Apr 22
I really appreciate how, right off the bat, The Bad Beginning shows how genuinely evil Olaf is. It doesn’t build to him laying his hands on Klaus or trying to keep Violet as a child bride- it just happens. He’s not a villain ‘driven to extreme lengths’ in the Baudelarie’s story. he’s just evil and always has been to them.
Idk, I find it easy to get swept up in his theatrics and costumes in some of the middle seasons/books and it sort of softens his murder threats. They still feel real, the severity of them just gets lost. But for the first book, when it’s just him in his plain clothes, you are clearly shown how awful he is, so you can’t actually ever forgot what he would do to those kids.