Jesse’s Reviews > The Vile Village > Status Update

I am emotionally prepared for them to not rescue the Quagmires or find out what V.F.D. means but at this moment, I would not be surprised to find out that a core conceit of the tv show - the Baudelaire’s parents still being alive, at least until they reappear to be summarily killed for real - is being held as a surprise for the book series.

As if it isn’t obvious who detective Dupin is

It’s pretty big to be at the point where the climax typically goes wrong! Must be a crazy 100 pages left!

Well okay either Hector accidentally / purposefully leaves the children behind in his mobile air home OR Olaf’s crew steals it

Oh god it’s gonna be several books of potential meanings for the anagram V.F.D. isn’t it

Volunteer fire department?
Veterans of foreign delicatessens?
Vast fulminating darkness?
Very fast dogs?

So they are being held somewhere uptown if Isadora is sending poems via crow?

THE BRAND NEW FOUNTAIN OMFG

Omigosh Sunny is becoming more subtly intelligible

I can’t imagine Snicket breaking with the format so my assumption is that Hector is going to take off in the hot air mobile home like the Wizard of Oz, not purposefully abandoning the children but being unable to stop and pick them up as he stated that it was impossible for it to re-land

Okay the mental image of the village of crows is pretty cool. Also I hope that Hector doesn’t turn out to be dead, a bad guy, or a terrible guardian