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Well, what DOESN'T China ban, really?

I get the objections to the bank scene and agree in theory, but man, I was dying at "Yessica Haircut".

See, that's one of the reasons I never really liked Handler. Instead of hoping for more moral guardians objecting to his books, he should be happy that less people than he was worried about are actually willing to cut off people from good books to read.

I love the montage of Olaf stealing clothes.

NPH does a great job when we reach the disguises.

1) This show gets way better. Keep watching.

For real though.

Oh, so you made a generalized statement of disdain without meaning to explain yourself, then got mad that people were annoyed about it.

Bingo. He really improves as the series progresses. Captain Sham's delivery of "Call me by my first name: Julio" never fails to crack me up.

Okay guys, here's the thing. I just finished season one. KEEP WATCHING. It gets better and better as it goes on. The children clearly get more comfortable in their roles, and by the time of the death of a character in "The Reptile Room" they've really got the characters down. Neil Patrick Harris does a much better job…

Yeah, what the fuck? The fencing scene is one of the great all-time action scenes in movie history.

Sure, I know it's one of the points he makes, but itis a cheap, unfair one. Obviously every story is technically about the characters, not the reader, but he is the one who set the mysteries up, not me. And it frankly appears to me that he had no clue how to resolve them.

Well, I find other flaws if that's how we're looking at it - which I've gone through elsewhere. But besides that, it doesn't excuse the other flaws of the book anyway.

Well, I meant she died before the series ended.

Anybody else catch the sugar bowl reference (in part 2)?

Yeah, I mean she died at some point in the series.

That is a possibility. Isn't it confirmed in the books that the mother survived but later died at a fire in the Duchess of Winnipeg's house or something like that? In one of the companion books.

But to convince the Baudelaires that their parents may be alive, and keep the readers in on the act, it does potentially make the eventual pull of the rug from underneath everyone REALLY sting.

Since this has nothing to do with my comment, why did you post it? To make it clear to people what a vile person I am?