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Post by mortinson51 on Jan 19, 2017 22:18:19 GMT -5
One thing that I noticed on my second watch through is the design of the leeches are very similar to the fake trailer last year. Maybe it wasn't as fake as we first thought
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Post by occono on Jan 20, 2017 0:38:22 GMT -5
One thing that I noticed on my second watch through is the design of the leeches are very similar to the fake trailer last year. Maybe it wasn't as fake as we first thought That was a spec promo, like a spec script, made by a third party commercial director. Which is why it looked too good to be "fan"-made but Netflix insisted they didn't make it, it was made by a professional. kmoore.co/ is his site.
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Post by Dante on Jan 20, 2017 2:03:56 GMT -5
I have just finished Episode 5 and the bit where Lemony is at the ruins of Aunt Josephine's house. The stone says 'Beatrice'. Can anyone shed anymore light on this? Might be a reference to The Beatrice Letters I'm not sure but it would be interesting to see how she ended up there. If anyone could answer this it'd be great because I was pondering the same thing. Also, I might be outta the loop. It I've looked through the thread and no one has mentioned who Larry is. Is that actually his name or is he a volunteer in disguise trying to help the Baudelaires? I suspect that Beatrice's headstone wasn't really there, in much the same way as Snicket himself didn't really stand on a cliff talking into thin air. It's just a visual device. Larry was named in TWW, but it wasn't until the U.A. that it became clear that he was a volunteer; even there, he was an extremely minor character, though, so his use in the show is quite a promotion.
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Post by saturnine on Jan 20, 2017 5:15:31 GMT -5
These two episodes were interesting to me as I liked lots of things in the pair, but never really gels as a whole for me though I can't pinpoint why.
* I like that Alfre Woodard's Aunt Josephine is very different from Streep's. Streep was perfect for the hysterical Victorian spinster trope and hinging on the early books not relying on the VFD connection too much. Since they ditched the Victorian aesthetic and rewrote the plot to be more in line with later books I'm very happy they made this Jo different. Woodard's performance was more manic so she worked really well as someone who was once a brave volunteer but can't quite keep it together anymore, making her more scattered and that is the key to Jo's unreliability. Also let's be honest, none of us really wanted to see anyone just mimicking Streep's performance if we weren't having Streep again. As a schoolteacher, whose wardrobe is three quarters cardigans, I cracked up way too much over the "flattering cardigan" line.
* Olaf's Captain Sham song was so awful it looped right back around to amazing. I'm really liking the musical moments in this series.
* Larry's expansion and upgrade was not expected, but much appreciated. While a lot of people seem to be mixed on the early introduction of the VFD stuff I like it and I think it'll be much less jarring for new fans in the long run. It'd be a bit odd for the Netflix show to have none of the VFD elements and then be suddenly introduce a secret society mystery in the second season.
* The "Mother" and "Father" subplot is done very well. I wasn't sure how I felt about Will Arnett being in this series because while I'm a huge fan of him I wasn't sure what kind of character he'd be playing that would work in this universe. But he works perfectly and Cobie is great too.
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Post by Liam R. Findlay on Jan 23, 2017 12:27:26 GMT -5
I re-watched Part One of The Wide Window yesterday and wondered if it's deemed a weaker part in the series because there's so little conflict/dilemma in the plot. In Part One, there's no dilemma at all (apart from trying to work out mysteries) until half way through when Olaf arrives and still, nothing particularly perilous happens until the very end of the episode when the window smashes. It's a very talky episode, followed by more talking (albeit with heightened peril) in the following episode up until the hurricane. I think it's mainly what weakens The Bad Beginning too. The Reptile Room and The Miserable Mill have more frequent strands of peril and so the plots are more engaging and varied.
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Post by justsylvia on Jan 23, 2017 23:12:10 GMT -5
I just started my second viewing of episode 5, with the opening television news broadcast. Am I wrong or did the female reporter refer to the male reporter as "Veronica"?!
Edit to add: and the female reporter is called "Vincent"! Baaahahaha!
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Jan 24, 2017 0:01:03 GMT -5
^I kept meaning to point that out and forgetting. The newscasters are in fact, a male Veronica and female Vincent .
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Post by theplague on Feb 6, 2017 14:34:01 GMT -5
I just realized that these are the only two episodes in which we don't see where Lemony Snicket is currently researching the Baudelaire case. In TBB, he is in his apartment, then in TRR he is in a little shack, and then in TMM he is in a motel. he takes the place of the weatherman for most of these episodes, so we never see where he is staying.
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Post by justsylvia on Feb 6, 2017 17:04:34 GMT -5
Anyone else notice that the map of Lake Lachrymose is in the shape of the VFD insignia? My son had to point that one out to me...
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Feb 10, 2017 15:05:00 GMT -5
Episode 5 comments Umm... this is very much a step down in quality in some regards, and in others not the bad : - aunt Josephine. just completely wrong in every way. Not a single line or moment was good. - the taxi driver was just odd. - the ending in particular felt really flat the good : - Everything else is basically fine, and the same things are great as before such as sunny, the troupe, and snicket - the waiter guy (is he larry?) was fine - olaf was particularly great in this episode. captain sham is great. So... i would probably give this episode a 4 or 4.5/10. There is some good stuff in this episode, but there is, simply, so much wrong with it that I can't say I enjoyed it. I spent a lot of the episode being annoyed with the choices that were made, and most of this is down to Josephine. Heck, I probably took a mark off each time there was hysterical screaming. Probably added a point for handler though
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Post by theplague on Feb 10, 2017 21:17:44 GMT -5
Something I'm confused but not upset about is the decision to make Ike a cowboy. I'm wondering who came up with that idea, and I'm a bit unsure as to whether it fits or not.
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Post by Strangely on Feb 10, 2017 22:00:32 GMT -5
I really liked these episodes, the only problem with it for me was part two. The first third of the episode was really drawn out. The very beginning was almost a repeat of the last five minutes of part one, the forgery conversation was tedious and doesn't pan out and Snicket's Venus flytrap dialogue added little to nothing. I liked the Anxious Clown section, but it was bogged down by the constant cuts to the kitchen where nothing of interest was happening. I think once the house starts to topple the episode picks up and gets really good.
My only complaint about the house destruction is that the Baudelaire's never seem like they're in that much danger. When Klaus is hanging out the window Violet doesn't even try to help, she just stands there as if she expects that problem to solve itself (which it does). Once they're out the door it takes too long for the house to fall off, the second they hit that threshold the house should have went over. The scene really would have worked quite well if they had only created a greater sense of danger.
Also, I noticed that Mr. Poe suddenly has his car with him, which is strange given that he took the Fickle Ferry, but maybe it transports vehicles too.
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Feb 11, 2017 12:32:31 GMT -5
Most ferries carry cars; they are a large parking lot on deck for the most part, with a higher level with benches or chairs for pedestrians to sit in.
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Post by Strangely on Feb 11, 2017 13:04:12 GMT -5
That's what I was figuring, but I found it odd that it was never really shown. Also the car is nowhere to be seen later on, unless I just didn't recognize it.
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Post by Liam R. Findlay on Feb 11, 2017 14:44:31 GMT -5
Something I'm confused but not upset about is the decision to make Ike a cowboy. I'm wondering who came up with that idea, and I'm a bit unsure as to whether it fits or not. Barry Sonnenfeld (Ike) likes to be a cowboy. http://instagram.com/p/BD6ZZQCiLRG
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