Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Zanshiro on May 03, 2010, 07:06:06 PM
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Hello everybody, as you can tell, I'm pretty new here ;)
Anyways, I have been skimming some of the forum topics for a few days now and it has stimilated my Animorph charge. Reread, Andalite Chronicles and on book 5 again, anyways..
I am not sure if anyone else does this, but I found myself skipping a bunch of paragraphs that are all about morphing, I mean I know its cool but I just....
Anyways, I would like to hear your thoughts :)
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those are definitely skim-worthy
as are the chapter one recaps, though those can be fun when they claim things that are just blatantly untrue.
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nah. i dont skip
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I always skip :P
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nope I don't really skip over anything when I read.
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I skip. Don't need a rehash each and every book.
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If it's a new morph I don't skip
If it's old hat, I skip on by
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ya i skipped the morphing and recap parts as well
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I don't skip, but I do skim through them quickly, now that I've read them all. When they were new at the time, I read through all of it. :P
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the first time i read each book, i did read the morphing bits. towards the end of the ghostwritten books, however, i'd skip over the intro pages.
now i skip over both indiscriminately.
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Is this thread for real?!?!?
The morphing is the whole guimmick of the series! WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO SKIP IT?!
I love the visuals KA built into our heads of the morphing never being predictable and the sensations that each of the Anis had. If you ask me, we didn't get enough of it! Heheheh!
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I tend to skip descriptions of morphs that I've read before, like the bird morphs. New morphs I'm less likely to skip.
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I tend to skip descriptions of morphs that I've read before, like the bird morphs. New morphs I'm less likely to skip.
This. Typically, by the end of the series this time through, I was skimming every morph to see if something really interesting happened, but I certainly wasn't reading every one detailed after probably book 25 or so.
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Doing a deliberate reread I read everything, on a random revisit to the series I'll skip recaps and morphs
Unless something particularly strange happens in the morph: marco's finger bones coming out of his body comes to mind
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lol well atleast I don't feel alone. Don't forget the parts wheres it like, "She'd be cute if it wasn't for that snout growing from her nose..."
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I definitely skip the recaps and the old morphs. I know they were trying to make it accessible from any book, but yeesh.
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It is ironic as Gafrash mentioned, the actually morphing process itself within AniMORPHS gets repetitive lol, and not what I look forward to. Even though I have to admit in Book 5, where lobster legs exploding from Jakes Chest was pretty cool.
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I always read the morphing paragraphs. They're so cool!
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If it is the feature animal of the book, like the gorilla in #5, then I read the description, but if it's one of the morphs they use every book then no.
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For me it depends on how much I've already been reading. If I'm blowing through several books in a row, then I'll start to skim the morphing and recaps unless something notable happens--I agree with whoever mentioned Marco's finger bones. That's the kind of image that stays with you.
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I always remember the part where Tobias describes Rachel morphing into a bald eagle and how it's like watching her soul emerge from her body.
I can't remember what book it was in, though.
But unless any character or plot development occurs, I skip right to the part where the animal mind emerges. Yesterday I was watching a dog run around and I literally said, "I wish I could turn into that dog." Everyone stared, but I just love imagining the world from behind animal eyes.
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Not me,I read the WHOLE book,if that means reading the morphing paragraphs,so be it.
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I never skipped one of those scenes because it's part of the story and I want to be sure to read everything.
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So true,not sure why anyone would skip over the morphing bits,but hey its their choice.
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i refuse to skip anything.
i'll skim the intros, of course (if there's a 2.0 they better not do that again), but not the morphing.
granted, i won't be as fascinated as i was when i read the series initially.
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I always read the morphing paragraphs. They're so cool!
You've only read 2 of the books so far. They get really repetitive after awhile. Though I never skipped them. Not a single one.
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I didn't skip them the first time, but I do skip them when I re-read the books. They are nice for kids I think, but being older they get repetitive for me. Even when I RP in Pokemorphs I tend not to write out the morphing scenes unless it's a brand new morph.
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I skip, sure, because sometimes they get WAY too complicated. The most glaring example I can think of is Marco morphing Spawn in book #20 -- seriously, several pages, almost a whole chapter? I know she wanted to focus on the aspect of morphing, but seriously, that's too much in my opinion. But then again, the great parts of the series far outshadow the bad, so I'm not complaining. Just stating an idea. (shrug)
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I nearly always skipped the morphing scenes, even in my early Animorphs days. Sure, some of the descriptions are great, but I just wasn't that interested in it. To me, morphing was never anything more interesting than a versatile tool to fight the Yeerks; I didn't care how Jake got from human to tiger, just what he did once he was in morph.
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So true! But everyone's entitled to their opinion. I would have liked some of them with less detail. I can understand how K.A. wanted to emphasize some of the horror and insanity aspects of her series with bizarre morphing, but that should never go beyond a page in my opinion.
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a few people have already brought this up, but i LOVED some of the more 'extreme' morphing 'flubs' (if you can call them that)- imagery done well (cassie's angel wings or marco's dog-bone tail), or when someone (typically cassie) was morphing against the clock...
but i swear, after a while, the ghostwriters weren't even bothering to be creative with morphing paragraphs... they were using them like filler material- "my eyes moved around the sides of my head, my knees cracked as they switched direction, i felt the itch of fur spreading across my body, the ground came rushing up at me..." i mean, really. xD;; like cheap, 10-page filler. i think any one of us could write out our own morphing paragraphs with no problems. no research, even; that's how simple they were, imho.
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Actually, that's a good point. Somewhere in the 30's, I stopped reading the morphing paragraphs and just started skimming for anything interesting. I don't actually recall any noteworthy morphs in the latter half of the series. I probably still would have read them if they were remotely interesting, but you're right, like the standard intro in every book, they just started to feel like cheap filler...
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Yeah, but cheap filler is sort of the standard for long sequential series written for children. It's as if the writers get really lazy. :P
I read it partly because it gave me a sense of the progression of the series. And partially because I read everything, even the backs of cereal boxes. -___-;;
For some reason the information that people use to sell food products interests me. Makes no sense. XD
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Actually, that's a good point. Somewhere in the 30's, I stopped reading the morphing paragraphs and just started skimming for anything interesting.
QFT.
D: but i don't remember rl stein stooping to repetitive anythings for goosebumps. ditto on the BSC (babysitters club), which was the other series i was reading at the time- more prone to potential reiteration than goosebumps, for which each book was largely unrelated to any of the others. and harry potter? a series of unfortunate events?
No Blasted Crappy Reruns. why did it have to be my beloved animorphs? *despair*
....if 2.0 comes out, you'd better believe i'm going to be upset if that happens again.
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Good point. :) No reruns in the Babysitters Club? ....ugh, I hated that series. Not so much because it was bad but because it was utterly, hopelessly neurotypical. I always had this thing against books about "friendship" unless it was friendship happening in a very cool universe. ; )
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hahah... xD i can't remember why i liked that series, but i sure as hell ate them up. i had, at one point, more than 70 books, a few necklaces, and a doll of one of the characters. O_____o but as to whether i'm bragging or looking for a lynching, i couldn't say.
i guess the BSC was missing out on dragons and alien invasions..... ^^
but yes, there was always a new way to approach teen and preteen drama in each book. ;) no reruns.
you know, to think of it, that's one thing the TV series did better than the book series. MORPHING time. tv show? BAM. done. then back to the action- the stuff i was interested in.
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i loved babysitters club! and they actually repeated how the club worked every time, i skipped that too :P i have no patience for reading the same thing repeatedly. especially when i do my series re-read marathons when im trying to read at least 3 or 4 books a day
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D: but i don't remember rl stein stooping to repetitive anythings for goosebumps. ditto on the BSC (babysitters club), which was the other series i was reading at the time- more prone to potential reiteration than goosebumps, for which each book was largely unrelated to any of the others. and harry potter? a series of unfortunate events?
BSC not being repetitive?? Didn't they have the same explanation of what had happened in every single book?
I only really read the Little Sister off-shoot. But I recall skipping every Chapter 2 because it was the same thing. Verbatim. At least the recaps in Animorphs differed book to book. :P
Anyway...
I don't really have a set pattern of skipping or not skipping. :P Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. It seems to depend on my mood. XD
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If you're reading the book, you don't skim. no matter how many times you've read it before, it's the whole point of liking the animorphs to the point where you can't get enough of it. I can't wait for this supposed reboot of the animorphs
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I'm pretty sure I skimmed the morphing parts after the first 10 books :P It just kind of 'slowed' the pace of the book for me, and while the detail was nice and everything, the aftermath of the morphing was almost always more fun to read.
I hope I didn't miss much by doing so..
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I know EXACTLY what you mean! I dont neccesarily skip the morphing scenes but I do skim read them. I also skim read the first chapter and the fighting scenes that go along the lines of "tseew tseew" "I took another Hork Bajir down" "TSEEW TSEEW". . . . .it gets rather repeatative
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(Didn't read the answers lol I'm lazy)
Yeah, I also do it sometimes now. When I first read them, I didn't. But when you re-read them, the morphing transformations are a little boring...
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@steph and estrid:
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aww.... really? MAN. boo on BSC then!
okay, so i read the BSC when i was maybe 7-8. and not much past 10... i know it didn't follow me into my animorph's craze, and that started when i was 10-ish. don't blame me for not remembering! ~~>___<~~
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i loved the BSC. still read it some times too :P
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Court, that's exactly when I read them. :P So... yeah, you don't really have that as an excuse. ;)
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I never skip the morphing descriptions (I think they're quite cool, actually), but I do have to plead guilty to skimming (not skipping) the intros after I got about 10 books in.
What's this about "rebooting" the series, though? I haven't heard anything about that...
EDIT: OK, I found some discussion from mid/late '09, but nothing newer than that. Does somebody have some juicy new info?
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hiracdelest.com << news on animorphs 2.0 and animorphs classic
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I never skip the morphing descriptions (I think they're quite cool, actually), but I do have to plead guilty to skimming (not skipping) the intros after I got about 10 books in.
What's this about "rebooting" the series, though? I haven't heard anything about that...
EDIT: OK, I found some discussion from mid/late '09, but nothing newer than that. Does somebody have some juicy new info?
as you heard, animorphs is being re-released with new covers. hirac dilest is a great source.
we're not quite sure about how a possible 2.0 would come in place. i think they might be testing the waters.
of course, i'm probably just getting my hopes up. >_<
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as you heard, animorphs is being re-released with new covers. hirac dilest is a great source.
we're not quite sure about how a possible 2.0 would come in place. i think they might be testing the waters.
of course, i'm probably just getting my hopes up. >_<
From the little I've heard, it sounds like that's exactly what they're doing.
Hopefully they rewrite #54, or at least bring Rachel back as some fanfic has done (there seems to be two main ways to do this: use the Time Matrix, or hope that the Ellimist or Crayak decides to do something useful for once). I'm probably just getting my hopes up too; even if they reboot the series (likely, IMHO), they'd probably just start where #54 left off and run with it.
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If it's a common morph like seagull or tiger, I usually skip it out of boredom. Just like I skip the beginning 'my name is' paragraphs. But if it's a new morph, I like to read them. :D
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I don't skip mainly because the books are too short already. ;)
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I don't because the morphing often isn't the same.
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I only skipped if it was a re read. However on the first time i read every single detail. I know its the same morph sometimes but its supposed to be unpredictable. that means the description will be different. So i tend to read them. Some just make teh story more interesting. teh one where teh bone fingers come out before they turn ito wings was just awesome.
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And they were awesome. For a while. But later in the series there was never anything different that happened during the morphing.
"And then a feather pattern appeared on my arms and face, and then I got itchy as it turned into real feathers. And then my face pushed out into a beak like a thousand screaming zombies pushing up out of the ground. Also, at some point I grew wings and my eyesight got better. It was like I could see the tapeworm in Mr. Chapman's stomach from across town, only not really. Finally, I felt the cold, calculating mind of a predator, ready to hunt some mice, only instead of mice, I was going to use it to hunt evil brain-stealing aliens. Did I mention that morphing is always different and disgusting? I threw up."
After a while they went from being unpredictable and disturbing to just being the same filler that could be used every book.