The Sandman [Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror]

Left a perfect setup for a second season with Lucifer pissed enough at Dream to expand hell into the dreaming, then Earth and onto heaven

1) Who thought it would be a good idea to let Patton Oswald voice Matthew? It is so out of place, that every-time that bird opens it mouth... pardon, beak... I cringe and it ruins the moment. It is just awful! Awful to a point I'm considering using some audio-tool and strip out the raven voice and overlay it with some kra-kra-kra and have the subtitles work. Bah....
2) All of the imagery is dark and most of the time beautiful arranged and fitting the setting... and then we get Gregory, Goldy, Cain and Abel at the house of secrets where the whole arrangement was more fitting to a Disney-show for teenagers. Alright... can be ignored as it is only 2 or 3 scenes... but I don't really understand why break the dark theme for a comical one in this instances.
3) Yeah,.... why do they always have to change things around to promote diversity? I just don't get it. Why is it necessary to make John Constantine to a Johanna... which then of course is gay, since she left the sand with her girlfriend as John did in the books. Why do we need to have Lucifer and Lucien be females? Why does Unity Kinkaid and the whole Walker-Family had to be cast black? Why are Death and Lucien have to be black?  (Well, for Death, I don't mind since I guess Death will appear to anyone in a way which makes them most comfortable... but Lucien? And why black, why not Indian or Asian? No Asian's around in Dreamland? Well, personally I don't have any issues with skin color, gender or sexual preference... but I hate it if things get needlessly shoved down my throat to carry a message which has no other meaning then promote the Zeitgeist. E.g., I think Desire is a great cast.... and matches my expectation of an androgynous gender-fluid being as the story requires. Or in the 24 Hour Diner, the sexual preference used as point of conflict is well in line with the story and makes sense.

like I really enjoyed the Hob Galding story line (actually like the whole episode with Death and Dream) or the 24 Hour Diner (even though, for the Diner, they could have done a bit more to explain what is really going on and what John Dee is actually doing... and why)