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Post by Invisible on Jan 16, 2010 14:23:18 GMT -5
What an interesting and funny article! He's in Scotland, so does that mean he could be coming down here to London? Anyway, I'm really curious about what this new series will be like! Could the story even be a continuous of The Beatrice Letters? Who knows?
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Post by Dante on Jan 16, 2010 14:37:35 GMT -5
He's in Scotland, so does that mean he could be coming down here to London? Snicket's meant to be on a U.K. tour this month, but I've only seen two articles mentioning his appearances (one of which is this one). It could well just be a school-based thing, which is a bit of a pity.
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Post by Invisible on Jan 16, 2010 15:00:08 GMT -5
He's in Scotland, so does that mean he could be coming down here to London? Snicket's meant to be on a U.K. tour this month, but I've only seen two articles mentioning his appearances (one of which is this one). It could well just be a school-based thing, which is a bit of a pity. Of course, there is that problem. BUT my mum has just said he could be going to my old secondary or primary school. Maybe I could talk to the headteacher or something. I'm well known with my teachers, especially at secondary school, what with my panic attacks and bullying incidents.
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Post by tigerseye on Jan 16, 2010 15:44:26 GMT -5
Wow. If you find out any more details let us all know! or if you even get to meet him
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Post by Sophie-Senpi on Jan 16, 2010 15:45:00 GMT -5
*SCREAMS* aghhhhh!!!!!! a new series on The Great Unknown?! that was one of my favorite parts of the whole series! im gonna mark off days on my calender. *still shaking from excitement, does a few cartwheels*
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Post by Dante on Jan 16, 2010 16:48:44 GMT -5
Let's treat this with cautious optimism. Handler's wording was very ambiguous. Of course, there is that problem. BUT my mum has just said he could be going to my old secondary or primary school. Maybe I could talk to the headteacher or something. I'm well known with my teachers, especially at secondary school, what with my panic attacks and bullying incidents. Good luck, then, and tell us what happens.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 16, 2010 16:49:23 GMT -5
I don't think the new series is going to be on the Great Unknown, though I wouldn't be surprised if there was an implication somewhere.
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Post by Dante on Jan 16, 2010 16:54:49 GMT -5
Hell. I just found about a million articles at once. I'll prepare a thread, but you'll like this: Some characters from aSoUE confirmed to return in the new series.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 16, 2010 16:59:24 GMT -5
That's amazing! And suspicious. Lemony usually never reveals anything, especially this early.
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Post by Dante on Jan 16, 2010 17:25:01 GMT -5
Okay, I pulled up a bunch more articles, and I have excerpted what I think are the most important quotes. It seems that Lemony is/was actually in the U.K. for only about a week, and also there have been several "send in your questions!" advertisements hidden in obscure corners of the Internet which I regrettably didn't know about beforehand. Nonetheless, I think we got a good haul. Here's the new stuff, which I've edited into the first post: CBBC Newsround interviewQuestion: "Olivia, from Barnston, she wants to know if the characters from A Series of Unfortunate Events will come again in this next series?" Answer: "Some of them do and some of them don't. Of course, some of the characters in A Series of Unfortunate Events die over the course of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and those characters I'm afraid are dead for good." Newcastle eventEdinburgh eventScotsman interview"It does have some overlap with the series, but it's not a continuation... There's nothing much more that I can say about it; it's still kind of foetal. I'm writing it this year." Lemony Snicket web chat--- On the new series: "...so yes, [Lemony Snicket] has a distant connection to [the Baudelaire case], and he has a connection as well to the new series that he's working on." "It's depressing, it's upsetting, and it's not likely to be of any use to anyone at all." "I told someone the title once, that Mr. Snicket had told me, and that person fainted dead away. That story is almost entirely true." Was Olaf evil even back in school? "Well, I think in school everyone learns to be a certain level of evil. He was encouraged, I think, Count Olaf, in his evil, which often happens in some of the poorer schools... I don't mean poor economically, I mean, you know, poorly-run, poorly-designed." Is there going to be another film? "That's what I'm told, yes... I'm told that they're working on another film." ---
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 16, 2010 17:33:15 GMT -5
I read that Newcastle article yesterday, coincidently, but I've never seen the rest of this. I can't believe he's confirming this much this early, but it's certainly exciting.
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Post by tigerseye on Jan 16, 2010 18:27:32 GMT -5
I really hope that if the new series of books are based on the Great Unknown, that they will involve the Quagmire triplets and Captain Winddershins! And if the books are based on the Great Unknown then hopefully it also means that the characters thought to be lost to the question mark did not persish within the great unknown?
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 16, 2010 18:46:47 GMT -5
I doubt any mystery concerning the Great Unknown will be solved. If it was, the Great Unknown wouldn't be Unknown anymore.
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Post by Hermes on Jan 16, 2010 19:27:47 GMT -5
I agree. 'Some overlap' suggests to me only minor connections. Probably the GU will figure in the same way that it does in ASOUE, appearing only in the background. (That's supposing the GU is in it at all, which isn't certain. 'That question mark' refers, strictly, to the question mark on the last page of The End, and that is a mark in the water, not a submarine and/or monster. So it isn't actually the Great Unknown, though it symbolises the same thing.)
Meanwhile it's interesting that Olaf was encouraged in evil at school because it was a poor school. Should this lead us to revise our views on the history of VFD?
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Post by Dante on Jan 17, 2010 3:59:06 GMT -5
I wasn't sure of whether Handler was joking around or whether we should take it seriously, but the ambiguity made it clear to me that I should quote it. "Poorly-run" or "poorly-designed" might suggest that this particular V.F.D. school had been corrupted, or had a bad educational philosophy. Certainly Code Class was boring enough.
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