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Post by Christmas Chief on May 21, 2013 17:41:29 GMT -5
Well, we know Theadora is ranked last in her field, so I'm not sure how high her authority canonically extends. "Sugar" is an interesting theory, though.
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Post by Dante on May 22, 2013 0:57:10 GMT -5
I think teasing the reader after that revelation with references to something like "Sugar's bowl" might've worked, but I think the theory would only have credibility if she'd actually answered the question "What does the S. stand for?" in ?1 with a sentence beginning with "Sugar" at some point. I don't think the joke quite comes off so well otherwise.
A new theory: Handler doesn't know what the S. stands for and is watching the fan theories to pick the best.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 22, 2013 3:33:48 GMT -5
Sugar would still work without the bowl-theory. It's humorous, because Markson is anything but Sugar-y, and can work as merely a neat little reference to the sugar bowl.
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Post by Becca on May 22, 2013 19:25:29 GMT -5
yeah maybe that's what he's doing..Handler's mysterious like that..I feel like that's sort of what happened with the sugar bowl and he'll somehow reveal what the Sugar Bowl is in ATWQ
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on May 23, 2013 11:51:43 GMT -5
I think id be happer not knowing what the s stands for. Like with the sugar bowl, or the great unkown, i think i would just be dissapointed...
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 3, 2014 8:26:30 GMT -5
I've had an idea just now that maybe the "S." is not a an 's' at all, but an inverted question mark (with its dot slightly to the right), maybe written by someone on the list of VFD chaperones before her real name, which is simply Theodora Markson, to imply sarcasm to her abilities as a chaperone.
This would explain her rebuttals with something like "Silly boy", but, unfortunately, then I discovered and remembered that Markson has always introduced herself to Snicket as well as others as "S. Theodora Markson," which kinda ruins my theory. Then I thought maybe the "S" is actually the word "as" instead of the letter 's', but I haven't quite figured out how that would work.
Anyway, I just thought it might be worth to throw into this discussion the possibility of the "S" not being the letter 's' or otherwise not functioning as a name initial (maybe a title?).
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Sept 3, 2014 8:49:28 GMT -5
I've had an idea just now that maybe the "S." is not a an 's' at all, but an inverted question mark (with its dot slightly to the right), maybe written by someone on the list of VFD chaperones before her real name, which is simply Theodora Markson, to imply sarcasm to her abilities as a chaperone. This would explain her rebuttals with something like "Silly boy", but, unfortunately, then I discovered and remembered that Markson has always introduced herself to Snicket as well as others as "S. Theodora Markson," which kinda ruins my theory. Then I thought maybe the "S" is actually the word "as" instead of the letter 's', but I haven't quite figured out how that would work. Anyway, I just thought it might be worth to throw into this discussion the possibility of the "S" not being the letter 's' or otherwise not functioning as a name initial (maybe a title?). Probably it's a hereditary title, inherited by Theodora from her parents/relatives?
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 3, 2014 10:23:17 GMT -5
The only honorific titles I could come up with that would fit are 1. "Esq." as in esquire, but Theodora saying it in its abbreviated form, or simply 2. "Miss", with the 'm' being hidden, so to speak, in the 'm' of "I am." Those two sound like a stretch, but the second option could be set up as a gag to be resolved if Theodora decides to marry someone by the end of the series and becomes "Mrs" Theodora Markson.
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Post by Dante on Sept 3, 2014 11:19:39 GMT -5
It could be "Ess." In a shocking twist, it turns out to be short for Esmé! P.S. She signs her name with an initial S in the very first chapter of the series.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 3, 2014 12:40:29 GMT -5
D'oh! Well, it could still be a honorific title, although I don't know of one starting with S. I guess I mainly tried to wrap my head around her answers treating Snicket's question about the S like a joke, as if it is actually the wrong question; which would make sense as a running gag considering the series' title.
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Post by Reballoo on Feb 24, 2015 22:07:35 GMT -5
This question has been asked probably more times than any other question in the series, yet it still goes unanswered. If the name is that important that it must be kept a secret, then it must be somebody we know who is also important. If it is somebody from ASOUE, then they must be really old, so who do we know who's name begins with an S and is fairly old?
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Post by Charlie on Feb 25, 2015 0:23:33 GMT -5
There has been some speculation that she is the dead Sunny after whom S. Baudelaire was named.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Feb 25, 2015 3:39:07 GMT -5
I have never heard of that, but thinking about it that would actually make sense. Except that the name doesn't fit at all.
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Post by Dante on Feb 25, 2015 6:00:04 GMT -5
There is actually an existing "What does the S. stand for?" thread - indeed, I started it - so I'm going to shuffle these posts into it and merge them. I have never heard of that, but thinking about it that would actually make sense. Except that the name doesn't fit at all. As far as I'm concerned, that would be the joke. But that Sunny's father is Theodora's beloved previous apprentice does make this theory seem more likely to me, in that there's now an established connection between Theodora and the Baudelaire family.
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Post by thedoctororwell on Feb 25, 2015 9:14:14 GMT -5
The S stands for "Spoilers."
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