Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: wolfev on August 03, 2008, 07:27:09 PM
-
In the final part of The Beginning K.A. says there are five Mega Morph's books, is this a KASU or a hint at more to come?
-
pretty sure that was a KASU...
-
Nope, it's not a KASU because there really were supposed to be 5 Megamorphs. The 5th Megamorph was supposed to be the series finale, which would have featured a point of view perspective from all of the characters like all the other Megamorphs, and it was supposed to be released at the same time as #54. However, it was scrapped at the end because Scholastic felt that releasing both #54 and Megamorphs #5 at the same time and marketing them both as the final book would've been a little confusing for the kids, so K.A chose to only make #54 the last book instead, which is why it plays out like a Megamorphs book with perspectives from different characters.
The contract for Animorphs still held for a book to be published for the series, so they planned on replacing the 5th Megamorph by publishing a series bible instead. That for some reason also didn't go through as a book, but was instead turned into the Anibase that we have now (It's the same information that would've been released with it). K.A at the time was also writing Everworld which was supposed to have 1 extra book in the series according to its contract, so what Scholastic and K.A ended up doing was that they moved those two unused books from the two series into the Remnants series, giving it an additional 2 books.
Actually, it might have been 3 extra books in Remnants altogether, because K.A had also planned on writing a Taxxon Chronicles as well. It would have featured Arbon's storyline, but K.A ending up scrapping that because she chose to add him in #53 instead. I just can't remember whether the Taxxon Chronicles turned into the planned 5th Megamorph after it was cancelled, or whether the contract added the book for that into the Remnants contract like the others as well.
-
Wow, talk about red tape crap :P
Poor KA :(
-
There's no red tape. I'm surprised Scholastic was nice enough to allow K.A to do that. It would've been worse if K.A had to write a book she had no intention of writing.
-
Still is there any hope that we get another book or something? That would be awesome if she wrote a new animorphs book after all these years. A new generation could be exposed. There are so many ways to continue book 54 its not funny. I know she wanted it to be for fanfiction but I have this strange feeling that she thought about what was going to happen next too. Maybe get a new group of animorphs with cassie taking the place of Elfangor or something.
-
I remember hearing rumours about the Taxxon Chronicles, but I don't recall there being plans for a 5ht Megamorphs book. That would've been cool! 8)
-
The Megamorphs books, to me anyway, seem like novelizations of theatrical movies that tie in with the on-going series, IMO. Like if the reguler series was a TV series, then those would be the theatrical movies. That may just be me though, lol.
-
The Megamorphs books, to me anyway, seem like novelizations of theatrical movies that tie in with the on-going series, IMO. That may just be me though, lol.
I'd say that's an accurate theory. Maybe they'll make the Megamorphs books into movies? Obviously they can't make movies out of all the numbered books, so it is a possibility.
-
Still is there any hope that we get another book or something? That would be awesome if she wrote a new animorphs book after all these years. A new generation could be exposed. There are so many ways to continue book 54 its not funny. I know she wanted it to be for fanfiction but I have this strange feeling that she thought about what was going to happen next too. Maybe get a new group of animorphs with cassie taking the place of Elfangor or something.
Well its almost as though 54 was supposed to be a cliffhanger for a 55 that would not only tie up 54 but all the loose ends that ever were.
-
As awesome as it sounds, I highly doubt she will ever write another Animorphs book. She made it pretty clear at the end of 54 that it was the end of the series. Besides, if she did tie up the "loose ends" then we'd end up with some boring "happily ever after" ending! :barf:
-
I take exception! I enjoy happily ever afters, they make the prolouges of the sequels so much easier, its far more enjoyable to destroy a happily ever after and make the characters fight for it a second time. >:D
-
Its not happily ever after if they all die or something.
-
Life is not a fairytale. War isn't all fun and game. That's what KA was trying to teach us by ending the series the way she did. I didn't get it at first either, but in time it started to make sense. As cool as a new book would be, I think it would destroy the ending.
Happily ever after is for fairytales. People don't tend to die in fairytales (unless you count the original versions). :P
-
I agree that a "happily ever after" would be inappropriate. Still, I would have liked a conclusive ending of some kind. There would have been at list some closure, rather than just leaving it hanging.
After 54+ books I wanted a read ending.
-
Life is not a fairytale. War isn't all fun and game. That's what KA was trying to teach us by ending the series the way she did. I didn't get it at first either, but in time it started to make sense. As cool as a new book would be, I think it would destroy the ending.
Happily ever after is for fairytales. People don't tend to die in fairytales (unless you count the original versions). :P
Nothing is ever fairytale happily ever after, but what I would expect is for the characters to be stronger in the face of pain, and to go above and beyond to ensure an ending in which they can take happiness if they apply their hearts to it.
A bitter-sweet ending is still partly a happy ending.
-
Life is not a fairytale. War isn't all fun and game. That's what KA was trying to teach us by ending the series the way she did. I didn't get it at first either, but in time it started to make sense. As cool as a new book would be, I think it would destroy the ending.
Happily ever after is for fairytales. People don't tend to die in fairytales (unless you count the original versions). :P
Nothing is ever fairytale happily ever after, but what I would expect is for the characters to be stronger in the face of pain, and to go above and beyond to ensure an ending in which they can take happiness if they apply their hearts to it.
A bitter-sweet ending is still partly a happy ending.
Indeed, there's hardly anything sweet about the ending. The world is saved, but that could have been accomplished in many different ways.
The Hork-Bajir settled in Yellowstone, but what they could have done was fly to their home world and helped with the resistance that wasn't even mentioned later in the series. I swear I thought the whole point of a valley of free Hork-Bajir was to foreshadow a sequel to the Animorphs series. A way to continue it after Earth was saved.
The Taxxons were given morphing power, but I never liked the beasts anyway.
The ending is very bitter, and can't even be called an ending.
-
Here we are again debating over the ending...
oh and you know what's weird? I once found animorph books in the fantasy section...
-
i think she honestly got tired of it and screwed us off on the ending somtimes but really you cant end a book good its not possible theres no such thing as a good ending what if the animorphs did stop fighting there were no more adventures to go on is that not sadder than just wondering when you think about it she put a million ideas in the heads of a million kids and probaly even some adults so much that we are still talking about books some of us started reading when we were 12 and the whole fanfic thing is great the books werent written very complicated i think someone who takes the time to write these good fanfics should take the time to send them to her tell her she can have all the money hell if i was good enough to write one i would gladly tdo it and beg and harass her just so the story never has to end
-
*gasp* sentence...doesn't...end......no...p unctuation...anywhere!......no...capitals......like...garatron...speaking!
*dies*
:explode:
-
yeah which is kinda why it's sort of hard to understand what he said. I got a couple of things, but there are places here and there that make no sense...or at least not enough sense.
actually, garatron speaking has punctuations. it just doesn't have a space between words
-
Consider #54 a MM5... It was written in that format, just not long enough, really.
-
Does this mean that with a little investigation we could find the number of books she's under contract for, and if its 1 short than produced, insist that she writes another animorphs book? Sorry K.A., I know I'm evil, but come on, we're loyal as hell give us one last book. Do it EVANGELION style so its a deal with the devil.
-
...There is a logical explanation as to why I read this topic as the 5th M&M....I'm sure of it...
I have to agree with what most people are saying. We didn't really get an ending.
And I think I like the idea of considering 54 a megamorph. I sometimes tend to forget that they're cannon, anyway.
Though a new book would be nice. A better, less cliffie book.
-
Well its been 7 years, enough of a cliffhanger, tell us what happens.
-
If there is an MM5, it should be another time travel themed one. Those always came out superb in my opinion :).
-
well that would solve the problem with the ending. If you could have the animorphs get sent back in time to fight one last battle for the ellimist. I wonder how the whole Rachel thing could be resolved?
-
After reading the last book, I thought maybe the reason KA had Cassie stay behind was so she might use the Time Matrix to reverse Rahel and Tom's deaths somehow. However, she never did this. Even though it's possible that most of the people that emailed her regarding the ending disliked tit to some extent.
-
Figures the last book would end up being a cassie book.
-
Hmmm, why's that? ???
-
Ahhh...this debate never ever, ever, ever end. I love it to no end though! Nothing makes me happier then seeing new opinions in this area. Sorry for having nothing to add XD
-
Its the deal with the devil thing again. We get another animorphs book but the whole thing is Cassie going on about how killing yeerks is wrong. Don't get me wrong, she has good opinions but I think it is a little overdone. Maybe Cassie is K.A. Favorite character and she couldn't kill her off or have even the possibility that she was dead. Not to say that she killed Rachel because she did not like her.