Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: wolfev on December 26, 2008, 12:33:43 PM
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So if animorphs was for an older audience do you think other issues would have been tackled in the books? I mean would sex have factored into it? Would drugs? What do you all think
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Sex, yes specially b/w Rachel and Tobias, and Marco, the token player
drugs not so much, though I could see Jake picking up drinking at the end
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I agree that jake would probably take up drinking, marco might try a few things after becoming a ballin hollywood movie star lol
But during the actual series, they probably wouldnt, but maybe they could have touched on them dealing with the darker side of society, like the yeerks are using a special drug to enslave the addict community or they're using a brothel to infest all its customers, stuff like that would be interesting to see the animorphs have to deal with
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The brothel thing is an interesting idea
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i've been toying with idea of doing a adult themed animorph story.
if i ever get around to doing it.
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I'd be interested in reading it, and if something like that happened, it would be late in the books when things are in a general down note but not so late that everythings gone wrong. At least if you tried to put it in timeline. Drugs and addictions can be pretty heavy stuff. But don't let Cassie narrate, it would be too moralized and there'd be too much mental arguments over right and wrong.
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Please, she's smoking pot in her barn when the others aren't around. She isn't selling it, but I know she's had to have tried it by the end of the series.
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Please, she's smoking pot in her barn when the others aren't around. She isn't selling it, but I know she's had to have tried it by the end of the series.
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I don't know about adult themed, but Animorphs would have been interesting if the Animorphs had been a bit older. If they ever do a movie or a decent TV show, I think they should make the Animorphs all 16 at the start.
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Drugs were mentioned a bit in Visser, remember? Visser One mentioned that she considered going after addicts, first, since they were easier to control. I think her host at the time she first came to Earth took heroin... Or maybe that was a fanfic...
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i dont beleive they ever specified, but my thoughts were crack cocaine.
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Yeah, I think the heroin addict host is from a fanfic I read, and that they didn't specify Visser One's host's addiction.
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adult themed? hmmm...i wouldn't imagine much else would be different. maybe a bit deeper into ethical and moral dilemmas...
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It was cocaine. Her nickname was Jenny "LINES"
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Ah. I TOTALLY hadn't caught that. lol.
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I still don't catch that, but whatever. Drugs are drugs, as far as I'm concerned.
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When you snort cocaine its called doing a line.
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I always thought about re-writing the Animorphs series, book-by-book, but having the characters in the 16-18 age range, and much more adult-themed. Like not actually showing sex scenes or anything, but possibly implying, and include various drug-themed sub-plots and all sorts of darker-related things.
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Remember too, if the Animorphs were 18 then they could have:
Not had to go to school, but have to hold jobs
Could legally buy firearms :D
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Just to say...
Some yeerks also do drugs... Remember : Oatmeal !
;D
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If you're looking for a bit more adult themed Animorphs story you could always try reading my fanfic "Ax the Prostitute" in the fanfiction section...
/shameless self plug
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Not had to go to school, but have to hold jobs
Well, depending on when their birthdays are, all or some, could still be in school until they're 19, and then there's also always college. But yes, one idea I would have loved to see them work with, was a couple of them trying to hold down a job while also being an Animorph.
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It was cocaine. Her nickname was Jenny "LINES"
haha, i never realized that. awesome ;D
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nor did i thats a good point i should have caught that. i have to finish the series
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It was cocaine. Her nickname was Jenny "LINES"
haha, i never realized that. awesome ;D
Same here ^^'
I also thought about more sex (Cassie+Jake, Tobias+Rachel, Marco+..., Ax+?? lol) or more adult feelings and problems. And I agree for the movies, maybe they should say they're 16 at the beginning (with true 16-years-old actors).
In fact, I put more adult things in my fanfiction too. A part is sex (close to rape, in fact) and the main character also think about gay things lol. But it's still in French, sorry... (My main character is older than the Animorphs and has a job).
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The last two books seemed to me to have a slightly more adult tone. It was pretty clear KA assumed her audience had grown a bit since the earlier books. The villains were less cartoony-evil and more sadistic (Tom's Yeerk jeering about morphing Tom and beating Cassie, Visser One's killing spree), the violence was ramped up a few notches, the cursing was slightly more explicit (Tobias's "son-of-a-" comment), and the last book danced around the issue of sex a little.
It was a little jarring to see the Animorphs world take a step in that direction, not because the content was shocking, but because I could tell KA was taking the story past a few of the young audience filters that had been in place throughout the series. As much as I love the ending, I'd be really interested in KA continuing the story after shifting to an older audience.
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I agree.
In fact, I'd like she go into more adult things quicker... for example she could follow the age of characters/readers.
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I think if a series starts out being geared towards a certain age range, then it should stay that way throughout the series. Even though over the years the first fans will have grown. How many years in real life did the series span, again. ~60 months would be ~5 years, give or take.
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I agree that making Animorphs into a more adult theme would be interesting.
But I personally wouldn't like it if the series exploited some mature stuff only for the fun of adult readers.
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I always thought about re-writing the Animorphs series, book-by-book, but having the characters in the 16-18 age range, and much more adult-themed. Like not actually showing sex scenes or anything, but possibly implying, and include various drug-themed sub-plots and all sorts of darker-related things.
GREAT idea! I would definetly read it.
If KA did it and produced all the books again, then I would buy every single one. Again.
I love Animorphs, but it does seem to get a little (for lack of a better word) ridiculous when someone says something like "Visser 3 is a big jerk!".
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I always thought about re-writing the Animorphs series, book-by-book, but having the characters in the 16-18 age range, and much more adult-themed. Like not actually showing sex scenes or anything, but possibly implying, and include various drug-themed sub-plots and all sorts of darker-related things.
GREAT idea! I would definetly read it.
If KA did it and produced all the books again, then I would buy every single one. Again.
I love Animorphs, but it does seem to get a little (for lack of a better word) ridiculous when someone says something like "Visser 3 is a big jerk!".
lol Yeah, and you don't know about the French translations ^^' Sometimes, it's softer than the English version!! So imagine!
I'd also read them all ^^ But I think nobody would do it, it's too long...
But fanfictions more adult themed must be interesting.
PS: Is there somewhere somebody who give advices of the Animorphs fanfictions? Because there are many in English, and I don't know which one is better to read... I read everyone in French, but I need more concentration and time to read in English, and there are about 100 times more fanfictions in English than in French ^^'
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lol Yeah, and you don't know about the French translations ^^' Sometimes, it's softer than the English version!! So imagine!
Is it ?
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Yeah, truth me, sometimes it is... Same for Harry Potter. Friends told me they deleted some parts... Sometimes they just change or delete the few little insults or change the descriptions to make them softer... It's just little changes, and I have no example, but there are...
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I've noticed that the French language in general is a lot softer than English.
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That's why I prefer German ;D
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lol A lot softer? Don't think so ;) We have many many words to say bad things too. But we usually don't use them in novels... only in daily life ^^
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I'd totally read Animorphs if it was more adult themed. I mean, I will get to it (eventually) But it would be more motivation if they were 16 or so.
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lol A lot softer? Don't think so ;) We have many many words to say bad things too. But we usually don't use them in novels... only in daily life ^^
See, I never found any words in the French language that sound really evil or nasty.
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lol A lot softer? Don't think so ;) We have many many words to say bad things too. But we usually don't use them in novels... only in daily life ^^
See, I never found any words in the French language that sound really evil or nasty.
I didn't too... in the Canadian French language ;)