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Hi! I appreciate the compliment but I really can’t accept it. 667 Dark Avenue is a message board, not a blog. So we don’t really compete in the same categories. Plus 667 has been around FOREVER. I wish I could have done half of what they did for this fandom… Basically they’re the O.Gs.

In a fortunate turn of events, I actually think the most optimistic options for the Snicket universe also happen to be faily realistic ones, namely:

A new novel of book series narrated by Lemony and involving a new investigation as well as several cameos from established characters (basically what “All The Wrong Questions” did), while not ruining the ambiguous ending of “A Series Of Unfortunate Events”

A faithful adaptation of “All The Wrong Questions” under the careful eye of Daniel Handler as co-writer

Daniel Handler has always been open to a third book series and may or may not be writing one now. As to a possible adaptation of “All The Wrong Questions” by Netflix, that’s definitely what the writing team was aiming for given the astounding number of references to this series within the show. So I think we may get both in the future, though it may take some time.

3) It’s probably way too soon to ask, but do you think there are chances of getting and adaptation of “All the wrong questions”?I would personally love that. In a lot of ways, I think ATWQ is an even richer series than ASOUE; it’s stranger and deeper and ATWQ’s metaphor of childhood as a film noir mystery pairs beautifully with ASOUE’s metaphor of adulthood as a secret organization. However, I don’t see it happening anytime soon. Our series came together at a very singular moment in the history of television – it couldn’t have existed before Netflix, and I doubt we’ll see a show as big and weird again. Still, I’m hopeful that this isn’t the end of my collaborations with Lemony Snicket. Since the show ended, Daniel and I have had conversations about working together on a very different project set in Mr. Snicket’s world. So I continue to hope for the best – even if hope, like an interesting piece of mail, is frequently lost.

[Interview of Netflix writer Joe Tracz with 667 Dark Avenue (Link), January 18th 2019]

Much less realistic, however, is a new series which would destroy the ambiguity set by both series. So I wouldn’t expect any new adventures of Beatrice Jr with her uncle Lemony; their plotline ends on a rather vague note in “The Beatrice Letters” so to see anything more would ruin the poetry of the moment. Plus Beatrice Jr is intent on finding the Baudelaire orphans so it would necessarily ruin “The End” as well. For the same reasons, I wouldn’t expect to hear much more from Ellington Feint or the Bombinating Beast. The case is closed. If Lemony had wanted to reveal more, he could have done so already. These are, after all, his books.

As to Lemony’s youth with fellow volonteers and romance with Beatrice… maybe? It really depends on what Handler prioritizes. I could see a novel set in this time period, focusing on an investigation alongside Jacques, for example. But Lemony is clearly careful not to divulge the reason for his break-up with Beatrice, or to say anything which paints Bertrand in a bad light. Again, unintentional vagueness. So it would have to written the same way “All The Wrong Questions” dealt with the Museum of Objects subplot: present, but left mysteriously in the background.

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