The Unfortunate Case Study:

A Series of Unfortunate Events first started off as a published book series in 1999, as a thirteen-part book series, written by Daniel Handler. The books focused on three children, the Baudelaire's, whose parents have just died, leaving the three children Orphaned. The books follow the Baudelaire's on their journey as they jump from guardian to guardian, trying to find a new home and escape the custody of Count Olaf, who wants their huge fortune, which was left to them from their parents will. The book series was one of Handlers most popular works. 

Due to its popularity, the series eventually became Cross-Platform in 2004, when Nickelodeon movies purchased the film rights for the book series and produced "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events", a film based on the first three novels of the book series, with Lemony Snicket (a fictional character based on the authors pen name) as a narrator.  However, no more films were produced by Nickelodeon for the rest of the books in the series, meaning the movie was adapted as if the other 10 books in the series didn’t exist. This is mainly because there was too much content, and there were no plans for a movie series. Overall, the film sticks close to the books original content throughout, until it takes a major diversion at the end, and ends the story there. 

Eventually Netflix took it upon themselves to create a television series in 2017, by buying the rights. This would end up being another adaption of the books, but as a three season tv series that covered the whole book series unlike the previous 2004 film adaption. The final season was added to Netflix on January 2019, tying up the cross-platform roots until a future adaption. Netflix received a large amount of praise for how it closely followed the books, and told the story of all 13 books, even if it was condensed down into three seasons. 

               

So, what do all of the platforms have in common?

They focus on telling the same story and creating three main protagonists who are highly intelligent and who are constantly patronised despite often at times being shown as more intelligent than those that patronise them. Throughout all versions of the series, Violet, the oldest of the Baudelaire’s is shown to have extreme intelligence and an inventor – which is often shown and used when trying to escape count Olaf. 

                        
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Klaus, the middle child, is shown to have a love of reading and research, which often helps too decipher large vocabulary and find loop holes. And lastly sunny, the youngest of the trio is shown to have limited talents as she is only a baby, however she is shown to have extremely sharp teeth that cut through wood.