Quags

[orphansrgreat]

Did they die live. I WANTED SOME QUIGLET MAN!! Oooh handler. . .

Discuss

[SadOccasion]

While I was intrigued by their story, ultimately I don't think it matters. This was the Baudelaires' story, not the Quaqmires', not the Widdershins' and not Hector's.

[jonnyboy11]

I wonder who cried Violet's name. I seriously wanted to see some Quigley/Violet or Duncan/Violet action. Anyway, he better write a series about the Quagmires!

[orsa]

Although I enjoyed having another trio of orphans parallel to the Baudelaires, the fact is, the Quagmires were not protagonists, so their fate was not relative to the ending of the story.

[asher]

Who cares?

[LargeManFeOrMale]

I'm kind of annoyed wit what he did with the Quagmires, I expected them to return, but no one did except Kit.

[LEMONYWILLBEGOD]

We aren't meant to know, leave it at that

[cyrus]

Live, of course, but trapped. I think "The Great Unknown" is some kind of submarine owned by "The man with a beard but no hair" and "A woman with a hair but no beard". They enslaved capt.Widdershins's crew and Quagmires.

[orphansrgreat]

Enslaved!? No! Why they will have to pay will thier lives! Handler has to say what happens to them . . . right?

[thistledown]

I hope Duncan shouted her name...I'm a fan of Dunclet. But Handler was evil not to bring them back. lol. But asher/orsas right too: who cares, becase they weren't main people.

[SadOccasion]

cyrus said:

Live, of course, but trapped. I think "The Great Unknown" is some kind of submarine owned by "The man with a beard but no hair" and "A woman with a hair but no beard". They enslaved capt.Widdershins's crew and Quagmires.

I think that is a great possibility. I've always been partial to the gian tquestion mark being controlled somehow by them.

[orphansrgreat]

The question mark might be the submarine. Should we make a thread?

[crypticidentity]

When I read that part about one the Quagmires shouting out Violet's name, and then Kit saying she didn't know which, it felt like DH put it in there JUST to tease people. Which I sort of had to smile at, as much as I would've like to see the Quagmires again.

[jacob4000]

I'm getting rather tired of people saying things in defence of Handler like "quags don't matter, all bout bauds!" When you introduce and closely intwine such characters to the point of them even being romantically interested, you better have some closure on it. What was one of the central points of book five? The new friendship between the Baudelairs and the Quagmires. What was one of the main points of book six? Worry about their friends, and then discovering them at the bottom of the elevator. What was one of the main points of book seven? Finding the Quagmires hidden somewhere in the village. In book eight and nine they take the back seat mostly, but then make a dramatic reappearance with Quigly representing them, and the appearance of some form of a relationship between Quigly and Violet. Then in book eleven, the Quagmires are frequently mentioned and even receive an important telegram from Quigly. In book twelve, their was the story of the eagles, and the hope that the Quagmires would show up and that Kit was going to meet them.

If you truly don't care, then you don't understand the significance they played in the series. I know everytime I picked up one of the new ones I hoped to hear more from them.

Then all the sudden they were swallowed by the unkown so that Snicket didn't have to include them--his excuse: this story is about the Baudelaires. I was irate.

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jacob4000 said:

I'm getting rather tired of people saying things in defence of Handler like "quags don't matter, all bout bauds!" When you introduce and closely intwine such characters to the point of them even being romantically interested, you better have some closure on it.

This is what really bugs me - all of the people that obsessed over the Quagmires and assumed that there just had to be a romance with them before the end of the series. Or at least assuming that they are the most important characters besides the Baudelaires. Yes, they were friends ofthe Baudelaires, but they weren't the only ones. Fiona was a friend of the Baudelaires, and Friday, and Ink, and a lot of other characters as well. And yet nothing is said about the whereabouts of ANY of the characters, besides the ones that die. We don't even know what happens to the Baudelaires, for goodness sakes, and here people are whining about the "poor Quagmires". The least they could have a tiny bit of concern for the others in the group - Hector, Phil, and the Widdershins family - or all the people that may or may not have been killed in the Denoument fire, or the islanders that rowed away full of Medusoid Mycelium and refusing to eat the antidote. Basically, the series ends without us knowing anything about anyone, which is how things are in real life, and although the Quagmires may have been beloved characters to some ASOUE fans, they're not special at all in the whole scheme of things. To think that they are is to slight all the other characters in the entire series, including the Baudelaires.