Sloppy ending

[estrid]

Regardless of whether you liked the ending or not, do you think towards the end of the series it started getting rushed? Like KA just couldn't wait to finish the series once and for all? There seems to have been alot of things that were poorly explained and the books didn't really seem to flow into eachother the way the earlier books did (book 47 with the beavers being an example). and in the last book, she just kind of killed off a buncha people and didnt really explain what happened. she blew off characters that have played important roles since the begginning of the series. She didn't say what happened to the chapman family, you don't know what became of the other's families, or the chee and so forth. I don't know, to me it all just seemed like a very rushed end to  a series that started off so well.

[Drkchaos]

Well, I really agree about the rushed part. Nearing the end, everything seemed to go so smoothly for them, from the female governer to the acquiring of the nukes, things seemed to go WAY too well compared to the past books...

What confirmed it even more was KA's own interview, where all she constantly said in the end was "Read my new series! I'm done with Animorphs!" It gave me the feeling that near the end, she just got tired of the series and wanted to start something new, thus ending it in a rushed way.

[morfowt]

to be honest, no I didn't think it was rushed at all. but then, I don't really complain too much about most things (and sorry if complain isn't quite the right word. couldn't think of a better one).

[Liz]

I didn't really get the feeling that the ending was rushed.  There was stuff that she never went more deeply into, but I think that kind of thing happened throughout the series, not just at the end.

[estrid]

i dont know, drkchaos has a point. she was constantly goin on bout her new books, how the end was near for animorphs. and alla suddent, things seemed to get easier for them in the sense of missions got accomplished more then in the beggining.

[musicman88]

I think that she really just wanted to finish the series, but she didn't give a whole lot of thought as to how.  I remember her saying somewhere that she didn't know how to really end the last book until the second to last chapter or something like that.  I figured that's how most of the final books went.

[Duff]

well things werent really going that easy for them lol i mean they were exposed, forced into hiding, while the yeerks unleashed all out warfare and torched their entire town, then they lost the blue cube

i felt it was a really epic ending, and a good continuing arc once that countdown started that made it feel alot more frantic and warlike and maybe in that sense a little rushed in that you felt they were running out of time just like they did

yea they had a few things go right for them, tom and the taxxons and everything, but she needed to let a few pieces fall into place in order for them to pull off the win right

and yea she kinda left a few loose ends but nothing extremely serious, nothing that you couldnt kinda figure out on your own

Having one of them be like;The chapmans all reunited and lived happily ever after. Erik never forgave them and the chee continued to live in hiding on earth. Jakes parents were freed, but despite their efforts, Jake remained distant from them, ashamed of what he had done to their son.

Its all just kinda semantics and would feel like it was being thrown in just for the sake of being thrown in. Plus I like having lots of loose ends, makes for lots of fanfics lol

[Chad32]

It's weird that KA wanted to push the idea that there will always be conflict, yet killed Rachel off with the excuse that "gee, I can't imagine what Rachel would do once the war is over." I don't know, maybe help Jake out against terrorists or many other things. It's a condradiction. There really just wasn't a reason to kill her off. of course, that's just the worst part of a list of things wrong with the ending.

[Liz]

I agree with Duff on all counts.  The war definitely got harder for them in the end, not easier.  The decisions they had to make about the destruction of the Yeerk pool, for example, was probably more weighty than any decision they had had to make before.

And it didn't seem to me that Rachel was killed off because KAA wouldn't know what to do with her after the war.  That whole mission was extremely important to the plot, not just an excuse to get rid of an extraneous character.

[estrid]

ya but think of it this way, she had the auxilliries slautered in an attack that was so pointless it should never have been carried out. But with all the aux gone, she wouldnt have to explain anything. and it is a contridiction, by killing rachel off, whether u agree she shoulda been or not, just seemed like a way to not have to talk bout how rachel would do after the war, kinda like what nohensen said. now KA didnt have to talk bout coflicts.

and i don't mean things got easier in the end bout the decisions they had to make. i ment it got easier in the sense that everything they planned out seemed to go well, as opposed to the beggining where they had a lot more losses. more coincidences in their favor seemed to be taking place

[UEDfleet]

Well, it should be important to give credit where credit is due. Applegate was an excellent story writer and she had incredulous new idea's that she used in her books. Now with that being said, she was also bad at ending a series merely because she was so used books where very little would happen. I'm pretty certain that if she wanted to end the series going at the same pace most of the series was going in then it would have taken another 30+ books minimum. And like it has been pointed out, she said she was getting tired from writing Animorphs and i doubt another 2 years of the series would have been fun. So the quickest solution to this all would be to end the series quickly. She was a great story writer but i do not think she has had much practice with a gradually ending series. Thus, the ending was rushed, and thus it was not anything extra-ordinary that we fans were used to (which probably made the ending seem worse than it really was due to the high expectations)

                                                         If any1 has any questions about my rambling, Feel free to ask!

[Duff]

...anyone wanna TWSS the title of this thread? hehe

[morfowt]

what's twss mean?

[Nateosaurus]

Duff! hahahaha! nice one.

[estrid]

Well, it should be important to give credit where credit is due. Applegate was an excellent story writer and she had incredulous new idea's that she used in her books. Now with that being said, she was also bad at ending a series merely because she was so used books where very little would happen. I'm pretty certain that if she wanted to end the series going at the same pace most of the series was going in then it would have taken another 30+ books minimum. And like it has been pointed out, she said she was getting tired from writing Animorphs and i doubt another 2 years of the series would have been fun. So the quickest solution to this all would be to end the series quickly. She was a great story writer but i do not think she has had much practice with a gradually ending series. Thus, the ending was rushed, and thus it was not anything extra-ordinary that we fans were used to (which probably made the ending seem worse than it really was due to the high expectations)

                                                         If any1 has any questions about my rambling, Feel free to ask!

well,. i think she woulda been able to do a good ending if there hadnt been wasted filler books like cassie off in australia. that book coulda been the start of the end, insteada wating till like 49 really to get it started, altho by 45 its like a snowball effect.

and duff wth does that mean?