Huh. If I'm reading this right, season 2 is going to be Season of Mists and Brief Lives, and they're merging Wanda with the character of Ruby from Brief Lives. That makes me think they're skipping over A Game of You entirely, unless it's going to be a stand-alone episode.
I can see the reasons for doing that in an adaptation, since AGoY is not as critical to the overall arc, but also wow that would change a bunch of Thessaly's role in The Kindly Ones (which I could see being both good and bad!)
There was that brief flash of Martin Tenbones so I know they took the time to render him... but you're probably right that it's mostly a side story to the main arc. Ah well, we'll see!
I adore it to pieces (as one of those girls who spent her childhood and adolescence in her own dream world!) but I can kind of see reducing it in an adaptation because TV pacing is different than comic pacing
I loved A Game of You. I loved Wanda. Barbie fixing Wanda's tombstone, and Death waving goodbye with Wanda, is the most salient image from the entire Sandman series for me.
I can’t see them removing AGoY (IIRC, Gaiman has implied they’re not In threads here about Wanda) but it might be squeezable down to two episodes.
It’s also possible they’ll split Brief Lives over two seasons, breaking it where the search gets abandoned, or interleave AGoY with it
FWIW, I've been wondering how/if they'd be able to pull off A Game of You on the screen. That run has always felt to me like the weirdest of the series. It's wonderful, of course, but not sure how well it translates to the screen.
