Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Yorick Brown on July 13, 2008, 07:33:43 PM
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Well?
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I think it would have been interesting to see his through process.
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Definitely :)
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No. I found his character annoying.
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I definetly would. I was hoping he'd be a regular member of the team, instead of just the new guy who turned traitor.
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It would've been cool.
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My opinion is, morfowt, that if David hadn't chickened out and decided to fight for his parents' freedom and the human race, he would have been the loose cannon of the group that everyone hated openly but liked for his boldness deep down ala Sawyer from "Lost"
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My opinion is, morfowt, that if David hadn't chickened out and decided to fight for ghis parents' freedom and the human race, he would have been the loose cannon of the group that everyone hated openely but liked for his boldness deep down ala Sawyer from "Lost"
first of all I have no idea who sawyer from lost is...
and I don't really care about other people's opinion on that (seeing as how nobody agrees with me anyway. I'm not kidding here. I made a thread about that once. nobody agreed with me). you can say it wouldn't work and I'd still stick with what I think.
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You haven't heard of Lost? Really?
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no, I've heard of it, but I don't know anything about it.
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No. I found his character annoying.
I second that. Seriously. It was a good point to make as far as morality and a few other things go, but for all I care, David could've been left out of the series and it'd still be fine...
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No. I found his character annoying.
Well since Jen already seconded it I'll third it I guess. Or a second second, whatever.
Though she's wrong; trilogy is awesome to the 43rd powah! (rereading tomorrow, yay!)
Though found his character compelling, to listen to him beech about how bad things where for him and all his diabolical plans, no can't see that as a good read
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I would've loved to see David narrate a book. It would've tied up a lot of the loose ends of his character I think.
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Definately. It would have been interesting to see his point of view. You know that he's had a dark past and I'd really like to know more about it and why he did what he did.
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No I don't think I would have liked a narration. He would have been to creepy. I can just see a scene where he is creepying up behind someone about to kill them or something.
Also, I said this before that David was the deal with the devil for the audience. The readers probably all fantasized about being an animorph and joining up. He was a new animorph and in a few ways and audience surrogate. He even had some of the marry sue thing. But instead of the animorphs liking him, they all hated him or mistrusted him. In the end instead of saving the world like the readers would like to, he hurts everyone. Furthermore the readers can assume they probably would have done the same in his case.
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never watched lost more of a heroes fan lol david is annoying but it would have been interesting
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No. I found his character annoying.
I agree. His character was incredibly annoying. Even before his life went to hell, I still didn't like him. I guess it all depends on perspective too. Marco didn't seem to like him, so maybe that's why he was portrayed a bit more negatively? Jake's perspective didn't really favour him either, but David was pretty much at that turning point by then.
David's point of view would've been interesting to read, maybe we would've understood him a bit better, but I still don't think we would've liked him. We pretty much knew everything about him to know for his motives anyway.
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I would have loved to have seen davids perspective on everything, but finding a way to work it into the trilogy would have been tough, because i loved all of the books and all three of their perspectives on him. Maybe replacing jakes or adding one more after jakes.
Even to all of you who hated david, think about the andalite chronicles, ellimist chronicles or visser, taking characters that we thought we knew and completely turning them on their heads. I can only imagine the kind of take KA would have on the character had they been able to explore it fully.
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what could there be said about him.
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what could there be said about him.
Hi! My name is David and I like to kill and torture animals in my spare time. Especially if they're an Animorph in disguise. *Wink* My dad's a spy (Sshh! No one's supposed to know. Big secret.) I have a cat named Megadeath and a python named Spawn. He lives freely under my bed. Cool, huh? They're illegal, and I'm the only one who has one in the states. I guess you could call me a psycho sociopath, but I'm really just the new kid that nobody really gets. I've moved across the country more times than I'd like to count. I have three people on my hit list. Marco ( I hate him), Jake (I despise him), and Rachel the witch (I REALLY hate her/him. She thinks she's a dude! I mean, seriously). She threatened my parents. Who does she think she is?
But don't worry. I'll deal with them all soon enough. I've got a real big surprise in store for them. And no, it won't be pretty. *Villainous laughter* Hahahahahahaahahaha!
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actually spawn is a cobra not a python.
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No he wasnt. he was a python. Im sure of it...rite?
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he's a cobra. check the book.
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lol. nitpicker. cant u just read it for what it is. cobra, python. They're all snakes to me. i hate snakes
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not if it's something I don't like or disagree with...
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meh. I guess so. I can already kind of predict what he's thinking through his actions and dialog.
I don't know, it might be cool. In the Return, his narration might make it even more of a tear-jerker.
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I think an entire book would've been hard to work into the series, especially with the pattern, but I wouldn't have minded a few chapters - like in #19, #32, #34, #42, and #47 when other characters narrated.
It still would've been hard to work in. I think David was well-written, even in his last book.
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It would've been cool to remake the discovery,threat, solution, and return. Through David's POV
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Although it would have been interesting to see his character from a 1st person view, I don't think a book narrated by him would've worked. That's just my opinion. Also, I'm glad he never became a full member of the team, as I always hated the guy. Yes I felt sorry for the crap he went through, but that doesn't even come close to excusing what he did. He deserved everything he got. Even before he turned traitor the guy was annoying.
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It would've been cool to remake the discovery,threat, solution, and return. Through David's POV
You haven't read One Least Likely?
Technically, it's canon-compatible. =D
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I think it would've been cool, at least to have a few chapters from his perspective...but really creepy. The kid's a sociopath o.O; That whole thing with Jake and Rachel's cousin...eeegh.
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I think it would've been cool, at least to have a few chapters from his perspective...but really creepy. The kid's a sociopath o.O; That whole thing with Jake and Rachel's cousin...eeegh.
I still can't believe he did that. The first time I read "The Solution" I was like " :o :wow: WTF!?"
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oh, yeah I completely forgot about that.
*respect for David falls ten notches.*
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That was actually the least surprising of his actions, i mean still really bad and when it happened i could not believe it but after hes already tried to kill half the team letting one critical kid who was probably going to die anyway seemed right up his alley (that sounds like im condoning it, no, its just less immoral for someone with his reasoning)
I think alot of you are kind of oversimplifying him, he wasnt just a straight psychopath, he was a psychopath for sure, but he had alot of other layers
ill have to put a david naratted fic on the back burner, somewhere around 2010 lol
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What I want to know is how / where did he get rid of the cousin's body? I read the Trilogy years ago and that was one of the thoughts I had after I read that scene.
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I always imagined on top of the elevator. where else could he have hid a body that was in an elevator?
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yea thats how i imagined it too, but that is easier said than done lol even for an animorph, he had to knock out the power, climb into the elevator, acquire saddler, change into his clothes and shove him up through the hatch all in a matter of minutes
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yea thats how i imagined it too, but that is easier said than done lol even for an animorph, he had to knock out the power, climb into the elevator, acquire saddler, change into his clothes and shove him up through the hatch all in a matter of minutes
Why, that sneak little b****!
lol
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yea thats how i imagined it too, but that is easier said than done lol even for an animorph, he had to knock out the power, climb into the elevator, acquire saddler, change into his clothes and shove him up through the hatch all in a matter of minutes
couldn't a gorilla do it in seconds? we don't know whether david morphed a gorilla or not.
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I always imagined on top of the elevator. where else could he have hid a body that was in an elevator?
Ugh, that's very Silence of the Lambs...I wonder if he ate him as a lion or something? Okay, stopping the mental imagery right now, aaahhh! :o ::) It isn't that surprising that he killed him, given his character, but it was still really shocking to me when it happened anyway o.O;
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I look into his twisted mind would have been useful
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David is far to be my favorite character, but yes, I'd like to read a volume narrated by him. Just because he's different. I like to see different opinion ^_^
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I don't think he kill him, since saddler is a human species, he would count it as murder. To david it is not murder or wrong if you kill a animal or a person in a animal morph. Why didn't the rachel save her cousin by using the morphing device, made a cover story of kidnap and sent saddler to the hork bajir valley or to the chee in a locked room to stay until the war is over?
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they need to remake the whole David triolgy from his POV
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Just the chance to see the way he thinks. The way he views the world and everyone in it! What a cool chance that would of been.
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I'm not sure why they didn't try to save Saddler. Maybe it was a sudden thing. Or they didn't know much about it because they weren't very close to him. David didn't kill Saddler, though I do wonder what he did with the body. It was kind of weird, and I think KA might have just done it to send him further past the moral event horizon. Of course this was after he thought he killed Tobias, so there wasn't much point to it if they weren't going to go anywhere with it.
David would have made a nice villain, and I would have liked to see him narrate some books. But unless it's a Chronicles book, only the Anis get to narrate. So no David, James, Toby, Erek, Ardiss, or whoever.
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Well David technically is an Animorph even if he did betray them
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Yes. Oh, yes.
I think stories told from the villain's viewpoint are fascinating. Only problem might be that it ruins the mystery somewhat. Of course, being a first-person narrator, it wouldn't go too far--there's no guarantee that he's not lying--in fact, I'd expect it.
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The 2nd alternamorphs is arguably a David narrated book.
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No. I found his character annoying.
i do too.
i actually thought they might have made 21 a david book, thank goodness they didn't.
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David was evil. *shudder*
I'm glad I was never actually inside his head... Alternamorphs 2 was bad enough... >:(