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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2006 17:12:14 GMT -5
I was just about to start a new topic on this, good thing I didn't |
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Post by Gigi on Oct 4, 2006 15:36:31 GMT -5
Bookblast e-mail:  Not much new information. I'm really looking forward to this third video. We'll find out what the coded message is for sure, and Handler as Lemony Snicket cracks me up. |
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Post by Dante on Oct 4, 2006 15:47:16 GMT -5
I got the Book Blast too, but I've been out at a restaurant. Thanks for putting it up; I'll probably make a couple screenshots of my own. Incidentally, my predicted date for the final video is October 10th, for at least two reasons, but whenever I predict something these days it turns out wrong, so I've probably jinxed it.
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Post by Gigi on Oct 4, 2006 15:53:40 GMT -5
What are your reasons?
The e-mail doesn't give a specific date for the last video. It wouldn't surprise me if it were early, sometime between Tuesday and Thursday. Afterall, the CD comes out on Tuesday and the publisher may want people to see it before they go buy the book and read it.
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Post by Dante on Oct 4, 2006 15:56:17 GMT -5
What are your reasons? The e-mail doesn't give a specific date for the last video. It wouldn't surprise me if it were early, sometime between Tuesday and Thursday. Afterall, the CD comes out on Tuesday and the publisher may want people to see it before they go buy the book and read it. The release of The Tragic Treasury on the 10th was one of my reasons, with another being that according to some very rough calculations I did in my head a while ago, I think that there'd be about the same number of days between the release of each video if the last came out on the 10th. Plus, what with there being two AuthorTrackers/newsletters in September, I'd feel somehow incomplete if there weren't two in October (the second would be on the 13th - I believe they're obliged to announce the release of a new book on its release date), as though the pattern had been broken. But as I've said, my sensible reasons have been very wrong in the past. It could well be tomorrow. |
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Post by s on Oct 4, 2006 18:56:11 GMT -5
I'm a tad concerned by the "Clues found in the recently released The Beatrice Letters suggest a number of catastrophes plague the Baudelaires in The End, including, most notably, premature death."
...premature death? Of the Baudelaires? I don't recall this ever being seriously suggested.
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Post by Dante on Oct 5, 2006 2:51:07 GMT -5
That is the implication, but it could also mean the premature deaths of others (the effects of which might plague the Baudelaires). TBL can imply a few deaths. Are they relevent to The End? We'll find out very soon, I expect. I have a few ideas, but what is there left to do by now except despair?
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Post by beatriceblake on Oct 5, 2006 10:03:09 GMT -5
I don't think the Baudelaires will be the premature deaths because Beatrice #2's letters imply all three are still alive years later. I think Olaf and the Quagmires are the most likely candidates for "premature death". It would make sense if Olaf dies because otherwise what would persuade him to leave the Baudelaires alone? However the word "premature" makes me wonder if a younger person or persons dies. The only other young people in the story at this point are the Quagmires and Fiona.
This is unrelated but does TPP indicate whether or not we will see Mr Poe again?
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Post by Dante on Oct 5, 2006 10:20:59 GMT -5
This is unrelated but does TPP indicate whether or not we will see Mr Poe again? If I recall correctly, the book states that the lift doors close and take the Baudelaires away from the banker one last time. If you really want him back, though, you could interpret it as saying "they won't be taken away from him, but he'll be taken away from them - by death?!" I guess. Yeah, here's the passage: The elevator doors closed before Mr. Poe could finish his word, and the Baudelaires were taken away from the banker one last time, and with each stop of the elevator, I'm sorry to say, it was more or less the same.p334-335 |
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Post by drearydreary on Oct 5, 2006 10:34:57 GMT -5
That certainly is a very sad sentence.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Oct 5, 2006 21:08:11 GMT -5
No it's not I'm glad to be rid of Mr. Poe.
Premature death? Where is that implied... If anything the letteres imply that the Baudelaires are still alive after the events of asoue run their course...
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Post by Sora on Oct 6, 2006 2:07:06 GMT -5
New Video is up. Sorry Gigi your theory was wrong.
The Entire clip is played to Scream and Run Away.
DON'T
WATCH THIS
COUNT OLAF
(photo of a led with an eye on the ankle)
LIVES IN
PLACE
(money is shown)
ABSOLUTELLY TERRIBLE
FACE
WHY?
WAIT- (drawing of a man with a hook)
(drawing of a huge man with a man in one corner and a woman in the other)
(drawing of a bearded man)
(drawing of an eye)
(right angle O
LED
RICE)
WHOLE SOLE (drawing of a fish)
DIS - gust
spair
may
1
2
0
AAHHHAHHHAH!
PLEASE RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
(motorcycle appears in ally)
AAHAHAHAHHA! x 3
(screen blurs)
(LS turns away)
(motorcycle runs at Lemony)
(DO NOT ENTER DOOR appears)
(Lemony tries entering a door)
(starts running away)
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Post by drearydreary on Oct 6, 2006 6:30:38 GMT -5
I thought Gigi guessed the coded message correctly. Well Done.
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Post by Gigi on Oct 6, 2006 9:46:19 GMT -5
I thought Gigi guessed the coded message correctly. Well Done. Yes, I did. Thank you. Sora means my GUESS (not really a THEORY) that the last video would come out next week. I'm glad it's out today because it's my day off and I can enjoy it more. |
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Post by Gigi on Oct 6, 2006 9:51:23 GMT -5
Sorry for double-posting, but I'm also switching gears. (Oh, and look. It's a new page anyway.  ) Yesterday, I received a Teachers& Librarians e-mail from Harper-Collins. Nothing really major, but they did have a small plug for The End.  |
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