistically to stop death is to stop aging and vice-versa (with the obvious exception of accidents/murder).
Hob is so human. I love him. The guy who played him, if I had a film project in Hollywood I would want him in it. The sheer richness of subtleties in his performance is chef's kiss.
I’m in love with the title “A timeless friendship” watching this makes me wish I can be immortal to watch an feel the sadness of watching the world grow and eventually watch it crumble..gods must so lonely
The most beautiful and fresh things I watch after so long time. It give me some relief from my depression and anxiety
i feel its one of the better sub plots of any series in a long time
This Episode really cracked me up. Such a heartwarming little Story.
Hobb and Dream are soulmates, and Death will only take Hobb after Dream goes
Well not really if I remember the comics. She gave him the option after explaining her brother died he wanted to continue.
Did they ever say if Hob met the new dream?
Brilliant edit - with the flashbacks & all: I find this episode so beautiful that it’s ‘locked in’ my consciousness: Heart & Mind - it’s rare to find something so perfectly thought through, photographed, & depicted by such stunning actors:
Thank you so much for your thoughtful presentation!
🙏🏽🌹🙏🏻
You said this better than I could have Barbara. I have watched this episode many times and and you say, Hazes has done a masterful edit.
you could make a whole spin off just with hob`s and dream - would watch it 10/10
THIS VIDEO HURTS SO MUCH MORE AFTER FINISHING THE COMICS, IM IN TEARS 😭. knowing why morpheus was so intrigued by hob all this time....
pls explain. I haven't read the comics.
@@haveyouseenlouispigeonitll spoil a lot of the series, are you sure?
@@ali8922 yes :)
@@haveyouseenlouispigeon ok! warning though, its really depressing. i cried for 3 days after finishing it
so essentially, the whole plot of the sandman and the reason it took place in the time period it did is because each story is really just an account of morpheus' last moments in the world. he had been wanting to die for at least centuries, likely millennia. and after he escaped the prison, he came out a new man who was indeed guilty of how he had treated the world in the past.
at the beginning of the series, it seems like he is on a redemption arc to fix things and become better. but truly, as revealed later, he was just tying loose ends before ending his own life.
how this all ties to Hob is that morpheus never got to experience the freedom and feelings that a normal human does. he felt trapped in his role and every century, would meet with Hob, shocked at how someone could learn to love the world the way Hob does because morpheus never got to see the beautiful sides of it. Unfortunately, even meeting with Hob wasn't enough willpower to inspire Morpheus to keep on living in the end
@Ali Nooooooooooooo........ Not even after rescuing Calliope. Not wanting to be with her again after all they both suffered????? Hobs could have been their best man. His best friend..... They could have had more children who wouldn't die tragically like Orpheus..... Awwhhh come on..... 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I still can't get over Morpheus's 1300's and 1400's emo/goth/Severus Snape phase.
It's not the only amazing thing that their immortality friendship, it's amazing that same building remain a bar for centuries despite its different era and appearance
A friend is timeless- ever changing but nostalgic to familiarity
A friend is someone who care. Who made the effort to know. Who chose to be in another’s story.
A friend is someone knowing the person is imperfect, but yet still acknowledge his potential and loyalty with interest
A friend never give up, always hopeing, always believeing, in a mutual understanding and appreciation of both
lol gaining immortality becuz some god heard a joke u made at a bar is so much more believable than half the superhero origins out there lol
in fact you are right
oh this music *fits* so perfectly i love the story here \0/ especially 4:05 with the flashback. he thinks because the pub is gone so is Gadlng!
Please what is the song
Experience by Ludovico 0/ it's fantastic @@alexanderadams2538
Finally someone upload this part 🙏🙏🙏 Millions of thanks 😊
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Great edit. I like the b&w vignettes you added of Hobs prior to Morpheus' entering of The New Inn.
The only reason he didn't show, is because he was trapped.
His friend thought dream really abandoned him for 200 years.
When dream escaped, visiting his friend was his top priority among gathering his stolen tools.
I used to seek death, an escape. The mind does that sometimes. Life gets hard. But really, maybe I havent really put much effort into living thats why I become miserable. Indeed, there is so much to live for. Thats why I'm still here. I tried many times, but Im still here. So I will live and make life good for me and those around me instead of putting effort in forcing my way into death's halls in my head. 🙏
Classic line “you’re late” 😂
I find it funny how you give a human a few hundred years and he becomes this incredible wealth of experience and wisdom yet this eternal being took a while just shed his arrogance.
It's cause god are perfection incarnate conpecte manifest so they can't change can't adapt 2:47 yet a human makes mistakes can make mistakes an yet never be perfect and yet will always surpass gods in ways they can't think no god can be both perfect and make mistakes so they never learn they may not die but they can never grow
Great edit i keep coming back here to relive this goodness, my favorite from
Sandman
Wasn’t just the smile that caught me, but the eyes. The eyes lit up too. Not many people look at you and smile like that.
I don’t know if it’s said in the episode or in the comics but I like to think when they reunited after Dream was kidnapped, they made up for the last visits and talked for a very long time.
A beautiful, beautiful series that shows in all it's detail what humanity and the human condition is all about. It grabs you from the insides, shakes you about and says..."this is life, start living". Add in other such series as After Life and the Midnight Club, the message is the same. Life is short, enjoy the moment.
“timeless friendship” no it’s timeless romance bc this entire sequence is basically episode 3 of good omens
YEEEEEAAAAAAA
I didn't really get romanticness between them but it was dangerously close
Shut up
Intimacy does not mean romance, you should go outside
You never had a close friend if you think this is romance.
Interview with a vampire.
Antonio Banderas(Immortal): The world changes, yet we do not, there in, lies the irony, that finally kills us.’
‘do you know how few vampires, have the stamina, for immortality.’
- Earth is a nice place to visit, but I’m glad I don’t live here.
Lesson: If you ever wished to live for eternity, never give up hope.
This has to be the most near perfect adaptation to a comic ever i swear the way the Sandman moves alone is just powerful
This was one of the best parts of the show
A wonderful narrative arc in a marvellously thoughtful series
I like to think that Dream had some sort of spell or dream set up make sure that the pub never got sold but it stopped working due to his imprisonment
There many examples in fiction where immortal beings suffer due to loss, love and loneliness. So if you ever got a chance at being eternal, you should go into to it expecting pain or go into knowing you will cause it. You would need to be a truly egotistical person to survive immortality; it's the only way to do what you want without any consequences. To be immortal is also to recognize your not like everyone else and usually that is a hard thing to do because everyone likes to compare themselves to others and connect. Change is typically a constant, but to an immortal change can only go so far because eventually, everything around you will be different from what you are used to. I'd only be immortal if my selfish nature was absolute to the point I dont care because it would be the only way to live each year, decade or century in relative comfort without despair.
Hobbs was a special human. Because even after going through the worst for 80 years, and yet still think there's more to life.
Hob is easily my favorite character in the whole show aside from Dream, himself.
I aspire to have that much love for life, even when there’s 80 years of misery
With this music played for the background, I was hit with the funny thought of at the end of the video when they finally met again at the new tavern, the tenth Doctor would suddenly sit down with them and join their merry meetings of immortality.
So crazy we got to see a live action version of this story
I think that Hob would have seeked death if his immortality didn't make him young, like he will get older, his body shutting down but being unable to die, he gets older and older till he becomes like a living corpse. Immortality wouldn't be fun if you are not young biologically.
Was my favourite part of the books and by God they nailed it in the show 🙌
I want to see more of them in the next season
Как же это было пронзительно! Сериал можно полюбить хотя бы за одну эту историю!
i would take immortality as well. since i was born with a mental disability and time for me seems to be moving faster than my mind can comprehend, being immortal would definitely help with understand what being human really is. Immortality would probably be the best gift i could receive, I've suffered with mental disabilities, suffer loss, suffer from being alone, suffered from being abused, lied too, treated like a joke, made fun of, many bad things life has thrown at me and i'm still here.
A friend is the greatest thing to have and is also one of the greatest things to be.
You dare. You dare… and he dared. This story proved that he needed a friend
I love this part of the TV series. It’s just so pure and real and surreal.
I love this episode
I did expect him to die cause he's bored but he didn't choose that ... Guess it's really up to u
I love the evolution of Dream. I think he'll continue to evolve.
I think it's this story, that speaks to my soul the most, of all of Gaimans work.
This episode is one of my favourite in all of TV series.
"And I shall welcome death as not a stranger, but as a friend"
I really hope there is a season 2. They are 2 great characters
They were starting production until the SAG-AFTRA strike happened. Now that it's done, Neil's ready to resume it
The way Hob looks at Dream for the first time is like a man having a revelation. 0:27
Personally I think that it was a "set up" of sort's by his sister to get him a friend but I think that his sister Death is one of the nicer of the bunch frome everything that I've seen of her in the comics anyway....
"And he met death as one meets an old friend"
honestly this could genuinely be the greatest ad for a beer commercial, like at the end, "peroni, always here to bring friends together" or something lmao
I feel the same when I see a good friend after a while, is time to catch up
I know the feeling 😊
I miss my friend too , my love ❤.
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Wish we could meet again someday forever 😊❤
In all the series this one close to my heart
Who Vandal Savage could have been.
I also like how Hob has been alive for over 500 years, and yet he is getting advice from someone far younger than him. You arr never to old to learn.
100 years of hunger and still he craved life 😊
This is the most complete and least gay edit of the meetings.
What
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Lol
Such a perfect retelling from comic to live action
Brilliant sorry, love this one, one of my favorite Sandman stories. I may have learned from my mistakes, but it doesn't seem to stop me from making them.
Dang they both rocked those 1889 outfits
This made me tear up. So great. Dream is lonely too
The series is great but this episode particularly stood out. especially the part when he talks about how cruel life was to him in that one century and yet he still can't get enough of life.
Great edit!!! This was my favourite part of the show...
they should make a spin-off or wide story of these two’s relationship …
i cry everytime. it perhaps is the story i love the most
Living for so long wouldnt be so bad, if only our friends and family would live just as long. If they all leave. Even i dont think i wanna stay. I cant come to terms still that one day. Everybody would be gone, and is uncertain if we would all see each other one day...
Friendship goes beyond all relationships. Because it is something that is not given to us. We are not bounded by blood. But what bounds us are our comraderie and fellowship. Fellowship that transcends time...
Conversation this 2 had was so good.