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Post by nyflamehead11 on Sept 28, 2005 20:38:40 GMT -5
i just realized that esme and olaf are both distant relitives so one way or another they must be related
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Post by Antenora on Sept 28, 2005 20:43:26 GMT -5
I don't think it's ever said that Esme's a relative; I get the impression that Mr Poe had run out of relatives to send the Baudelaires to, so he'd started sending them to live with family friends(after trying Lucky Smells and Prufrock).
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Post by Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo on Sept 29, 2005 2:52:03 GMT -5
You got it in one. Anyway, the relationship(if they were related) would be incestuous. I think that's how you spell it.
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Post by callum on Sept 29, 2005 3:51:48 GMT -5
well vfd is like a big community so you might be related to anybody through marrige
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Post by Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo on Sept 29, 2005 4:19:02 GMT -5
Callmu, where did you obtain that banner thing in your sig?
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Post by Dante on Sept 29, 2005 11:04:58 GMT -5
Off-topic, Scotty. You'd be better off sending a PM. Although callmu, feel free to answer now that you've been asked.
Mr. Poe had run out of relatives to send the Baudelaires too - indeed, their time at Prufrock Prep. was only because he was too busy to deal with them at that moment, and it's never really been revealed why they were sent to live with Sir. However, Jerome and Esmé offered to adopt the children when orphans became in (indeed, Jerome had wanted to adopt them ever since the Baudelaire fire, but orphans weren't in then). If I remember correctly, anyway.
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Post by Ennui on Sept 29, 2005 12:46:33 GMT -5
Of course Olaf and Esme are related. Incest is so in!
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Post by Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo on Sept 29, 2005 15:04:11 GMT -5
It's out in my books.
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Post by Hanna Squalor on Oct 2, 2005 15:25:42 GMT -5
Okay yeah Esme is defiantly not related to the Baudelaire. Esme and Mr.Poe probably work with each other and all it would take for her to get them is to slip into his office and have a word with him. if you catch my drift? Why would Mr. Poe say no to a beautiful woman offering to take the children off his hands into a wealthy home.
Its also very possible that Olaf only said that he was distantly related to them to get the kids in the first place.
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Post by Abi on Oct 3, 2005 21:50:14 GMT -5
I don't know though, for as it says in the movie," Don't you think it odd that none of our relatives our actually related to us?". I don't think that VFD is related at all. I think that Mr.Poe made that up. In the Lsua, it has the chapter" Why is Mr.Poe so unhelpful?" It shows the daily puntillio letters. I think that this means that Mr.poe( whos sister is the editor nonetheless) believes very muchso in every word that comes out of those Very False Documents( pardon the pun). So I think that they are marriage related, but not otherwise realted, because Mr.Poe lied about the distant relations thing to get them in with VFD. Maybe Mr.poe is purposely unhelpful, but somehow I don't thinkso. I think hes hiding something- definatly, but not neccesarily bad. So I think that the Bauds parents plan was to put them in the care of VFD, so to be sure that they were safe. So no, if you can follow my logic, I don't think that the Count and Esme are related.
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Post by s on Oct 9, 2005 19:36:47 GMT -5
Also, two of one's relatives needn't be related to each other at all. If one was a relative on their dad's side, and one on their mom's side, they wouldn't be related in the least. Think about it. Your uncle on your father's side is most certainly not related to your aunt on your mother's side.
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Post by klausypoo on Oct 10, 2005 18:15:53 GMT -5
didnt handler make some book about incest? it'd be funny if that found its way into these books
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Post by Antenora on Oct 10, 2005 19:52:49 GMT -5
Handler's adult novel Watch Your Mouth involves incestuous relationships, but they're between immediate family members instead of nth cousins ntimes removed. I doubt Handler would work incest in his children's books; TBB was banned in one school because of Olaf trying to marry Violet.
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Post by s on Oct 10, 2005 20:52:51 GMT -5
Then again, no sane author would work incest into their childrens' books...they are childrens' books for a reason. Olaf and Esme are not related.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Oct 18, 2005 9:05:17 GMT -5
I doubt Handler would work incest in his children's books; TBB was banned in one school because of Olaf trying to marry Violet. That's rediculous. I suppose that they tried to ban TRR too because of the swearing in ONE chapter. Apparently two villains in a relationship, even if they ARE related to each other, is wrong now.
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