Post by Agathological on May 25, 2019 17:50:41 GMT -5
Hello 667's; it is good to be back. Hope that you are all well.
I was having a think about the Penultimate Peril; about both the book series and the TV series and I got to thinking about Frank and Ernest. Max Greenfield's portrayal of these characters really highlighted how much I liked these characters. This post will discuss both the book series and the TV series; both of which take two different approaches when it comes to these two triplets.
From the get-go; we are told by Kit Snicket that Frank is a volunteer and Ernest is a villain. Ernest will try to intercept the Baudelaires during their mission at the hotel and pretend to be Frank. In the book series, before the trial Frank and Ernest are never seen together. When one talks and then leaves the Baudelaires, another brother fills in but their paths never cross, except after the death of Dewey where Frank locks the Baudelaire's away and Ernest locks Olaf away, and again at the Trial, however the Baudelaires like everyone else are blindfolded. My initial reading way back in 2005 was that both brothers hid in the shadows and tried to avoid each other; one doing good and the other bad.
My issue is this; why is the Last Safe Place for V.F.D. the Hotel Denouement when it is established that at least one of the two brothers (assuming everyone, like Olaf thinks of Dewey as a legendary figure like unicorns and Giuseppe Verdi) is a villain? Why set the Last Safe Place where half of the ownership is with a known villain?
Lemony however tells the reader that Kit's view on Frank and Ernest are not as clear cut as she stated. During the trial; whenever a Denouement brother speaks; Lemony attributes the supportive states to Frank and the negative to Ernest, but tells the reader that it could have been the other brother talking.
The TV series takes a different approach from the books; when Frank and Ernest are introduced via the Baudelaires using a spyglass; both Frank and Ernest are together at the front of the hotel and arguing with one another. If Frank and Ernest known that the other is on the opposite side of the schism; why don't they 'defeat' each other. Why does either one let the other one roam free, so to speak?
The book series further confirms that both Frank and Ernest survive the hotel fire; Lemony mentions that the surviving members of the Denouement family are working at less glamorous hotels after the fire. As Dewey and their parents are dead (and assuming that there is no wider Denouement family), Frank and Ernest survive as it mentions hotels in plural form.
Anyway, just my two cents.
I was having a think about the Penultimate Peril; about both the book series and the TV series and I got to thinking about Frank and Ernest. Max Greenfield's portrayal of these characters really highlighted how much I liked these characters. This post will discuss both the book series and the TV series; both of which take two different approaches when it comes to these two triplets.
From the get-go; we are told by Kit Snicket that Frank is a volunteer and Ernest is a villain. Ernest will try to intercept the Baudelaires during their mission at the hotel and pretend to be Frank. In the book series, before the trial Frank and Ernest are never seen together. When one talks and then leaves the Baudelaires, another brother fills in but their paths never cross, except after the death of Dewey where Frank locks the Baudelaire's away and Ernest locks Olaf away, and again at the Trial, however the Baudelaires like everyone else are blindfolded. My initial reading way back in 2005 was that both brothers hid in the shadows and tried to avoid each other; one doing good and the other bad.
My issue is this; why is the Last Safe Place for V.F.D. the Hotel Denouement when it is established that at least one of the two brothers (assuming everyone, like Olaf thinks of Dewey as a legendary figure like unicorns and Giuseppe Verdi) is a villain? Why set the Last Safe Place where half of the ownership is with a known villain?
Lemony however tells the reader that Kit's view on Frank and Ernest are not as clear cut as she stated. During the trial; whenever a Denouement brother speaks; Lemony attributes the supportive states to Frank and the negative to Ernest, but tells the reader that it could have been the other brother talking.
The TV series takes a different approach from the books; when Frank and Ernest are introduced via the Baudelaires using a spyglass; both Frank and Ernest are together at the front of the hotel and arguing with one another. If Frank and Ernest known that the other is on the opposite side of the schism; why don't they 'defeat' each other. Why does either one let the other one roam free, so to speak?
The book series further confirms that both Frank and Ernest survive the hotel fire; Lemony mentions that the surviving members of the Denouement family are working at less glamorous hotels after the fire. As Dewey and their parents are dead (and assuming that there is no wider Denouement family), Frank and Ernest survive as it mentions hotels in plural form.
Anyway, just my two cents.
