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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 5, 2016 17:14:30 GMT -5
Yes, but there's also evidence in the books that during the early stories the Baudelaires were specifically not dressing in a way they would want to - and so round and round in circles we go. thathoboravioli, without commenting on your reading of the movie (which I honestly remember too little of and cannot view separately from the books), one thing I would bear in mind with regards to the adaptation deviating from the books in inserting the V.F.D. subplot and other references to later events into the early stories is that this is something the fans actually want. And with the original author working on it especially, I have absolutely no qualms about seeing an adaptation which deviates from the books in being more expansive, as opposed to a faithful adaptation which (like the early books) lacks continuity with later developments. You're right. It does seem the fans want to see V.F.D. in the first several books. Maybe it will give the first 4 books more substance and mystery in the show, even The Miserable Mill, which is the one the fans hate out of all of them. (Personally, I thought The Hostile Hospital was the worst book)
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 5, 2016 15:35:21 GMT -5
Personally, I think the trailer looks great.
However...I am kind of worried about how the show will turn out, especially in regards to the source material. Call me crazy, but I think the ASOUE movie was actually pretty good as a movie, but as an adaptation it was pretty freaking terrible. Sure, Olaf was funny instead of threatening (though he WAS threatening in some scenes), there was no mention of Beatrice at all, Robert Gordon succumbed to Legolas Syndrome by making Klaus the hero instead of making the protagonist ALL THREE Baudelaires, and the story kept trying to find ways to deviate from the books, but I can actually appreciate the movie in terms of having an interesting premise and, let's be honest, people, Daniel Handler's original screenplays also deviated from the books by adding the V.F.D. and the subplot involving the pregnant V.F.D. agent (Kit Snicket?) and the two children accompanying her, as well as the V.F.D. people contacting the Baudelaires during Hurricane Herman. But if I had to compare it to other largely deviating book-to-movie adaptations (Percy Jackson, Harry Potter 4 and 6, Willy Wonka), ASOUE is on the level of Willy Wonka 1971. A good movie that is an atrocious adaptation (No joke intended) of the book. I even came up with a story where a team of my original characters are V.F.D. agents and the story is about the Great Unknown and my thoughts on it, and I added a few little nods to the movie (Easter eggs, the spyglasses, the train scene, and even the Ocular Device).
As much as I wish the show was more like the books, I do have to remember nothing much happens in the first 4 books. They were basically just a Scooby-Doo mystery being repeated over and over. Only in book 5 did we get the driving force behind the series: the mystery of V.F.D. So I guess it makes sense they would try to put V.F.D. early in the series. Then again, I actually thought at one point that seeing how Barry Sonnenfield is going to do the Netflix series and Daniel Handler wanted him to direct the movie, the script for the series would just be the original script for the movie (Kit and all), only now being reworked into a show.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 5, 2016 15:01:30 GMT -5
Hi and welcome, Rav. Where are you from? Have you read ATWQ? Hi Comet. If by "where am I from", you mean my country, I'm from California. And that's about it. And no, I haven't read ATWQ, even though I really wish I could, but the closest I can think of would be the Liam Aiken audiobooks, which I can't find.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 4, 2016 18:50:33 GMT -5
Hello, hello, hello.
I am thathoboravioli, and I've been an ASOUE geek since....about 2013. Sure, I saw the movie a few times (I know, the books were better, shame on me for liking it, blah blah blah), but in 2013 I began to read the books and now I'm kind of a geek about the series and can't wait for the Netflix series.
I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.
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