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Post by R. on Sept 11, 2020 9:54:52 GMT -5
Recently, I’ve been wondering why Esmé told Geraldine to lock Eleanora in the basement of the newspaper office. I think I’ve solved the mystery. It probably happened at some point during the events of TVV, due to the Baudelaires’ telegram being alongside Eleanora’s, and I believe that Esmé did indeed want Eleanora dead. I believe that Eleanora had been working with Esmé, but turned against her after what happened at the auction in TEE. Eleanora realised that Esmé was untrustworthy, and began plotting to expose her. She is the ‘you-know-who’ that Mr Poe was referring to in his letter. The article saying to ignore telegrams was not sent to him by his sister, but by Esmé, impersonating her so as to prevent either the Baudelaires or Eleanora signalling for help. The main reason Esmé didn’t do it herself was because she was in the Village of Fowl Devotees, nowhere near the city. As for why she killed her in such a horrible way, and why she left the telegraph machine in the basement, giving Eleanora a bit of false hope, I believe this to be mainly out of spite, because she was angry at Eleanora for double-crossing her.
So, that’s my analysis of what happened. What do you think?
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 11, 2020 15:23:16 GMT -5
Dante demonstrated that Eleonora was not an official supporter of Olaf. So killing her was a necessary step in replacing an official non-supporter with an official supporter. At least I understood it that way. But I liked the possibility that you raised.
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Post by Dante on Sept 12, 2020 3:38:39 GMT -5
That's quite a carefully-constructed theory, roxy222; well done. Eleanora's final telegram demonstrates that she wasn't an active collaborator in falsehood, though; I've always more thought of her as just a sort of useful idiot who finally outlasted her usefulness - perhaps indeed in response to her conversation with Mr. Poe in the Anxious Clown, where it seemed he was going to express reservations about the tenor of her articles on the Baudelaires. It was clever of you to incorporate "you-know-who" into your theory, though, and Esmé is a relatively convincing selection.
Incidentally, though, I've never actually read her basement confinement as a murder attempt; simply an imprisonment to keep her quiet. She sounds more inconvenienced than anything else.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 12, 2020 4:03:43 GMT -5
That's quite a carefully-constructed theory, roxy222; well done. Eleanora's final telegram demonstrates that she wasn't an active collaborator in falsehood, though; I've always more thought of her as just a sort of useful idiot who finally outlasted her usefulness - perhaps indeed in response to her conversation with Mr. Poe in the Anxious Clown, where it seemed he was going to express reservations about the tenor of her articles on the Baudelaires. It was clever of you to incorporate "you-know-who" into your theory, though, and Esmé is a relatively convincing selection. Incidentally, though, I've never actually read her basement confinement as a murder attempt; simply an imprisonment to keep her quiet. She sounds more inconvenienced than anything else. The Portuguese translation makes it look like she will end up drowning
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Post by Hermes on Sept 12, 2020 6:33:04 GMT -5
Whether or not the intention was to kill her, I'm doubtful that she actually died. The staff of the DP would presumably notice that their editor was missing, and might hear noises coming from the basement: and she could send telegrams to people other than her brother.
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Post by Dante on Sept 12, 2020 15:30:18 GMT -5
The Portuguese translation makes it look like she will end up drowning So there's a suggestion that the basement is filling with water, in the Portuguese translation? That's either a misunderstanding, or artistic license; in the original, the worst she can say about the basement is that it's "filthy and damp".
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