Sloppy ending

[estrid]

but see i dont think she took 9 books to end it. it seems more like really after 50 she rushed in the auxilliries then in 54 was like "crap,what do i do with all these new charachters i brought in? i know, ill just kill all of them off and i won't have to worry anymore" and so on

[Chad32]

but see i dont think she took 9 books to end it. it seems more like really after 50 she rushed in the auxilliries then in 54 was like "crap,what do i do with all these new charachters i brought in? i know, ill just kill all of them off and i won't have to worry anymore" and so on

To be honest, she could have just ignored their existance after the war, like she did with Loren. What was the point of bringing Loren back, again?

[estrid]

bringing loren back was just her way of having one more lose end left unanswered. she seems to be a fan of that

[Chad32]

bringing loren back was just her way of having one more lose end left unanswered. she seems to be a fan of that

If she had Tobias move back in with his mother at the end, it would have made a lot of sense. Even if she didn't do anything with Loren until then, it wouldn have made it fine to me. Somewhere for Tobias to go besides becoming a recluse.

Though it seems he moved in with the Hork-Bajir. Though why they stayed on Earth instead of going to fight the current resistance on their homeworld boggles me.

[dolphin4077]

I agree there were way too many loose ends. Also, I don't think all 9 of the last books really contributed to the final arc; 46-48 could have happened pre-45 (with a few details tweaked).  I think those books  took time away from the endgame.

[estrid]

ya def. also, the horkbajir stayin in yellowstone or whatever insteada goin home? that made no sense and it was obvious just a half ass answer to what she was gona do with them

[morfowt]

ok, how's this? while writing book 54, she changed her mind at the last second about some things, like originally tobias was gonna live with his mother, but in the end, decided against it.

[Duff]

i doubt it, i think once she decided rachel was gonna die, tobias' fate was pretty much sealed

the hork bajir one made sense, they liked it on earth, their planet wasnt home for them, it was home for their parents, it wasnt the same place anymore

48 was definately a misplace, but i thought 46 was a good book to kinda change the kind of war they were fighting, and 47 def set the stage for things in the end

[Chad32]

i doubt it, i think once she decided rachel was gonna die, tobias' fate was pretty much sealed

the hork bajir one made sense, they liked it on earth, their planet wasnt home for them, it was home for their parents, it wasnt the same place anymore

48 was definately a misplace, but i thought 46 was a good book to kinda change the kind of war they were fighting, and 47 def set the stage for things in the end

There was currently a resistance going on there. Tobi should have taken her people to help.

I'm tempted to write a fanfic where the ending is changed the way I would fel acceptable, but that's probably been done a hundred times over by different people. Actually, all of my ideas may have been done by other people at some point, but that's going off topic.

[estrid]

that is true, the horkbajir shoulda gone to help restore their planet,

[Liz]

46 was a great book for the final arc because it really showed the war on a global scale, where in previous books the war had been mostly local.

I'm also one of the few who actually liked the Civil War parts of 47. xD

i doubt it, i think once she decided rachel was gonna die, tobias' fate was pretty much sealed

the hork bajir one made sense, they liked it on earth, their planet wasnt home for them, it was home for their parents, it wasnt the same place anymore

48 was definately a misplace, but i thought 46 was a good book to kinda change the kind of war they were fighting, and 47 def set the stage for things in the end

There was currently a resistance going on there. Tobi should have taken her people to help.

I'm tempted to write a fanfic where the ending is changed the way I would fel acceptable, but that's probably been done a hundred times over by different people. Actually, all of my ideas may have been done by other people at some point, but that's going off topic.

It has been done many times, yes.  I was looking over RAF Classic's fanfic section and there were so many threads titled "Animorphs #55: The (something)"

But that doesn't mean you couldn't do a really good job of it!

[KOFSoldier]

I wonder, why Rachel, though?

Dont get me wrong, under the context of her mission, it fit very well into the story. Also, her deatch scene was written incredibly well, her final thoughts really did sound like those of a dying person, I just don't know why.

I still think Cassie should've been the one to die, I'm not saying that because I hate her (she's my second favorite character), but because I think it would've been more tragic to have the "purest" one destroyed by war. As a matter of fact, at the end, she seemed to come out the best from it.

I, personally, think she picked Rachel because she had the most connections with people out of the Animorphs, and would be missed the most (she had Cassie, Jake, Tobias, Sarah, Jordan, Mom, Dad).

[Chad32]

I don't remember reading anything about Cassie feeling guilty over Rachel's death. She did indirectly cause Rachel's death, just like Jake.

[Terenia]

Rachel had to die because Rachel had nothing to gain by the war ending. Rachel was an entity that, in and of itself, could only exist within the war.


At least that's what KA tries to play it off as. I personally think that there would always have been a battle for Rachel to fight. But in context of this particular war...it became all she was.

[Chad32]

There will always be conflict. Rachel could have done a lot of exciting things to help save the world after they won. It's kind of like what Kelran Isthinar said in an RP called Animorphs: a New Beginning. There will always be evil to fight.

Oh, and the good guys are allowed to like it. Not for the killing, but for defending what they feel is right.