yeah. Jake doesn't need her.jake went into a depression after the trial... if he was still with cassie whould she have let that happen?
I think that's all the major points.
She betrayed him, then she left him. I feel for him that he still cares for her, though. I think she probably still cared for him too. It's a little sad, but she's the one to blame for not being there for him. If she had died, it wouldn't have been very different. Jake would still be depressed, and Cassie would still be absent from the Ax rescue mission.
In some way I wonder if Marco and Cassie couldn't get together. They were both based off of the married co-authors. Why some stanger named Ron?
Vietnam is a poor example of a good war. That's why I mentioned WWII.
It was a fiction series. It wasn't always true to how the world works. Why is it that in the end, she had to be so damn true to how war works out?
The ending is like the end of high school, where you knew nothing would EVER be the same. And no matter how many times you come back together and try to relive those memories you can't. You become trapped in an ever more glorious past.
It would be like the Magic School Bus series abandoning scientific inquiry for pointless entertainment.
That's a good point. Except I never felt like she was trying to shove it down my throat during the series. I could take it or leave it. The last book did feel like that, though. There were a lot of things that just couldn't be overlooked if I wasn't really interested in finding a deeper meaning.
She betrayed him, then she left him. I feel for him that he still cares for her, though. I think she probably still cared for him too. It's a little sad, but she's the one to blame for not being there for him. If she had died, it wouldn't have been very different. Jake would still be depressed, and Cassie would still be absent from the Ax rescue mission.QuoteI see this very differently, but I'll go into that later.
He originally did not know she had amnesia. By the time he found out, it was too late to abandon her. Also, Tobias was so desperate for a loving parent, he was willing to grasp at any wisp of hope, no matter how small.
Why even have him find her again. Why even mention her again in the series?To tie up a loose thread. To add emphasis to Jake's loss of his parents. To make a point about parents' willingness to sacrifice themselves for their children, even if the relationship between them has been strained or nonexistent. And to nudge the Animorphs so that they'd be willing to pass on the morphing technology to others after the David mess.
it depends on how you see it. in some cases realisticaly that was the only way it could finish.
the cliffhangers even give the ending more depth.
it was a story about war and in war their can never truly be a happy ending
I don't think Cassie would have been able to outright kill Tom though. She'd flinch, and she'd be killed instantly, and her battle morph is a fraction the size of Rachel's. I still think Rachel was the best choice to die based on what I said before. I say most people here want Cassie to have been the one because she's the least liked in general.
Everyone just wanted to have seen Tobias happy in his meadow with Rachel, Jake and Cassie married, and Marco living the good life.
It doesn't happen that way when you put teenagers through a world-shattering war. It's not a "good" war like WWII, it was a vicious moral battle all along the way. (Even WWII was horrible for a lot of people in it) I will say the end did not satisfy me, but only based on the fact it was short, had a lack of detail, and had a rushed feel to it. It was well planned however, and I don't flat out disagree with it. I would have liked a little less of a cliffhanger, though.
There's a million other fiction books out there that end in a sappy and happy ending. That's why I like Animorphs, it's fairly close to what real people would do in thost situations.
Just my :2cents: