Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Fwahm on October 19, 2009, 11:14:12 PM
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As you know, each book only has a single narrator (with a few exceptions), and thus you only get to see what they see. If you could pick one book to get the others' perspectives on, which would it be?
I'd pick The Capture.
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I think there are parts of books that I'd like alternate perspectives on. Since I was always a J/C fangirl, I would have liked to see Cassie's perspective in books 26 and 53. :-* Or Rachel's perspective in any of Tobias' books.
Actually, I would've liked more of Tobias and Ax's perspectives, period.
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Actually, I would've liked more of Tobias and Ax's perspectives, period.
agreed. every other turn wasn't nearly enough.
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I would love a Rachel perspective of 33. Luckily there's a fanfic version on ff.net that's very good.
I was also very dissapointed in 54 that when Rachel was killed Tobias didn't get a chapter till 3 years later. By rights he should have had the chapter immediately after hers.
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I think he should have too. That was weird. Just one of many strange things about that book, though.
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More from Ax, period... He and Tobias had the truly unique perspectives of the bunch...
No offense, because many of you clearly hold Tobias in the highest esteem, but he was probably one of my least favorite characters... :(
And I felt very emotionally and mentally drained after reading anything from his perspective...
Ax was probably the hardest to write a point of view for though... the whole 'completely different point of view that even the author couldn't possibly fully identify with' thing...
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#26 from the Ellimist's perspective would have been fascinating. Or #48, from either Crayak's or Drode's. Or David's, for that matter.
AC, from Arbron's perspective, or Alloran's. Maybe it's just that I wanted something from Arbron's point of view. He didn't get nearly enough written about him in the series.
Oooh, or how about #33 from Taylor's point of view? Either the Yeerk, or the human, either of them would have been fascinating. All of her character development came from what Tobias thought of her, and you have to admit, he's probably just a leeeetle biased on the subject.
#10 or #53/#54 from Erek's perspective would have been interesting. Erek was another character who, for how major a character he was, kind of got short-changed in the character development department.
Seeing something from Aftran's perspective would have been cool, too. Like, what she was thinking when she decided to become trapped as a humpback whale.
Fanfic writers, are you guys taking notes?
And, of course, I agree with everyone who has said that Tobias and Ax didn't get enough books. It was so unfair! They're my two favorite characters, and they both got gypped in favor of the boring stupid human characters! >:(
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Anything from Rachel's POV post the Return.
Peter or Eva's POV post whatever book Eva returns in.
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I agree that a book with Erek's perspective would have been very interesting. Like David, he was one of the main character but didn't have his word to say.
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If anyone really wants to see alternate POVs then I might be able to work them into my fic at some point.
I'd like to see quite a few books from an alternate view point, or at least parts of them.
#1 - Would be interesting to see someone else's POV of how it all started. Especially parts we didn't see from Jake's view (eg. Cassie learning to morph clothing and Tobias getting trapped in morph).
#3 - Seeing the others on the truck ship as fish and what the others were thinking when Tobias went AWOL.
#4 - The Whale's POV! :D
#6 - Anyone besides Jake, but especially Ax. How hilarious would it be to see him playing Jake? ;D
#7 - Ellimist and/or Crayak to see them observing the "game" in progress. The Ellimist knew they wouldn't give up the fight, but I bet Crayak thought they might.
#8 - Anyone other than Ax. Preferably Jake or Tobias, but it might be fun to see Cassie's POV of the dinner scene where Ax morphed Jake.
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I like this game!
What I wanted more of in general were Chronicles books. I think Visser Three had more to say than narrating 1/3 of the Hork-Bajir Chronicles, I would have loved a Taxxon Chronicles narrated by Arbron, I wanted to hear from Alloran A LOT, but also Seerow, maybe some kind of counterpoint, since they both did something egregiously illegal but one out of compassion and one out of...I guess desperation? I'd have loved to hear from Crayak in the Ellimist Chronicles, and right now I'm toying with the idea of a fic set during the final arc of the series told from Toby's perspective.
If that hasn't been done to death yet.
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Too many to list. Just too many. Basically any book where a character besides the current narrator played a large part. Like Cassie's or Tobias' perspective in book 1, Ax's perspective in book 6, and so on.
Can you imagine what Ax thought in book 6? Jake going through a fate worse than death, while he must spend three days in a Human home with a controller.
That would have a lot of potential for an Fanfic.
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Agreed with what people before have said. More from Ax's perspective would have been great. I would have liked to hear more about how he viewed events and more about how he was adapting to being so far from home.
Yes, the occasional comedic moment with Ax being out of place was fun, but even when I was younger, I kind of wished there was often the more serious angle about how he was adjusting.
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I'd like to see Everyone's perspective on The Attack. Personally, I thought The Attack could've been a Megamorphs. They could've done so much with that premise.
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I agree. That was a really well done book that wouldn't have suffered from 50 extra pages or so.
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I agree, Spartan... The Attack was one of my all-time favorites... Too bad it's the only one I don't have... :'(
I never thought of it being a Megamorphs! That's an awesome idea! (who wouldn't have loved to see Ax's take on Howler physiology, or Marco's take on the J/C "moment"?)
Also, to couple two previously mentioned ideas, Erek could have had a couple interesting chapters in that book as well... (note how I used "couple" in two completely different, yet grammatically correct ways!)
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Yeah, I thought it was bull that Jake and Cassie kiss in #26, but they go back to being platonic afterwards. :crazy:
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Ummm... YEAH!
What the heck is WRONG with those two???
There's a perspective that we don't get a lot of even when Jake or Cassie are narrating - their relationship... it's like a big no-no to talk about for them for almost the entire series...
(I guess that makes sense, though, given that they are young teenagers, and as I can personally attest to, relationships at that age are already incredibly over-complicated by numerous factors... Throw in an alien invasion, gory battles, and bizarre capabilities, and you have one sewiouswy messed up mix)
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I thought it was weird too, that the J/C relationship was so low key. Then KA comes in and says in her last letter that relationships that start during the war fall apart during peace time. If you want to talk about a relationship that really gets started, and becomes strong, during the war then you should look at R/T. And I don't think their relationship would have fallen apart after the war ended.
Wheras J/C stayed about the same as it was before the war started, and never developed much at all. They get a kissing scene in 26, and maybe some offhand mention of other stuff later.
What KA says about relationships in her last letter doesn't fit what we see, as far as I can tell.
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Yeah, I think she just didn't want Animorphs to turn into her Makeout series. ;D
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Good point... And neither did we... (for the most part)
Still... I think book #44 from Jake's perspective (or even better, Marco's!) would have been enlightening AND hilarious! :)
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I just thought of a really good one.
Visser One's perspective during book 30 would be amazing to see, IMHO.
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I would've loved to see David's perspective on all 3 books of the David Trilogy.
And visser 3's perspective might've been interesting in book 23.
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I'd have loved to hear from Crayak in the Ellimist Chronicles
My main complaint about The Ellimist Chronicles. I thought we'd know more about Crayak but he's still mysterious as ever.
I would've loved to see David's perspective on all 3 books of the David Trilogy.
That's another thing I would have really liked to see.
Yeah, I think #26 would have been a good MegaMorphs, also.
I would have liked to see Visser Three's perspective during Visser.
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I would have liked to see Visser Three's perspective during Visser.
Yeah, I had hoped it would be like V1 for one half and V3 for the next.
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I think it was supposed to have more of V3 in Visser, but they decided the V3 sections weren't good enough. Hence why V3 is on the cover, and no Human woman at all.
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Either that or when you think of Visser, you automatically think Visser 3.
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nah, chad's right. it was stated very clearly in the anibase that originally it was gonna be about both visser 3 and 1, but ka found visser 1's story to be more interesting, and made the whole thing about her...
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Yeah, but was the cover art approved before the story was made?
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I don't know, but I think the covers of books sometimes get done by different people than those that write the books.
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They normally do, but the author's always in the loop.
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like I said, KA originally intended to have visser 3 in the story as well. the people who made the cover decided to go with visser 3 for the cover. after writing, KA realized visser 3's story wasn't interesting and basically scrapped it. by then, it was too late to change the cover.
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I'd like to see either Tom or the father's side of the 4-day trip to the cabin.
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I'd like to see either Tom or the father's side of the 4-day trip to the cabin.
Oi, yes!
Also, Tom's perspective of 49.
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how about James perspective of books 50 onwards?
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Ax's view in a large majority of the books. Tobias' veiw in the book where the Animorphs have to stop WWIII.]
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I think it would have been enlightening to see Aftran's perspective...
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I think it would have been enlightening to see Aftran's perspective...
In...?
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Book 29. Or somewhere between 19 and 29.
I'd like to know what she thought about entering a strange head and finding out it was an Andalite. And that he was dying, knowing that if a host dies the Yeerk is often not far behind. and the conversation she had with Ax which probably went something like <Hey there. I'm Aftran. I don't want you to panic or anything but...no no! Calm down! It's ok! I'm not going to do anything bad to you!>
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I would have liked to have seen Erek's perspective in #26. I also agree with whoever said that it could have made a really good megamorphs book.
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I think it would have been enlightening to see Aftran's perspective...
In...?
Book 29. Or somewhere between 19 and 29.
Both, actually... It just would have been interesting to have the perspective of a Yeerk who wasn't mostly psychotic, and actually cared about life other than her own...
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I wouldn't mind reading one of the parent's POV in 49 the Diversion; mostly Loren's, as she was the narrator's long lost mother.
Reading David's POV in the Trilogy and book 48 would have been great. Maybe then people wouldn't see him as such a 2-D character.
Pretty much give the secondary characters more of a voice for any book.
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The Other, no. 40...I'd love to see Ax's POV, or even Gafinilan or Mertil's POV.
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I'd like to see Aftran's perspective of #19 ;D
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I'd like to see Aftran's perspective of #19 ;D
Me too! :P That would've been interesting.
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I agree, I'd like that one too.
David's view, definitely. Or Mertil's/Gafinilan's...I'm not sure if I have that name right.
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Visser 3's view on anything would be fun.
Especially when he's angry that he lost to the Animorphs again. :mad:
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I would have loved to have Elfangor's pov when he crashes. I always wondered if he worried about Ax and the rest of those on the GalaxyTree when he crashed. I can't remember if they had it in the end the AC or not, but still. Also, to have Tobias' pov or Marco's on the book when Ax threatens to blow up the city with a nuke in order to prevent a third WW. It would have been interesting to see how Tobias would have reacted knowing that Ax was going to do. And I wondered if Marco would have agreed with it or not. Also, to have Cassie perspective when she and Ax and someone else I can't remember are on the subway to blow up the Yeerk Pool would have been a very interesting read. And knowing what Ax thought when Cassie gave the blue box away to Tom would have shined some light on what the rest of the gang thought. If Ax told what it was like to find the 'Morphs come and rescue them would have added depth to Cassie's boring (in my opinion) story.
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The library at my school didn't have the entire collection of the Animorphs (which is so stupid, seriously), so I haven't gotten the chance to read all of them. But of the ones I did get to read, I agree with whoever said that there should've been the other Animorphs perspectives in the very first book. I would've liked to know what they were all thinking when there was a spaceship landing in an abandoned construction site--especially Marco, because point of view is interesting and makes me laugh out loud. I remember way, way, way back in elementary school, I was reading a Marco-perspective Animorphs book and I snorted loudly and everyone turns to me and look at me like I'm crazy. Good times...good times.
I would've liked to see more Ax, too. It seemed as if every time he narrated, I became enlightened on human nature. And this brings me to my pet peeve: Why, oh why did they never explain to Ax why humans wear clothing? I mean, really? Every time he asked they beat around the bush. Ax is all like, "Why ya gotta wear clothes, earthlings?" and they're all, "Cuz we're humans, yo!" Just explain it to him!!!
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The library at my school didn't have the entire collection of the Animorphs (which is so stupid, seriously), so I haven't gotten the chance to read all of them. But of the ones I did get to read, I agree with whoever said that there should've been the other Animorphs perspectives in the very first book. I would've liked to know what they were all thinking when there was a spaceship landing in an abandoned construction site--especially Marco, because point of view is interesting and makes me laugh out loud. I remember way, way, way back in elementary school, I was reading a Marco-perspective Animorphs book and I snorted loudly and everyone turns to me and look at me like I'm crazy. Good times...good times.
I would've liked to see more Ax, too. It seemed as if every time he narrated, I became enlightened on human nature. And this brings me to my pet peeve: Why, oh why did they never explain to Ax why humans wear clothing? I mean, really? Every time he asked they beat around the bush. Ax is all like, "Why ya gotta wear clothes, earthlings?" and they're all, "Cuz we're humans, yo!" Just explain it to him!!!
They did at one point, in one of the books he mentions knowing that they put clothes on to cover up insightly parts, but thinks that we cover up the wrong parts because there is nothing uglier than a human nose.