Why is the City shaped like a VFD eye?
At the very end of the Netflix series of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the camera zooms way out over the City, to show that the buildings and green space are arranged in the shape of the VFD logo.
However, we know from the last episode that
Ishmael, who's elderly but still fit and still alive perhaps ten years before that scene
was the one who founded VFD in the first place, which makes it seem strange that the City is built in a VFD shape.
Is the City much newer than we think?
Is Ishmael much older than we think (not impossible, given the mild supernatural elements in the prequel series)?
Did the aforementioned individual lie or mislead about being the founder?
Best Answer
The VFD logo reveals don't always quite make sense.
For example, the island on which Ishmael lives when the Baudelaires meet him is shaped like the VFD logo. However, VFD itself was already founded by the time Ishmael reached the island, and he never left (up to the point where the Baudelaires arrive).
The only people who know/are VFD and have been the the island are the Baudelaires' parents.
For this to make any sense, it would have to mean that VFD initially did not have a logo (or had a different one), and only when the Baudelaire parents returned did they update the logo to the one we have now.
There are many holes in that theory, and I think that sort of proves the point that the VFD iconography isn't always a matter of in-universe fact, but rather done as a way to suggest to the viewer that "VFD is everywhere" or "this is related to VFD".
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