Sloppy ending

[V2113]

I sorta, (hate to say it) skimmed the last few books 'til 54. But I got enough of it to understand.

I agree with the fact that Rachel shouldn't've been killed. If she lived Rachel could've proven herself not to be a waraholic who loves violence and actually settled down. Been happy being normal. Maybe worked in the military to make sure her warrior side didn't go to waste. Sadly, she didn't get a chance.

[Duff]

egads! exsqueeze me? a did you say skimmed? an animorphs book?!?! huh huh huh huuuuuh?

i loved the final arc lol i thought it was so well done and such a fitting end to my childhood series (i kinda lost interest late 30s early 40s and then i went back a few years later after i saw that the series had ended so i could get some closure haha)

[V2113]

Hey. I didn't like the full out war crap! Can you blame a kid for not liking the betrayal of Ax? Can you blame a kid for not liking what ever I missed when I was skimming? I didn't think so. *crosses arms and says very attitudely*

[estrid]

sorry duffy, but u cant deny that the ending was rushed. it was like "oh crap i wasted like 10 filler books where i coulda been starting to end this thing, so now i wana be done with it so i gota hurry up and do it in like 5 books" ya u cant do that well, and she didnt

[morfowt]

Hey. I didn't like the full out war crap! Can you blame a kid for not liking the betrayal of Ax? Can you blame a kid for not liking what ever I missed when I was skimming?

depends. how old were you when you read the final arc.

[UEDfleet]

lol, very true morfowt, age is kinda important in how the ending would effect you.

[Duff]

well more than rushed i would say that the pace was just kicked into high gear you know, instead of filler book filler book, important plot, filler book it was something huge something huge something huge book after book and it set this really frantic pace that really did feel rushed but, for me anyway, rushed in a good way, because in the story, the animorphs were rushed

would you have preferred there to be another 5 books with random missions after the animorphs had been found out and open war had been started?....yea.....well... .me too, it would have been extremely cool lol but it would have really thrown off the pace of the final arc you know, after say 46 (with the exeption of 48 wtf) you get the feeling that this is it, the animorphs dont have time to look into the yeerks experimenting on donkeys at some dude ranch, and the yeerks arent wasting any time with any of those end the invasion quick schemes that filled in the series so well.

Its all out war, the only things that were important were gaining allies and destroying the oponent, which is what the books focused completely on after 49

[estrid]

ya but i wana know what gave the yeerks the idea to see that they were human in the first place. and if tobias is a nothlit, doesnt that mean he wouldnt really have human blood to be found as if he were human, but just from his morph? ok thats another topic, the pt is, is if she wasnt busy sending cassie off to australia or whatever she coulda done a better job of the ending

[UEDfleet]

eh, perhaps you are right estrid, but she is the author, and i doubt that she intentionally made the book disappointing, but more to the point, it's probably kinda hard to come up open war, animorphs, Government intervention and aliens, the topics just dont mix well, any book concerning all 3 of those would inevitably move the series along at a fast pace, the only way they would be able to continue that arc is if the yeerks began hoarding their entire empire there, in which case the Animorphs would be nothing important due to the widened front.  I just dont see how the final arc coulda lasted more than 1-2 books extra.

[Liz]

the animorphs dont have time to look into the yeerks experimenting on donkeys at some dude ranch

Hahahaha!

Quite true, though.  I agree with what you said about the pace, I liked it too.

I think if she had made the final arc spread out over more books it would have reduced the intensity and not be as exciting.  But yeah, 48 was like...ummm.

[estrid]

but see, she wouldnt have had to spread it out over more books if she hadnt wasted time with filler books

[Duff]

but now you arent critiquing the final arc, your talking about the previous books, we can all agree those were not the proudest time in the series lol

[UEDfleet]

there were definitely filler books near the end, but it, but how would you add new idea's into the invasion of Earth? i think that was probly a block. It makes sense to cram in the last few books anyways, i mean, would u really have liked the last book to go into great detail about how everything worked perfectly? i think that cramming was an excellent way of showing the animorphs "true colors" even if they turned out rather gray. But i think what your annoyed with wasnt the cramming, it was just the quality of the cramming.

[estrid]

i think that was probly a block. It makes sense to cram in the last few books anyways, i mean, would u really have liked the last book to go into great detail about how everything worked perfectly? i think that cramming was an excellent way of showing the animorphs "true colors" even if they turned out rather gray. But i think what your annoyed with wasnt the cramming, it was just the quality of the cramming.

yes the cramming does piss me off. i'm not talking bout the specifics of the end, or how it shoulda been a happy ending, every1 lives (which is another topic). what i'm saying is, u could have the crappy brutal ending, but still explain what happened. she coulda showed the entire chapman family blew up and the chee all got melted down to be used for scrap metal, it woulda taken one paragraph, wouldn't have been a happy ending, and woulda said what happened. so ya "reality" of war is brutal, yada yada yada, but i know what hapened

and duff i'm not just talking bout the final arc. im talking bout the whole end, like i'd say book 45 onwards was rushed, so had she started the ending earlier, like in book 39 insteada the stupid buffahuman book, she coulda finished by book 54 and explained alota things, even if she killed off every1, at least it wouldnt be like, oh leme introduce new characters third book from the end and then never talk bout them again

[Duff]

but it doesnt really matter what number she started the final arc on, the number of books it took to end the series would have remained the same, you know what i mean, she had an outline for, lets call it a 9 book arc (45 was really the beginning of the end....and 48 doesnt count haha)

so had she started at 39, it wouldnt mean we'd get 6 more books of final arc, it just means the series would end six books earlier