Are there any direct contradictions between the Netflix show and the wider canon? Like Eleanora being Arthur's wife not his sister, other things like that? Also, how does Bertrand fit into the opera scene / the general timeline? - sincerely, a curious fan who is very thankful for your detailed blog!
hi thank you!
yeah, they’ve changed quite a few things (ex: timeline of R’s mother’s death, Eleanora Poe, Olivia Caliban’s character, Jacques’ Snicket’s love interest, Quigley Quagmire’s journey, Dewey Denouement’s attitude to VFD, Kit Snicket’s attitude/appearance/everything in general, taxi driver scene in TPP, court scene in TPP, how VFD was started and its purposes, the schism, the fates/endings of many characters, opera night, opera night, opera night, and opera night, etc etc) (for the sugar bowl, i don’t know if you could call it direct contradiction since it’s not revealed in the books, but even if not, well, there were a lot of plot holes with regarded to the added explanation)
re: bertrand and the opera scene, i think the netfix writers probably somewhat intended for the mention of “beatrice’s admirer” to be interpreted as bertrand. if you’re talking about the books, then while many things about the opera night were quite ambiguous, we did at least know that kit slipped the poison darts to beatrice and also beatrice and bertrand were responsible for the murder (of both parents, not just the father), and also that esme tried to stop kit, and that this night had nothing to do with sugar bowl, and very possibly not Lemony either, and it was not an accident.
i must admit that while i do dislike many changes about the opera night and mostly only like the aesthetics and how gorgeous Beatrice is, Jacques driving Lemony away in the taxi did give me a lot of Feeling tbh
