A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Netflix adaptation of novel series

The Man with Beard and Woman with Hair have to murder someone, but it can't be people we care too much about.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

We already know they were dangerous. A Snicket was fleeing from them.

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you

I've just got to say. This series did a fantastic job capturing the sort of horror-surreal nightmare logic used in tbe book series. Patrick Wharburton does such a great job as the melancholy depressive Lemony Snicket.

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you

BTW...did I fell asleep and missed or or did the woman with hair and the man with beard never got their comeuppance? And what happened to the children?

Their fate is ambiguous, they maybe died in the hotel fire. Tho seeing as how Justice Strauss, who was on the roof, got out safely, they're probably fine.

The Snow Scouts are presumably still on the Carmelita.

Edited by asterism on Jan 4th 2019 at 5:28:55 PM

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I just finished the series now. I was surprised by some of the changes made to the ending, but that's fine. At least they kept the open-endedness of who did and didn't survive the hotel fire. I always liked that particular mystery.

I was wondering how they would handle Dewey and Olaf's deaths by harpoon gun given the show's age rating, and was surprised that was all left intact.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

Yeah, I wondered how they were gonna handle that too.

Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.

I know someone who was upset the show made it obvious Justice Strauss survived but I think it works fine, because she's still kind of off-kilter but not nearly as nuts about the law as in the books.

I actually really liked the courthouse scene, because a lot of the really absurd stuff is what someone who almost, but not quite, gets how legal precedent works in a common law system. But it's clearly written by someone who does understand it.

Not Three Laws compliant.

Was that someone me? Because my quibble is more with the fact that one of the figureheads of the world the Baudelaires come from unambigiously survives, which kinda tips the idea that we have no idea how society proceeded from there.

Edited by Wackd on Jan 6th 2019 at 10:16:08 AM

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

It was someone I know from elsewhere. And honestly, all the people in the hotel? The High Court Justices are the really important people. Otherwise, it's like...mostly random people. Like, the Volunteers Fighting Disease are there, and one of the elders from the Village of Fowl Devotees. The VFD is full of important people, but none of the actual VFD people seem to actually like...be in charge of anything involving running major institutions.

Not Three Laws compliant.

I mean, it's the entire world of the show in one place. (Some important characters are textually stated not to be there, which irks me.)

It's, you know, metaphorical.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

More of them were there in the book, like Charles and Sir, Hal, the other Prufock teachers...

...Actually, that might have been all of them.

I’m also somewhat perplexed that Captain Widdershins doesn’t make a physical appearance in the show, though they allude to the necessary traits.

Frank, Ernest and Dewey were pretty faithful, at least.

Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Jan 6th 2019 at 11:18:55 AM

Oh God! Natural light!

I'm just assuming they couldn't get Charles's actor for whatever reason.

Idk why they dropped the 'Mrs Bass robs a bank' plot, especially since in the books it's implied the money she stole was the Baudelaire fortune.

Edited by asterism on Jan 6th 2019 at 5:31:43 PM

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Technically, they kept it - they just reduced it to a single scene in The Slippery Slope.

Oh God! Natural light!

Yeah, everyone was there in the books. They couldn't get some actors for the show and I feel a little weird about directly asserting those folks aren't there.

Edited by Wackd on Jan 6th 2019 at 1:35:41 PM

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

I think they directly said Charles wasn't there, though. Jerome said it?

Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.

Yeah, I typoed. Fixed.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

I'm a little peeved that Sir and Charles weren't there after the show confirmed them to be gay. Mostly because doesn't that get rid of all the gay characters in the series for Season 3? Sir and Charles are adapted out. The Ambiguously Gendered Henchperson leaves after an episode with little scenes of their own. And... I swear there was another character or something. I can't remember.

I DID apprecieate that they got rid of Mrs. Poe and even had a jab at her. Good ridence. Nothing to the actor, but the character was a heartless bitch and I couldn't even find the character entertaining.

I am honestly impressed at how loathsome the show made Mr Poe. He's not a bad person, but his sheer incompetence makes him so, so hateable.

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Well, Jerome and Babs don't seem to be straight from their dialogue so there's that.

Edited by Murataku on Jan 7th 2019 at 6:43:10 AM

Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.

Henchperson gets burned to death in the books so I'm pretty okay with this exit.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

According to their dialogue, Jerome is currently in a relationship with either Sir or Charles (I don't remember which one he implied), and Babs is currently in a relationship with Mrs. Bass.

It's almost certainly Charles, he mentions meeting him at a support group for people who've had abusive partners.

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Right, I forgot that.

It's been awhile since I read the books but I distinctly remember in the books at least feeling like Mr. Poe was well meaning despite his incompetence. In the show, however, I feel like he doesn't really care for the kids at all or if he does not out of the goodness of his heart like I felt like he did in the books.