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Re: If you could change one thing in the series......
« Reply #90 on: July 28, 2009, 02:31:58 PM »
He wasn't really in love with her, like Tobias was, or related to her, or her best friend. Not saying he wasn't close. Just that he was one of the least closest.


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Re: If you could change one thing in the series......
« Reply #91 on: July 28, 2009, 07:35:22 PM »
When you think about all of the tiny things like this put together, then you really get into how horrible the last book was.

Yep, that's why I was so pissed.
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Re: If you could change one thing in the series......
« Reply #92 on: July 29, 2009, 01:13:28 AM »
To drift away from the ending, something I would do differently had I wrote the series...

I would not have let Visser Three turn into a joke. The first books really gave you the scope of it. He's an alien warlord who can, at will, turn into some of the most lethal and brutal creatures in the galaxy, and has nothing on his mind but the completion of his goals. He was untouchable. His presence instilled fear, and it very well should. His voice sent chills down the Animorph's spine.

Yet, he decayed to a buffoon. With all his power and all his morphs, he was barely even registered as a threat to the Animorphs by the end. A creature, who through study, intelligence, and unconquerable will gained his position over the course of decades... is easily and consistently outsmarted by a handful of teenagers. That was what bothered me the most.

In all his power and (originally) intelligence, with all his lethal morphs, he is regarded as a joke by a handful on teenagers who can turn into things with sharp claws and teeth.

The grape juice, the oatmeal... I would not have set that up the way it was.

For what I would change... I would maintain Visser Three as the one who the Animorphs ran from at the mere sight of him. He would maintain his intelligence and status, and not be the ignoramus who could not create simple plans to capture six people. As is common with this many books, decay is unavoidable if the heroes are to survive and keep winning. Fine.

Put him in less books. One out of six, ten books, it doesn't matter. He needs to maintain his status. To replace his decay, give him a subordinate or two. Visser Five, Sub Visser Four; it doesn't matter. Let the other be the one, who, while seemingly intelligent, and also has some sort of power, that the Animorphs consistently defeat. Let another be the one to decay.

Visser Three needs to maintain his threat simply because there is no replacement. If you bring in Visser Two earlier, and make him a genius, make his plans, while few, infallible; it won't matter. He won't have the only Andalite Controller in the galaxy, who can morph into creatures that can kill anyone instantly without challenge, on a whim.

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Re: If you could change one thing in the series......
« Reply #93 on: July 29, 2009, 08:22:39 AM »
The villain decay is the main reason if I started writing my own version of the series, I would start early. As opposed to book 27, where I'd bring David back.

One good thing to do is change up the second in command after every time Visser Three shows up. Which would just be once in a while, due to him being busy across the globe. This is because the new second in command has failed him for the last time. To make the ending more dramatic, Tom's yeerk will become second in command eventually.

That's another thing. Tom needs to be involved in more battles, to add drama. I wouldn't kill him off in the end, though. Main and secondary characters don't die permanently. That's pretty well established during the course of 99% of the series.


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Re: If you could change one thing in the series......
« Reply #94 on: August 03, 2009, 11:39:55 AM »
First post here, and at the risk of everyone hating me already, I have to say that I didn't mind the ending (which I finished reading for the first time a matter of hours ago. Maybe I'll hate it once it's had more time to sink in :P) At the very least, the 'where are they now' chapters at the end were far superior to Harry Potter's short one. But I get the feeling you've all probably gone over this time and time again, so I'll say no more  :P

Anyway, I posted to agree completely with Think Again. Visser Three becoming a joke was completely at odds with the aura of evil that he was supposed to be giving off. Having just re-read the series (because I finally managed to get my hands on the last book), Visser Three does appear too regularly, in my opinion, and having a lower ranking yeerk being constantly outsmarted (probably a Visser or Sub-Visser that he couldn't execute for some reason, to explain why he was still alive after so many failures  :P) would have left the Visser to be the terrifying adversary he was supposed to be.