Do we really want an adaptation/general adaptation discussion

[NothingFromSomething]

Nothing wrong with The One or the "everyone-dies" ending.

[YeerkSalad]

I'm okay with everyone dying, but introducing a totally different antagonist was strange and stupid... to me. Why isn't it to you?

[NothingFromSomething]

Because it wasn't intended to be a new villain of any substance, just a mechanic to say the fight will always go on for someone like Jake.  Tobias coming along because of Ax, Marco because of Jake.  It wasn't like they were abandoning the main plot thread and going off on some tangent in the final book, the main story with the Yeerk war was already over.  The One was just a story device, a "there's always going to be something that comes along that they're going to have to fight" thing, it's a pretty common hero-story trope.

[YeerkSalad]

To me it just felt lazy, but I can see where you're coming from. Makes me hate the ending a lot less. Thanks!

[Tim Bruening]

[spoiler]Why do you want to keep The One in the series?
Also, I would want to go a few minutes after "Ram the Blade Ship" and have the actual destruction or lack thereof.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I[spoiler]n order to find out who the heck "The One" is!  K.A. Applegate didn't give herself any time to flesh out that character![/spoiler][/spoiler]

[YeerkSalad]

You're saying you want a postscript season?

[Dylan]

A post script season would certainly be interesting. I'm not sure if I want one though, I (minority opinion) like the ending...

[Tim Bruening]

You're saying you want a postscript season?

Yes.   Babylon 5 had a postscript season after the defeat of the Shadows and Vorlons.

[YeerkSalad]

BLOODY SPOILERS!!! I was thinking of watching that show!

Some shows can get by with postscript seasons, but I don't think Animorphs could do it well.

[guitarhero01234]

Having a postscript season for Animorphs would be very tricky. On one hand, it could tie up a lot of loose ends that the book series failed to by the time it reached its conclusion. On the other hand, the end of book 54 was, without giving any spoilers, fairly conclusive to the story, even if a lot of people (myself included) find that conclusion unsatisfactory.

[YeerkSalad]

Nailed it.

[Dylan]

While we are probably not getting an animovie right now, I feel like an animovie will inevitably happen. The reboot machine is basically going through anything even mildly popular from the past 20 years. Animorphs was mildly popular. 90's nostalgia is extremely popular right now (based off of Buzzfeed and angry internet nerds) and goosebumps made $23.5 million in its opening weekend. I'd say maybe in about 4-6ish years, we might see something about an actual animovie.

[YeerkSalad]

An Animovie would fall to pieces. A decently-budgeted web series would be the way to go.

Or maybe we should just leave it as it is: a book series with wonderful strengths and terrible weaknesses. Maybe it should stand alone.



NO YOU DON'T COUNT

[Dylan]

[whiny13yroldgirlvoice]Buttttt I want a movie!!! ****uuu decently-budgeted web series!!!! :'( :'( [/whiny13yroldgirlvoice]
(But seriously, why web animated? Why not real a TV show.)


And about the reboot thing; with success of Jurassic World/Goosebumps, they are gonna go through the rest of the 90's like a vacuum sucking up lint. 

[NothingFromSomething]

Not a good thing.  You want a movie to be made because it merits making and someone has a coherent vision for it, not as simply part of some broader resurrection trend.

I really, really believe you need to wait until this YA-reader teen series adaptation thing dies out, too.  It'd get lost in the stampede at this point, real risk of coming off as just another Maze Runner/Percy Jackson type of thing, down in the B leagues.  If it's going to happen, give it a decade or so, see what the landscape looks like then.