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Post by Sugary Snicket on Nov 12, 2005 9:06:30 GMT -5
I've always thought so. But remember how Snicket said that he did not know where they were now? Maybe the mother IS alive, but sometime in the very near future (I'm NOT saying RIGHT in book thirteen, I mean maybe after they grow up) She'll really and truely end up dead.
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Post by Sora on Nov 12, 2005 18:03:14 GMT -5
That would be sad. Very sad. The Bauds have been through soo much trauma, that would be just way to depressing for an ending.
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Post by kitolaf on Nov 12, 2005 19:14:16 GMT -5
where does it say the bads fathers name is brtrand?
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Post by lauren on Nov 12, 2005 20:06:09 GMT -5
TPP pg139
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Post by Nate2632 on Nov 13, 2005 23:41:30 GMT -5
i just finished the book today, and after reading it, i felt like it was pointless. there wasn't any real revelation except finding out that count olaf is younger then the kids parents, and he was also an orphan. and the poison dart thing. the whole trial seemed stupid and also pointless. it was funny to imagine everyone wearing blindfolds though.
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Post by lauren on Nov 14, 2005 2:38:18 GMT -5
Oh it may seem like it didn't tell us anything at the moment but I think when we get the answersto all these mysteries we will realize we wouldn't have been able to understand them without knowing what was said in TPP.
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Nov 14, 2005 6:56:43 GMT -5
In that way, TPP was a lot like the Autobiography--what it tells us seems to make little sense right now, but in the context of Book 13 and TNNotations, it'll all seem much clearer.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Nov 15, 2005 20:51:40 GMT -5
Yes, I could see how it could be such a thing, but unfortunately that doesn't exactly help us now. We have been starving for answers for too long...
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Post by lauren on Nov 16, 2005 2:22:58 GMT -5
*lauren's stomach grumbles, she looks down and pats it* Soon my precious, soon...
On another quite random note...I was looking at the opening picture this morning and noticed a small flag above a building to the right...any ideas about what flag it is...to me it looks like the American flag, white slightly striped with a darker corner, suggesting the story is set in America...which fits as daniel himself is American.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Nov 19, 2005 11:48:00 GMT -5
We probably will have to fill many gaps for ourselves. Plus Handler himself said that the series would not end in excessive death.
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Post by james on Nov 19, 2005 17:55:28 GMT -5
Where did he say that?
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Nov 19, 2005 17:57:26 GMT -5
Handler's said that the series won't have a completely tragic ending in several interviews, although I can't remember the exact sources.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Nov 20, 2005 21:42:02 GMT -5
I know that Handler has repeatedly said the ending is NOT "bittersweet" but I'm not entirely sure as to what that means. It's certainly Handler's ambiguous type of answer, but now instead of actually victorious I'm leaning toward tragic.
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Post by lauren on Nov 21, 2005 1:07:32 GMT -5
Yeah I have always leaned towards tragic...it would be a tragedy if it wasn't tragic
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Nov 21, 2005 12:09:33 GMT -5
LOL. I don't think that it'll end perfectly "littlest elf" sweet; I'd die if it did. I do, however, think it'll show an end to their misfortune, if not a toning-down of it.
Nor do I think it'll end compleatly awfully tragic. If Violet (or Klaus or Sunny) died, it'd be too sad. Olaf even. I doubt that any of the orphans will die (Olaf's orphaned, too, keep that in mind), but Hector and Kit are still open for questioning.
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