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Matthew's dialogue about how "Dreams don't fucking die!" will be called back to when the series adapts The Kindly Ones story arc

Because it would make that storyline that much more tearjerking.

What Earth this is in the Arrowverse's multiverse:

• Earth-22, following the numbering convention of the last two digits being the Earth's numerical designation. While it's supposed to be where Wells 2.0 came from, the Crisis was already shown to rewrite Earths entirely, such as turning Earth-19, which went from a clear alternate of Earth-1 to the setting of Swamp Thing (2019).
• Earth-89, following the same rule, but for the original comic's release date.
• Earth-60, which is the year Neil Gaiman was born.

Nimrod, Fun Land, and Burgess will cameo as tortured souls in Hell in season 2

• Nimrod could also be used to explore the implications of whether Dream's curse on the collectors is added to the normal suffering of the damned, replaces it, or lessens after death and whether Dream approves of this, feels it's too much, or is indifferent to seeing that.
  • Fun Land died before Dream's curse came to effect, so he may have avoided Hell due to not believing that he'd deserve to be punished; of course depending on just how warped his mind was and how good he was at justifying his crimes to himself.
    • All Dream did was specifically take away their delusions and let things play out on their own. That implies all of the collectors, including Fun Land, already had guilt for their crimes, they just buried it really deeply with daydreams and fantasies that they preferred to believe.

Lucifer will send the demonic host to assault the Dreaming, and shut the door behind them.

Lucifer knows full well that attempting to make war on one of the Endless in their own domain is futile, and quite clearly holds their subjects in contempt. It would be an amusing way to start Seasons of Mist with a twist

The bartender in "The Sound of Her Wings" is Destruction

He's played by Ian McNeice, a prolific and respected film and stage actor with a very long acting resume, whom you wouldn't generally expect to appear for a single walk-on cameo. His physical appearance and temperament are also pretty close to Destruction: he's a solidly built gentleman with a thick red beard and a warm and friendly demeanor.

Not to mention: he's the one who breaks the news to Hob that the White Horse is about to be demolished, which would be thematically appropriate for the Anthropomorphic Personification of destruction and change. And assuming the series follows the comics' portrayal of Destruction, he would presumably have long since abandoned the Endless to live on Earth by 1989, when that scene takes place.

If McNeice has already accepted the role of Destruction, giving him a brief cameo in an adaptation of "Men of Good Fortune" would be a great way to give him a subtle Adaptational Early Appearance.

Rose and Jed Walker and Lyta Hall will appear in the series' adaptation of "A Game Of You"

Since television works in a different way to a comic series, it makes sense to keep the actors involved and continually build their character arcs; they're all established in living in New Jersey, so it's fairly easy for them to get to New York, where much of " A Game Of You" takes place. (Hopefully Hal could appear as well, although John Cameron Mitchell might be busy!) Rose also has a connection to two of the major characters in that story arc; Barbie, who moves to New York after she gets divorced from Ken, and Donna, the ex-girlfriend of Judy, Rose's best friend.

The Prodigal is Destruction

• Not sure if it really a guess or just stating the obvious, but he's the only one from the original family never mentioned in the series and it's his sigil lacking in the chambers. Also, he abandoned his duties in the comics as well.

In the series future, we will get elements of a more faithful adaptation of the Lucifer comic book

So we'll get Michael as the Demiurgic power, Elaine Belloc, British gentleman Presence, the Basanos, etc.

The White Horse Tavern closing down has a correlation with Dream's imprisonment.

It's possible that Dream had something to do with an innocuous tavern like the White Horse surviving 700 years. The deal he made with Hob was that he would meet with him in a hundred years at that same tavern, and an all-powerful being with a strict code wouldn't let something like basic entropy get in the way of that. So his authority as King of Dreams would contort things so that anything that would or could threaten the tavern — war, fires, mismanagement — would just be magically averted. So when Dream gets captured and imprisoned in the early twentieth century, that protection degrades and soon the Thatcher administration happens and the owners couldn't compete in that economy.

It's unlikely that he had to make any real effort on his part. It's just one of those things where if a God (or "godlike" in his case) declares something to happen, things work themselves out to humor him. Just one of those autopilot kind of spells, like it would start raining in The Dreaming when he gets especially depressed.

• It wouldn't even be much work. He controls dreams, imagination and aspirations, both gives them and takes them away. The only thing he needed to do is to give the owners of the tavern idea that it is their dream job they won't sell to anyone while never giving or disappearing anyone else's "This tavern is on prime spot in the city. I could earn a lot of money if I bulldozed this old building and built a lot of flats" idea.

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