indyrams
Reptile Researcher
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Post by indyrams on Nov 17, 2013 23:06:33 GMT -5
How gullible and rather ridiculous everybody else was. If the general public in the series weren't so dim witted I feel most of the problems for the Baudelaires would have been solved. Examples:
Everybody refusing to take off their blindfolds in PP even while running around the hotel like idiots.
Nero saying a computer would surely help spot Olaf if he stepped foot on school grounds.
Basically anybody believing anything the Daily Punctilio put out.
Olaf saying incredibly stupid and none sense stuff to people and they still believe him.
I mean, I know its part of the book's style and plot. By why did the volunteers try so hard to work in a world filled with people that did not know logic from false information. Even when it seemed to slap them in the face!
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Post by Teleram on Nov 17, 2013 23:30:58 GMT -5
Pardon me for asking, but are you even an actual ASOUE fan?
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Post by Dante on Nov 18, 2013 3:39:57 GMT -5
What you describe is at once part of the joke and part of the cynicism of the series. The things you're talking about are meant to be funny - and I think they are - but they're also part of the tools Handler uses to grind the Baudelaires down in a series where another part of the joke, lest we forget, is the Baudelaires' suffering. However, I would also argue that the incompetence of many members of the general public, as well as their incapability to take children seriously, is also a satire on reality - an exaggeration, if you will, of a world which is scarcely less foolish and corrupt than the one Handler describes.
To be honest, I find it interesting that you question not why Handler would write it this way, but why V.F.D. would even try in a world like this. They try because it's the right thing to do and they want to make a better world for everyone, even for people who don't appreciate what they do. Well, you could say that about many movements, really.
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Post by The Duchess on Nov 18, 2013 16:05:43 GMT -5
Why is this in TE?
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Post by Dante on Nov 18, 2013 16:52:45 GMT -5
Good point, actually; I'll move this across to SSeries.
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