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Post by mortinson51 on Dec 8, 2016 4:20:54 GMT -5
I agree I think 2 episodes per book is perfect. Even when they get to the longer books I don't think they need to bump it up to 3. Lemony gets more detailed in his discription in the later books which add to the length while Film is visual so you don't need that added time. Even with TSS or TPP which have a lot goin on I think 2 hours will be enough time to do everything
As for ATWQ I think the same model could apply 2 episodes per book. I think 1 season to ATWQ would be great no need to stretch it out plus Daniel Handler has stated he isn't done with Lemony's world yet. So if any future books come out Netflix can always adapt them. I think it could work really well. Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions, Lemony Snicket's ____________. I could see this of how they could add onto the world with out stretching ASOUE to thin
I'm also very happy they are paving the way for future books. This would have been a huge issue if the film series had continued. But having the complete story will allow for some very beautiful moments in the show later one
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Post by theplague on Dec 8, 2016 11:12:35 GMT -5
Does anyone else think that they might switch old the bald man's role with the henchperson of indeterminate gender? He seems more likely to be the one guarding the boathouse in this version.
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Post by Dante on Dec 8, 2016 11:34:35 GMT -5
Yes, I've been thinking this for a while; the actor they've cast for the bald man appears to be quite a large figure - you can see just how large in some of the shots of the troupe, and there's one with just him and Olaf in the latest trailer which is very telling - and he gives more of an impression of being the "muscle," as it were, this time around. Of course, the boathouse business is slightly more complicated in that all the troupe members seem to be in every book now, so both the bald man and the henchperson of indeterminate gender will be around in TWW regardless.
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Post by theplague on Dec 8, 2016 11:38:48 GMT -5
I kind of like that they are giving the balm man a new character in the show, I always considered him the least interesting henchperson in the books
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Post by Noe on Dec 8, 2016 11:43:00 GMT -5
i wonder why they didn't give him a long nose..
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Dec 8, 2016 11:46:13 GMT -5
They had enough FX makeup with Olaf and Fernald  considering the importance of the character they probably didn't want to spend more on it (prosthetics are pretty expensive, especially the ones that have to be perfectly blended like noses) |
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Post by Strangely on Dec 8, 2016 11:51:45 GMT -5
Plus, that long nose was a pretty uninteresting feature on an already uninteresting character, so it's better to just do something new with him entirely.
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Post by Dante on Dec 8, 2016 12:48:05 GMT -5
Nobody really remembers the long nose anyway; you might as well ask why he isn't wearing a long black robe.
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Post by mortinson51 on Dec 8, 2016 13:15:16 GMT -5
That's one thing I'm looking forward to is the hentchmen hopfully being more fleshed out characters. Only really Fernald gets any development. I would like to see more backstory to the others want gem to have there own personalities. I think is something th show can really excel at if done right. The movie failed with the henrchmen
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Post by ryantrimble457 on Dec 8, 2016 13:23:42 GMT -5
The official Twitter is Tweeting...wonder if that means something is en route...
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Post by gliquey on Dec 8, 2016 16:01:24 GMT -5
This new trailer got me so hyped up!! On a side note: I just finished reading the Penultimate Peril again and I was wondering, what if Netflix actually does an alternate version where the kids actually get into the taxi with Lemony, and in turn, this gives us more Netflix seasons with stories we've never even read before, with plots that lead to more answers pertaining to the sugar bowl, or us getting to know those two villains more from the mortmain mountains in depth like we got to know olaf, or even tying up loose ends from ATWQ, and maybe even a quaqmire reunion someday...but then again, Count Olaf and Kit wouldn't have died. Well, not just yet at least. So much potential for a story line like this. Lemony could actually be part of the story!!! The possibilities are endless...sorry if this was ever brought up before. Just a thought. Imagine the new book titles (well in this case episodes. Daniel Handler could get so creative here). I think this is a great idea, but very unlikely. It would make an intriguing piece of fanfiction, though. Nobody really remembers the long nose anyway; you might as well ask why he isn't wearing a long black robe. The black robe is obviously irrelevant after TBB but I actually think of him in my head as "the bald man with the long nose". Even when we get to TMM, his surgical mask is emphasised as an important part of his disguise, and when his identity is revealed, I believe Lemony says the children found it familiar. So the long nose was important to me, at least, although in all honesty I don't really care whether the Netflix actor is bald or has a long nose as long as they're as threatening a villain as the man in the books (I think either Violet or Klaus finds him the scariest troupe member). |
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Post by Liam R. Findlay on Dec 8, 2016 16:49:56 GMT -5
I also think of him as the long-nosed bald man. I found it interesting and a tiny bit disappointing that the series matched the movie in just having him bald (not that it makes a dramatic difference to life). It particularly stands out to me in the illustrations- how it hangs over his mouth in the play poster and how it contributes to the humour of the disguises on The Hostile Hospital cover, for example.
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Post by zinthaniel on Dec 8, 2016 16:58:19 GMT -5
The bald headed man was so inconsequential in the books the show could literally give him the bare minimum of lines and screen time and it would be more attention that Handler gave him and it's for that reason that I feel it's really not a big deal about his nose, since I kind of feel that Handler himself didn't really feel that the character was a big deal to begin with, just a means to end for some narrative gimmicks. The troupe were very, aside from the obvious one, underdeveloped and whenever they showed up I often had a hard time remembering who they were and this was especially true for the bald man.
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Post by gliquey on Dec 8, 2016 17:13:58 GMT -5
The bald headed man was so inconsequential in the books the show could literally give him the bare minimum of lines and screen time and it would be more attention that Handler gave him and it's for that reason that I feel it's really not a big deal about his nose, since I kind of feel that Handler himself didn't really feel that the character was a big deal to begin with, just a means to end for some narrative gimmicks. The troupe were very, aside from the obvious one, underdeveloped and whenever they showed up I often had a hard time remembering who they were and this was especially true for the bald man. Huh. I find this really interesting. I feel pretty much the opposite - I think that similar to the Quagmires, although the theater troupe don't actually get that much attention, they're never that far from the reader's mind. With both groups, the Baudelaires or Lemony tend to mention them a lot while recapping the story, especially but not always towards the beginnings of books. The only part where I feel the bald man is not given enough attention is in TCC, where I think his death is overshadowed by Lulu's. |
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Post by zinthaniel on Dec 8, 2016 17:23:05 GMT -5
The bald headed man was so inconsequential in the books the show could literally give him the bare minimum of lines and screen time and it would be more attention that Handler gave him and it's for that reason that I feel it's really not a big deal about his nose, since I kind of feel that Handler himself didn't really feel that the character was a big deal to begin with, just a means to end for some narrative gimmicks. The troupe were very, aside from the obvious one, underdeveloped and whenever they showed up I often had a hard time remembering who they were and this was especially true for the bald man. Huh. I find this really interesting. I feel pretty much the opposite - I think that similar to the Quagmires, although the theater troupe don't actually get that much attention, they're never that far from the reader's mind. With both groups, the Baudelaires or Lemony tend to mention them a lot while recapping the story, especially but not always towards the beginnings of books. The only part where I feel the bald man is not given enough attention is in TCC, where I think his death is overshadowed by Lulu's. I meant individually I struggled to remember who they were. More specifically I struggled to remember the bald man and the one with no discernible gender who seemed to be mentioned so rarely. The bald headed man was brought up only every other book and when he was brought up, rarely, it seemed briefly. There was zero character development for him or really any establishing of a character at all. He simply was there for the most part. What drives the point home for me is your own comment in which you reminded me it was he who died in TCC when I keep thinking he dies in THH. Edit: Lol Note to self proof read your post - sorry to anyone who tried to read this prior to me correcting it. |
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considering the importance of the character they probably didn't want to spend more on it (prosthetics are pretty expensive, especially the ones that have to be perfectly blended like noses)
