This is how it ends. John and Derek discuss The Sandman Season 2 Episode 11 "A Tale of Graceful Ends" in spoiler filled detail. A beautiful end for the series, unthinkable that it would ever have been made and what the team have achieved is incredible.
Episode teleplay by Allan Heinberg
Episode directed by Jamie Childs
Synopsis: Unsure of his purpose Daniel, the new Dream of the Endless, brings back Abel and Merv after their death at the hands of the Kindly Ones. He attempts to restore Fiddler’s Green, but Gilbert refuses and tells him it does not give their sacrifice meaning.
Meanwhile the Endless siblings and many friends of Morpheus including Johanna Constantine, Alex Burgess, Hob Gadling, Queen Titania, Cluracan, Calliope, Rose Walker, Mad Hettie, Nada, Lyta Hall, and countless others attend the first dream king’s Morpheus' funeral.
Destruction does not attend but visits the new Dream secretly and assures Daniel that he will figure out everything eventually.
At the service each Endless and Lucienne speak on how they will miss Morpheus and wish that they had a better relationship with him, but are glad they got to see him change for the better.
Following the funeral, Death chats with Hob Gaddling and asks if he wants to finally finish his long life. Hob tells her he is still not ready to die, which Death accepts.
Inspired by the speeches, Johanna tells Corinthian she wants to give their relationship a shot and they kiss. Matthew, Merv and Nuala decide to stay with Lucienne.
Lyta meets Daniel and makes peace with him and he promises to meet her in her dreams. He makes Lucienne the new Prime minister of Dreaming, decides to continue his meetings every hundred years with Hob, and meets the Endless siblings.
The post-credits scene shows The Kindly Ones discussing how fate is inevitable and that no one, whether human or Endless, can escape it.
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Thanks for joining us for our podcast all about The Sandman Season 2 Episode 11 “A Tale Of Noble Ends”. We’ll be back really soon with our discussion on the very special extra episode “Death, The High Cost Of Living”.
Thanks so much for joining us fellow Dreamers.
John and Derek
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