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Post by rusty shackleford on Sept 12, 2004 20:48:57 GMT -5
Sorry if it's been mentioned, but it might be interesting to note that on page 139 of the Unauthorized Autobiography, Mr. Poe writes, 'P. P. S.Have you heard from You-Know-Who?' Then, on page 251 of the Hostile Hospital, Olaf says, "...but we've got to find the Snicket File as soon as possible, before You-Know-Who does."
:oIs that wierd or what? Maybe Mr. Poe does know about V. F. D.
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Post by Dante on Sept 13, 2004 13:37:15 GMT -5
It's even been speculated that Mr. Poe is a volunteer - although I think that "was" would be more appropriate.
But yes, it's interesting, and it's also one of the clues in the series that I won't touch because I don't have a clue what it means.
But, as I've said many times, we know that the two Poe siblings are up to something, what with the evidence you just stated and the Bad Beginning Rare Edition note that pretty much says that he had something under his hat when he met the Baudelaires on Briny Beach.
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Post by rusty shackleford on Sept 13, 2004 17:47:37 GMT -5
Ah, I didn't know it had been mentioned. Hmm... I didn't even put together with that BB:RE clue about his hat...Huh. But then again, it doesn't even seem that he would be on one of the two major sides of V.F.D., what with him never stopping Olaf or sending the kids to some helpful place.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 26, 2004 11:04:10 GMT -5
...it's interesting, and it's also one of the clues in the series that I won't touch because I don't have a clue what it means.
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Post by marisa on Sept 26, 2004 14:06:33 GMT -5
He problably does know about V.F.D just not what it stands for.....or maybe he does.......
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 26, 2004 16:59:56 GMT -5
It's even been speculated that Mr. Poe is a volunteer - although I think that "was" would be more appropriate. Well, if Mr. Poe is/was a volunteer, than hopefully we'll find out for sure in the next books.
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Post by Gigi on Oct 13, 2004 15:12:22 GMT -5
i think poe is a volunteer,he always lets olaf escape in all the books he says they should call the police and he lets them get away
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Post by NickSnicket on Oct 14, 2004 0:25:50 GMT -5
It's even been speculated that Mr. Poe is a volunteer - although I think that "was" would be more appropriate. But yes, it's interesting, and it's also one of the clues in the series that I won't touch because I don't have a clue what it means. But, as I've said many times, we know that the two Poe siblings are up to something, what with the evidence you just stated and the Bad Beginning Rare Edition note that pretty much says that he had something under his hat when he met the Baudelaires on Briny Beach. i agree with you.
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Post by SpookyMeggie on Oct 14, 2004 21:38:19 GMT -5
I rather think that Mr. poe is exactly what he seems to be: a somewhat useless bumbler. His sister, however, is playing with fire. And his children are unpleasant.
wonder if they've ever been snow scouts?
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Post by Dante on Oct 15, 2004 15:23:45 GMT -5
I disagree, swans. The "earlier" thing was an excuse for why it wasn't in the original, because, as we all know, he only came up with V.F.D. after Book the Fourth, hence he had to go back over a lot of old ground. And if you couple it with the U.A. quote which this thread is about, i.e. "You-Know-Who", then what do you get? A big fat question mark over Mr. Poe.
And you're criticising me for using the quote all over the place? Do excuse me for using canon evidence to back up my point. Of course, I'd forgotten that 667 was built on a foundation of rampant speculation, unhindered by such quaint concepts as "evidence". Do forgive me.
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Post by Dante on Oct 16, 2004 11:56:57 GMT -5
If you couple it with the evidence found in other books like in TCC (i.e. Mr. Poe isn't wicked) then Mr. Poe doesn't possess something under his hat in the sense that he's siding with the evil side of VFD. He's merely misguided not wicked-- there's no question mark over Mr. Poe at least not in regards to Lemony's viewpoint. Mr. Poe is a pawn in VFD's world not a major player who is knowingly carrying something under his hat. Which is pretty much what I said. I never said that he was siding with Olaf's side of the schism - indeed, in all the posts I've made on Mr. Poe I have never stated that, always preferring to think that he was a laissez-faire person (although after TGG, I think that he's just an idiot). But I have never believed him to be evil. All I've said is that he and his sister are up to something mysterious which they are trying to keep hidden, which is undeniable. If I believed him to be an Olaf ally, I'd have come straight out and said it.
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Post by VFDsubmarine1992 on Oct 16, 2004 14:31:48 GMT -5
Is Mr.Poe's Hat and the sugar bowl coonected
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Post by Dante on Oct 16, 2004 14:41:09 GMT -5
Is Mr.Poe's Hat and the sugar bowl coonected It's not impossible, but I don't think so. Although, to tell the truth, we don't know what happened to the sugar bowl between the time of Lemony stealing it from Esmé and it being thrown out of the Valley of Four Drafts headquarters.
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Post by VFDsubmarine1992 on Oct 16, 2004 14:44:51 GMT -5
It could have been stored there and the cough was signal to VFD members and maybe he always coughed when the Baud's were about because he thought there parents had taught them that code but we didn't see him again because lemony got it off him
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Post by Dante on Oct 16, 2004 14:52:55 GMT -5
It could have been stored there and the cough was signal to VFD members and maybe he always coughed when the Baud's were about because he thought there parents had taught them that code but we didn't see him again because lemony got it off him Maybe, although Mr. Poe's behaviour in Chapter Thirteen of the Grim Grotto indicates to me that he knows nothing of V.F.D., and is just a bumbling, idiotic banker.
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