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The Sandmanhas faced some criticism after it was recently revealed that Black and nonbinary actors has been cast in the show. Creator
Neil Gaiman was quick to react and defended the casting decisions for the series, was originally
a comic book series for DC.
Posting on Twitter, Gaiman responded to a user who claimed that he didn t care about the original work.
He hit back by explaining he cared about the work and pointed out that people shouldn t be critical about the show when they ve not even seen it yet. Mike Marsland/WireImageGetty Images
This article contains some spoilers for American Gods and Trickster.]
Fiction is filled with heroes whose journey begins when they learn that they’ve inherited power from parents they never knew. From Arthur Curry learning he’s the heir to Atlantis to Harry Potter going to study wizardry at his parents’ alma mater, “child of powerful parents” stories usually put their central characters on the path to great adventures that might be dangerous, but mostly let them improve their lives and the world.
Those narratives create a sort of magical eugenics, making power and the right to wield it a gift of certain groups or families. While the idea that your boring life could be shaken up by learning you have a secret lineage is an appealing escapist fantasy, it also pushes agency off the protagonists’ decisions and onto the choices their parents made, possibly even before the protagonists were born. Their journey requires them to embrace the lives their parents lived and follow i