Most stuff, when you’re a kid, makes you feel like anything you could do would be nothing more than a Viciously Futile Diversion.

Lemony Snicket taught me the power of books, and of words. (Or maybe the last one is, depending on how many questions it answers.) None of these sneaky, behind the scenes things are a Visibly Forceful Development in the first book, so it’s not as fun.īut I loved this series so much in my childhood. This phenomenon becomes more and more clear as the series progresses, which is why the first book is the worst one. Lemony Snicket creates this almost-reality wherein even the smallest, most mundane occurrence is Veritably Fixed & Deliberate. So the things about these books.the setting is amazing. I can’t put it better than Lemony Snicket himself, so I’ll just shoehorn in his words: Within these pages, “the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.” Second, we follow the Baudelaires - Violet, Klaus, and Sunny - through what can only be Very Foreseeably Described as a series of unfortunate events. What are you doing? There is nothing so important in your life that you can’t put it off in order to read this series. So, for the three misguided people who haven’t read this series - first off, get ON THAT. Stryker is special because of how unspecial he is, and we don't really see villains in comic book movies like that anymore.YES!!! The least fascinatingly detailed book in my favorite series! It just keeps getting better and better, folks. Besides, in the years since, Stryker has only become more special because of how rare he is as a supervillain with no powers, no special suit, nothing. Sure, Brian Cox's take on Stryker doesn't have the religious angle of the original 'God Loves, Man Kills' comic, but he is equally menacing. Aside from having Logan Roy from 'Succession' as the bad guy, the fact that Stryker is just some dude, a military man with no superhuman abilities but enough hatred and authority to almost destroy the X-men and the entirety of mutantkind. Perhaps no aspect of this movie feels more miraculous in 2023 than the character of William Stryker, the main antagonist of the film. After the success of 'X-Men' in 2000, 'X2: X-Men United' went even bigger and better, with louder action set pieces, more mutants, and a classic story of old enemies banding together to face one hell of a villain.

The bad beginning rare edition