Even some healthy references to Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' proves to be welcome. A good thing too, because it's with 'The Reptile Room' that one actually feels a sense of hope to begin with when reading the story, because of the setting and the character of Uncle Monty, until Stephano shows up. Also appreciated that although the role of Lemony Snicket, as narrator and to remind us that the events will continue to be unfortunate, is still crucial, he isn't featured as much. There is some nice humour in parts and there is more of an air of mystery and tension, a good thing as the tension generally did start to build in the book series in 'The Reptile Room' as the series got darker and the mysteries deepened. In comparison to "The Bad Beginning", the dialogue here is quite a lot better. The music is also a good match for the atmosphere. And the creatures/reptiles themselves are like characters of their own (have sort of a thing for that it seems). The wonderful opening credit sequence is indicative enough of that, but the standout is that utterly amazing reptile room, the design and incredible attention to detail are a sight to behold. Like "The Bad Beginning" though, "The Reptile Room: Part 1" is visually a wonder. K Todd Freeman never really gelled for me as Mr Poe though and doesn't seem to fit. Part of it may be down too to the source material, have always felt that 'The Reptile Room' was the better book of the two as well. Despite liking both parts of "The Bad Beginning", for me "The Reptile Room" (both parts) is quite a bit better where things felt even more settled and 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' had started hitting its stride. Which continues and is built upon in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' third and fourth episodes in "The Reptile Room" two parter, an adaptation of the second book in Lemony Snicket's popular book series 'The Reptile Room'. Both parts did very well handling the basics and setting up and establishing the characters and atmosphere. There were issues, not all the dialogue and pacing was perfect and generally found Mr Poe to come over as somewhat out of place in this adaptation despite him being an important character. "The Bad Beginning" was a far from bad beginning, quite the opposite, to 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', with the second part being the better half.
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