Mite b an invalid opinion but the blown up jacques & olivia storyline in s2? could not have CARED less, prime example of heteroidiotic plots sucking the interest out of good stories & diverting attention away from Actual good characters (like violet klaus or sunny) like yal wonder why the hostile hospital eps were so good?Guess who wasnt fucking in them
like js maybe the jacques/olivia bs in s2 would have been SLIGHTLY more interesting if they were actually the characters Jacques & Olivia (read: Stammering Scared Shitless & Morally Gray) instead of Pale incompetent lady librarian x Slightly more competent smooth spy thriller protagonist
not only is the Pure Heterosexual Love storyline stupid & unnecessary but showing all the vfd shit from vfd’s POV completely ruins (A) the allure of the mystery in the books which is the baudelaires putting everything together piece by piece, (B) the theme of the books which is every adult is incompetent & even those who are goodhearted & will help u are not to be trusted, and C) the notion that VFD itself is morally gray & untrustworthy much like the ppl working for it, instead of Gang of Fly Spies in Cool Jumpsuits Who Climb The Sides Of Skyscrapers Like Spiderman ™
At the end of the day I am, have always been, and will continue to be an idiot, but this idiot has some things to say about season three (3) of asoue. strap in. This one could be long
If VFD isn’t a cult, then why did Olaf even read his poem? There’s no longer implications of childhood trauma or abuse in any of the adult main characters’ backgrounds.
No Captain Widdershins passing on his selfishness to Fiona, no Dewey explaining he and his siblings were kidnapped and lost their parents as small children, no implication that Olaf’s treatment of the Baudelaires was recognizable as VFD recruitment, no emphasis on Kit as a highly questionable mother and cult recruiter. Olaf was a grown ass man when he met the gruesome twosome. How does the poem relate to the characters and themes of the show?
(PART 2) Chef’s Salad philosophy applies only to villains and Baudelaire orphans. I mean, the volunteers themselves are all sinless angels, but in Kit’s case it bothered me that she decided to leave VFD to start a family and that in the end when she talks about the things she lost: her parents, her siblings and DEWEY! really? Was it so bad to say “true love”? Netflix was very insistent with the fact that Dewey is Beatrice’s father and now puts Dewey as her true love
(PART 3) when in the books it was open to interpretation who could be Kit’s true love. because obviously if Kit is this perfect woman she could not remain in love with a villain like Olaf. it was even Olaf who started reciting poems when it was Kit in the books and she also made the effort to approach him and touch his tattoo. I would say that the Baudelaire mourned Olaf’s death more than Kit. It would seem that Olaf’s love for Kit is one-sided. IDK it’s not a big deal, but I’m upset about that
No one wins in this situation, dear Anon. Everyone loses. We lost out on an interesting character.
if you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable.
in this way, the story of the baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in a series of unfortunate events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your life and countless tears in your eyes.
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