I was trying to find a way to say the same thing but you worded it way better than I could.
I think this series was definitely something that influenced young me towards leftism for the reasons you described. It was the first series I read where the adults were all shown to be faking their way through life and all the bureaucrats had no idea how to run the system. Contrast it to a real lib book like Harry Potter where the solution at the end is Harry becomes a good cop to fix all the problems.
Never read the books but did watch the series...
Isn't there a through line about sectarianism, maybe?
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When the members of the VFD turn on each other for, what I vaguely remember, a pretty petty reason. (Wait, was it petty? Or was it a split caused because some of them made a WMD level biological weapon stored in a tea pot?)
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But some people joined it because they believed it was about starting various fires around the world.
Damn, I wonder if that was in the Netflix series or if I just completely missed that part of the description of the VFD after the kids find out about it...
Thanks for the breakdown!
Regardless, a lot of depth and a good mystery to spin out over the course of a series.
Lots of shades of gray and materialist understandings of human behavior, often pitched from the initial black/white worldview and spun out into something more complex and deep.
Also, I really enjoyed the joke of an entire cheer leading squad chanting "You can't beat a dead horse".
Oh yeah, I thought it was a hoot!
I've also been a bit of a fan of Patrick Warburton since the short lived live action "Tick" series and this show scratched that itch.
Highly underrated series, although the Amazon reboot was also good.
It's just a perfectly normal and innocuous book series aimed at children. You probably enjoyed them.
It’s a series about how being very smart :very-smart: :very-intelligent: triumphs over all
Everyone but the rich, privileged children are a bunch of morons.
Everyone who isn't one of the main kids is either a moron or a villain . Were there even other kids in the series? It's been a while since I read it
but kids media where literally every adult is either evil or stupid isn't that rare.
this is a rigged justice system in which every participant knows its wrong but is powerless to stop it because the law is absolute
I'm afraid this dreadful nonsense is the law.
- Justice Strauss, regarding Violet's marriage to Count Olaf
Book series is amazing. Jim Carey movie is cringe and never happened. Netflix adaptation was okay.
the boxcar children was much better, imagine living in an abandoned railcar
That series makes me feel like I lived a past life as a train hopper. I mean maybe I did....
Didn’t it end with the kids all dying? I say that pretty metal.
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I quit the series after the one where they’re in the boarding school but my sister finished the series and told me the final illustration was of a ship wreck suggesting they all died.
Did everyone on the mainland die in show? Cuz if they did humanity is fucked cuz I think three blood siblings and one other person is below replacement capacity.
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I was going to say... wasn't the entire conceit of the series about a guy trying to unravel a mystery around the protagonists?
The premise doesn't really work if all of civilization is wiped out in the end.
