Anyone remember “Dark Shadows”?
Just who was Victoria Winters and why was Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard so interested in her?
Was Tony Soprano killed when it all went to black?
It’s thoroughly explained (along with a lot of other stuff) in Fred Saberhagen’s The Holmes-Dracula File.
Not to mention in Richard L. Boyer’s The Giant Rat of Sumatra. And the Firesign Theater’s album of that name. Or a whole stack of other pastiches:
Who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep?
This.
I’ve been rewatching the whole series since I got the big boxed set for Christmas and was wondering about that too. The question gets dropped even before Barnabas comes in and takes over the show.
Alexandra Moltke says in interviews that Vicky was meant to be Elizabeth’s daughter, and I’ve seen that in semi-canonical follow-ups to the series, such as the audio plays surviving cast members did 10-15 years ago.
The last thing we ever see Vicky doing as far as finding her parents on the original show involved a portrait of a woman, painted about 25 year earlier, that looked very much like her. This woman is identified as Betty Hanscomb, the niece or daughter of the Collinwood butler back when there were lots of servants in the big house. That’s as far as the mystery goes. Given the answer about Elizabeth being her mother, I have to wonder what all this business with Betty Hanscomb was about, and what Vicky was supposed to discover before this storyline was discarded.
In one of the time travel stories one of the characters tells Victoria “Are you sure your not a Collins? You look like you might be related.” That’s as close as they get to actually addressing the mystery in the series.
This. And I’m shocked (shocked!) it took until the middle of page three for someone to think of it.
What I want to know is, if his baby needs him back so quickly that he needs to take an aeroplane (as opposed to a fast train), why did she write him a letter? Why didn’t she call him on the phone?
Mickey is a mouse.
Donald is a duck.
WHAT IS GOOFY?
Don’t tell me “a dog”…Pluto’s already a dog.
I wondered that, but always assumed the sense of urgency was his, not hers. She poured her heart out in a letter (perhaps to avoid the pain of immediate rejection) and he’s keen to get back with her ASAP.
I’ve always thought Goofy to be unique and sui generis – the only member of his species.
As The Master has implied many times, you can’t pre-empt the truth. Mrs. Howell really WAS named “Lovey”, and Goofy really is a dog. He started out as “Dippy Dawg”, and internal Disney documents describe him as a dog. Pluto predates him by two years, but apparently the folks at Disney wanted both a character that would be clearly a dog --owned by a mouse! – and an anthropomorphic dog character who could be a companion to the same mouse. Take it up with them.
Thanks ! Have just followed the Wiki link: more stuff about Sumatran giant rats – real-life (large rats, anyway); and fictional , developed from the Conan Doyle throwaway line – than one would have imagined possible. The Wiki article even mentions the passing GR of S reference in Watership Down.
His son Max plays a prominent role in several shows. The Wikipedia page for Goofy lists several Goof relatives.
In addition, Goofy is sometimes shown hanging around with similar creatures.
Just noticed this one. Brings to mind a long-ago-heard bit of World War 1 humour – part of the experience in that conflict, of British prisoners-of-war in Turkey. General impression got by such folk, was that the Turks were on the whole likeable people, and treated their POWs quite decently; but from a British point of view, they redefined “laid-back”. One POW had cause to call in at the post office in the Turkish town of Tarsus (where St. Paul came from, way before there was such a place as Turkey). He described the pile-up there of undelivered mail; as so huge that he half expected to find therein, a reply to Paul from the Corinthians.
Thanks. “Shows what I knew !” The Wiki article contains various oddities re Disney cartoon characters, including how for a while, a romance was hinted at between Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow; after which, suggestions of Clarabelle and Goofy pairing-off. Well – anthropomorphic-animals-fantasy-land has been “since forever”, a place where normal Earth-type sexual / reproductive biology doesn’t apply: frogs and mice, owls and pussycats, etc…
Oh. That’s pathetic.
Well, she wrote me a letter, said she couldn’t live without me no more…
So your position is that he’s paraphrasing, rather than accurately reporting the contents of the letter?
The Fool himself says in his last appearance “I’ll go to bed at noon” (III.6.83) which some take as his announcing his death–kind of an oblique way to do it, though.
Lear says ‘And my poor fool is hanged.’ (5. 3. 304), but is that a reference to the Fool or to Cordelia? Or both?
This article speculates that the same actor played both roles, the Fool and Cordelia; it’s possible since the 2 never appear on stage together.
http://www.britaininprint.net/study_tools/poor_fool_lear.html
Yes, she had at least one child. She says “I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me” (I.7.55-6) So at some time in the past she did give birth to a child who she breastfed. (There are some women able to lactate without being pregnant or giving birth, but it’s not at all likely that she would have done this, especially since we’re talking about the 1600s and earlier)
The mystery is, what happened to Lady Macbeth’s child? Did it die? Was it the child of a previous marriage? Fassbender’s 2015 film answers the question by showing the Macbeths at a funeral for their child.
Why “of course”? The last time I read Parkinson was in 1980, and I do remember him saying that Hornblower did push Sawyer, which doesn’t ring true to me at all. I see multiple indications that Wellard did the pushing and Hornblower is covering up for him.
As for mysteries, does anyone have answers to these Narnia ones?
What is the “Unspeakable word” spoken by Jadis when she destroys Charn?
What wrongdoing did Coriakin commit that had him banished to the Duffers’ island?
What is the story that Lucy reads in Coriakin’s spellbook, “for the refreshment of the spirit”, the loveliest story she ever read?