I like Warburton more than Law but I like the music and some of the actors from the film better. Dreary, dreahry.

I love these questions because I think generally people both want resolution (we want to know what happened) and don't (it's too neat and tidy and it can feel reductive).

Maybe the show will become more distinct as it goes on but the first episode feels incredibly similar to the film in most respects.

What's a proper ending to you though? The islanders lynching them? ;-) The islanders seeing sense? (possibly less realistic than the latter, sadly).

No need to add to a very fertile discussion. I'll just say good point.

Oddly enough I vastly prefer ASoUE's ending to Harry Potter's. I didn't like the way everything was too neatly wrapped up and the epilogue felt so fanficcy and prosaic.

I don't think you can write a satisfying conclusion to a long-running series anyway in most cases. There were not necessarily any answers that would have made all the pain worth it for Violet, Klaus and Sunny.

Personally I thought Jim Carrey pulled it off. Reading the IMDB reviews at the time, that scene (and the Violet marriage thing) upset a lot of parents ;-)

Well fortunately I'd already watched enough TV by the time the last book came out to know that lots of disparate plot threads + not much time + lots of contradictions = probable disappointment.

:: glares ::

Even more than that, the thing that really grated on me is that in the pilot is that the writing and acting doesn't manage to convey the sense that for the time being nothing makes sense to the children because their home and parents got wiped out in one fell swoop.

It is life though. It's infinitely more realistic if everything doesn't end up tied together and there are loose ends.

They aren't meant to have the emotional control of disappointed fifty-somethings damnit! ;-) Their performance is too muted and they adjust too quickly. The film at least had a couple of scenes where they were angry and confused.

I completely agree. So far this is playing like a nearly identical but not quite and slightly inferior version of the film. But they are so close in tone and look and acting choices that I don't understand people who hate one and love the other.

She looked angsty but not bereaved to me. Don't know if it's acting or directing but the kids seem far too robotic so far. Hiopefully that won't be the case later on.

I don't think NPH is playing the character that differently though.

So far I vastly prefer Emily Browning and Liam Aitken. Violet and Klaus' reactions are mostly quite muted in the books in fairness but the actors in this just seem vaguely sad and not as if the rug got pulled from under their feet.

That's life. The searching questions don't get answered. It's also a great get out clause for writers who have no prospect of tying several disparate plot threads together ;-)

It works better in the books than on screen.

Typos dude.