#asoue talk

[knightinironarmor]

listen. i originally read a series of unfortunate events translated to portuguese when i was a kid. and yes i do remember that in the ersatz elevator, the quagmires turned out to be hidden inside a red fish statue and not in the box labeled VFD (CSC in portuguese)

and now. now that i’m seeing this in english. now i GET IT!!!!!! IT’S A RED HERRING!!!!!!! I’M SOME FIFTEEN YEARS LATE BUT GET IT NOW

[knightinironarmor]

aaaaawww the quagmires speaking up for the baudelaires at the pep rally!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[lemonyandbeatrice]

Mr. Poe is a liberal

[knightinironarmor]

my favorite thing about the netflix asoue adaptation is that they totally went there with hypercompetent, hyperaware sunny baudelaire so i can be absolutely certain that she'll work as a secretary on season 2

[socksandbuttons]

And ive already noticed theyre doing the digital twin thing WHICH i know people might complain about but given what goes on in the books that works out very well

[knightinironarmor]

ALL OF THAT SAID, i’m really glad they went for the “absolutely fucking useless adults” thing and the “ABSURDLY COMPETENT SUNNY BAUDELAIRE" THING THAT BABY IS A MENACE I LOVE HER

[knightinironarmor]

ok but in all seriousness: - super stereotypical and racist depiction of south america, A Dangerous Jungle With Sketchy Bars Here And There - it's great that they tried to diversify the cast/characters (uncle monty, the poes, aunt josephine, man with the hook hands, actual life partners charles and sir...) the bad thing is that all of those characters are either 1) bad guys or 2) entirely incompetent or 3) dead by the end of the book/episode they're in or 4) any combination of the above. i mean, that was always the format of the books (all good guy characters die/don't last long in the main arc, 99% of all recurring adults in the series are useless or evil) but i mean... still - clearly we have the person in olaf's troupe who's "neither man nor woman" and yeah i found that portrayal to be as caricaturesque as i expected it would be (also gateway to transphobic humor by the bad guys) -- and again, on one hand, EVERYONE around the baudelaires are caricatures (the baudelaires themselves are Hypercompetent Goody Goody stereotypes honestly??) but i was sincerely hoping they'd offset this one by making isadora "good person, not an Apathetic Henchman" quagmire a transgirl?? that's like my favorite headcanon and it has good foundation in the book and since this is a netflix show i had that spark of hope that they'd go there...but i don't think so - of course the whole shirley disguise is cringeworthy as fuck - obviously the child abuse is explicit as fuck it's a deeply cartoon-y season that touches and criticizes deep topics (child abuse, gaslighting, victim-blaming etc) via the sheer absurdity of some situations, and super. fucking. morbid. deadpan dark humor (for instance this is a show about explicitly jewish characters based on very jewish books written by a jewish man and yes there is absolutely a labor camp where all the workers are literally hypnotized into performing slave labor in exchange for chewing gum and coupons and a villain attempts to shove an infant into a furnace and yes the soundtrack is discordantly happy whistling, there are morbid bad guy jokes about how flammable people are, and constant 4th wall breaking to let you know you're making A Bad Decision to watch these dreadful abuse scenes that no one should ever have to watch and you should leave before we continue... [shows abuse scene]) like... the show is very self-aware and aware of what it's criticizing but i would only recommend it with care

[knightinironarmor]

i want gifs of every quagmire scene Immediately