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Post by negativenine on Jul 24, 2003 23:33:07 GMT -5
Actually, that is quite the coincidence...
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Jul 24, 2003 23:36:43 GMT -5
We could be finding brilliant double meanings and catalysts for theories, or plotholes.
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Post by negativenine on Jul 24, 2003 23:54:44 GMT -5
Tee-hee. Yeah. Methinks Poe is everyone's puppet, though. And I have to sign off for the night...  |
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Jul 25, 2003 21:01:03 GMT -5
I can see Poe falling over dead when he finally finds out how he's been used. It will all come together, and when he's done being incredulous he'll be furious.
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Post by negativenine on Jul 25, 2003 21:55:34 GMT -5
If he ever does find out... ;D And yes, furious in an incredulous, bumbling, Mr. Poeish sort of way. I can't wait to see that.
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Post by CountQuagmire on Aug 2, 2003 13:14:11 GMT -5
Put how's puppet would he be? Not Olaf's- he can't stand him. I just think he's blind to the Bauderlire's real needs.
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Post by negativenine on Aug 2, 2003 23:07:36 GMT -5
Everyone's who knows how to use him. The bad guys get him not to answer telegrams without him even knowing it. As long as whoever's trying to control him can appeal to him somehow, they get him to do whatever they want (I mean, within reason). He's just stupid enough that that kind of thing works.
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Post by CountQuagmire on Aug 4, 2003 13:19:07 GMT -5
What, like when he read the paper's thing about telegrams and ignored the Bauderlire's?
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Post by negativenine on Aug 4, 2003 14:59:02 GMT -5
Yeah. That was probably something Olaf or Esme sent into the paper, for the sole purpose of getting Mr. Poe not to read the telegram...
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Aug 4, 2003 17:28:41 GMT -5
I thought Geraldine did it all on Esme's orders. I think that LSUA mostly took care of plot holes.
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Post by negativenine on Aug 4, 2003 17:38:21 GMT -5
Yeah, I mean... uh... yeah. Esme (in contact with her fangirl at the Daily Punctilio) got the thing published in the paper so Mr. Poe wouldn't come looking for them. That's what I was trying to say... LSUA definitely wrapped everything up into a neat little package.
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Post by JasonKondrick on Dec 14, 2003 21:56:43 GMT -5
Well, I personally think that Poe is part of VFD, and part of the training of the Baudelaires.
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Post by StellaFantasia on Dec 20, 2003 17:15:29 GMT -5
I actually sort of agree with JasonKondrick. Count Olaf is someone who's been plaguing VFD's noble work (whatever that may be) for a long time, and giving them a bad name. Clearly, the good faction of VFD doesn't know how to stop him, and they keep getting killed off. In the Unauthorized Autobiography, one of the scrapped chapter titles is "Why isn't Mr Poe more helpful?". Maybe he's not more helpful because he's helpless against Olaf, but putting the orphans in these various situations is training them up so they might be able to stop him themselves. Mr Poe probably realizes that handing Olaf off to the police wouldn't even help that much, because he would escape or talk his way out of it. So maybe he just hangs back, watching the situation until it's obvious that the orphans aren't going to be stopping Olaf THIS time and he moves them around again. But with each chapter, they're learning more and more.
(I'm picturing a VFD meeting where they've just about given up hope on stopping Olaf, until someone stands up and says "No, there is another!", Star Wars style, and the Baudelaire training begins.)
Anyway, if the Baudelaires are meant to stop Olaf and be the new hope for VFD, it makes sense that Poe would have to stand back and let them figure things out for themselves. After all, your parents can't do your homework for you forever, or you'd never learn anything!
I'm just riffin' though, I haven't had enough sleep, so maybe that's way off the mark.
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Post by Dreadful-David on Dec 20, 2003 20:48:36 GMT -5
I dont think its likely for poe to be bad, like sum1 sed earlier hes too stupid
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Post by SnicketFires on Dec 21, 2003 15:32:39 GMT -5
Plus why didn't they say.. don't hand the children over to the guy with one eyebrow and a tattoo? Jacques also had one eyebrow and a tattoo of an eye on his ankle. Which would defeat a good home for the baudelaires. also I find that mr poe is rather.... simple, dull, dumb, ummmm cant find the right word. it will come. In an interview, Daniel was asked a question along the lines of "Why is mr Poe so unhelpful?" and he answered "He is unhelpful because if he saw through every one of Olaf's disguises, it would be a pretty dull series of books" or something to that effect. i didn't save that interview. I'll look for it. |
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