Luigi
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Post by Luigi on Dec 29, 2003 15:28:32 GMT -5
...then it wouldn't be so woeful and unfortunate, wouldn't it? I mean, if it's a test and staged and fake, and their parents are really alive and Olaf isn't really out to kill them, and they're going to be safe in the end because it's staged, then where's their unluckiness? It wouldn't be luck that put htem in that situation.
I guess it's sad that they had to be put through it...
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awpoue
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Post by awpoue on Dec 31, 2003 20:34:44 GMT -5
if it is just a test, then what is the point in all the added extras that have nothing to do with the baudelaires, eg. beatrice, a bunch of reptiles, etc.
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Luigi
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Post by Luigi on Jan 1, 2004 1:04:13 GMT -5
The reptiles are VFD amnimals.
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Post by tex mexx on Jan 1, 2004 1:05:29 GMT -5
is Uncle Monty a VFD?
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Luigi
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Post by Luigi on Jan 1, 2004 1:07:07 GMT -5
Yep.
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Post by awpoue on Jan 1, 2004 1:10:35 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I forgot that, sorry. But what about Beatrice? Unless she really is the Baudelaire's mother, what has she got to do with V.F.D training?
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Post by JM on Jan 1, 2004 13:46:39 GMT -5
no way there parents wouldn't let them fall to ther doom in a caravan
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Post by SnicketFires on Jan 1, 2004 20:07:23 GMT -5
If it is all a test, I bet the parents didn't think that their children would be, or get into, so much trouble. Or danger.
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Post by krusty on Jan 5, 2004 18:41:02 GMT -5
I doubt it. But I guess I just don't want it to end that way. I hate when movies ends up to be a dream or something totally fake.
I don't a end to such good books to end that way!
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Post by StellaFantasia on Jan 6, 2004 11:08:45 GMT -5
If it is a test, I don't think it's like, the Baudelaire parents and everyone just sitting around waiting to see what will happen. I think that the members of the good part of VFD are powerless to stop Count Olaf for some reason. But I think the Baudelaire fire was absolutely real and the orphans' parents are really dead or in hiding. But maybe Mr Poe is training them to carry on the VFD tradition in some way, without being in control of the situation.
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Post by JasonKondrick on Jan 6, 2004 20:42:14 GMT -5
I think this book series is well-written, and one of three possiblities:
1) This is really a test, and a satire, and we are going to slap ourselves in the forehead when we are finished.
2) This is really a test, and a satire, and we are going to ooh and aah in amazment at the ending.
or...
3) This is not a test at all, but still a satire, and it will say, "Why did you read these nauseating books? It was just a joke, to waste precious hours scrutinizing these books for no purpose whatsoever." Or something like that.
JasonKondrick
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Post by SnicketFires on Jan 6, 2004 22:42:35 GMT -5
I agree, it CAN'T be fake. That would be horrible beyond saying. Can't. And thats final.
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Post by PJ on Jun 25, 2004 3:06:57 GMT -5
Must be a pretty damn illegal and EXpensive test, I mean they burn down the Heimlich Hospital, the VFD headquarters and the Carnival, as well as Olivia and the bald man falling to their deaths into a lion pit. its a bit much for a test
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Post by Antenora on Jun 25, 2004 9:58:50 GMT -5
I think that the Baudelaires are being trained for and by VFD; once I even suspected that Olaf is training them. All this mystery had better amount to something in the end, even though the series has a definite satirical component. The series is a mystery-thriller, a satire, and a puzzle.
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