5th Megamorphs??

[redtailedsaffa]

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:

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. )

[Chad32]

Maybe they count Visser as a megamorphs? Or maybe it's just a typo.

[redtailedsaffa]

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.

[Chad32]

Oh, ok. I just say typo.

[NickDaGriff]

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.

[redtailedsaffa]

You could search the forum. Someone would've posted it, I'm sure...

[Bootlebat]

If there was a 5th Megamorphs what should it be about?

[Chad32]

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.

[redtailedsaffa]

Maybe an extended ending. Not just "Ram the Blade ship". A #55, perhaps.

[NothingFromSomething]

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*

[Chad32]

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

 

[NothingFromSomething]

Don't you roll your eyes at me, eye-roll-y type guy.  Of eye-rolliness.

[Chad32]

 

[NothingFromSomething]

Seriously, though.  Perfect ending.

[Chad32]

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.