Are you a long-time ASOUE fan? The book Gustav had a sister named Sally, and you may have been subconsciously conflating her with Jacquelyn?

If Jacquelyn were hyper-competent, she wouldn't have let Olaf escape her in both episodes 2 and 4. If Gustav or Uncle Monty had been hyper-competent, they wouldn't have been murdered. No one in this series is hyper-competent: every supposedly noble person fails the Baudelaire orphans sooner or later.

In The Reptile Room, the alias is consistently Dr. Lucafont. It isn't until the kids discover the anagram scheme in a much later book that the O initial is introduced.

"He’s aware that there are events outside of his reptiles, and he knows
about Count Olaf. He also knows the children are in danger. The fact
that he still doesn’t realize Stephano’s true identity threatens the
fragile reality the series needs to maintain to make the Baudelaires’
plight something we can invest in."

If we're not allowed to judge people we barely know for the most minor of slights, what's even the point of having an AV Club?

According to a recent interview, he didn't have much of a say in the way the film was made.

The supplementary material all but confirms it. One of the most important offscreen events in the series is the masked ball of the Duchess of Winnipeg, wherein the Baudelaire's mother is dressed as a butterfly and Lemony seeks her out in a bullfighter's costume. The autobiography reveals that a masked ball held by the…

Some of the cut content you can glitch your way to is also fascinating, like the massive dam.