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Post by Ghostofyou on Jan 25, 2005 18:27:40 GMT -5
I was just wondering what people think about the end of the series. How will it end? Happy or sad? etc.
I personally think that one of them will die, and the others eventuallyget rid of Olaf in some way. Or Count Olaf will die. Post your thoughts.
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Post by darkangel667 on Jan 25, 2005 23:02:36 GMT -5
I think it'll end mixed. Like, Count Olaf gets their fortune but they and the Quagmires escape or something.
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Post by Dante on Jan 26, 2005 11:54:52 GMT -5
For reference: Handler has said he won't do a Hamlet-style ending (Hamlet ended with just about every character dead), and he also said that the ending he will do is not the happiest, but happier than some.
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Post by darkangel667 on Jan 26, 2005 23:03:04 GMT -5
Hopefully more unfortunate than the Littlest Elf ending.
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Post by A. the Returned on Jan 27, 2005 4:03:50 GMT -5
i still think that the bauds will reunite with their mother and we will find out she is beatrice and then she will die
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Post by champ103 on Jan 27, 2005 14:28:25 GMT -5
That sounds good. I think it'd make sense.
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Post by Antenora on Jan 27, 2005 14:31:02 GMT -5
i still think that the bauds will reunite with their mother and we will find out she is beatrice and then she will die That's what I think will happen. Also, Olaf will either be captured or vanish entirely, and the children will survive in a reasonably safe place. The ideal ending would find a balance between triumph and tragedy--neither too happy or too sad. If the ending was overly happy, it wouldn't feel right, but a completely tragic ending wouldn't work either. At least Handler has confirmed that we won't see the latter. |
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Post by Ennui on Jan 27, 2005 14:32:29 GMT -5
If anyone says the word bittersweet in this thread, thinking they sound clever, I will release a tiger or two...
No predictions over here. But I imagine VFD will be sliced into tiny pieces.
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Post by Dante on Jan 27, 2005 14:37:23 GMT -5
My proverbial money is on Olaf being captured, but then both the parents are dead and he was the survivor (don't talk to me about the snowman) and that Mr. Baudelaire accidentally started the fire by knocking over his brandy bottle or something. And then the Baudelaires join V.F.D.
And Hector and Fernald may have to die, too.
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Post by Ennui on Jan 27, 2005 14:40:01 GMT -5
Basically, I envisage the series as a parable about the individual's moral superiority to the organisation, whatever standards they claim to uphold.
But I won't be too disappointed if I'm completely, utterly mistaken.
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Post by Dante on Jan 27, 2005 14:55:13 GMT -5
Basically, I envisage the series as a parable about the individual's moral superiority to the organisation, whatever standards they claim to uphold. But I won't be too disappointed if I'm completely, utterly mistaken. Is there any evidence to back up your theory? Personally, I thought TSS and TGG pretty much gave away the moral message. |
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Post by Ennui on Jan 27, 2005 15:06:37 GMT -5
The World is Quiet Here, eh?
I don't have much evidence. I'm just hoping, because that's what I believe. I'm an "individual practitioner"!
As are the Baudelaires. They are protected, unlike their prototypes, the three Snickets, from institutionalisation. As a result, they learn things for themselves, act on their own initiative, unrestricted by preconceptions (and possibly misconceptions.) This is the best way to be. VFD is a false sanctuary; you need to stand on your own two feet. I believe they will, eventually, learn this.
Blind faith...
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Post by Dante on Jan 27, 2005 15:19:30 GMT -5
The World is Quiet Here, eh? Kinda... I was thinking about the differing philosophies of the two sides of the schism, the moral dilemma in TSS, and what Fernald said in TGG, and it just seemed kinda... Well, it had a big effect on me. Perhaps bigger than The Confidence Man did. Has V.F.D. ever been a real sanctuary to them? They've never really known anything other than standing on their own two feet. For V.F.D. to be a false sanctuary, I'd have thought that it would have to have been a real sanctuary to them at some point. Or I could be misunderstanding the issue. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2005 16:19:59 GMT -5
fire, that's how, fire
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Post by Dante on Jan 28, 2005 16:37:59 GMT -5
Ahahahaha! Wonderful, wonderful. I wish I'd thought of that. |
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