Me too :-)

I'm watching ASoUE with everyone else. One nice thing about the Netflix releases is getting to watch the show at roughly the same time as everyone else and talk about it online. Back in the day we didn't get US shows until quite a few months after they'd already aired in America so it was harder to talk about them…

If the Netflix show is going to stick to the source material this won't be the case (later on in the book series the Baudelaire father is named Bertrand and Violet, if she had been a boy was to be named Lemony (in keeping with a tradition of naming babies in the honour of someone who died).

Exactly.

I think its to do with the tone of the books. If you try and replicate it on screen as they are doing with the Snicket narration, the whole thing is meant to be darkly funny to a greater or lesser extent. So Olaf has to fit into that. Besides if you strip away his hamminess and odd laugh line you have a murderous…

I'm only three episodes in but at least the dialogue for Violet and Klaus in the next two has been a little less stilted and not just the same language as in the book. Also the whole snake prank Monty pulls is another of those things that just doesn't work on screen because you get too distracted wondering why an…

Bit similar/shot for shot remake, tomato/tomatuh ;-)

I like both for their different qualities.

Oh no :-) Thank goodness for that ;-)

Incidentally Mitch Hurwitz mentions doing this with Arrested Development particularly in S1 and S2 and it works really well. But I agree, if you don't surprise yourself when writing what's the motivation to spend the hours finishing the piece of writing?

That's a very forceful description of what I am.

It did but it didn't have to have the same one plot in the middle! (I don't and didn't mind that actually, it was part of the charm for me).

Well for what it's worth I think its more interesting if he didn't. People who end up with their lives ruined for even a time usually have multiple separate things go wrong at once so the idea everything is on Olaf seems lacking. Plus the Baudelaires take some responsibility for their later actions even though no sane…

I don't think there's that much difference between the two in all honesty due to the writing, line reading and costume choices. But it helps that I didn't happen to watch the shows NPH has been in so he just seems like Olaf.

I'm pretty sure if they'd ever found the Vessel For Disaccharides it would have been empty.

Speaking of the references to other things, a shoutout to whoever wrote this website:
http://www.quidditch.com/le…

I read them as a kid and thought they were more comforting than the type of book that implies if bad stuff happens to you or you don't have many friends/allies/people on your side it's your fault and your fault alone (Enid Blyton was good for that sort of thing back in the day).

Fair enough. With me, I loved the books from being a kid and so far I like both adaptations (film and TV series) but feel like something is missing.

I think by Book 13, Handler had painted himself into a corner. This will happen if you keep introducing a ton of mysteries and implying they are all connected and have a solution……

TL:DR: a phrase which here means ignoring the subtleties ;-p