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I get that was a decision made by (probably) the costume designer / stylist. But why?

THE END Lemony Snicket

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WTF??? This is a great book, if you're willing to forget the fact that it's the final instalment of a 13-book long saga... but you can't, can you? I mean, I'm not buying the whole "you can't know everything" moral as a way to justify the complete lack of information this book brings. Unless I'm supposed to reread the extremely confusing stories both Ishmael and Count Olaf tell at separate times during the narrative and put the pieces together, I'm not sure Handler knew what he was doing either. YES, I'M CALLING YOU DANIEL HANDLER NOW JUST TO PUNISH YOU, YOU WICKED MAN.

Seriously, what's behind Count Olaf's last scene? Where does Lemony Snicket's revelation of who Beatrice is lead us? Why the hell are V.F.D. babies so precocious? And was V.F.D. just a pointless organisation made of people who spent their entire time fighting against each other merely for the sake of it? I could even forgive that last bit and consider it a war metaphor, but everything else is too absurd to justify such a well-thought reference.

And you know what’s really messed up? Chapter the Thirteenth arrives, and you know it’ll be the last, because every single one of the previous books have thirteen chapters, so you’re absolutely desolated when the author doesn’t explained a single thing... but then you come across Chapter the Fourteenth! You’re filled with hope again. That’s it. Now you’re going to get all the answers you’ve been waiting for. But hell no. It’s just more of the same. Now you’re doubly disappointed. 

What am I supposed to do now? Look for conspiracy theories online to understand everything this last book failed to explain? I’ve done that, but I’m still not pleased.

As for character development, everyone pretty much ends up the same, except for Sunny. Let’s just admit it, Sunny is by far the best character in this series. She’s got multiple skills, she speaks just enough to be comprehended, she makes the most brilliant references in her short speeches, she’s got her priorities straight and she’s quite an independent woman/baby.

It’s hard to analyse the character arc of the secondary characters, as I gather most of them have died, but it’s really open to interpretation.

I wonder if Handler will be a transmedia genius and explain everything through the Netflix show. He’s already inserted a few elements in the first season that were either not in the books or only introduced much later in the series. I’m not getting my hopes up, but if he does do that he’ll deserve a special seat right next to the Wachowskis. For now, I’m just going to hold a grudge against him for an indefinite period of time.

SLIGHT SPOILER

I love how every single one of the 12 other books are one way or another referenced throughout the story. There’s Olaf trapped in a bird cage, just like he trapped Sunny in a bird cage in the first book. There’s the Incredibly Deadly Vyper making quite an important appearance after running away in the second book. There’s the storm and enclosure in an island from the third book. There’s the peer pressure from the fourth book. There’s a giant commonplace book, a concept first referenced in the fifth book. There’s a weird drink everyone is unconsciously forced to drink, like in the sixth book. There’s a group of people “raising” the children again after the fiasco of the seventh book. There’s a medical operation conducted by unqualified people, like in the eight book. There’s the Oz effect from the ninth book. There’s the Baudelaires unsuccessfully trying to warn a group of people of imminent danger, like in the tenth book. There’s the Medusoid Mycelium from the eleventh book. And there’s death by harpoon gun, like in the twelfth book.

END OF SPOILER    I just can't.................

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