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Post by thedoctororwell on Mar 28, 2010 5:28:53 GMT -5
What's your favorite death, or death scene, in the whole series ? I do not necessarily mean the saddest or most emotional, just your favorite.
I do know some of the deaths in the poll are dubious, but let's just ignore them, I felt obliged to include them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 5:48:06 GMT -5
I think Uncle Monty's death is the saddest. I really felt bad for the Baudelaires when Uncle Monty died. He was such a great guardian.  |
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Post by Dante on Mar 28, 2010 7:13:33 GMT -5
...The Duchess of Winnipeg? Eleanora Poe? Wha?
I would have to say Olaf, I think. For his insane cackling.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Mar 28, 2010 11:48:19 GMT -5
Olaf's. I waited for it for thirteen books and it didn't let me down. I sort of liked Olaf after he died.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 28, 2010 12:24:53 GMT -5
As a whole, I enjoyed the deaths in the Hotel. It was a great way to kill off the characters without actually killing them.
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Post by thedoctororwell on Mar 28, 2010 14:53:37 GMT -5
Eleonora Poe was stuck by Geraldine inside an empty basement. And she told Mr Poe to ignore any call for help she would make. With Arthur and Geraldine caught into the Hotel fuss, Eleonora might very well be forgotten there... And slowly of starvation.
In LSUA Lemony really fears that the Duchess may be dead and that she's being impersonated. So it counts, I suppose.
I would have to say that Justice Strauss' death scene kinda broke my heart. Her activities with VFD ? Irrelevant in the end. The investigation about the fires she shared with her fellow judges ? Useless and dangerous, since her colleagues were actually the heads of the bad side of the schism and used these informations to trap the good VFDers. And above all that, there were these three children she had felt so guilty to leave behind, who may have not seen all those horrors had she taken them by her side. But no. What she did to help them in TPP actually caused a chain of events that led them to become actual criminals rather than simply being mistaken for murderers. And to become the henchmen of the guy who abused them and probably killed their parents. Bad day.
The way she keeps holding the boat, telling the Baudelaires to try to trust Justice one more time is what you could call absolute moral horror. She's clinging to the old world, the innocence, desperately telling them not to die. She fails. And on top of that you are pretty much assured her death was quite painful, what with the flames and collapsing ceiling...
Kit and Dewey actually had something to look forward to. Dewey knew that his death would precipitate a series of events that keep the sugar bowl from getting in the wrong clutches ; he died on duty, with honors. Kit chose to sacrifice her life to keep her baby safe, and knew the Baudelaires would take care of her. Both of these deaths had a meaning ; Justice Strauss's end was just unspeakably cruel and pessimistic.
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Post by Hermes on Apr 9, 2010 15:32:50 GMT -5
Yes, I agree about Justice Strauss. One probable death that I find quite affecting is that of Mr Poe - he refused to leave the hotel because he had to protect the Baudelaires' interests (whatever that means - he may be thinking of Mrs Bass and the bank robbery rather than of Olaf). So a noble death, though, loike the justice's, perhaps in the end a useless one.
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Post by allegedly bryan on Sept 1, 2010 23:57:04 GMT -5
Kits death was sad. Also, you should put the white faced women in there. for some reason, thats one of the only parts form the later books i can remember.
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Post by R. on Sept 11, 2020 9:34:41 GMT -5
My favourite death is Eleanora’s. It just creeps me out! The idea of being locked away in a basement by someone you trusted and being left to starve to death...
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 11, 2020 9:50:44 GMT -5
Georgina deaths is shocking, and I like it
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