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5th Megamorphs??
« on: December 04, 2014, 10:53:08 AM »
So I was re-reading The Beginning (sob), including K.A.'s letter at the end, and in the letter in the beginning passage she mentions this:

Quote from: K.A. Applegate
It began in the summer
of 1996. It ends in the summer of 2001. Five
years, 54 regular titles, 4 Chronicles, 5 Megamorphs and 2 Alternamorphs.

5 Megamorphs???

I distinctly remember there being only four: The Andalite's Gift, In the Time of Dinosaurs, Elfangor's Secret, Back to Before. Is this a KASU? Or have I missed something? (Can't be, I downloaded all the ebooks from here. :P)

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2014, 10:59:47 AM »
Maybe they count Visser as a megamorphs? Or maybe it's just a typo.


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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2014, 11:01:21 AM »
That would make it three chronicles listed in that passage - the only 4 are Andalite, Hork-Bajir, Ellimist and Visser, right? Maybe we'll go with typo.

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2014, 11:05:23 AM »
Oh, ok. I just say typo.


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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2014, 11:46:10 AM »
Actually, the letter was written long before the book was actually published (before the Ellimist Chronicles came out, I think), and there was a 5th MegaMorphs planned at the time.  However, KAA felt it was kind of stepping on the ending and didn't cover enough new thematic ground to justify a whole extra book, so it kind of melded into #54.  She wrote about it in a follow-up letter defending the ending somewhere, forgot where it was.
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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2014, 11:56:29 AM »
You could search the forum. Someone would've posted it, I'm sure...

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2014, 06:15:26 PM »
If there was a 5th Megamorphs what should it be about?

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2014, 07:23:42 PM »
Probably be a way to make a bigger last book. Except KA apparently felt a normal size book was enough to do what she wanted. Although I wonder is a MM5 would be like the last two books combined.


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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2014, 12:07:09 AM »
Maybe an extended ending. Not just "Ram the Blade ship". A #55, perhaps.

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2014, 07:45:06 AM »
Yeah, I think it was just one of those lapses in communication between the author/publisher, they probably had one planned at some point before streamlining it.

Also, the series' ending rules.  *Pokes everyone with a stick, skips off into the sunset while whistling*

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2014, 08:05:19 AM »
Also, the series' ending rules.  *Pokes everyone with a stick, skips off into the sunset while whistling*

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2014, 08:56:11 AM »
Don't you roll your eyes at me, eye-roll-y type guy.  Of eye-rolliness.

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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2014, 11:09:20 AM »
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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2014, 11:50:20 AM »
Seriously, though.  Perfect ending.

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Re: 5th Megamorphs??
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2014, 11:59:05 AM »
I honestly disagree, though I think I've gone on enough tangents about why I dislike the ending and final arc in general. I do realize that some people did enjoy the ending, though mostly what I hear is them thinking I wanted it to be way on the other extreme of the scale with everybody totally happy with no PTSD whatsoever, singing koombaya and such.


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