My hand slipped and I made a timeline of the real lives of all the Poe Party attendees. Just, y'know. For fun.
Interesting notes (spoilers ahoy):
- The timeline is SO close to being exactly 200 years: Jane Austen was born December 16 1775, and Agatha Christie died January 12 1976.
- The closest two in both life and death dates were Emily Dickinson and Louisa May Alcott: they both lived to the age of 55, and their lives were only offset by two years.
- Neither of the two most long-lived attendees, H.G. Wells (died at 79) and Agatha Christie (died at 86), survived the evening.
- Hemingway was the last to be born, but Christie was the last to die.
- Christie outlived everyone, both in terms of age and death date, but she had the least screen time.
- Austen was the first born, and in the show she was the first to die.
- Charlotte Bronte was the shortest lived at just 38, followed by Poe (40) and Austen (41).
- Fun fact: Mary Shelley is definitely haunted, she kept moving around and loading incorrectly for no reason and I ended up having to retake the screenshot three times.
I put this together out of curiosity, because my roommate and I were musing about the disparate lifetimes of the authors, and figured I might as well share it. If you feel like this is Anne Bronte and Ralph Waldo Emerson erasure, you can make your own!
Hey could you explain Chekhov's gun joke please? I think its the last major one i still dont understand
Sure!
Spoilers for Poe Party
So in writing, Chekhov's Gun is a rule about foreshadowing. Basically, if you make a point to introduce a gun, it should go off. If it doesn't, you don't need the gun.
In Poe Party, Charlotte Bronte pulls out a gun and says it "was a present from (her) lover, Anton Chekhov." Later, Oscar Wilde gets the gun. He uses the microwave that killed Mary Shelly to electrocute Charlotte and Anne, and then pulls out the gun and says "in hindsight, I really should have just used this gun!"
So the gun never went off (ok well it did, but it was fired pointlessly into the ceiling so it doesn't count).
I especially love how Edgar turned out, but Mary is suprisingly accurate, too (I drew this like 3 years ago and totally forgot about it, anyway, poe party rocks, I would draw all of them again in a heartbeat)
I feel terribly sorry about Emily's nose, though, I might have to fix that...
(Also is it me or do they all have really large eyes? I wonder whether that was intentional)
Dangerous Liaisons - Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close)
Robin Hood (2006) - Djaq (Anjali Jay)
Edgar Allen Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party - Charlotte Bronte (Ashley Clements)
The Paradise - Katherine Glendenning (Elaine Cassidy)