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[superorange]

It's directed by Gustav Sebald. Sebald code anyone?

[callumbarker]

What is meant by this in the authortracker that was sent out:"Others think it contains part of a crucial secret code."
All that I can see is when the professor is chalking, it shows WALEAT, and when it is showing the affected areas there are some names of places, such as what looks like "ENIWEIOK lagoon" Other visible place names are "Runit" and "Rujoru"

Can anybody comprehend this?

[callumbarker]

ALso, I tried the Sebald Code but there are no bells ringing (That is the SC, isn't it)

[Dante]

callumbarker said:

ALso, I tried the Sebald Code but there are no bells ringing (That is the SC, isn't it)

Correct. I suspect that the direction by Sebald, and its presentation by the London branch of the Herpetological Society, are merely names chosen that tie into the series rather than of any importance (notice how the video has nothing to do with reptiles).

That said, I looked up Josh Greenhut, and I found a reference to him on this site (a bit more than halfway down):
Josh Greenhut (posing here with his son) is an awesome writer who is actually mentioned in the most recent "A Series of Unfortunate Event's" book and has been known to be a co-hort of Lemony Snicket.
I'm pretty sure Greenhut wasn't in TPP, so maybe that's a reference to The End, or a mistake on the writer's part, like a reference to the Vile Videos or something. But what I'm saying is, it seems he may be familiar with the series. Well, he'd have to be - he wrote the video script.

I think the triangles are what we should be thinking of. I wasn't up for putting much thought into them before they'd appeared in more than one video, but now they have, and if you look at where the triangle appears in this video, the line the man is drawing on the chalkboard should continue far below where the left side of the triangle ends - what I'm saying is, that image appears to have been edited in.



So it's almost certainly got some significance, although we'd need the third video to work out what, most likely.

Also, Snicket isn't set to appear until the third video, and I didn't recognise him in this one.

[superorange]

Hm, sounds like bells at the very beggining to me.

The video won't load, so I'll just have to wait.

[Dante]

superorange said:

Hm, sounds like bells at the very beggining to me.

The video won't load, so I'll just have to wait.

That's from Things Are Not What They Appear, the Gothic Archies song. I'm pretty sure it's not actually done with bells. And it continues throughout. If it was Sebald Code, I'd expect it to be more explicit, and the lines don't sound awkward enough to be Sebald.

However, my approach to most Snicket material these days is very minimalist, so I might be biased.

[superorange]

ffwf said:

superorange said:

Hm, sounds like bells at the very beggining to me.

The video won't load, so I'll just have to wait.

That's from Things Are Not What They Appear, the Gothic Archies song. I'm pretty sure it's not actually done with bells. And it continues throughout. If it was Sebald Code, I'd expect it to be more explicit, and the lines don't sound awkward enough to be Sebald.

However, my approach to most Snicket material these days is very minimalist, so I might be biased.

From as far as the video is letting me get in, I have "Good Suzie" Suzie is Sunny's false-name in The Daily Punctilio. OMG GASPS.

And at this point the scetence structure seems very sloppy indeed...

[Dante]

Very well then. I transcribed the whole thing, and put it through the ol' Sebald Decoder.

With "O' Connor" as two words and "psychomental" as one:
"good Suzie explains Snicket day is world us"
With "O'Connor" as one word and "psychomental" as one:
"good Suzie their millions even a who all"
With "O' Connor" as two words and "psycho mental" as two:
"good Suzie their millions even is world us"
With "O'Connor" as one word and "psycho mental" as two:
"good Suzie explains Snicket day this is the help"

The last one makes sense, I'll give you that, but "Suzie" could only refer to either Sunny or series editor Susan Rich - neither of whom are in a position to explain anything to us - and "Snicket day" is just the day when a Snicket book comes out (and I don't recall if they've actually given it that name since TGG), and the entire message is redundant, and there are no bells or (if you count the music) they're not in the right place, and reptiles still fail to enter into the video. I'm inclined towards coincidence or, at best, non-canonical in-joke message.

[superorange]

Thanks dante. I must've been doing it wrong because so far I had "Good Suzie Desolate Suffer"

[Triangle Eyes]

Did anyone else notice that the newest one flashed something between where it says The End the last in A Series of Unfortunate events and Don't Read The Beatrice Letters either? I couldn't pause it on it.

[shewhohesitates]

i thought i saw something flash between those screens as well. when i paused, all i got was a white screen.

[Freshie]

Theres nothing between those screens. It just says "Picture Start" upside down. Which is something that have in old films.



And the triangle....maybe its refering to a love triangle? Thats my first thought.

[Gigi]

It could make something along the lines of:

TWO
CALLED
BEATRICE

It would certainly fit.

My only other thought is that they would just have the letters of a scrambled phrase, or some sort of anagram.

[Triangle Eyes]

0crazylemon0 said:

And the triangle....maybe its refering to a love triangle? Thats my first thought.

That's what I thought when I saw it in the first one.

[s]

Yes, I'm almost positive the triangle thing is going to be an anagram, once we have the third video. As for Sebald code, highly unlikely. Whenever there is Sebald code, it's made extremely obvious, and it wasn't in this case.