tonyvfd
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Post by tonyvfd on Feb 25, 2019 21:54:32 GMT -5
So the Baudelaire fortune was a red hearing all along? But if his real goal was revenge why didn't he kill them?I think he could have poisoned their food in the bad beginning, throw them to the leeches in the wide window,let them fall in the erzat elevator etc.
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Post by Dante on Feb 26, 2019 4:18:18 GMT -5
It's reasonable to consider stealing the Baudelaire fortune as an important part of Olaf's revenge; just killing people is child's play, but to defraud the Baudelaires of their fortune requires considerably more intelligence - for a considerably greater reward.
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vfds321s
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Post by vfds321s on Feb 26, 2019 23:36:03 GMT -5
One word: Sadism
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Feb 27, 2019 0:25:27 GMT -5
I understand that Olaf's real goal is to destroy VFD. Stealing the inheritance rights of the children of VFD members is a way to achieve this. It is not simple greed. Olaf does not want to rob a bank and keep the money as Mrs. Bass did. If he did this, the bank would still have the obligation to hand over money to the stolen family as soon as requested. What Olaf wants is to take money out of VFD. Since VFD is a secret organization, the money of the organization is under the custody of individuals, or is converted into jewelry (like emeralds) for example. Olaf's goal of destroying VFD is well evident in these words of Olaf in TGG: "This submarine is one of the greatest things I've ever stolen, It has everything I'll need to defeat V.F.D. once and for all. It has a sonar system, so I can rid the seas of V.F.D. submarines. It has an enormous flyswatter, so I can rid the skies of V.F.D. plans. It has a lifetime supply of matches, so I can rid the world of V.F.D. headquarters. "
It was with this purpose in mind that Olaf gathered his troupe: they were fighting fire against fire, in the sense that they believed that VFD had become an organization that needed to be destroyed.
What Olaf is doing is a kind of guerrilla tactic. As his troupe is smaller than VFD, Olaf went on to attack the organization's financial supplies. Olaf also attacked the organization's animals, then the organization's media (destroying telegram cable posts). Olaf also allied himself with former enemies of the organization.
We realize that Olaf is not in a hurry to receive Baudelaires' money, as he chose to kill Violet and Klaus, and to let Sunny live at the end of TCC. From Olaf's point of view, what is more important is to prevent VFD from gaining access to Baudelaires' money. This is more important than having access to money.
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Post by Foxy on Feb 27, 2019 8:30:34 GMT -5
Olaf does not want to rob a bank and keep the money as Mrs. Bass did. If he did this, the bank would still have the obligation to hand over money to the stolen family as soon as requested. What Olaf wants is to take money out of VFD. I never thought of things that way. Your ideas are brilliant! I think Olaf enjoyed making the children suffer because the Baudelaire parents made Olaf suffer.
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