Post by doetwin on Feb 27, 2017 0:24:53 GMT -5
I'm not sure if she's alive. But if she is dead, I don't think it's because she was eaten by leeches, even though that is the case in both the movie and the TV show. Here's why:
When Aunt Josephine told the Baudelaires how Ike died, she said that she "warned him to wait an hour after eating before he went into the lake", implying that you're only in danger of getting attacked by leeches if you've eaten within the past hour. We know that the reason that the leeches attacked the boat that Aunt Josephine and the Baudelaires were sailing in was because Aunt Josephine had eaten a banana shortly before the Baudelaires arrived in Curdled Cave, and they could still smell it. Their boat was almost destroyed, but then something interesting happened when Count Olaf, disguised as Captain Sham, rescued them. He rescued in the same wooden sailboat that Aunt Joseph and the Baudelaires had been attacked in, but the leeches weren't nearly as much damage to Count Olaf's sailboat. Perhaps this is because, at this point, an hour had finally elapsed since Aunt Josephine had eaten the banana, and the leeches could no longer smell it. This makes sense. I think it's safe to assume that the conversation in Curdled Cave, the journey to the middle of the lake, and getting attacked by the leeches took up about an hour. This was almost confirmed when Aunt Josephine was thrown in the lake.
Captain Sham faced her and, using both hands, pushed her over the side of the boat. With a little gasp and a big splash she fell into the waters of Lake Lachrymose... Thanks to her two life jackets, Aunt Josephine was floating on top of the water, waving her hands in the air as the leeches swam toward her... The boat was already quite a ways from Aunt Josephine, and the orphans could only see the white of her hands as she waved them over the dark water.
There's no mention of her actually being attacked by the leeches, despite the leeches having swam towards her. All we know of her fate is this:
And we can never know exactly what was happening to Aunt Josephine as the children sat on the dock, unable to help her, but I will say that eventually-about the time when the Baudelaire orphans were forced to attend a miserable boarding school-two fishermen found both of Aunt Josephine's life jackets, all in tatters and floating alone in the murky waters of Lake Lachrymose.
From this, we're expected to gather that she was eaten by the leeches, but there's no mention of any of her body parts being found. So what do I think? I think she was taken by the Great Unknown.
When Aunt Josephine told the Baudelaires how Ike died, she said that she "warned him to wait an hour after eating before he went into the lake", implying that you're only in danger of getting attacked by leeches if you've eaten within the past hour. We know that the reason that the leeches attacked the boat that Aunt Josephine and the Baudelaires were sailing in was because Aunt Josephine had eaten a banana shortly before the Baudelaires arrived in Curdled Cave, and they could still smell it. Their boat was almost destroyed, but then something interesting happened when Count Olaf, disguised as Captain Sham, rescued them. He rescued in the same wooden sailboat that Aunt Joseph and the Baudelaires had been attacked in, but the leeches weren't nearly as much damage to Count Olaf's sailboat. Perhaps this is because, at this point, an hour had finally elapsed since Aunt Josephine had eaten the banana, and the leeches could no longer smell it. This makes sense. I think it's safe to assume that the conversation in Curdled Cave, the journey to the middle of the lake, and getting attacked by the leeches took up about an hour. This was almost confirmed when Aunt Josephine was thrown in the lake.
Captain Sham faced her and, using both hands, pushed her over the side of the boat. With a little gasp and a big splash she fell into the waters of Lake Lachrymose... Thanks to her two life jackets, Aunt Josephine was floating on top of the water, waving her hands in the air as the leeches swam toward her... The boat was already quite a ways from Aunt Josephine, and the orphans could only see the white of her hands as she waved them over the dark water.
There's no mention of her actually being attacked by the leeches, despite the leeches having swam towards her. All we know of her fate is this:
And we can never know exactly what was happening to Aunt Josephine as the children sat on the dock, unable to help her, but I will say that eventually-about the time when the Baudelaire orphans were forced to attend a miserable boarding school-two fishermen found both of Aunt Josephine's life jackets, all in tatters and floating alone in the murky waters of Lake Lachrymose.
From this, we're expected to gather that she was eaten by the leeches, but there's no mention of any of her body parts being found. So what do I think? I think she was taken by the Great Unknown.
