hello my beautiful watchers you'll have
to forgive me I can't project as much as
I usually do because I'm still suffering
from the after-effects of a rather nasty
battle : flu that I picked up at Magfest
personally I blame the wankers
constantly doing the juggernaut shelter
spreading it but I can't prove they're
responsible anyway something strange
happened a little while ago which is a
little confusing because I've openly
proclaimed I didn't really like these
books all that much I mean just because
I successfully predicted this show's
existence doesn't mean I was excited
about this but I was reminded that doing
follow-up episodes about reboots while a
patreon milestone from ages ago so let's
do this spoiler warning I'm going to be
talking about the show the movie and the
entire book series so if you've watched
all the Netflix episodes but not read
all the books there may still be some
spoilers in here for you as well you
know you've been warned
also I haven't forgotten that a while
back I promised I'd eventually explain
why I didn't like these books and well
now seems like a good time so I guess we
should start with the obvious thing I
read these books specifically so I could
do the episode I did a year ago so I was
far far too old to properly appreciate
them
that excuse will only get you so far
because Percy Jackson The Hobbit were
intended for younger audiences as well
but I still enjoyed them but I mean it
sure as [ __ ] didn't help and now the
single biggest factor for me hmmm I feel
bad with a [ __ ] orphan these books
are written with the kind of juvenile
sadism of a child who hasn't learned
empathy for other people yet you know
and then the smelly girl come to the
puddle of wee wee and I I just I don't
see the appeal in that every book goes
on and all about how these kids will
never catch a break and never get a
happy ending and it bums me out
the last major issue is I just I really
didn't gel was the way it was written
I don't know is handler wrote it the way
he did because he was intending as a
kids or if he was just trying to be
different but I hate it
it's a repetition that gets to me them
and there's only so many times you can
hear the same joke repeated over and
over and over again like handler
unnecessarily explaining what certain
words mean
and it's not even jokes sometimes the
example that comes most readily to mind
is in the first book when Klaus stays up
all night reading about natural law he
discovers that his violent gets married
her husband would get control of the
family fortune and the marriage only
needed to be in front of a judge to be
official then he thinks well she's too
young to get married but then he reads
that she can if her parent or guardian
agrees to it and Olaf is the guardian
and he figures out the whole plan he
then goes and confronts Olaf about it
and he saved that he knows that if
violet gets married her husband will get
control the family fortune and that he's
realized a marriage only needs to be in
front of a judge to be official and Olaf
says but she's too young to get married
and Klaus shoots back well she can if
her parent or guardian agrees to it and
Olaf is their guardian so Olaf
congratulate him on figuring out his
whole plan and suggest going and telling
his sister about it Klaus then goes
upstairs to wake violet and tells her
that if she gets married her husband
would get control the family fortune and
a marriage only needs to be in front of
a judge to be official and then she says
but I'm too young to get married and he
explains that she can have her parent or
guardian agrees to it and Olaf is their
guardian and buyers like wow you figured
out the whole plan and I'm smacking my
head against the book and screaming what
is this copy and paste [ __ ] that I'm
reading seriously I implore you to go
and get the book and read that chapter
and I just explained to me what the [ __ ]
that was all about
so yeah I'm too old too empathetic and
not into whatever writing style handling
uses to this for me to like these books
however please don't assume this means I
faked my annoyance at the films poor
adaptation of it unfortunately for me I
could not really care for a source
material and still not like when they
make a mess out of it this is the
existence I lead okay let's talk Netflix
we're going to be doing this in part as
of the filming of this I've only seen
the first two episodes so they've just
covered the bad beginning so obviously
this isn't an episode of lost in
adaptation because I didn't think I
could pull enough insight out of my ass
the second time to make it interesting
again but I will of course be talking
about how well it ties into the books
how it was influenced by the movie and
how I think it stood up when it's out
well I can officially confirm that the
makers of this show don't watch my
youtube channel
I know shocking isn't it after I went
through all that trouble to explain why
Jim Carrey was a terrible choice for
OLAP because he was too likable and
charismatic they went ahead and cast
someone who is arguably more popular
right now and definitely more
charismatic what the [ __ ] guys was
little interest I had in this series
evaporated when I found out who they
were casting I mean this could not be a
clearer message that these guys had no
intention of learning from the film's
mistakes now I'm aware that you don't
hire Neil Patrick Harris and then not
happen sing the theme tune but it kind
of bothered me because he's also playing
Count Olaf so singing to look away and
explaining how the kids ended up with
losing their parents and living with
someone terrible should be Snicket's
thing surely I can't have been the only
guy getting a serious Tim Burton vibe
from this whole show am i right I mean
it the look and the way it's all
directed and just the way all the
characters portrayed and I mean in
particular when they showed olaf
juxtaposed dark world in relation to the
world around it I was getting serious
Edward Scissorhands flashback you know I
never thought I'd say this but I kind of
miss the actors from the film because
these kids yeah really not loving their
performances here it is a very bad sign
when the [ __ ] baby is the only one
giving a convincing performance that is
of course where it's not turning into
freaking nightmare and using CGI
maybe I'll Jobs is going to claim our
souls this is admittedly not entirely
the actor's fault because they're
clearly making a push to have them be
more like the characters from the book
in this which leaves them with this
really unnatural sounding dialogue that
works fine in written form but no she
would not earth could deliver and not
sound like a total wanker in regards to
that in general yeah this is hella
closer to the books I mean it's not
perfect and I'll explain why but if
you're expecting a long comparison to
decide the winner of Best adaptation
sorry I mean the first two episodes have
already blasted the film right out of
the water they remembered a lot of
little things like the way Snicket was
always explaining the meaning of words
and also count Olaf's roast-beef
fixation and Klaus actually wearing
glasses this time that was nice but they
also included big things like Olaf being
well aware that he couldn't get the kids
money by killing them and the way he was
actually
soiled at the wedding play I kinda feel
like everyone was playing their role
just a little bit too deadpan in this I
know that was the joke ain't no violets
showing no expression as she rises up
into the air on her mechanical backpack
saying and the two volunteer fire
department agents having a calm
conversation to serve while she's tied
to a tree I mean it's meant to be funny
because no one's reacting to the weird
[ __ ] in the way you'd expect them to but
after a while I just feel like what
you're left with is a show where the
only person to ever show any emotion is
the villain and mr. Poe doesn't count
because extreme stupidity isn't an
emotion I'm also not loving their
portrayal of Justice Strauss I mean she
wasn't really in the books long enough
for you to get a real feel for her
character but I can definitively say she
wasn't this slightly pathetic old lady
who desperately wants her husband and
children and isn't happy with her
impressive career in the law I mean she
was she was more the savior character in
the books and I mean like I can tell you
is it sexist that they've just made her
like baby crazy I mean you can't have
book babies that those were words that
were said in this right on to the
conspiracy and secret society stuff this
is probably the single most important
point here there is no mention of that
sort of thing in at least the first
three books and I strongly believe that
it's something that handler came up with
later and ret conned into the plot in
the beginning all the terrible things
that happen to be orphans were a series
of unfortunate events there was no rhyme
or reason to them aside from the orphans
really really really bad luck when
Hanlon made his own title ironic later
when he tried to make it more
complicated exactly like the movie did
the TV show is taking the retcons
conspiracy stuff that featured much much
much later in the book series and
playing it up for all that it's worth
right from the start I mean it's not
massively dissimilar to what Peter
Jackson did with The Hobbit and the
stuff that was in the Lord of the Rings
appendix I'm going to go ahead and say
that it's probably going to be up to
each of us individually to decide if we
consider this good at acting or bad in
fact let me know in the comments if
you'd be so good I really want to hear
what the general consensus is on this
subject
making Montgomery Montgomery's assistant
a character in this even a short-lived
one is quite
interesting move because of how little
he features in the book and he's no he
mentions in passing he never actually
directly features because he's dead
before the second book begins so I guess
he's kind of the radagast the brown of
this story
I wasn't expecting quite so many hobbit
comparisons and they are the assistant
character confused me a bit she was a
bit odd I mean I guess that she was part
of a VFD and that ol ass got her out of
the way so she couldn't warn mr. Poe
about him but I couldn't understand why
Olaf didn't have her killed like they
killed Carlos at the end and why she
didn't contact mr. Poe when she was free
I mean I thought maybe she couldn't risk
telling Poe about Olaf in case it let on
that she was part of something bigger
but then was Olaf was foiled by the
Baudelaire orphans she seemed perfectly
fine just explaining the full plan to
him so I didn't get what the whole thing
was about one thing that was bothering
me all the way through was that they
seemed to be getting the design of the
eye right in this one but they still
included the wrong design in places as
well
I mean sometimes both were on screen at
the same time it was really weird now I
know this is entirely subjective but
personally I feel like a lot of the
humor in this spell really really flat I
mean Neil Patrick Harris was pretty
funny I mean not hilarious not terrible
but stuff like this to Poe arguing with
his wife over spelling I mean that goes
on for like 15 seconds and it's about as
funny as you would expect a pedantic
argument about spelling would be and
there's also lines like say your prayers
unless your atheist okay I guess back to
the punch line the henchmen thought that
that was literal and he was respecting
alternative beliefs ironically though
that character actually got the only
laugh out of me in this whole thing when
he said that maybe said they would be
plugging there were some jokes that even
though they didn't get a lot out of me
still got my approval because they were
very very much in keeping with the books
level of humor they were very handler s
jokes like when Lemony Snicket was
explaining the difference between
literally and figuratively and they had
acted in the background just enacting
exactly what he was saying like word for
word man when Neil Patrick Oh lapse hit
Klaus just for a second I was like whoa
did [ __ ] just get real up in here
because I mean that wasn't a comedic
bonk on the back of her head
like like sylph snake would do he
[ __ ] went for it I mean they
instantly went back to the whimsical
comedic feel for the episode so I'm not
sure if it was intentional or not but if
it was props to those guys you know they
mix thing just just a little bit of
seriousness I like that and holy [ __ ]
they do not shy away from the pedophile
aspect of Oh laughs not one bit okay I
won't say it with me I can touch
whatever I want
[ __ ] hell Netflix you've got balls my
friends I will give you that Netflix is
showing no fear when it comes to
adapting the [ __ ] up parts of the book
with the rest of it I mean I salute
those guys for that even though it made
me uncomfortable as Fox that's bloody
impressive a violet appears to have made
the transition from inventor to
Inspector Gadget I mean personally I
thought it was quite impressive that a
14 year old was able to build a
grappling hook from curtain rails and
bedsheets but apparently that wasn't
good enough so she needs to rig a
mechanical climbing backpack to save her
from having to use her arms the device
that they make at the beginning that
gets stoned back that you threw into the
sea is just in violets head in the book
I mean I don't think she could actually
have made it I realized talking about
realism in regards to handle as books is
a bit redundant but I mean I'm just
calling how I see that in regards to
violet did anyone else think it was
weird that they got someone who looked
so much like the actress from the movie
to play her I mean I would have thought
they'd want to distance themselves from
that as much as possible this version of
the story didn't give Klaus all the
glory for saving the day like the film
did but they still add it in him
explaining to everyone courtroom style
how his sisters left hand wasn't her own
hand legally they also had Sonny saving
herself from hook hands by beating him
at cards what I think that doing here is
having each of the kids contributing to
their victories in each story instead of
having them take turns right within the
book all that might have been just
because this was the pilot we'll have to
see in the guns of that Patrick
Warburton as snickered well it's not how
I was imagining him but personally I
find that guy and his voice hilarious
and I can't as of yet nail down anything
in particular these doing that's out of
character so the only thing I will say
in regards to him at the moment is I
hope they tell his narration down just a
little bit I mean it's just a bit much
at the moment
all these superimposing of him is all
the various scenes as impressive at
first
but I'm just worrying it's going to get
old fast you know we'll have to see
about that one I guess okay on to the
proverbial elephant in the room what the
[ __ ] was this [ __ ] all about huh if
those people are who I think they are
I'm going to take back every compliments
I've given the show so far if the
Baudelaire parents are alive that
invalidates the entire story I'm going
to hold off on condemning it just just
for now but [ __ ] me that is [ __ ]
there all in all I got to say I'm not
really enjoying this series but I'm not
enjoying it for exactly the same reasons
I didn't enjoy the book so it's got a
very bad case of these thinking it's
more funny and charming than it actually
is and it's just not for me because I
find gloomy and depressing things gloomy
and depressing so I gotta say kudos next
length you're doing a great job and I
hate you for it all right I'm gonna go
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