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Do you guys enjoy the "David" books?
NickDaGriff:
--- Quote from: RYTX on December 28, 2016, 07:04:22 PM ---This probably as high as the stakes get before the final arc: Keeping the blue box out of enemy hands, finally enlisting other humans to the fight, and having to keep a number of world leaders safe; no where else do so many things of such importance have to be balanced. (Let's face it, even before the filler stretch, a lot of the books where spy out on person/new tech and escape alive).
This, and the novel threat that was David, that there was someone using there powers against them, so damn effectively, is spectacular, and brings out a lot of the best, and worst, in all the characters.
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But on the whole, great set, laughs, tears, gasps, everything that makes the series great is on full display in the trilogy. Love it love it do
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This, so much.
--- Quote from: RYTX on December 28, 2016, 07:04:22 PM ---But for the bad: I don't really mind David's lack of development. He's 14, course he's crazy, but I like that it isn't some drawn out descent into madness. That really he's always kind of sociopathic, plotting his own ends and quickly excepting that in his new world he can pull different strings in new ways. He didn't develop because, that's always who he was, he such had new tools to work with to let it out, I think that's brilliant.
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True, he was rotten from the beginning, but I think it was exacerbated in kind of a rushed and artificial way due to it being a pre-planned trilogy. In all honesty, the Animorphs were kinda dicks to him, even in light of the circumstances. I haven't read it in a while, but I remember their treatment of him feeling borderline OOC and kinda dumb. "Here are some birds to acquire, BUT YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE ONE. ...Oh, you're picking that one? Don't mind us all silently judging you over here. HOW DARE YOU JOKINGLY CALL TOBIAS BIRD-RACIST." David should've been the one instigating stuff and causing the rift, not the Animorphs. That's my main issue.
I just would've liked to see him in a book or two where he isn't the main focus, but you start getting the sense that something's wrong. They actually properly try to get along with him and make him part of the team, and then he ends up screwing them over. Small things at first, like randomly killing the seagull, fixating on the more violent and dangerous aspects of his spy-dad worship, lashing out excessively over small stuff, etc. Have those things steadily alienate him from the group, which then leads to him turning on them. More of a slow burn kinda thing.
Duff:
This is my absolute favorite arc of the series. I was planning a re-read next week before I even saw this thread because it's been so long!
Agreed with RYTX he was always a bad, troubled kid it wasn't so much a development as the Animorphs slowly seeing more of that side of him. I also like that they were a cause of the rift just as much as he was. They were a clique that wasn't as welcoming to him as they could have been because they were suspicious and because they were split on the decision to invite him in the first place.
That being said, I would have taken another 10 books with David and let it be a slow burn towards full insanity and then another few books of all out conflict. But, that's a tall order and a big risk for a monthly series of kid's books. They wrote the entire trilogy before any of it was released so even devoting three books to a storyline people might not have responded to is risky.
ViciousVisser you're right about it being really dark for the age demographic. Whenever someone calls it a kid's book I always refer to the David Trilogy and the final arc as evidence that it had some seriously mature storylines.
ViciousVisser:
--- Quote from: Duff on December 29, 2016, 08:43:21 AM ---This is my absolute favorite arc of the series. I was planning a re-read next week before I even saw this thread because it's been so long!
Agreed with RYTX he was always a bad, troubled kid it wasn't so much a development as the Animorphs slowly seeing more of that side of him. I also like that they were a cause of the rift just as much as he was. They were a clique that wasn't as welcoming to him as they could have been because they were suspicious and because they were split on the decision to invite him in the first place.
That being said, I would have taken another 10 books with David and let it be a slow burn towards full insanity and then another few books of all out conflict. But, that's a tall order and a big risk for a monthly series of kid's books. They wrote the entire trilogy before any of it was released so even devoting three books to a storyline people might not have responded to is risky.
ViciousVisser you're right about it being really dark for the age demographic. Whenever someone calls it a kid's book I always refer to the David Trilogy and the final arc as evidence that it had some seriously mature storylines.
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I know, right! I'm tired of people saying its a kid's book when clearly it has a lot of dark themes that aren't found in kids books. Glad I'm not the only one who believes that...
NothingFromSomething:
My only issue with 'em is that Megadeth/Spawn "bad music and good comic books" line. :P
Megadeth disapproval, K.A./Michael? :P How daaaare yoouuu?
And Spawn blows.
ViciousVisser:
--- Quote from: NothingFromSomething on December 29, 2016, 11:40:57 AM ---My only issue with 'em is that Megadeth/Spawn "bad music and good comic books" line. :P
Megadeth disapproval, K.A./Michael? :P How daaaare yoouuu?
And Spawn blows.
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Hahaha! Megadeath! It's so cool how it brings 90's pop culture in the series! I love it!
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