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Post by mizbizsav on Apr 23, 2018 7:29:39 GMT -5
Did season 2 answer the question of why Justice Strauss said "Something Klaus Baudelaire is ringing a faint bell" from episode 1, I always thought it was an odd phrase and wasn't sure if she meant it literally or figuratively. I don't think the line was meant to be examined too extensively, but you better bet that when I heard it for the first time last year I tried my best to make the Sebald code out of it.
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Post by Grace on Apr 23, 2018 10:00:26 GMT -5
Same, ^ that line drove me crazy. I guess there's the possibility that it's a coded phrase because it shows up again in TAA with Olivia, though since she isn't a member of VFD at the time, it'd have to be a coincidence. But that kind of coincidence seems very in-universe. I hope we find out at some point!
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Post by lemonmeringue on Apr 23, 2018 12:29:31 GMT -5
Is it such an uncommons aying in English? It's a fairly common thing to say in German, and I didn't think it was unusual at all. Didn't Klaus later say the same about Monty, when Olaf really rang the doorbell?
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Post by Mr. Dent on Apr 23, 2018 13:57:51 GMT -5
Is it such an uncommons aying in English? It's a fairly common thing to say in German, and I didn't think it was unusual at all. Didn't Klaus later say the same about Monty, when Olaf really rang the doorbell? It is absolutely a common saying, but it brings to mind the Sebald Code- which always begins with the ringing of a bell.
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Post by lemonmeringue on Apr 23, 2018 15:15:26 GMT -5
Well, that is true of course. But I thought that was simply sort of "easter egg".
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Apr 23, 2018 17:58:05 GMT -5
gothicarchiesfan do you think you could do the Cafe Salmonella theme? It's in TEE part one, about 32:24 - 34:32 (starts right at the first shot of the restaurant interior and ends right before the cut away to Jacques opening his car trunk). It's so nice of you to do these! Here you go jim. Thank you very much for the compliment. soundcloud.com/user-171893497/cafe-salmonella[While I was able to tone down a lot of the background noise, there's still quite a bit left. Sorry about that.]
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Post by ryantrimble457 on Apr 23, 2018 21:53:39 GMT -5
gothicarchiesfan, thank you for the audios! The music this season is so much better than I realized, hearing it isolated.
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Post by ironic impostor on Apr 24, 2018 1:26:47 GMT -5
First off: thank you so much for these gothicarchiesfan! They're wonderful!
Secondly: ugh! I love this season's music so much and hearing it isolated really brings to light (for me at least) how similar a lot of it is to Dooley's work on "Pushing Daisies" and that makes me so darn happy.
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Post by Liam R. Findlay on Apr 24, 2018 2:33:46 GMT -5
Thank you! This is one that stands out to me when I watch the episode.
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Post by mizbizsav on Apr 25, 2018 13:37:20 GMT -5
So. If Kit has the sugar bowl in her taxi, then I wonder what will lead to its great adventures in season 3? I have a feeling we'll be following Kit's journey a bit earlier than the books, like we did with Jacques. She will no doubt get into some trouble that will cause the sugar bowl to go missing again. I once again hope that the later events do not feel repetitious, since they've moved up a plot thread by a season. Though there is still more going on, the sugar bowl drives the plot of The Grim Grotto and The Penultimate Peril - but we've already done that a bit this season. Also the last known whereabouts of the sugar bowl is the same fate as what we've seen at the end of season 2: in the backseat of a taxi cab driven by a Snicket. Wonder if they'll change anything at all?
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Post by Dante on Apr 25, 2018 15:14:22 GMT -5
The simplest way to stitch the end of Season 2 back together with what we know would be for Kit to drive the sugar bowl straight to the headquarters, for the sinister duo to immediately arrive or indeed follow her there and start burning everything down, and for her to then fling the bowl into the Stricken Stream (lining us back up with canon) and make her own escape. The timeline would be mighty tight, but as there are already chronological issues between Season 1 and Season 2 then it's not beyond the bounds of possibility.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Apr 25, 2018 15:41:55 GMT -5
We can be pretty sure that she's going to appear in at least both parts of the Slippery Slope. And also get into some escapades that will require stunts.
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Post by Uncle Algernon on Apr 25, 2018 15:55:30 GMT -5
Say, since we have been discussing the soundtrack, I would like to point out something rather hilarious about the German dub (and no, I am not German; I stumbled upon these entirely by accident). The voice of Olaf is incredibly good and close to Neil Patrick Harris's, to the point that I briefly wondered if Harris didn't secretly speak German and do his own dub (…he didn't). Here is the German version of the It's the Count song. (From my limited but non-zero knowledge of German, it seems to me those are pretty funny lyrics the translators came up with, too.)
But then you've got Lemony Snicket's voice. It's not that the actor is bad, only… er… uh… well, just watch That's Not How the Story Goes and see for yourself. It's… a surprise.
Has he taken up smoking, or what?
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Post by Hermes on Apr 25, 2018 16:34:20 GMT -5
It seems likely, in any case, that the bowl was brought to the HQ shortly before it was burnt, since Jacques when he was at Monty's house described it as something that volunteers were trying to find, and Fiona later says the Queequeg had received a VFDispatch saying the bowl was at the headquarters, implying it had got there quite recently.
Of course, if the HQ took weeks to burn this must have started before the events of TCC - before TVV, indeed, since everything from that point on happens in rapid succession. But they can easily leave out the bit about it taking weeks.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Apr 25, 2018 18:05:38 GMT -5
Say, since we have been discussing the soundtrack, I would like to point out something rather hilarious about the German dub (and no, I am not German; I stumbled upon these entirely by accident). The voice of Olaf is incredibly good and close to Neil Patrick Harris's, to the point that I briefly wondered if Harris didn't secretly speak German and do his own dub (…he didn't). Here is the German version of the It's the Count song. (From my limited but non-zero knowledge of German, it seems to me those are pretty funny lyrics the translators came up with, too.) But then you've got Lemony Snicket's voice. It's not that the actor is bad, only… er… uh… well, just watch That's Not How the Story Goes and see for yourself. It's… a surprise. Has he taken up smoking, or what? My goodness, you're right about the voice actor for Olaf -- he really does sound exceptionally like NPH. I'm very impressed with him (and with whoever cast him!). As for the others, Lemony's voice is a little, well, different, but I don't find it nearly so surprising as Violet's or Mr Poe's. This version of Mr Poe's voice sounds so much deeper than K Todd Freeman's, while the German Violet's voice is so high-pitched compared to Malina Weissman's! Maybe if I weren't already use to the original performances, they wouldn't seem so jarring (I think probably Mr Poe I could get used to quite quickly, actually), but I've really never imagined Violet's voice being quite so high!
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