I have mixed feelings as well. I think more young people love the movie than people think, and it was necessary to make some changes since it was already pretty faithful to the books (if a bit truncated). Bringing in the more mysterious elements early makes sense, but I think as a reader it was so exciting to learn…

He's a good bit shorter than Jim Carrey and the Brett Helquist illustrations, which means he doesn't loom over then quite as forebodingly. On the plus side, it gives him a bit of a Napoleon complex.

I thought there was nothing more unpleasant than seeing the trailer for this dumb movie, but now I know there is.

I didn't think Monty actually thought Olaf was from the Herpatology Society, or wherever, considering he decoded that entire Sebold Code message.

Yeah, the criticism that his portrayal was overly hammy and makes no sense to me. That IS the character.

Sunny is able to speak coherently (though not in complete sentences) by the end of the series.

Yeah. I remember AVC posted some article with two of the editors discussing the series, one of them bring a supposed long-time fan, the other had never read them. And the long-time fan didn't seem to even like the majority of the books, and seemed to think the blindness of the adults was some sort of unrealistic plot…

What makes Olaf truly frightening in the books isn't that he's a genius—he's always portrayed as stupid and not well-read. It's that he consistently succeeds despite his stupidity, while the smart children are constantly failing despite being cleverer. It's a theme more resonant than ever…

I think the series is better than the film over-all, but I found Alfre Woodard to be completely misguided, a word which here means "more cartoonish than most performances on Disney Channel sitcoms."

What the show captures very well is the horror that springs up from the failure of adults. The nightmarish feeling that the Baudelaire's have when nobody can see through Olaf's disguises but them. I'm as big a fan of the books as anyone, and I'm quite enjoying it. The Miserable Mill in particular is vastly superior to…

This is an A for me. The Reptile Room was never my favorite book, so this adaptation only improved it, in my opinion. However, although I'm not overly fond of the film, I vastly preferred Jim Carrey's Stefano (I did like Monty having to remind Stefano of his own name in this version, though)

Ahhh, man, I made notes too but you beat me to it.

After Earth felt like a movie that Shyamalan made with Will Smith pointing a gun to his head the entire time. It has so little to do with Shyamalan and so much to do with Will Smith insisting Jayden Smith upon the world, and some potentially Scientology-ish messages.

It's a beautifully made film, and one that's actually enhanced by its twist. I understand why people don't like it. But when you watch it a second time, you find yourself watching an entirely different movie: it's a film about a cult who uses fear to manipulate their youth, and in trying to create fake monsters they…

I think The Village is great and I don't care who knows it

LOST is one of the greatest shows ever made. The Leftovers is also ridiculously good.
His film work? Take it or leave it. Lindelof ain't Moffat bad, IMO, because he's a lot less pretentious. His stuff is pretty pulpy, so even when he gets up his own ass about being ambiguous, it's usually still fun.

It's Eurus in the closed captioning

I will say that there are some Doyle stories that follow that sort of storytelling:
"How often have I said that when you have excluded the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
BUT. These were meant to stray from the typical format, which is to present an elegantly simple solution to a…

"Pointless except for providing them with a visual metaphor" is what's wrong the entirety of the first episode of the season, IMO

It's Eurus in the script and in every official outlet I've found, but you are right about the Greek thing.