Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Marco on September 18, 2009, 10:45:27 AM
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What happened after Animorphs? I mean if you look at the books K.A wrote after Animorphs , they still aren't as popular as Animorphs. Maybe it's the language in Everworld or maybe Remnants seems a bit unrealistic. Or maybe animorphs was more personal. Or maybe people were angry at the ending of animorphs. Or people are just not attracted to them? Or was it because animorphs being so long in existence caught your attention? Maybe the other books don't suit you like animorphs did? Or maybe animorphs has this magic of drawing people to itself?
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I was angry about how Animorphs ended and nothing else caught my appeal.
It's like how JK Rowling won't ever be able to write anything non-Harry Potter. It won't ever be as good as HP.
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There are some people like me that hated the Ani ending so much that they are afraid to get into another series. Afraid to become attached to characters, then see them all get killed or meet bad ends.
Though Everworld just didn't hold my attention as much as Animorphs. I'm not sure why.
It reminds me of James Patterson. I liked his books, but I stopped reading them because he likes to kill someone off for no particular reason, other than maybe avoid a totally happy ending.
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On a more general note, what happend to Earth after the Animorphs? How did the yeerks and other aliens affect human society in the longterm?
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Anti alien terrorist groups started showing up. andalites showed up to eat cinnamon buns and stuff. Stuff like that.
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Chad. You literally made me lol.
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my question is more to do with the sociological affects of aliens....
What effect would morphing technology have on the transgender?
how could yeerks help our mental health services?
how would trekkies react?
or science fiction authors generally.
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how could yeerks help our mental health services?
Unless they were part of the Peace Movement, I don't see why Yeerks would want to help our mental health services.
how would trekkies react?
They would probably all have nervous breakdowns.
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Yeerks would probably be able to help mental health services a lot (if they chose to out of being grateful for not being killed) they would have huge insight into how the human mind works, know whether memories are repressed or fake, if someone is lying to their psychiatrist? Possibly even control the brain chemistry in order to help the mentally ill.
another thing (i think Dorus the Walrus invented it) would be to control peadophiles and other recidivist criminals.
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Those are pretty damn good ideas. Especially the last one.
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remnants never caught my attention.
i read a few of them but never got into them.
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Another one: send yeerks nothlited into humans to countries like afghanistan or Sierra Leone to help stimulate the economy and educate people.
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Were there ever any Yeerks that were human nothlits, though?
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They did: basically all the yeerks were turned into nothlits in book 54.
The peadophile and mental health help thing was just a way to deal with non-nothlit yeerks.
Also transgender community could really benefit: One of the saddest things (I think) is that while a man may have an operation to give him a hole and breasts. s/he will never have an orgasm and more importantly the thing that makes a woman a woman (rather than just a fake idea of women as pretty creatures that have long hair and a dress) is her ability to bear children/create new life. That is all. A transgender man would be able to acquire his sisters, mother, cousins, father etc and then morph a female version of himself thus rendering him truly female. Likewise the thing that makes a man a man is not his logical mind and trousers but well his ability to father (though this is not as spectacular as a woman's ability to create life IMHO) but to me the most appealing thing about men (and the only reason I would want to be a man) is a man's unobtainable physical strength,which in all honesty, no amount of martial arts training in a woman will ever equal... So a woman turning morphing a man to become a nothlit would gain the truly important things about malehood: physical strength and fathering ability...
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i agree, that would be very beneficial for people.
what was the process of acquiring multiple things at once (ax, book 4)? i forgot the name.
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frolis maneouver I think.
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i boycotted KA applegate after the last animorphs book. i was so pissed, so upset, so let down by that ending, that i refused to ever pick up another applegate book again that wasnt animorphs. and that stupid self promoting letter at the end to read her next series didnt help either. that just made me more mad. it was like "ok, now that i wrote a super crappy half ass ending to a series u invested 5 yrs of ur life being obsessed with, go read my other books!"
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I loved the ending lol
Its just cause Everworld and Remnants just didnt hit the target audience right at the right time, they just didnt get the same initial popularity as animorphs
And the length has alot to do with it, we all invested alot more time in animorphs than anyone did in remnant or everworld because they didnt last long. who knows maybe today they would be more popular and get a longer run, we'll never know
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It's because Animorphs simply never can and never will be replaced... It will always hold that special spot in our hearts, and when the series ended, we all still felt that it had never truly ended... We who love Animorphs could never just "move on"... It would seem a betrayal to all that we hold near and dear...
And every year, through thin veneer, we hold that atmosphere of Animorphs cheer!
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Although initially I wasn't too happy with the ending (okay, I'm still not happy with it, but now I'm used to it), I've made it a point to hunt out KAA's other books (Everworld, mostly) because I'm tryig to recreate whatever it was that I got out of Animorphs. It's something that I've never been able to recreate with any other book/series, and reading her other books (and books by Michael, since I found this with Gone) is the closest I'm going to get.
It's a sad, sad truth. I reached my fiction-reading zenith at age 10.
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What about all the human hosts that were taken off world? wouldn't it be terrible to be taken from your planet, enslaved, living in a society which was hugely advanced where you are enslaved, eventually the yeerk empire would have receded and you (or your great grandchildren born in slavery) would be stuck on the other side of the universe on another planet, without the resources to return to the more primitive Earth. A future of beind less educated than your alien neighbours and hosts restricts you to low level (the equivalent of manual labor) jobs and minority status, although on some planets closer to Earth humans might outbreed the even more primitive local population (for instance the hork-bajir homeworld or any other planet conquered by the yeerks where the people where more backward than humans) and this would be like a smaller version of Earth with Earth's massive problems scaled down to size. Ironically humans living as a minorities on these distant alien planets may end up better off in the longterm than those left on the war torn Earth... Earth itself would be that poverty struck little planet that brave cultural tourists (as described in Graburn's article) would visit, even so those cultural tourists would only visit safer parts of Earth such as America, Australia, Europe perhaps even Japan, but they would perceive this trip to be a great adventure and their parents would call them daily to make sure they havent been mugged and murdered because America's/Earth's crime rate is the highest in the universe, likewise many aliens would begin to assume that all humans are Americans/Westerners. it certainly wouldn't be a planet that you bother to consult in an intergalactic issue or whose alliance you would seek in an conflict-humans being so tribalistic and riven with internal strife and such high infant mortality, and humans breed so much and yet they can't feed their children... Earth would be called "the Lost Planet" in the intergalactic equivalents of Time magazine and the Economist.
There is a fanfiction there.
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I remember there being something about Tobias writing a book in the last novel. I could be wrong though.