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Post by quigletisbeautiful on Oct 13, 2015 6:07:32 GMT -5
THATS ALL
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Post by Dante on Oct 13, 2015 6:32:36 GMT -5
I think the series would have acquired a very different tone if the author had chosen to kill an infant protagonist so near to the denouement. I'm not sure the issue of whether the series might have been superior for the decision has yet been voiced as a controversy. As regards the poll, one might just as easily ask whether the series might have been better had Violet been lost to a cranioectomy in THH, or Klaus devoured by lions in TCC, at which point one could ask who the protagonists would even be come the twelfth book.
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Post by gliquey on Oct 13, 2015 16:16:11 GMT -5
I think Sunny was at her best near the end of the series. It certainly would have been a very brave and surprising move by Handler had he chosen to kill Sunny in TGG, but I don't think it would have been a good one overall.
While Sunny is given roughly equal attention in the series to Violet and Klaus (with a possible exception of TBB, where she does nothing much other than get locked in a cage), I think she is the most expendable of the siblings. Her contributions are framed by Snicket to look significant, but in truth they are, with few exceptions (e.g. climbing up the elevator shaft in TEE), not usually that important. Sunny is also the character for whom we have to apply the biggest suspension of disbelief: the scenes where she poses as an adult in TPP are downright unrealistic. I think she would definitely be the easiest to kill off, and Handler could have done this to try and give the books a more dangerous sort of edge, not just "these children are unfortunate" but "these children really are in immediate mortal peril". Yet I would have missed her Sunny Speak, which was slowly developing into more clever and funnier jokes and allusions instead of genuinely meaningless phrases.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2015 18:51:06 GMT -5
Yet I would have missed her Sunny Speak, which was slowly developing into more clever and funnier jokes and allusions instead of genuinely meaningless phrases. I agree.
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