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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Dec 1, 2018 18:02:50 GMT -5
God this means we're not getting a trailer till Christmas doesn't it... Possibly, as December 25th (the last date on an advent calendar) is exactly one week before January 1st. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we definitely won't get a trailer before then, or indeed that the advent calendar will be limited to just pictures. I'm guessing that full clips from Season 3 might be sprinkled in along with the photos too, much like the themed IG accounts for places like Prufrock Prep and the Squalors' apartment that were used for Season 2's marketing.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Dec 1, 2018 17:06:19 GMT -5
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 30, 2018 16:05:51 GMT -5
Yes, I did recall something of that nature, though I thought it was from the movie; perhaps both? It neatly resolves the problem. I just Googled that phrase and the first two results are the show and the movie. Movie says "relaxed" and show says "lax." It's probably something from one of Daniel Handler's original rejected scripts for the movie that made its way into both Robert Gordon's final credited script and the show; much like the V.F.D.'s spyglasses.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 29, 2018 15:20:07 GMT -5
What's this photo of the Baudelaires and Lemony Snicket everyone is talking about?
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 29, 2018 13:57:48 GMT -5
New description courtesy of Amazon: This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett--shes keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels--the bride is emphatic about changing her name, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget.
Set in San Francisco as the techboom is exploding, Bottle Grove is a sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it--and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco's tech community and . . . everyone else.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 29, 2018 13:05:13 GMT -5
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 26, 2018 14:13:28 GMT -5
mizbizsav , ya beat me to it! Hoping this means MORE SOON. Undoubtedly. We're quickly moving into December (a.k.a. the month directly before the day the episodes come out) so I think we can expect the marketing to ramp up quite a bit.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 25, 2018 21:49:43 GMT -5
A company that manufactures film/tv themed costumes recently put this on Amazon (and despite its bizarre product name) tagged it "Snicket". It appears to be an unofficial knockoff of Esmé's nurse disguise from the Netflix adaptation of THH.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 23, 2018 4:44:15 GMT -5
Because of how deliberately vaguely worded these episode descriptions are, it is quite tough to really get an idea of how they will actually be structured. For example, we know for sure that Kit Snicket and Mr Poe will have their own extended side plot and that there will be flashbacks to that night at the opera but they don't appear anywhere in the plot descriptions. And that doesn't even include any of the other potential side plots they may have added. All of which makes it very hard to actually guess at how individual events will play out in the narrative apart from the very broadest strokes of the Baudelaires' plot. :Edit: You're right Dante, or at the very least I hope you are. A "who got shot" cliffhanger would be extremely silly in a scene where all the major players are important recurring characters barring one, who has only been introduced in that very episode. Even people who know absolutely nothing about the books' plot wouldn't have a lot of trouble figuring that one out.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 22, 2018 23:11:41 GMT -5
The one big question I have is why they use the dragonfly image for Kit when it says "an old friend washes up on a coastal shelf." Are they alluding to how they sort of tried to make non-book readers think Kit was Beatrice in TCC Part 2, or is there perhaps a flashback where Beatrice Baudelaire washes up on a coastal shelf? According to IMDB [so feel free to take this with a grain of salt if you want], Bertrand is going to appear at some point during The End so it's not that out of left field to think that Beatrice may show up too.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 22, 2018 18:01:54 GMT -5
I'm not really so surprised by the show making Dewey's death be the ending to part one, it's likely the best place in the entire story to insert a cliffhanger.
:Edit: Also, chapters 1-10 together could actually fit very neatly into a three-act structure.
ACT 1: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny arrive at the Hotel Denouement and start their jobs as flaneurs.
ACT 2: We follow each of the Baudelaires' individual stories, as Count Olaf stalks them in his waiter disguise.
ACT 3: They discover the existence of Dewey Denouement and are confronted by Count Olaf, tragedy ensues.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 22, 2018 14:22:56 GMT -5
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 22, 2018 4:42:19 GMT -5
I remember noticing myself that the episode attribution for "brig" seems unlikely; I wonder if it should be E04. That's what it says in the book, but of course, that doesn't mean it's accurate. :Edit: Nevermind, after re-checking the book, I am now 99.99% convinced that was some kind of typo.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 21, 2018 22:12:56 GMT -5
Here are all the season 3 related allusions and phrases listed in TIHOSO's back pages (if anybody wants them):
The Awful Allusions
THE MISERABLE MILL AHAB MEMORIAL: After Phil has an accident involving his leg, the mill workers suggest taking him to this hospital named for the Moby Dick captain who lost his leg to a whale. If Phil read the book, perhaps he could have avoided a similar fate in Season Three.
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE ANNA KARENINA: Tolstoy's novel is a classic of Russian literature, though its epic length may cause some readers to share Carmelita's assessment that it's another word for boring.
MATA HARI: This Dutch courtesan and exotic dancer was executed for spying during World War One, making her a questionable role model for Sunny Baudelaire.
ROSEBUD: Charles Foster Kane's famous dying word in Citizen Kane refers to a sled, a context it shares when uttered by Sunny at the top of Mount Fraught.
THE WORLD IS QUIET HERE: V.F.D’s motto is derived from the first line of "The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Lemony Snicket later quotes a stanza from the same poem, revealing that "even the weariest river/winds somewhere safe to sea."
THE GRIM GROTTO MEDUSA: The Gorgonian Grotto gets its name from the monstrous Gorgons in Greek mythology; the most famous Gorgon was Medusa, whose terrible gaze was almost as deadly as the Medusoid Mycelium's terrible spores.
QUEEQUEG: V.F.D’s submarine is named for this character from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, while the crew's uniforms are adorned with a portrait of Melville himself.
THE PENULTIMATE PERIL DEWEY: The Dewey Decimal System is a wonderful knowledge classification tool used in many libraries. As our lawyers informed us, it is also a protected trademark, which is why the Netflix series uses the more generic term "library catalog" instead.
FRANK & ERNEST: "You be frank and I'll be earnest," as the saying goes, though when it comes to sharing their identities, Frank and Ernest Denouement prove to be neither.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE: Bertrand Baudelaire's favorite American humorist wrote "The Blind Men and the Elephant," a poem whose message proves useful to the Baudelaire children.
RICHARD WRIGHT: The unfathomable question from Richard Wright's protest novel Native Son can open one's mind. It can also open a Vernacularly Fastened Door.
SCALIA: Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia advocated for a literal interpretation of the law. He would have fit right in on the city's High Court.
THE END APPLE TREE: There is a famous story that also features a snake and a forbidden apple tree, though your interpretation of it depends heavily on what you choose to believe.
ISHMAEL: Moby Dick's narrator famously begins the book with the sentence "Call me Ishmael," making this the latest in our Series of Unfortunate Herman Melville References.
"THIS BE THE VERSE": Count Olaf quotes this poem by Philip Larkin, the full text of which includes some words not suitable for children.
THE ODYSSEY: Like the Baudelaires, Homer's epic hero Odysseus discovers an island full of drugged, docile islanders in robes. He also discovers some sheep.
An Incomplete Glossary of Imperative Terms (and the episodes they come from)
BLIND LEADING THE BLIND: An expression meaning the people in charge don't know any more than the people following them (See: Poe, Arthur, pg 66). (S03, E06)
BRIG: "Count Olaf will take you to the brig as soon as you explain to him what it means." (S03, E01)
CATCHPHRASE: A catchy phrase (See: Cakesniffer, pg 53). (S03, E01)
DRY: Boring and/or lacking in moisture. (S03, E03)
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: An Italian phrase meaning "the force of destiny"; an Italian opera about an entirely different series of unfortunate events. (S03, E05)
LABOR: The process by which a woman gives birth. By no coincidence, it also means a very difficult task. (S03, E07)
OPIATE: A substance that makes you drowsy and forgetful. (S03, E07)
PENULTIMATE: Next to last. As in, "Look through this spyglass, Esme. You don't want to miss the penultimate scene." (S03, E06)
SHIVER ME TIMBERS: A pirate expression of surprise, which is useful if you are disguised as a pirate and suddenly discover something surprising. (S03, E03)
THEATRICAL: Related to theatre, though it can also mean a person prone to fits of melodrama. (S03, E06)
TOMBOY: An insulting term that means a girl's interests don't conform to someone else's expectations.
(S03, E05)
V.F.D: A mysterious acronym that refers to a secret organization, unless it is referring to: Very Fresh Dill; Very Fancy Doilies; Vitiated Film Distribution; Very Fancy Door; Vegetables with French Dressing; Virulently Fishy Decor; Vastly Frightening Danger; Victoriously Final Days; Various Fakery Disguises; Vicious Feline Display; Village of Fowl Devotees; Vigorously Fixed Destination; Visitable Fungal Ditches; Vigorous Fire Defense; or Valley of Four Drafts, The.
VOLATILE: Unstable or likely to cause trouble. It can apply to people as well as to poisonous mushrooms. (S03, E04)
WAX AND WANE: To disappear and reappear. (S03, E04)
XENIAL: Welcoming to strangers. (S03, E01)
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Nov 20, 2018 15:14:01 GMT -5
Book Depository is now listing the audiobook for the 30th of March, next year. Whether or not it will actually be released on that date remains to be seen.
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