• A Series of Unfortunate Events -- It's The Count
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[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl7JZ8_8v44&t=[/hd] Quick opinion on the series, it gets a whole lot better after the first two episodes (also fucking love Mr Poe and Olaf)
Seeing as I've only seen the first two episodes and fucking [b]loved[/b] them, your opinion is a good sign of things to come. :v:
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;51715939]Seeing as I've only seen the first two episodes and fucking [b]loved[/b] them, your opinion is a good sign of things to come. :v:[/QUOTE] What i would love the most about the series is the potential to see many many great guest actors who could portray different caretakers
and here I thought they couldn't make NPH's forehead any larger
Idk, Mr. Poe kinda ruins it for me, Olaf could go up with a sign that says "taxidriver, not count Olaf i swear xdxd", and poe would just give the kids over. It gets flat and annyoing pretty fast.
[QUOTE=Noobaxe;51716066]Idk, Mr. Poe kinda ruins it for me, Olaf could go up with a sign that says "taxidriver, not count Olaf i swear xdxd", and poe would just give the kids over. It gets flat and annyoing pretty fast.[/QUOTE] Adults being incredibly oblivious has been part of the shtick since the books.
[QUOTE=Noobaxe;51716066]Idk, Mr. Poe kinda ruins it for me, Olaf could go up with a sign that says "taxidriver, not count Olaf i swear xdxd", and poe would just give the kids over. It gets flat and annyoing pretty fast.[/QUOTE] The series is pretty on point with (most) parts of the book and one of the ongoing themes is that adults are pretty much unaware of anything related to the children unless it happens right in front of their nose. Mr Poe in particular is extremely careless with the children
I just love how the series perfectly captures the surrealist themes of the books. Like the Jim Carrey film caught the humor of the books, but it fell flat on the driving forces [B]behind[/B] the humor, the engine that elicited those funny moments: the surrealism. Those overtones are what drive the entirety of the books: the Baudelaires are three surreal children living a surreal world with surreal characters moving from a set surreal happenstances in a surreal location to another set of surreal happenstances in a new surreal location, all the while being motivated by a surreal plot administered by a surreal villain. The Jim Carrey film played it too straight, and dropped or muted most all of the surrealism. The series, though, captures it perfectly. The use of CGI environments in the first two episodes (and hopefully more!) I think captures those tones perfectly. The city looks really "fake" and "pop-out-y" and overall out of place, which is a perfect way to frame the entire series. And then the coast is, as my friend put it, "the most depressing coastline in the world" - but he said it despondently, having never read the books and genuinely not enjoying the show, because he didn't realize [B]why[/B] the coast was the most depressing coastline in the world: the entire book is built on exaggerations taking to extreme lengths, and the coast was the most depressing coastline in the world because, to the Baudelaires, it [B]is[/B] the most depressing coastline in the world, being where they learned the news that destroyed their lives for the next thirteen books. I cannot overstate just how in love I am with the series and how fantastically I personally think they handle the ideas on which the books are built. [B]NOTE:[/B] I use the term "surrealist" a bit loosely here. "Absurdist" is a slightly better fit, but I honestly feel that the themes are a healthy mix of both.
I kinda dug Jim Carrey as Count Olaf; I always read that character as needlessly parading around and celebrating his own cruelty. Carrey really leaned in to that and I liked it
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;51716318]I just love how the series perfectly captures the surrealist themes of the books. Like the Jim Carrey film caught the humor of the books, but it fell flat on the driving forces [B]behind[/B] the humor, the engine that elicited those funny moments: the surrealism. Those overtones are what drive the entirety of the books: the Baudelaires are three surreal children living a surreal world with surreal characters moving from a set surreal happenstances in a surreal location to another set of surreal happenstances in a new surreal location, all the while being motivated by a surreal plot administered by a surreal villain. The Jim Carrey film played it too straight, and dropped or muted most all of the surrealism. The series, though, captures it perfectly. The use of CGI environments in the first two episodes (and hopefully more!) I think captures those tones perfectly. The city looks really "fake" and "pop-out-y" and overall out of place, which is a perfect way to frame the entire series. And then the coast is, as my friend put it, "the most depressing coastline in the world" - but he said it despondently, having never read the books and genuinely not enjoying the show, because he didn't realize [B]why[/B] the coast was the most depressing coastline in the world: the entire book is built on exaggerations taking to extreme lengths, and the coast was the most depressing coastline in the world because, to the Baudelaires, it [B]is[/B] the most depressing coastline in the world, being where they learned the news that destroyed their lives for the next thirteen books. I cannot overstate just how in love I am with the series and how fantastically I personally think they handle the ideas on which the books are built. [B]NOTE:[/B] I use the term "surrealist" a bit loosely here. "Absurdist" is a slightly better fit, but I honestly feel that the themes are a healthy mix of both.[/QUOTE] How they handle the reptiles from the Reptile Room is probably my only real complaint about this series, they look WAY too fake, and having them interact with live people has an uncanny valley feeling that I don't think they were going for.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;51716476]How they handle the reptiles from the Reptile Room is probably my only real complaint about this series, they look WAY too fake, and having them interact with live people has an uncanny valley feeling that I don't think they were going for.[/QUOTE] Aww, that's sad to hear. Again, I've only seen the first two episodes so far.
I really love how they interpreted his henchpeople in this one. The person of indeterminate gender being an non-binary trans person rather than like. half of their face is extremely female and the other half is male (who the fuck thought that was a good idea omg) is much more believable
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