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Post by Foxy on Jan 16, 2019 11:24:08 GMT -5
What do you think was the most unbelievable thing in TRR?
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Post by Dante on Jan 16, 2019 12:24:17 GMT -5
A lot of the big-picture material introduced later doesn't square with TRR upon rereading, but it feels a little bit unfair to the volume in sequence to take that into account. I'm drawn to the reptiles and amphibians as particularly unbelievable, as they're very much living cartoons; likewise, the drawn-out argument over who should ride in which car feels quite different in tone to the story so far, although it does fit better with the tone of subsequent books. Indeed, at times the argument appears to forget that Dr. Lucafont is on Count Olaf's side; at one point he shuts down a suggestion that Stephano and the Baudelaires could use his car while he and Mr. Poe take Dr. Montgomery's jeep, which is exactly the configuration of people his boss has been arguing for all along. But that may simply be the villain getting too far into character and making a slip-up unfavourable to his boss, which would be more credible. So on balance I'm going to go for the Baudelaires failing to recognise him as the hook-handed man, on the grounds that his particularly menacing encounters with both Klaus and Violet in TBB seem unlikely to be so soon forgotten.
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Post by Mr. Dent on Jan 16, 2019 22:48:42 GMT -5
The most unbelievable bit was the revelation that Olaf had been blowing his nose on Uncle Monty's curtains! Surely, Uncle Monty has tissues somewhere in his house. Ding! That's at least one sin for this book. I don't know how it got published, or how Mr. Snicket got away with it for so long!
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Post by Hermes on Jan 17, 2019 10:01:34 GMT -5
Mr Dent, sometimes I think you may not be serious.
The reptiles are obviously the most unbelievable thing at a literal level, but I think we have to take that as read with the kind of book it is - I mean it's unbelievable that Harry Potter can talk to snakes, etc., but we don't put the book down for that reason. So I'm going with the children not recognising the HHM - it really is weird that they are always able to recognise Olaf but not his henchpeople (something in which Netflix does not follow the books).
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Post by bear on Jan 17, 2019 14:02:15 GMT -5
mr dent please refrain from all buffoonery in this our second symposium of Snicket's Believe It or Not
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Post by Mr. Dent on Jan 17, 2019 21:22:59 GMT -5
The most unbelievable bit was the revelation that Olaf had been blowing his nose on Uncle Monty's curtains! Surely, Uncle Monty has tissues somewhere in his house. Ding! That's at least one sin for this book. I don't know how it got published, or how Mr. Snicket got away with it for so long! My guess is you’re parodying CinemaSins but I wanted so badly for it to be Sebald Code. I wonder if any of those videos, maybe one of the paragraph long rants, contain accidental coded messages. I have failed... Quisby, you are far more clever than I am, I can't believe I missed such a golden opportunity. |
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Post by colette on Jun 21, 2021 16:23:24 GMT -5
Reptiles are the most unrealistic of mentioned.
Car accident was unlikely and very timely but sometimes such things occur. Uncle Monty and Mr Poe not believing kids is perfectly realistic because children typically aren't really trusted by adults, also they likely thought Baudelaires are paranoid, traumatized children don't seem like reliable source of information to many people( however, in later books Mr Poe no longer has such excuse). Count Olaf showing up was risky of him but believable because Olaf is overconfident and likely relied on "nobody will trust traumatized kids". Criminals getting away is also realistic.
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