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Offline Chad32

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What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« on: January 21, 2009, 12:21:46 PM »
what if they came and said that they wanted Animorphs to be rewritten? Would you do it? How early in the series would you start making major changes?

Personally, I'd likely start as early as book 27. Mainly because I would have wanted David to become a main villain, working for crayak. Crayak would give him back his morphing ability in the book after the Animorphs defeat the Howlers in book 26. Interetingly enough, that would wind up returning David during a Rachel narrated book, who is the Animorph David hates the most.

Of course, I'd also make small changes earlier, since some things were retconned or changed, but I'm talking more about major plot changes.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2009, 12:25:18 PM »
Idk about what book I would change, but I'm sure that I'd have changed the ending D:

And, i dunno, maybe I would evolve the books a little, make it for an older audience so there could be more things that the animorphs went through rather than the repetitive: Visser 3 is doing something bad, find new morph, morph new morph, end of story
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2009, 01:26:05 PM »
All I'd change, is I'd re-release the books, with new flashy covers and continuity errors and KASU's fixed up, and I'd start lobbying to get a movie adaptation made.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2009, 01:36:08 PM »
I wouldn't change much.  Id fix kasus and things like that.  Id probally just make it more mature of a read so that the people who liked it before could read it again and it wouldnt be so easy to read.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2009, 01:37:42 PM »
Continuity errors fixed, definitely. Especially reguarding the Ellimist. There are TONS of continuity errors about him if you pay enough attention. Same with the Chee, actually.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2009, 01:38:50 PM »
Yeah that was done kinda poorly, I guess she figured most kids wouldnt think about the time lines.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2009, 02:15:23 PM »
Drum up support for an anime adaptation.

Preferably directed by Hideaki Anno.

And you thought Animorphs made a disturbing series of books.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2009, 06:55:07 PM »
Quote from: wildweathel on January 21, 2009, 02:15:23 PM
Drum up support for an anime adaptation.

Preferably directed by Hideaki Anno.

And you thought Animorphs made a disturbing series of books.

This!  It's always been my dream to see Animorphs made into an anime (although I must confess I am not familiar with Anno's work).
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2009, 09:05:15 PM »
the only thing I would change is that cassie goes with them at the very end...
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2009, 09:48:17 PM »
Anno: three words:

Neon Genesis Evangelion

He's done other stuff--one if his first major jobs was working with Miyazaki on Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds.  In particular, he is really quite good at horror--especially the bioscience-experiment-gone-wrong variety.  Morphing will be appropriately disgusting under his direction.  That, and young teen characters facing significant psychological trauma.  And giant robots, too--for what it's worth.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2009, 09:52:54 PM »
I'd change what happened to Cassie and Jake...I wanted them together god dammit!!!
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2009, 09:56:03 PM »
Quote from: morfowt on January 21, 2009, 09:05:15 PM
the only thing I would change is that cassie goes with them at the very end...
I know that's the only thing you'd change about the end, but I didn't know that applied to the whole series for you.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2009, 10:00:03 PM »
i'd start at the beginning. #1.
make it longer, better. quality AND quantity.
definitely get rid of most of the filler-books. (imp/rem)rove alternamorphs.

tobias and ax would each get the same amount of books as everybody else. and i'd add more david books, too.

i'd definitely make the characters more consistent. and the ending would change as well.
the plot would remain similar, with a little darker themes. (older audience in general)
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2009, 10:05:40 PM »
Yeah, I would give Ax and Tobias the same number of books too. It's weird that they only get one of every ten books. That means The Alien would be book six, and The Capture would be book seven.I would wait until after book nine to give Tobias back his powers, and on the cover I'd just show him morphing Dude. His cat.
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Re: What if Scholastics handed you the rights to Animorphs?
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2009, 10:09:49 PM »
Quote from: goom on January 21, 2009, 10:00:03 PM
definitely get rid of most of the filler-books. (imp/rem)rove alternamorphs.
oh yeah and the alternamorphs. forgot about those. Definitely (with a capital D) need to improve those, starting with, go to a page, instead of a chapter (I mean how are we supposed to know which page the chapter is on?)
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