#quietherenet

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thoughts on asoue s3! talk to me about it

good things

best moment was sunny and violet on mount fraught when sunny ties her hair with a ribbon!! my children!!!!

LOVE QUIGLEY QUAGMIRE

i’m living for the opera scenes. lemony watching beatrice perform! olaf and kit! esme and kit talking about how bitter tea should be! and of course the tragic poison dart incident

it really highlighted the parallel between the man with a beard and no hair and woman with hair and no beard indoctrinating olaf into the fire-setting side of the schism with kit indoctrinating the baudelaires into the fire-fighting side. this is still one of my favorite parts of the series, how the adults always take advantage of vulnerable young people for their own agendas

related, fernald and fiona were amazing. they are so important to the theme of how there is no wicked side and good side and how everyone is a mix of good and bad. doing bad things for a noble reason - whether that makes you a bad person and whether those things should be forgiven. the big questions of this series!!

another bullet point on fernald and fiona. i love their relationship so much and how protective they are of each other - they are great foils to the baudelaires. there are so many sibling relationships in this series i dont know how to analyze them all without going overboard so i’ll just leave it here

and, fernald and sunny! an amazing friendship! so many cute interactions uwu

lemony meeting the baudelaires...an interesting change. i guess they wanted to develop lemony’s character more. i still don’t know how i feel about it.

EXCELLENT casting for the denouement brothers! the scenes where they don’t know who’s frank and who’s ernest were SO GOOD and chilling. and dewey’s death...that hurt.

the penultimate peril episodes in general were just amazing. can’t believe they confirmed who JS was though?

love the reference to all the wrong questions - L. Snicket wrote an account of the great unknown

the olaf/esme/carmelita shenanigans were so funny omg

i really liked the villain decay that olaf went through. it felt much more pronounced in the show than in the books. in the books it felt more like you only start seeing olaf as more of a human in the end, whereas you start seeing him become a weaker threat in comparison to the man/woman with hair and beard much earlier. by the time the baudelaires get into the boat with him he’s basically lost his power over them and is no longer scary but merely despicable and pathetic

also love the scenes where the baudelaires debate doing bad things for noble reasons like holding esme hostage and pushing olaf off the boat

so glad we got to see kit and lemony interaction

i really liked the beatrice II and lemony scene at the end. i felt like it was the closure i didn’t know i needed

things i didn’t like

they explained everything

seriously after YEARS of agonizing over what’s in the sugar bowl and they tell us it was sugar???

sugar that makes you immune to the mycelium just seemed like a weak narrative choice. there’s already a cure so this doesn’t seem that important. it was better when you never find out what’s in it, because it becomes something everyone is fighting over without knowing why - more about how the schism escalated than something real and important

speaking of sugar, they sugarcoated everything. it makes no sense in this story for the incredibly deadly viper to save all the island people by following them with the apple. ishmael was an evil dude who let them all die and saved himself!!

also, didn’t like that they answered what happened to the quagmires and fiona and fernald with perfect happy endings. again, better when we didn’t know what happened and we could make theories!

then again, we could assume that the endings they showed us weren’t confirmations but just imagining what might have been a happy ending for them.

people who only watched the show and didn’t read the books will never know the pain and brilliance of leaving so many questions unanswered!!!!

overall, love the show. it was an amazing adaptation, perfect dark/absurd/comedic tone, great acting, and mostly stayed true to the books. again, talk to me about it!

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sunny baudelaire things

soft jackhammer noise when she bites things

literally the most savage, no chill whatsoever, says it like it is

good at poker, swindles the hookhanded man even though she’s in a cage hanging from a tower

likes hard food but also marshmallows

takes matters into her own hands (teeth) and bites off captain sham’s peg leg!!

bffs with the incredibly deadly viper

can debark entire logs with her teeth

can chisel a rock into a smooth round stone with her teeth

is there anything she can’t do?? probably not

the Look she gives violet when violet is like “i hope mr. poe isn’t too worried about us”

chews ice cubes instead of drinking water in restaurants

her lil ponytail

this isn’t in the show but in the book illustrations her teeth are shaped like fangs

most likely to beat up the bad guys tbh

feel free to add more!! (violet and klaus)

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violet baudelaire things

skips rocks like a pro

the Ribbon™

trying her best to look after her siblings

trying to give her siblings hope, telling them it will be okay and it’s better than nothing...but not sugarcoating when it becomes clear that it’s not okay (”we’re on our own”)

asking klaus “what was that thing -- said”

super resourceful and can build anything out of anything

outsmarts the nuptial law by signing with her left hand

“wasn’t that locked?” “it was.” yaaas girl

literally goes through like 20 copies of the same book to find the version that isn’t redacted and probably would have gone through the whole library

always reminding klaus what mother and father used to say :’(

finds the evidence that olaf killed monty! detective work af!

shouts “fire” and saves lives

“we’re stealing these too!!!” only to follow that with “we’re just borrowing them!”

tells charles to stand up for himself

her speech to josephine about being afraid and not letting it stop them!! do the scary thing first and get scared later! my girl!

add more!! i love her

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klaus baudelaire things

the way he can’t stop himself from saying “we know what -- means” and defining words for people

“thoughts?!?? first of all--” what a lil savage

wanting to save all the lucky smells people even though they could have run away and saved themselves

“i’m having a very terrible childhood right now” protect this boy

staying up all night reading nuptial law to try to protect his sisters :’)

and then confronting count olaf about his evil plan like...my boy...why would u do this

jumping out the window at uncle monty’s and sneaking into the reptile room to find monty’s journal

his cute sweatervest/glasses Look™ the true bookworm aesthetic

“my sister is a nice girl, and she can do all sorts of things” smol feminist

“plenty of boys play with dolls” once again subverting gender roles! what a champ

insisting that the grammatical mistakes meant something and figuring out the code

using josephine’s fear of real estate agents to get her to come with them...a very slytherin move. the makings of a good vfd member...

“i want to complain anyway”

feel free to add more i love my son and also will be making one of these for violet and sunny too!!!

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honestly y’all i can’t believe lemony snicket started talking about wrong questions when he was 13 and all these years later he is still talking about them...all because s. theodora markson told him “stop asking the wrong questions”

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“do the scary thing first and get scared afterwards” i’M SCREAMING

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IN EVERY LIBRARY THERE IS A BOOK THAT CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT BURNS LIKE A FIRE IN THE MIND

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i finished watching the bad beginning and i literally! gasped so many times i cant BELIEVE the ending of part 1 cHANGED EVERYTHING an d there were so many references!!!! vigorously fixed destination! “when did you see her last?” someone talk to me about this