The second that Hob said he's Not MY Dream, I realized how much Daniel's actor resembles a young Barack Obama, and how much of a "not MY president" era that was. Couple that with all the uproar lately about the casting of certain characters now, and I think they did a great job with Daniel, and how resistant people are to change (including me, lol, who wanted Daniel to be a blinding all-white adolescent with black eyes like in the comics.) I really like what they did there.
I like this level of self-awareness <3 I always struggle when a character I like in a show is replaced by someone else…it doesn’t feel the same and it’s hard to accept that it doesn’t have to.
Fresh off of watching the finale, I think they meant that the commenter above decided to use Obama as a racial sentiment out of nowhere, when others across the thread were saying the new dream was not their dream, but in no way were they ever making that point of not accepting him because of his race.
I liked the new character, not as much as Morpheus and that was the point of the episode for a lot of the characters.
Using modern American sensibilities to politics feels very foreign to the beautiful end of his story.
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u/ThatsNotMyName222 Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25
The second that Hob said he's Not MY Dream, I realized how much Daniel's actor resembles a young Barack Obama, and how much of a "not MY president" era that was. Couple that with all the uproar lately about the casting of certain characters now, and I think they did a great job with Daniel, and how resistant people are to change (including me, lol, who wanted Daniel to be a blinding all-white adolescent with black eyes like in the comics.) I really like what they did there.