Revolting Reading: THE END.

[Glittery666]

Chapter 6
I guess you could say that disguising himself is a hallmark of Count Olaf.
By definition, a maiden can’t be pregnant. Olaf’s just betraying himself here.
Any books that wash up on the island would probably be kind of soggy.
So nice to see Ink again.

[Gregor Anwhistle]

Chapter 5

It's interesting to see a few uneventful days pass for the Baudelaires. Reminds me of the earlier half of the series when a few unnumbered days would pass at their new location before the main plot got going.

I'm currently watching Lost for the first time, so Violet wanting to help with the outrigger is occurring just as the Lost characters are completing their escape raft (there's also the theme of characters with complicated backstories hiding secrets, which also fits TE).

Poor Klaus gets stuck with foot-clay and cordial-filling duty.

I'm fascinated by the physics of a puppy disguise that folds up inside a handbag.


Chapter 6

Even though Olaf isn't fooling anyone, he probably shouldn't have mentioned the Olaf-Land moniker again. Dude is slipping.


Last time the Baudelaires saw Ink they were tearfully waving goodbye, so it's wonderful they get to be reunited.

[MisterM]

I have always felt there are a lot of similaries between this book and lost, least not the ending of both touching on themes or emblematic symbols of the afterlife.

[Glittery666]

God, I need to rewatch Lost.

[Glittery666]

Chapter 7
I’m actually going to have to agree with Olaf here. Ish is just as treacherous as him.
Ink sure is smart for a snake. I wonder if there’s more to him then meets the eye.
Olaf put Sunny in a birdcage all the way back in TBB, now he knows how it feels.

[Glittery666]

Chapter 8
I love the stone metaphor.
What must the island have been like before the schism? It sure sounds impressive.
Have I mentioned how much I enjoy these glimpses of the Baudelaires’ previous lives?
It’ll be pretty easy to tell who supports Ishmael based on who follows him out to sea.

[Glittery666]

Chapter 9
I love the list of dark places the Baudelaires have been includes one from each book.
I don’t know if I’d call a collection of random items a library.
After all this time Sunny and Ink are still besties.
I’m a little surprised Ishmael knows how to write.
How does a snake lasso sheep?
It must’ve been surreal for the Baudelaires to find something written by their mother, especially in a place like this.

[Gregor Anwhistle]

Chapter 7
Hopefully the pliers placed in Violet's crib were a plastic baby version. But...it's the ASOUE world, so I wouldn't be shocked if they were real ones lol

I like to imagine the visitor who printed the alphabet on Klaus's wall was a V.F.D. member.


Chapter 8
I like how the viper's name is Ink. Very fitting for a world of literary references and typewriters.

Interesting that the Hotel Denouement existed as an architectural sketch several generations back, when the city was a dirt village.

Conan the Barbarian is a Cimmerian.

Finn's yodeling lessons must have been hard to keep secret.

Chapter 9
The description of the arboretum is like the steroids version of the Last Chance General Store.

Somehow I'm picturing Ink using itself as a lasso, and that's really creeping me out.

[Glittery666]

Chapter 10
How can arguing be fun?Well, ok, I get how it might be fun for some people.
I’d like to know what Violet’s invention for taking out the garbage was.
Aunt Josephine’s mother.
There sure is allot the Baudelaires’ parents never told them.
Opiate for the people is a quote by Karl Marx, who Ishmael sort of looks like a caricature of now that I think about it.

[Semblance]

Sept 6, 2024 9:54:13 GMT -5 Glittery666 said:

Chapter 10
How can arguing be fun?Well, ok, I get how it might be fun for some people.

I used to argue with someone regarding Lemony Snicket.
It was enjoyable most of the time.

[Gregor Anwhistle]

Chapter 10

I wonder if there was an existing facilitator when the Baudelaire parents washed ashore.

The planned tunnel to Anwhistle Aquatics is cool, and I like the little nod to "a sub-sub librarian who had a secret library."

Interesting that Captain Widdershins visited the Baudelaire mansion after the fire. Reminds me of when he and Fiona searched the ruins of Josephine's house for her files following the events of TWW.

It's kinda funny that Monty was going to present the viper as this new discovery ("Gustav and myself are the only people to have seen it." TRR p.25) when it turns out Inky has a history with the Baudelaire parents on the island, and who knows who else in the intervening years prior to TRR.

Violet has technically been to the island before.

[Tiran O'Saurus]

I think the idea is that, while individual people had seen the Incredibly Deadly Viper before, it was a new discovery to the scientific community. It was found in a "southeast forest", remember, so if that's where the two women who left the island with it put it, it's still a new discovery to anyone who hadn't been to the Island.

[Glittery666]

Chapter 11
I don’t remember ever reading or being read The Little Engine
That Could, but I vaguely remembering seeing the TV special and it was boring AF.
The islanders coming to their senses is a mixed bag.They're freed from their bondage but turned on the Baudelaires.
Mr Poe being an actor makes way more sense than it should.
Honestly I wouldn’t care if Olaf killed Ishmael.
Best…cliffhanger…ever.

[Gregor Anwhistle]

Chapter 11

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been watching Lost for the first time while doing this re-read. I can totally picture the snippets of the islanders' backstories (and Olaf's more convoluted one) in the style of Lost's flashback sequences.

Ishmael struggles to control the sheep, right before losing control of his islanders.

I'd love to know what Mr. Poe's stage name was.

The harpoon gun should also get a Lost-style flashback to the county fair when the Baudelaire parents were children.

[MisterM]

I would appreciate hearing more of your thoughts on lost.